The uncertainty has weighed heavily on the 20,000 seafarers trapped in the Iran war zone.
Category: 2. World
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Sailors stressed and exhausted after months trapped by Strait of Hormuz blockade
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Putin remains uncompromising on Ukraine, but is public discourse on war changing in Russia?
Russia is intensifying attacks in Ukraine but more than four years of war are causing concern even among Putin loyalists.
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US military says it fired missile at Iran-bound oil tanker
US Central Command says the vessel’s engine room was hit after the crew “ignored repeated warnings”.
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Trump taps housing official Bill Pulte to be US spymaster
The head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, who pushed for criminal charges against Trump’s foes, will step in as acting Director of National Intelligence.
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Hezbollah vows deep strikes inside occupied territories if Israel attacks Beirut
Hezbollah vows to hit back deep inside the Israeli-occupied territories if Beirut’s Shia-dominated district is attacked.
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DR Congo friendly with Chile cancelled by Spanish city after health concerns over Ebola outbreak in the African nation.
Democratic Republic of Congo’s international friendly against Chile in Spain next week has been cancelled after authorities raised health concerns over the Ebola outbreak in the African nation.
Juan Franco, mayor of the city of La Linea de la…
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Microsoft says new quantum chip 1,000 times more reliable than predecessor
The tech giant predicts it will have a quantum computer that can solve commercially useful problems by the end of the decade.
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White House Correspondents' Dinner rescheduled after shooting incident
The annual dinner, which was held in April this year, was interrupted when a gunman stormed a security checkpoint.
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‘They’ll fix the building, but not our souls’: Sleepy Kyiv neighbourhood hit in Russian strike
In Vynohradar, normally a sleepy neighbourhood of Kyiv, we saw a scene of utter devastation. High-rise apartment blocks with windows smashed, shells of burnt-out cars on the pavements, dust and smoke in the air. Locals told us they had heard at…
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Two arrested after four migrant farm workers killed in Italy minivan fire
He said that a dispute had arisen after the two arrested men had demanded transportation money from those in the car, which they had refused to pay. He also alleged that the workers had not been paid for their work in the region’s strawberry…
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