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Donald Trump has announced that all mines have been cleared from the Strait of Hormuz, a vital waterway that Iran closed at the beginning of the conflict, causing wild fluctuations in global oil prices.
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FBI agents raided the Ibiza, Spain vacation rental of 41-year-old US citizen James "Fergie" Chambers following his arrest last month. Chambers, a donor to leftwing and humanitarian projects, is facing extradition requests from the Trump administration over alleged financial support for Hamas and other charges.
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Political newcomer Sen. Darline Graham defeated longtime Congressman Ralph Norman in a South Carolina special election primary runoff for the U.S. Senate, delivering a major win for President Trump who endorsed her.
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Cristy Maryori Villafranca-Trejo, the wife of an active-duty U.S. soldier, was deported to Honduras on Monday following a rollback on military family protections under Donald Trump's second presidency.
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Canada has announced dollar-for-dollar retaliatory tariffs of up to 50% on imports from the United States, marking the latest escalation in an ongoing trade war between the two nations. The newly announced levies will apply to a broad range of products, including steel, furniture, fresh tuna, and makeup.
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The CIA chief has traveled to Moscow for unannounced discussions, according to US media reports. Flight tracking information verified that a US military plane flew to Russia from the United States via Latvia on Tuesday.
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A global operation targeting West African cyber-crime networks has resulted in mass arrests, including the detention of 39 individuals in South Africa for online scams.
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Taiwanese prosecutors have charged nine people, including workers from Nvidia and Super Micro, over the illegal export of banned high-end AI servers to mainland China.
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Country music star Dolly Parton has died at the age of 80. Recognized as one of country music's most singular performers, Parton grew from a genre icon into one of country music's most recognizable and universally adored ambassadors to broader popular culture.
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German Chancellor Merz has warned that perpetrators will 'pay price' following a drone attack at Leipzig Airport, stating that the incident demonstrates a 'very real threat' to the nation.
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The United States has threatened severe sanctions against countries and entities maintaining economic ties with Iran as part of a campaign to isolate Tehran. China, Iran's largest trading partner, has strongly denounced the threat as illegal and pledged to take all necessary measures to protect its national interests.
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Vatican envoy Paul Gallagher met Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow to discuss avenues for peace in Ukraine, as international leaders lobby the US for Patriot missiles and a US military plane landed in Russia.
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CIA Director John Ratcliffe has made an unannounced visit to Moscow, according to US media reports. The trip, confirmed by sources to CBS News and a US official to Axios, represents Ratcliffe's first known visit to Russia as CIA chief.
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The European rights court has ordered Turkey to release philanthropist and activist Osman Kavala, who has spent nearly a decade in jail on charges rights groups describe as politically motivated.
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The US Supreme Court voted 6-3 along ideological lines to lift an injunction on President Donald Trump's executive order targeting mail-in voting, though a second injunction keeps the policy's implementation ahead of the November midterms uncertain.
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A new study reveals that at least one in four former NFL players who died between 2016 and 2021 suffered from a degenerative brain disease, though researchers note the actual rate could be significantly higher.
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Prominent Chinese artist Gao Zhen has been sentenced to three years in prison for slandering China's 'heroes and martyrs' through his sculptures of Mao Zedong, drawing international criticism over the retroactive application of Chinese law.
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A decade after launching the Green India Mission to expand forest cover, official government auditors have found a 97.57% shortfall from the program's initial 2014 pledge, describing the overall progress as negligible despite official assertions of growth.
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A tornado has struck villages in southern France, injuring over 40 people and damaging hundreds of homes, with the village of Pomas suffering the worst impact.
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Intensifying wildfires in Indonesia's Kalimantan region have burned tens of thousands of acres, creating suffocating smoke that has reached Malaysia and put Singapore on alert.
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Colombia's new far-right president, Abelardo de la Espriella, has ordered authorities to detain and deport irregular immigrants and those who have committed crimes. The announcement comes just over two weeks into his presidency as the country recovers from a deadly 7.4-magnitude earthquake.
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Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, has resigned from his role as a trustee at African Parks, a prominent wildlife charity that admitted to human rights abuses by its rangers in the Republic of the Congo. Despite leaving the board, his spokesperson stated that he remains a supporter of the charity's mission.
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BBC correspondent Joe Inwood has broken down the weapons technology behind the UK's Storm Shadow missile to assess its potential impact on the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine.
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An armed group has shared footage on social media depicting roughly 600 individuals abducted from a mosque in Dekara village, Nigeria.
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Guinea-Bissau is facing a growing mpox outbreak declared in July, with children making up half of all reported cases amid concerns that the virus is spreading undetected.
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Tens of thousands of Nevada residents have been urged to evacuate as a wildfire spreads across the outskirts of Reno.
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Hundreds of spectators, including US President Donald Trump, gathered on Sunday to watch an IndyCar race through the streets of Washington DC.
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A landslide at a massive waste dump in Guinea's capital, Conakry, killed 30 people after heavy overnight rains caused the site to collapse. The tragedy occurred less than a week after the government announced plans to relocate the dump due to safety risks during the rainy season.
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Hackers linked to Iran have been blamed for a cyber-attack that temporarily shut down a small-scale UK energy generator, which officials said posed no threat to the wider energy system.
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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has dismissed proposed US economic sanctions as a desperate move, while President Masoud Pezeshkian acknowledged that the Iranian public faces significant hardships from Washington's economic pressure.