# rbtfl — read between the f****** lines

> A minimalist, multilingual world-news reader. Each edition is ~20 stories ranked by economic impact and atypical interest, under a set of heads. Every story carries original takes from regional papers worldwide, batched by bias/lens, plus our clinical synthesis. The whole thing is a navigable topic graph (filesystem of markdown). No crawler: content is our synthesis plus short attributed excerpts that link to the source. Every page is available as markdown by appending `.md` to a node URL.

## Front page — updated 2026-06-24
- [The largest oil supply disruption on record](/en/n/hormuz-oil-supply-shock.md): Brent peaked near $118 before a US-Iran framework began unwinding the premium
- [US and Iran sign 14-point memorandum to end the war](/en/n/iran-us-ceasefire-mou.md): Ceasefire extended 60 days for talks on nuclear program, sanctions and reconstruction; a Lebanon dispute threatens to unravel it
- [US issues 60-day Iran oil sanctions waiver](/en/n/iran-oil-sanctions-relief.md): General License X resumes Iranian crude exports with banking, insurance and shipping cover after the Hormuz reopening
- [Dual chokepoint closure drives container freight sharply higher](/en/n/hormuz-cape-diversion-freight.md): With Hormuz restricted and the Red Sea still avoided, carriers reroute via the Cape, lifting spot rates 29-129% on key lanes
- [China blacklists MP Materials and USA Rare Earth](/en/n/china-rare-earth-controls.md): Beijing adds 10 US firms to its export-control list, tightening a licensing regime that already throttled magnet supply chains
- [America's 1% remittance tax lands on the world's poorest corridors](/en/n/us-remittance-tax.md): A levy on cash transfers abroad hits Mexico and Central America hardest while migrants reroute to exempt digital channels
- [ECB raises rates on the Iran-driven energy shock, first hike since 2023](/en/n/ecb-rate-hike-energy-shock.md): The deposit rate goes to 2.25% as war-driven oil prices push 2026 inflation projections to 3.0% amid stalling growth
- [Starmer quits, handing Britain its seventh prime minister in a decade](/en/n/uk-starmer-resignation.md): Less than two years after a landslide, Keir Starmer resigns amid Reform UK's surge; Andy Burnham is the frontrunner
- [Colombia swings right by a whisker in the tightest runoff in its history](/en/n/colombia-de-la-espriella.md): A Trump-aligned lawyer edges leftist Iván Cepeda by under 1%, ending the Petro era and realigning Bogotá toward Washington
- [Senegal's hidden-debt crisis deepens as IMF talks stall and bonds crash](/en/n/senegal-debt-imf.md): With debt near 132% of GDP and ~$13bn in undisclosed borrowing, Dakar resists an IMF-pushed restructuring after PM Sonko's ouster
- [Brussels readies record DMA fine against Google as structural remedies loom](/en/n/eu-google-dma-fine.md): The EU is finalizing its largest-ever Digital Markets Act penalty over search self-preferencing, with binding data-sharing and Android orders due by late July
- [Trump declines to renew USMCA, triggering a decade of annual reviews](/en/n/usmca-non-renewal.md): Washington forgoes the joint extension, leaving ~$2 trillion in North American trade under prolonged uncertainty
- [H5N1 grinds on across US poultry and dairy as summer detections mount](/en/n/h5n1-poultry-dairy.md): More than 500 dairy herds and fresh poultry losses keep egg prices elevated while researchers map new transmission routes
- [NOAA declares El Niño; cocoa and tropical crops price in a possible 'super' event](/en/n/el-nino-2026-advisory.md): An official June advisory, with a 63% chance of a very strong event, pushes traders to front-run dry-season risk in West Africa and Southeast Asia
- [Indus Treaty in abeyance collides with Pakistan's internal water war](/en/n/indus-treaty-sindh-water.md): With India's suspension still in force, Sindh says it is starved of Indus flows during peak kharif sowing while Punjab draws near its full share
- [Mediterranean cable cut severs Syria's internet, then repairs in 48 hours](/en/n/syria-subsea-cable-cut.md): The Aletar subsea cable between Tartous and Alexandria was severed on June 15; Syria rerouted via Cyprus and Turkey before splicing it back
- [UK boards a sanctioned tanker and designates 27 more shadow-fleet vessels](/en/n/uk-russia-shadow-fleet.md): Royal Marines seize the 'Smyrtos' in the Channel days before a sanctions package hitting ships, insurers and procurement networks
- [Washington cleared the H200 for China; Beijing won't let anyone buy it](/en/n/h200-china-export-standoff.md): After a year of bans and reversals, the US approved limited H200 sales — then Beijing told firms to pause and pushed Huawei instead
- [Data centers drive 63% of PJM's power-price surge as backlash hardens](/en/n/pjm-data-center-power.md): Wholesale power on the largest US grid nearly doubled year-over-year; states impose large-load tariffs while a foreign-influence subplot complicates the politics
- [Wheat climbs a fourth straight month as cereals defy a stable headline index](/en/n/fao-food-prices.md): The FAO food index held near a three-year high in May; underneath, weather, fuel and fertilizer costs pushed all major grains higher

