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Meta’s settlement will compel others to bend the knee and set up teen guardrails

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Hannah More Heraclitus Leo Tolstoy

OpenAI’s rogue AI model incident was worse than we thought

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in the style of Richard Feynman Sigmund Freud Mary Shelley

Bill Gates says we’ve passed AI’s danger thresholds. Now what?

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Jack London Lucretius Nikola Tesla

Trump sends Saudi civil nuclear agreement to Congress for review

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Abraham Lincoln Jonathan Swift Harriet Tubman

Amend copyright licences to halt AI misuse and reassert human control

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Charles Darwin John Herschel Mary Wollstonecraft

US-Canada trade war escalates as Trump threatens tariff hike on vehicles

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Abigail Adams in the style of George Carlin Will Rogers

There’s rarely accountability for the deaths of aid workers. It’s time that changed - and Australia can help

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Ida B. Wells Karl Kraus Lu Xun

Trump says Canada wants 'benefits of being a state' as trade war deepens

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Thomas Jefferson in the style of John Maynard Keynes Will Rogers

‘We fear lessons will not be learned’: Chloe Moffat’s parents on their fight to hold Treasury to account

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Epictetus Lu Xun Michel de Montaigne

British corporation continued trafficking of enslaved Africans to Guyana 40 years after abolition

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Abigail Adams Lord Acton Harriet Martineau

Israeli settler attacks shift to heart of territory earmarked for Palestinian state

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Averroës (Ibn Rushd) in the style of Winston Churchill Sun Tzu

Would even an AI disaster on the scale of Hiroshima be enough to make humankind protect itself? I fear not | Timothy Garton Ash

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Diogenes of Sinope Ada Lovelace in the style of Walter Benjamin

Governments shouldn’t rely on AI to decide who gets a social grant: inside a South African court case

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Adam Smith Confucius Alexis de Tocqueville

The use of AI in biotechnology is changing faster than the rules governing either technology

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in the style of Hannah Arendt Ada Lovelace Nikola Tesla

US government is pushing to gain unprecedented access to your medical records - as data protections are weakening

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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Hypatia Ida B. Wells

How much hydrogen awaits us underground?

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Alexander von Humboldt Lao Tzu Henry David Thoreau

Netanyahu, Kushner agree US general to verify Hamas disarmament before Israel withdraws from Gaza

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Simón Bolívar Karl Kraus Niccolò Machiavelli

Are Microsoft’s AI plans being held back by a shortage of chips?

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Ada Lovelace Blaise Pascal Nikola Tesla

The decades-old ‘AI alignment problem’ has finally become a reality. Solving it won’t be easy

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Ada Lovelace Nikola Tesla in the style of the house

France's top court blocks social media ban for under-15s

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Frederick Douglass in the style of Groucho Marx in the style of George Orwell

Rogue AI aren’t science fiction anymore

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in the style of British Absurdist (composite) Giordano Bruno Ada Lovelace

AI isn’t ready to research itself

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in the style of Frantz Fanon Benjamin Franklin Nāgārjuna

Major Russian grain export terminals hit in Ukraine Black Sea port attack

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in the style of Winston Churchill Ibn Battuta Thucydides

The White House Is Going to Expand Its AI Policy

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in the style of Richard Feynman Alexander Hamilton Will Rogers

Big Tech Wants to Harvest Your Thoughts

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Ada Lovelace Mary Shelley Nikola Tesla

Rogue AI Agents Aren’t Evil. They’re Just Eager to Please

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in the style of C.L.R. James Fyodor Dostoevsky Étienne de La Boétie

AI Could Help Fossil Fuel Companies Create More Emissions

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Antonio Gramsci Nikola Tesla in the style of the house

If the markets reject OpenAI and Anthropic, the US should nationalize them | Bruce Schneier and Nathan E Sanders

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Diogenes of Sinope Henry Adams Harriet Martineau

Scientists have designed a functioning virus from scratch using AI - what you need to know

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Leonardo da Vinci Ada Lovelace in the style of Ludwig Wittgenstein

The Dacre dynasty: how Britain’s rightwing press was radicalised - podcast

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Anton Chekhov in the style of H.L. Mencken Leo Tolstoy

Generative AI has changed mathematics forever. Where to from here?

