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Tensions rise as Iran’s hard-liners flex muscle with U-turn over Hormuz and ship attacks
New York Times: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps on Saturday declared it was closing the Strait of Hormuz,…
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Top client of Peter Mandelson’s firm linked to Chinese military
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Justice Dept rebuffs French on X probe, Musk interview
Wall Street Journal: The Justice Department’s Office of International Affairs, in a two-page letter dated Friday, accused the French of…
Trump family’s World Liberty crypto venture faces investor backlash
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The coming global food crisis
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India drops proposal to mandate national ID app Aadhaar on smartphones after pushback
Reuters: India’s IT ministry reviewed the proposal and “is not in favour of mandating the pre-installation of the Aadhaar App on…
EU to game out bloc’s mutual assistance clause in case of attack
Politico Europe: The EU is to game out how it would respond if one of its countries was attacked. In the first operation of its kind, chief…
Meta targets May 20 for first wave of layoffs; additional cuts later in 2026
Reuters: The Facebook and Instagram owner will lay off about 10% of its global workforce, or close to 8,000 employees, in that initial round,…
Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz sparks ‘tremendous interest’ in alternate routes
CBC: But the choking off of the waterway — and the resulting spike in oil prices — may now also force some serious consideration of oil export…
Trump says Iran has agreed to suspend nuclear program indefinitely as Strait of Hormuz declared ‘completely open.’ Optimism and confusion—AND MORE
New York Times: Iran’s foreign minister said on Friday that the Strait of Hormuz was “completely open” for all commercial ships, but…
Agencies in talks with Trump, family to resolve $10B lawsuit over tax leaks
Washington Post: Trump has suggested that he would donate any funds received as part of restitution in cases against the federal government to…
Embassy cables detail how Iran war hurting US abroad
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Trump plans to ease access to psychedelics like psilocybin, ibogaine
Washington Post: The president will direct federal agencies to boost research into the drugs and support clinical trials, moves championed by…
Anthropic and Trump: Is a truce near?
Politico: The Trump administration is publicly dialing back the heat in its standoff with the artificial intelligence developer Anthropic over…
Anthropic chief Dario Amodei: ‘I don’t want AI turned on our own people’
Financial Times: The tech entrepreneur on Claude Mythos, repercussions from the Pentagon dispute — and his message for the super-rich…
The FBI director is MIA
The Atlantic: Kash Patel has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences…
Use of foreign applications and software in professional context constitutes risk, warns France’s intelligence service DGSI
France Info: In a document that France Info was able to consult, the General Directorate for Internal Security asks companies to be extra…
How big tech wrote secrecy into EU law to hide data centres’ environmental toll
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Milei’s radical new order running into Argentina’s old problems
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U.S. intelligence detects signs China is weighing giving Iran advance radar systems
CBS: It remains unclear whether China ultimately moved forward with the transfer but the assessment underscores Washington’s concern…
Trump extends sanctions exemption on some Russian oil as high gas prices persist
New York Times: Just two days after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the United States would not extend a sanctions exemption on the sale…
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