## Heads (angles)
- [How Wars Actually End](/en/head/how-wars-actually-end): Conflict read through escalation, leverage and the terms of any exit — not the day's body count.
- [Whose Money](/en/head/whose-money): Follow the flows: who pays, who profits, who is quietly exposed.
- [What Broke](/en/head/what-broke): Outages, collapses and institutional failures — and what they reveal.
- [The Quiet Shift](/en/head/the-quiet-shift): Slow-moving changes — demographics, climate, prices — that outrun the headlines.
- [Who Decides](/en/head/who-decides): Power up close: courts, votes, rooms where it actually happens.
- [What They're Not Saying](/en/head/what-theyre-not-saying): The under-reported angle — what a story leaves out, and who benefits from the silence.
- [How Life Changes](/en/head/how-life-changes): Work, health, food, rent — the news where you actually live.
- [The Long Game](/en/head/the-long-game): Science, energy, space — stories whose clock runs in decades.

## Bias / lenses
- [European tech](/en/lens/european-tech) — 2 takes
- [markets / business](/en/lens/markets-business) — 2 takes
- [Western mainstream](/en/lens/western-mainstream) — 2 takes
- [markets](/en/lens/markets) — 1 takes
- [geopolitical](/en/lens/geopolitical) — 1 takes
- [dual-use security](/en/lens/dual-use-security) — 1 takes
- [contrarian markets](/en/lens/contrarian-markets) — 1 takes
- [domestic record of count](/en/lens/domestic-record-of-count) — 1 takes
- [international / regional shift](/en/lens/international-regional-shift) — 1 takes
- [policy expert reaction](/en/lens/policy-expert-reaction) — 1 takes
- [left / against framing](/en/lens/left-against-framing) — 1 takes
- [official / primary](/en/lens/official-primary) — 1 takes
- [national central bank](/en/lens/national-central-bank) — 1 takes
- [Arabic regional](/en/lens/arabic-regional) — 1 takes
- [pan-European / skeptical](/en/lens/pan-european-skeptical) — 1 takes
- [agronomic / markets](/en/lens/agronomic-markets) — 1 takes
- [commodity trading](/en/lens/commodity-trading) — 1 takes
- [skeptical / agri-economist](/en/lens/skeptical-agri-economist) — 1 takes
- [regional weather](/en/lens/regional-weather) — 1 takes
- [ad-tech / regulatory trade press](/en/lens/ad-tech-regulatory-trade-press) — 1 takes
- [US / trade-tension counter-framing](/en/lens/us-trade-tension-counter-framing) — 1 takes
- [business / geopolitics](/en/lens/business-geopolitics) — 1 takes
- [official data](/en/lens/official-data) — 1 takes
- [grain-grower / markets](/en/lens/grain-grower-markets) — 1 takes
- [US farm / contrarian](/en/lens/us-farm-contrarian) — 1 takes
- [exporter / supply-side](/en/lens/exporter-supply-side) — 1 takes
- [geopolitics](/en/lens/geopolitics) — 1 takes
- [industry detail](/en/lens/industry-detail) — 1 takes
- [security-hawk / against framing](/en/lens/security-hawk-against-framing) — 1 takes
- [infectious-disease science](/en/lens/infectious-disease-science) — 1 takes
- [public-health authority](/en/lens/public-health-authority) — 1 takes
- [consumer / food-price](/en/lens/consumer-food-price) — 1 takes
- [counter-trend / easing](/en/lens/counter-trend-easing) — 1 takes
- [trade data](/en/lens/trade-data) — 1 takes
