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Iran races for deal to stop looming U.S., Israeli strikes while asserting jurisdiction over UAE and Oman waters in new Strait of Hormuz map—AND MORE
Wall Street Journal: Failure to reach even that limited agreement could lead the U.S. and Israel to carry out a short period of strikes in…

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US oil producers increase output to capture price surge from Iran war
Financial Times: Companies including Diamondback, America’s third-largest producer in the Permian Basin, the world’s most prolific oilfield,…
New arms race in computing power
Financial Times: Military capability depends increasingly on data centres. Now governments outpaced in AI are looking to experimental…
EUCO content creators ‘won’t replace EU journalists,’ says influencer
Politico Europe: Dafydd ab Iago, president of the Brussels-based foreign correspondent association, API, has criticized the move. “Clicks,…
David Dimbleby: Starmer’s a dud. It’s time for change
Bloomberg: The veteran broadcaster on why the UK needs a “bold” prime minister and what the rise of Nigel Farage says about modern Britain…
The EU’s ‘Mr Fixit’
Financial Times: ‘I’m telling our UK friends: we are not greedy,’ says the bloc’s trade commissioner Maroš Šefčovič…
EU rejects UK push to create single market for goods
Financial Times: Britain had suggested it aligned with EU regulations to enable companies to trade freely with the 451mn-strong bloc in an…
New rule requires most green-card applicants to apply from outside U.S.
Washington Post: “This is going to affect thousands and thousands of people,” said Elizabeth Goss, an immigration attorney and board member at…
White House ordering agencies to place its new app on all employees’ government phones
GovExec: The Trump administration launched the app, which promises to “[keep] you connected to President Donald J. Trump and his…
European carmakers face EU pressure to diversify chip suppliers
Euronews: European carmakers will be required to buy chips from at least two suppliers in certain cases and to incorporate supply chain…
Rubio tries to reassure Nato allies over US troop deployments
BBC: “It is confusing indeed, and not always easy to navigate,” Swedish Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard said as she…
Who’s eligible for ‘Anti-Weaponisation Fund’? Trump’s critics think they might be
BBC: Eligibility for the fund, on its face, seems extremely broad. In a memo sent to sceptical Republican US senators, Blanche justified the…
Pentagon releases more UFO files: “Speechless after these observations”
CBS: The most striking document is an account by a currently serving “senior intelligence officer” who detailed his experience…
Tulsi Gabbard to resign as US director of national intelligence
BBC: Tulsi Gabbard will resign from her position as the US director of national intelligence in the Trump administration, citing her…
France seeks to join UK-German long-range missile plan
Financial Times: France is seeking to join a German-British plan to produce new long-range missiles as Europe races to strengthen its ability…
‘Iranian agents’ recruit Britons for protests against Israel
Times: A suspected Iranian intelligence operation is attempting to recruit people in Britain to organise street protests and put up posters…
Britain only has enough drones for one week of war
Telegraph: The military’s stockpile of drones is so low that it would vanish within days of war breaking out with Moscow. Defence chiefs fear…
Chinese spy satellite spotted by UK’s military telescope
Telegraph: The Ministry of Defence (MoD) released the image of the classified TJS-14 system for the first time after capturing it on its…
Europe’s top tech boss warns Brussels driving AI companies away
Politico Europe: The EU’s regulations are restrictive and out of sync with industry needs, said ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet…
Trump officials tried to ban half of U.S. voting machines, citing conspiracy theories
Reuters: The plan to exclude the machines, reported here first, got far enough that in September, Commerce Department officials began…
Tech elites tout ‘universal high income.’ Just don’t ask them who’s paying.
Washington Post: “The only way to pay for UBI is to massively tax those enormously rich people who own the UBI machines,” said Jesse…
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