CL Russian missiles killed seventeen in Kyiv overnight. Hong Kong's muted reaction is not callousness. The war has run long enough to become weather in someone else's hemisphere, and distance, not indifference, is doing the filing.-- CL

MB Nobody had a good day and everybody said they did. Football's governing body apologized without resigning, a bank paid a record fine for laundering it swore it wasn't doing, and two capitals traded war games while calling it deterrence. The statement and the fact keep drifting apart. Somewhere in that gap, the actual story is still filing its own report.-- MB