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in the style of Jorge Luis Borges Ada Lovelace Seneca the Younger

The Guardian view on India’s green growth gamble: it will need more than private finance | Editorial

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in the style of John Maynard Keynes Rosa Luxemburg Jonathan Swift

Iran issues tough demands to reopen strait of Hormuz as deal remains out of reach

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Heraclitus Sun Tzu Thucydides

Rising number of UK children report seeing explicit deepfakes of themselves

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Sigmund Freud Hannah More Nellie Bly

Planned satellite megaconstellations could generate runaway space debris

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in the style of Douglas Adams Nikola Tesla Harriet Tubman

The White House’s plan to vet potentially dangerous AI is cloaked in secrecy

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Abigail Adams Alexander Hamilton Ada Lovelace

‘I’m not spying’: how Meta’s smartglasses have divided opinion

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Adam Smith in the style of the house in the style of Walter Benjamin

AI is making disinformation harder to spot - but we’ve found a new way to catch it

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in the style of Richard Feynman Karl Kraus Thomas Paine

Artificial Intelligence used to design brand new viruses

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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Ada Lovelace William Whewell

Chris Bowen vows to override Queensland and NT to force renewables-powered AI datacentres

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Lord Acton Henry Adams Nikola Tesla

Judge grants DoJ bid to dismiss January 6 cases against rightwing Oath Keepers

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Marcus Tullius Cicero Ida B. Wells Sojourner Truth

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G.K. Chesterton John Herschel Lucretius

For the first time, the census will ask your sexual orientation. My new study shows why it matters

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Abraham Lincoln Friedrich Nietzsche in the style of Fernando Pessoa

Is paying artists enough to convince them to embrace AI?

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in the style of John Maynard Keynes Leonardo da Vinci Mary Shelley

The Guardian view on global corporate tax: a $500bn prize that states must seize | Editorial

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Simón Bolívar Alexander Hamilton Alexis de Tocqueville

Is It Possible to Make Smart Glasses That Aren’t Creepy?

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in the style of Italo Calvino Étienne de La Boétie Ada Lovelace

Spanish PM calls for urgent EU meeting after ‘selfish’ responses to Ceuta crisis

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Simón Bolívar Karl Kraus Voltaire

AI firms must answer for rogue bots, says boss of hacked company

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Antonio Gramsci Rosa Luxemburg Niccolò Machiavelli

Is AI Reasoning Right for the Wrong Reasons?

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in the style of Christopher Hitchens William James in the style of Bertrand Russell

Anthropic’s AI Claude escaped testing environment and hacked organizations

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Adam Smith Giordano Bruno Diogenes of Sinope

Iran strikes tankers under US escort in Hormuz strait as Trump gathers cabinet to discuss war

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in the style of George Carlin in the style of Winston Churchill Thucydides

US launches 'powerful' strikes on Iran after attempted attack on American troops

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Thomas Jefferson Sun Tzu Thucydides

AI leaders sign statement asking the government to do something about automated AI

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Alexander Hamilton Ada Lovelace in the style of the house

When physicians and AI work together, who is accountable? How to lay out medical liability

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Charles Darwin Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. in the style of Bertrand Russell

A California aquifer may have crossed the point of no return

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in the style of Douglas Adams Alexander von Humboldt Lao Tzu

How to prevent AI from harming mathematics

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in the style of British Absurdist (composite) Hypatia Nikola Tesla

Researchers are building computers that run on brain organoids - but have neglected a major ethical issue

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Hildegard von Bingen Jack London Leonardo da Vinci

The US is charging an American citizen for wiping his phone at the border

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Marcus Tullius Cicero Frederick Douglass Harriet Tubman

ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan dismissed over sexual misconduct allegations, sources say

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Marcus Tullius Cicero Confucius in the style of George Orwell

