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Strait of Hormuz: What have US allies and China said about sending ships to key shipping route?
US allies have either pushed back or remained cautious on Trump's initial request to send ships to the crucial oil route.
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Nonsense to say Spurs players don't care - Van de Ven
Tottenham defender Micky van de Ven says it is "the biggest nonsense" to suggest the club's players do not care about the team's current plight.
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How people are living in Cuba with no power | CNN
CNN’s Patrick Oppmann shows life in Cuba after its electrical grid suffered a total collapse on Monday, the first since the US effectively shut off the flow of oil to Cuba.
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Stryker says it’s restoring systems after pro-Iran hackers wiped thousands of employee devices
The hack, which brought ongoing widespread disruption to the company's operations, is thought to be the first major cyberattack in the United States in response to the Trump administration's war in Iran.
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Chile's president begins building border barrier less than week into term
José Antonio Kast visited the ditch - a few feet wide and deep - on Monday, calling it a "milestone".
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Prince William joins Greg James on Comic Relief bike ride
The Radio 1 Breakfast host was joined by a special guest on the latest leg of his charity challenge.
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OpenAI expands government footprint with AWS deal, report says
OpenAI has reportedly signed a partnership with AWS to sell its AI systems to the U.S. government for classified and unclassified work, marking an expansion beyond its Pentagon deal last month.
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Latest Cuban blackout leaves 11 million without power
Much of Cuba is without power after its third islandwide blackout in four months. The outage on Tuesday underscored its deepening energy and economic crises and political tensions. U.S. President Donald, who has called Cuba a “very weakened nation,” said on M…
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Brazil Steps Up Bond Market Intervention as Oil Upends Rate Bets
Brazil’s Treasury intervened in the local bond market for a second straight day, announcing fresh auctions to both buy back and sell government debt to support liquidity and stabilize trading as the surge in crude prices ripples through global markets.
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UK Funds Snap Up Gilts in Bet That Markets Have BOE All Wrong
Two of Britain’s biggest asset managers are buying UK government bonds, convinced the market has misjudged how the Bank of England will respond to the war in the Middle East.
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Top US counterterrorism official resigns over Iran war
National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent says Trump "started this war due to pressure from Israel" and its powerful American lobby.