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Iran can, will seal off remaining Strait of Hormuz routes created, used by oil smugglers: report
The routes are being used by “small boats smuggling oil and transferring it to tankers.
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US formally asks Russia for information about possible plague outbreak, death a lab
Secretary of State Marco Rubio publicly said during a trip Tuesday to Iceland that the United States is monitoring the situation.
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You Vote: On the protests in France, is it mainly over student issues, or mass migration and Islam?
Ongoing demonstrations in Paris have devolved into confrontations with law enforcement, and video footage has shown rioters clashing with police, who have deployed tear gas.
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Iran executes post-graduate student accused of working with CIA Israeli intelligence
Since the conflict with Iran began in February, Iran has executed five people on espionage charges.
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Energy Dept reports removing last of enriched uranium from Venezuela, reducing risk to US, S America
Venezuela had built the RV-1 reactor to support physics and nuclear research, and its work finished up in 1991. The material was leftover from those operations.
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Trump rejects Iran regime’s response to US ceasefire proposal
"I have just read the response from Iran’s so-called 'Representatives.' I don’t like it — TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE!" Trump wrote.
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Putin says Ukraine war might be ‘coming to an end’
Prior to Putin’s comment, Trump said a ceasefire would start Saturday and continue through Monday
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Huckabee criticizes Megyn Kelly, Tucker Carlson for suggesting U.S. gives Israel $1.5T for defense
"Neither of these ppl are dumb. I worked w/ them at Fox. They know how to Google basic facts. The US provides $3.8 billion (NOT $1.5 trillion) but Israel spends many X over that on US. We get a huge ROI-are they too lazy to research or intentionally lying?" Huckabee wrote in response to the video.
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Europe confronts a future in which US may no longer defends it
European leaders are upping their military spending as they envision a different form for the NATO alliance
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US military fires on, disables two more tankers trying to get through blockade in Strait of Hormuz
A U.S. Navy fighter jet from USS George H.W. Bush fired precision munitions into the smokestacks of the ships, disabling them both.
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Iran and United Arab Emirates trade fire just hours after U.S. fires on Iran in Strait of Hormuz
The UAE's Defense Ministry said that three people were wounded when the country's air defenses engaged two Iranian ballistic missiles and three drones.
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Iran seizes U.S.-sanctioned oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman, returns it to Iran
The U.S. sanctioned a tanker of the same name in February, alleging it's part of Iran's fleet of "shadow" vessels that store and ship barrels of sanctioned Iranian oil.
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Iran says it is working with US on proposal that would end hostilities for 30 days
The officials told the New York Times that both sides are looking at a one-page proposal that has three keys points: The lifting of the U.S. blockade on Iranian ships and ports, the opening of the strait to commercial traffic, and an end to the fighting.