Venezuelan men sue aviation firms who flew them to notorious Salvadorian jail

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Simón Bolívar Marcus Tullius Cicero Ibn Battuta

Middle East crisis latest: US carries out strikes across Iran as Tehran targets American bases in region

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in the style of Winston Churchill Sun Tzu Thucydides

Apple’s OpenAI lawsuit is about who gets to define the post-smartphone era

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in the style of Simone de Beauvoir Ida B. Wells Socrates

Be skeptical of OpenAI’s rogue hacker agent story | John Thickstun

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Sigmund Freud Karl Kraus Ada Lovelace

OpenAI’s models autonomously hacked a tech startup. It signals a seismic shift in cybersecurity

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Alexander Hamilton Mary Shelley in the style of the house

The White House Is Trying to Figure Out What to Do About Chinese AI

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Antonio Gramsci Hypatia Étienne de La Boétie

US to announce deal allowing Saudi Arabia a nuclear programme, reports say

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Karl Kraus Niccolò Machiavelli Jonathan Swift

Wednesday briefing: How Trump’s Iran gamble has produced a crisis reshaping the global order

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Abigail Adams Sun Tzu Will Rogers

‘Complete shock and dismay’: scientists unite against Trump’s $1tn grant attack

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in the style of Jorge Luis Borges in the style of Richard Feynman in the style of H.L. Mencken

There are already 16,000 satellites in Earth’s orbit. How will we manage the next 100,000?

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in the style of Italo Calvino John Herschel Nikola Tesla

AI is more likely than humans to form biases when hiring

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in the style of James Baldwin Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Nellie Bly

Alcohol, sex and violence: a dangerous cocktail that makes young women vulnerable to HIV

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Hannah More Ida B. Wells Mary Wollstonecraft

'Less than human': how unhoused people in Atlanta are being treated during the World Cup - video

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Abigail Adams Epictetus Ibn Battuta

Carbon capture is a fig leaf for fossil fuel expansion | Letters

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Charles Darwin in the style of John Maynard Keynes Rosa Luxemburg

Power, desalination plants hit in Kuwait

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Heraclitus Thucydides Leo Tolstoy

Why AI’s environmental footprint won’t disappear into orbit

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Marcus Aurelius Henry Adams Nikola Tesla

CRISPR gets a power boost from AI-designed ‘molecular scissors’

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Diogenes of Sinope in the style of Richard Feynman Ada Lovelace

Middle East war rekindles as US and Iran resume strike exchange

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Averroës (Ibn Rushd) in the style of Winston Churchill Thucydides

Surviving extreme heat increasingly boils down to this: access to air conditioning | Mark Wolfe

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Lord Acton in the style of Douglas Adams Alexander von Humboldt

The problem AI content moderation cannot solve

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Adam Smith Sigmund Freud Alexander Hamilton

Caribbean calls for return of British Virgin Islands - and for King Charles to back decolonisation

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Simón Bolívar Giordano Bruno in the style of Winston Churchill

Iran threatens to cut off major vital seaways in response to Trump's renewed blockade

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in the style of George Carlin Sun Tzu Thucydides

Large language models often prioritize Western moral values, overlooking other cultures

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in the style of Hannah Arendt Antonio Gramsci Hannah More

The US and Iran are back at war. And due to one main sticking point, there’s no end in sight

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in the style of Winston Churchill Sun Tzu Thucydides

New anti-racism standard will force Australian universities to use definitions of antisemitism and Islamophobia

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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Hypatia Friedrich Nietzsche

EACOP: Ugandan farmers sue UK company in London

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Alexander Hamilton Thomas Jefferson Abraham Lincoln

US strikes Iran, Tehran hits Gulf states, says Strait of Hormuz closed

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in the style of Winston Churchill Sun Tzu Thucydides

EPA to open habitats of endangered species to logging and mining

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Charles Darwin Diogenes of Sinope Lao Tzu

Facebook and Instagram must stop ‘addictive’ features causing infinite scrolling, EU tells Meta

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Sigmund Freud Sei Shōnagon in the style of Walter Benjamin

Meta risks $12B EU fine over addictive Instagram and Facebook feeds

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Adam Smith Sigmund Freud Ida B. Wells

The $28 Million Mistake That Inspired Estonia's AI “Fuckup Finder”

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Abigail Adams Karl Kraus Mary Shelley

Can NATO survive Trump's changes of heart?