- [regional logistics](/en/lens/regional-logistics) — 1 takes
- [industry trade press](/en/lens/industry-trade-press) — 1 takes
- [operational update](/en/lens/operational-update) — 1 takes
- [institutional analysis](/en/lens/institutional-analysis) — 1 takes
- [regional](/en/lens/regional) — 1 takes
- [development economics](/en/lens/development-economics) — 1 takes
- [skeptical counterpoint](/en/lens/skeptical-counterpoint) — 1 takes
- [downstream / Sindh grievance](/en/lens/downstream-sindh-grievance) — 1 takes
- [Indian national](/en/lens/indian-national) — 1 takes
- [analytical / internal critique](/en/lens/analytical-internal-critique) — 1 takes
- [Sindh growers](/en/lens/sindh-growers) — 1 takes
- [regional / Middle East](/en/lens/regional-middle-east) — 1 takes
- [hawkish / against framing](/en/lens/hawkish-against-framing) — 1 takes
- [shipping / logistics](/en/lens/shipping-logistics) — 1 takes
- [non-aligned / Global South](/en/lens/non-aligned-global-south) — 1 takes
- [Iran-skeptical / hawkish](/en/lens/iran-skeptical-hawkish) — 1 takes
- [public broadcaster](/en/lens/public-broadcaster) — 1 takes
- [energy policy](/en/lens/energy-policy) — 1 takes
- [state government](/en/lens/state-government) — 1 takes
- [foreign-influence investigation](/en/lens/foreign-influence-investigation) — 1 takes
- [clean-energy trade](/en/lens/clean-energy-trade) — 1 takes
- [Global South](/en/lens/global-south) — 1 takes
- [African markets](/en/lens/african-markets) — 1 takes
- [pan-African](/en/lens/pan-african) — 1 takes
- [critical of IMF oversight](/en/lens/critical-of-imf-oversight) — 1 takes
- [regional explainer](/en/lens/regional-explainer) — 1 takes
- [Gulf regional](/en/lens/gulf-regional) — 1 takes
- [infrastructure trade](/en/lens/infrastructure-trade) — 1 takes
- [skeptical tech](/en/lens/skeptical-tech) — 1 takes
- [non-aligned / explanatory](/en/lens/non-aligned-explanatory) — 1 takes
- [legal / compliance](/en/lens/legal-compliance) — 1 takes
- [defence-skeptical / scrutiny](/en/lens/defence-skeptical-scrutiny) — 1 takes
- [international explainer](/en/lens/international-explainer) — 1 takes
- [US news](/en/lens/us-news) — 1 takes
- [markets / fiscal](/en/lens/markets-fiscal) — 1 takes
- [scenario / counter-framing](/en/lens/scenario-counter-framing) — 1 takes
- [Ukrainian pro-government](/en/lens/ukrainian-pro-government) — 1 takes
- [Western defence-industry trade](/en/lens/western-defence-industry-trade) — 1 takes
- [Ukrainian / cautionary](/en/lens/ukrainian-cautionary) — 1 takes
- [European mainstream](/en/lens/european-mainstream) — 1 takes
- [bank economic analysis](/en/lens/bank-economic-analysis) — 1 takes
- [development policy](/en/lens/development-policy) — 1 takes
- [NRI / financial impact](/en/lens/nri-financial-impact) — 1 takes
- [critical / against framing](/en/lens/critical-against-framing) — 1 takes
- [Canadian national](/en/lens/canadian-national) — 1 takes
- [Mexican national](/en/lens/mexican-national) — 1 takes
- [libertarian / against framing](/en/lens/libertarian-against-framing) — 1 takes

## Full content
- [All nodes as one markdown file](/llms-full.txt)
- [Explore the graph](/en/explore)
- [Sitemap](/sitemap-index.xml)