Here's a reading test. Euronews covered Friday's big signing in Jeddah — Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, President Erdoğan and Pakistan's PM Shehbaz Sharif forging a three-way defence pact. Count the paragraphs until you learn the single most important fact about one of the signatories. Ready? Paragraph seven: Pakistan is "the Muslim world's only nuclear-armed state." * And even there, it's not presented as today's news. It's dressed as a flashback — a clause about the 2025 Saudi-Pakistan pact that "drew significant attention, given that" Pakistan has the bomb. The word nuclear enters the story the way an embarrassing relative enters a wedding: acknowledged, briefly, in the past tense, and seated at the back. * Let's give Euronews its due first, because there's real credit to hand out. Its headline — "Saudi Arabia, Türkiye and Pakistan forge new defence pact amid US-Iran tensions" — names the elephant. This is happening because there's a war on, and the headline says so. Even better: the article's own URL still reads "amid-regional-escalation," which means someone looked at the fog-phrase "regional escalation" and upgraded it to the actual thing. We spend a lot of time in this house pointing out that URLs remember the honest first draft while headlines get the makeup. Here the traffic ran the other way — the rewrite made it truer. It can be done, folks. * For comparison, France 24's live page went with "Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey set to sign defence pact in Jeddah." That headline tells you a city. Jeddah is a place, not a stake. Three regional powers tightening a military alliance while the United States is actively at war with their neighbor — and the headline's big contextual contribution is the venue, like a save-the-date card. * But back to paragraph seven, because placement is an editorial opinion. What does it mean that nuclear-armed Pakistan is deepening a defence alliance with Riyadh and Ankara mid-war? That's the question every reader would ask if the fact were in the first line — which is presumably one reason it isn't. Up top you get the safe furniture: leaders "formalise a joint agreement," the pact "aims to strengthen regional security ties," sources close to the Saudi military told AFP. * None of this is false. It's just ordered like a bureaucrat wrote it: ceremony first, stakes later, atomic weapons somewhere below the fold, wearing last year's date. The headline passed its test. The architecture failed hers.