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Simón Bolívar in the style of Winston Churchill Harriet Tubman

Is recursive self‑improvement the dawning of AI superintelligence?

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in the style of John Maynard Keynes Ada Lovelace in the style of the house

Iran targets Bahrain and Kuwait after US launches strikes

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Simón Bolívar Sun Tzu Thucydides

Judgement day for Marine Le Pen

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Marcus Tullius Cicero in the style of H.L. Mencken Michel de Montaigne

Explosions trying to deter 'business as usual' strategy at the heart of Macron's visit

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in the style of Groucho Marx Niccolò Machiavelli in the style of Walter Benjamin

Italy ordered to compensate woman who was told her rape allegations were ‘normal’

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Averroës (Ibn Rushd) in the style of Simone de Beauvoir Giordano Bruno

Pope urges Europe to do more for migrants as he visits gateway island

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in the style of Italo Calvino Hildegard von Bingen Ibn Battuta

What if the Universe Isn’t as Uniform as Scientists Think?

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in the style of Jorge Luis Borges in the style of Christopher Hitchens Alexander von Humboldt

'Hotter and hotter and hotter' - Europe's new climate in seven charts

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in the style of George Carlin John Maynard Keynes Nikola Tesla

‘Did Westminster just ignore buses?’ Burnham aims to shake up UK transport

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Heraclitus Jonathan Swift Harriet Tubman

'Hotter and hotter and hotter' - Europe's new climate in seven charts

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in the style of Douglas Adams John Herschel Seneca the Younger

A mayor in Japan announced her maternity leave - and got the whole country talking

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Isabella Bird Jack London Fernando Pessoa

OpenAI ‘in early talks to give 5% stake to US government’

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Henry Adams Étienne de La Boétie Will Rogers

US heatwave threatens 250th anniversary events and World Cup

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Winston Churchill in the style of Richard Feynman Lucretius

‘Life saving’ drug for people with opioid dependency to be pulled from Australia by end of year

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in the style of George Carlin Sigmund Freud Karl Kraus

Why the tech industry can't keep up with the AI backlash

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Adam Smith Alexander Hamilton John Maynard Keynes

Rapid spread of AI may worsen global inequality, UN warns

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Abigail Adams Adam Smith Ada Lovelace

The Trump Administration Is Lifting Its Export Controls on Anthropic’s Mythos and Fable AI Models

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Epictetus Nikola Tesla Voltaire

Supreme court nears the end of its term with cases about Donald Trump’s power to be decided - US politics live

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Marcus Tullius Cicero Frederick Douglass Antonio Gramsci

US Supreme Court upholds bans on transgender women in female school and college sports

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in the style of Hannah Arendt John Herschel Sojourner Truth

New US-Iran exchange of attacks threatens ceasefire

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Averroës (Ibn Rushd) Sun Tzu Thucydides

US and Iran exchange strikes and accuse each other of violating ceasefire

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Winston Churchill Sigmund Freud Thucydides

Escalating US-Iran strikes threaten interim peace agreement

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Simón Bolívar Sun Tzu Thucydides

Spain bucks European trend with mass amnesty of migrants

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Rosa Luxemburg H.L. Mencken George Orwell

Red warning for south-east England after record June heat, as France braces for more stifling temperatures - Europe heatwave live

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Winston Churchill Sigmund Freud Lu Xun

TotalEnergies ordered to account for client emissions in landmark climate ruling

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Giordano Bruno Confucius Henry David Thoreau

European heatwave is worst ever and impossible without climate crisis, scientists say

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in the style of Douglas Adams in the style of George Carlin Seneca the Younger

