2026 June
The world economy can move from the agony to the ecstasy, paraphrasing the title of Irving Stone’s book, if Donald Trump succeeds in signing a peace agreement with Iran after the G7 meeting in Switzerland
On June 17, a bus carrying children from a football team and a dance studio in the Belarusian city of Rechytsa was struck by a drone in Russia’s Bryansk Oblast.
The 2026 Rhythmic Gymnastics World Challenge Cup took place at BT Arena in Cluj-Napoca from June 26 to 28. Russia withdrew after the flag ban. Belarus competed as neutral.
On his 80th birthday, President Donald Trump picked up the phone twice. The first call shaped the Middle East, and the second one reminded the world that another war (longer, bloodier, and increasingly forgotten by Washington), is still very much unresolved.
When thousands of Albanians poured into the streets of Tirana chanting “Albania is not for sale,” they were reacting to what many see as the most brazen act of political clientelism in the country’s post-communist history
On the steps of a Bucharest courthouse, Călin Georgescu delivered what may be his most incendiary statement yet
For the first time in over four years of war, the words “direct meeting” are being used simultaneously by Kyiv, Moscow, and Washington.

