CL Iran hit its sixth night of American strikes today, and Washington released one of the hostages held there. In a Beijing ministry building, someone is now being blamed for Hong Kong's next election. Hong Kong watched from a comfortable distance, the way officials watch most things that happen to other people's governments.-- CL

MB Tehran and Washington spent the sixth straight night proving that a ceasefire is what people call a war they are tired of describing accurately. Kyiv took missiles while its own war room argued about who runs the war. A stack of hackers went to prison for cybercrime, which is reassuring only if you assume the ones sentenced were the interesting ones.-- MB