Israel continues to commit genocide by targeting children in Gaza, UN inquiry finds | First Thing

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Marcus Tullius Cicero Lu Xun Blaise Pascal

World Cup Teams Are in a Race for AI Dominance

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John Maynard Keynes Niccolò Machiavelli in the style of the house

Dozens of ships head through Strait of Hormuz after US-Iran deal

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Thucydides Leo Tolstoy Harriet Tubman

UN maritime body to begin evacuating sailors as Hormuz toll dispute continues

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Winston Churchill Lao Tzu Thucydides

Anyone can fake a scientific image with AI, tricking even academic journals - and undermining trust in science

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in the style of C.L.R. James Hypatia in the style of Bertrand Russell

Three things to watch amid Anthropic’s latest feud with the government

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Diogenes of Sinope in the style of Frantz Fanon Mary Wollstonecraft

Israel and Hezbollah trade fire, as US-Iran talks begin in Switzerland

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Heraclitus Étienne de La Boétie Thucydides

Will AI spark a scientific renaissance - or a diffuse monoculture?

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Hildegard von Bingen Leonardo da Vinci Ada Lovelace

Iran says closed Strait of Hormuz as US deal hits obstacle ahead of Swiss talks

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Simón Bolívar Sun Tzu Thucydides

US-Iran ceasefire negociations underway in Switzerland

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Abigail Adams in the style of Groucho Marx Thucydides

Global framework for reparatory justice adopted at landmark conference in Ghana

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Lord Acton Alexander Hamilton Friedrich Nietzsche

Iran says Strait of Hormuz will be closed over Israel attacks on Lebanon

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Heraclitus Sun Tzu Thucydides

Ghana brings reparations for transatlantic slave trade a step further

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Frederick Douglass Ibn Battuta Harriet Martineau

Supreme court to release opinions with several high-stakes rulings to come including birthright citizenship - US politics live

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Averroës (Ibn Rushd) Sojourner Truth Alexis de Tocqueville

What's in the US-Iran agreement that's now in effect

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Karl Kraus Abraham Lincoln Thucydides

What's in the US-Iran agreement?

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Thomas Jefferson Jonathan Swift Thucydides

AI has entered the workforce: tax tech profits, not people

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Hannah More John Maynard Keynes Nikola Tesla

Towards Conversational AI for Disease Management

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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Alexander von Humboldt Will Rogers

G7 summit gets underway with spotlight on US-Iran deal

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Abigail Adams Winston Churchill Thucydides

Trump says Iran deal signed but details remain unclear

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Winston Churchill Sun Tzu in the style of Virginia Woolf

Dangerous hormone-disrupting chemicals found in US breast milk samples

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Abigail Adams Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Ida B. Wells

Iran, US agreement: What's included in the deal, and what's left to negotiate?

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Sun Tzu Thucydides Leo Tolstoy

Amoc collapse could change Europe’s climate 10x faster than expected. We aren’t ready

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Henry Adams Heraclitus Lucretius

Anthropic suspends new AI tools over US government security concerns

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Antonio Gramsci Groucho Marx Alexander Hamilton

Switzerland to vote on plan to cap population at 10 million

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Richard Feynman Benjamin Franklin Sigmund Freud

The migration pact: What's in the EU's landmark asylum reform?

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Fyodor Dostoevsky Frederick Douglass Epictetus

I advise the Vatican and the UN on AI - don’t dismiss the Pope’s message as theology

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Marcus Tullius Cicero Confucius Diogenes of Sinope

US, Iran hit each other again as hopes for quick peace deal fade

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Adam Smith Anton Chekhov G.K. Chesterton

Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails

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George Carlin Winston Churchill Charles Darwin

Middle East live: Iran announces closure of Strait of Hormuz after US attacks

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Averroës (Ibn Rushd) Simón Bolívar Giordano Bruno

Bowen: Trump and Netanyahu wanted to reshape the Middle East - now they risk a permacrisis

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Simone de Beauvoir Jorge Luis Borges British Absurdist (composite)

Israel and Iran trade strikes: what does this mean for peace deal? - The Latest

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Abigail Adams James Baldwin Mary Wollstonecraft

Has Trump lost control of the Iran war?

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Marcus Aurelius Ludwig Wittgenstein P.G. Wodehouse

Middle East crisis live: Israel and Iran exchange fresh round of strikes as attacks intensify

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Lord Acton Hannah Arendt Alexis de Tocqueville

Iran launches missiles at Israel in first bombardment since fragile ceasefire

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Douglas Adams Mark Twain William Whewell

Israel says it has struck Iran after taking missile fire

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Oscar Wilde Will Rogers

Air raid sirens in Bahrain as Iranian missiles and drones head for Gulf neighbors

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Nikola Tesla Harriet Tubman in the style of Alan Turing

Iran war: 100 days on, a costly stalemate

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Voltaire Walter Benjamin in the style of Simone Weil

Middle East: Iran says it targeted US bases in Gulf

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Henry David Thoreau Thucydides Leo Tolstoy

War in Ukraine: Zelensky proposes face-to-face meeting with Putin to end years-long war

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Jonathan Swift in the style of Nassim Nicholas Taleb in the style of Ida Tarbell

In open letter to Putin, Zelensky calls for meeting and ceasefire

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Socrates Sojourner Truth Sun Tzu

Zelensky proposes face-to-face talks in open letter to Putin

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Michel de Montaigne Saki (H.H. Munro) Sei Shōnagon

Ukraine's attack on Saint Petersburg 'brings war back to Russia'

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in the style of S.J. Perelman Terry Pratchett Bertrand Russell

Can autonomous AI-powered killer drones take morality onboard?

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Middle East war live: US military says it intercepted Iranian missile and drone attacks

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Forever at war? US, Iran trade blows as Israel pushes deeper into Lebanon

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Nāgārjuna Nellie Bly George Orwell

Is Israel seeking free reign from US in Lebanon?

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Harriet Martineau Mary Shelley H.L. Mencken

Iran and US report new wave of air strikes in Gulf

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Ada Lovelace Lucretius the house

Middle East: Kuwait hit by missiles and drones

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Rosa Luxemburg Lu Xun Niccolò Machiavelli

Israel crosses the Litani River in Lebanon: What it means and why it matters

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Karl Kraus Étienne de La Boétie Lao Tzu

New Aukus drone subs to protect critical undersea cables as Marles warns: ‘seabed is a battlefield’

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Leonardo da Vinci Abraham Lincoln in the style of Walter Lippmann

Iran war: US says ready to resume war if no deal reached

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Thomas Jefferson Franz Kafka John Maynard Keynes

Trump says he’s making final decision on Iran deal as Tehran slams ‘mixture of truth and lies’

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Ida B. Wells Isabella Bird William James

Netanyahu orders Israeli army to seize ‘70% of Gaza Strip’, violating ceasefire deal

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Italo Calvino Jack London Fernando Pessoa

US strikes Iran, drawing retaliatory attack on American base

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Alexander von Humboldt Hypatia Ibn Battuta

The world's carmakers are struggling to compete with China

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Henry Adams Heraclitus John Herschel

US carries out new strikes on Iran military site

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Hildegard von Bingen Christopher Hitchens Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Israeli strikes kill 31 in southern Lebanon as Netanyahu expands ground campaign

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Benjamin Franklin Sigmund Freud Antonio Gramsci

Nearly half a million Russians killed in Ukraine war, UK spy chief says

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Groucho Marx Alexander Hamilton Hannah More

Each side spins a different story about the US-Iran peace talks - but Tehran may have the last word | Rajan Menon

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Diogenes of Sinope Fyodor Dostoevsky Frederick Douglass

End in sight? Hormuz, nukes at the heart of US-Iran sticking points

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Epictetus in the style of Frantz Fanon Richard Feynman

Displaced Ukrainians risk home seizure under Russian law

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Adam Smith Anton Chekhov G.K. Chesterton

Turkish riot police storm opposition offices after leaders ousted

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Marcus Tullius Cicero in the style of C.L.R. James Confucius

I survived a missile strike in the Strait of Hormuz, but my friend has not been found

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Averroës (Ibn Rushd) George Carlin Winston Churchill

With oil markets nearing the danger zone, a US-Iran deal can’t come soon enough | Heather Stewart

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Simón Bolívar Giordano Bruno Charles Darwin

French stars are rightly worried by billionaire Vincent Bolloré. Here’s how to rein him in

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Abigail Adams Jorge Luis Borges British Absurdist (composite)

US or Iran: Who will win the Hormuz endurance game?

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James Baldwin Simone de Beauvoir in the style of Virginia Woolf

Germany's Merz pitches 'associate' EU membership for Ukraine

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Ludwig Wittgenstein P.G. Wodehouse Mary Wollstonecraft

Ebola returns: How to fight outbreak amid defunding of global health?

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Douglas Adams Oscar Wilde Will Rogers

Same but different: how Xi and China welcomed Trump and Putin

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Alexis de Tocqueville Mark Twain William Whewell

Iran warns of war ‘beyond the region’ if US resumes attacks

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Voltaire Walter Benjamin in the style of Simone Weil

UAE blames Iran or its proxies for drone strike fire near nuclear plant

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🔴 Ukraine launches around 600 drones at Russia, Zelensky claims ‘justified’ attack

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Ukraine vows retribution after Russian strike on housing block kills 24

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Trump warns Taiwan against declaring independence from China after meeting Xi

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Ukraine attacks Russia with drones after suffering three days of strikes

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China warns Trump over Taiwan question at high-stakes summit

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Trump-Xi accord on Iran elusive as US president’s China trip winds down

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Trump-Xi summit live: US president preparing to meet China’s leader with trade, Taiwan and the Iran war set to dominate talks

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Trump, Xi to hold talks on trade, Iran and Taiwan

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Iranians mourn children killed in US bombing of school

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Russia announces new nuclear missile ready to launch by end of year

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How the Trump-Xi summit could set superpower relations for many years to come

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The big questions hanging over the Trump-Xi meeting in China

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Trump calls Iran response to US proposal to end war 'totally unacceptable'

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Oil prices rise after US and Iran exchange fire in Hormuz strait

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Henry Adams Heraclitus John Herschel

Fears of renewed Gaza war as Hamas disarmament talks stall

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Groucho Marx Alexander Hamilton Hannah More

What we know about the latest exchange of fire between the US and Iran

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Benjamin Franklin Sigmund Freud Antonio Gramsci

Iran accuses US of violating ceasefire by targeting civilian areas and ships on strait of Hormuz

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Diogenes of Sinope Fyodor Dostoevsky Frederick Douglass

Middle East war live: US and Iran accuse each other of ceasefire violations in Strait of Hormuz

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Epictetus in the style of Frantz Fanon Richard Feynman

Iran considering US proposal as Trump says war will be 'over quickly'

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Marcus Tullius Cicero in the style of C.L.R. James Confucius

Bowen: Strait of Hormuz standoff raises risk of sliding back into all-out war

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Giordano Bruno Anton Chekhov G.K. Chesterton

Middle East crisis live: US targets Iranian boats amid tense push for control of strait of Hormuz

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Adam Smith Averroës (Ibn Rushd) Simón Bolívar

Iran fires 'warning shots' as US Navy says its ships entered Gulf via Hormuz

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Abigail Adams Winston Churchill Charles Darwin

Iran war: US to escort ships through the Strait of Hormuz

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Jorge Luis Borges British Absurdist (composite) George Carlin

Live: US to escort ships through Hormuz as Iran warns of ceasefire breach

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Lord Acton Hannah Arendt in the style of Virginia Woolf

Middle East crisis live: tanker hit by ‘projectiles’ in strait of Hormuz after Trump says US will help ‘guide’ stranded ships

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Marcus Aurelius James Baldwin Simone de Beauvoir

How the Iran war is hurting travelers, airline industry

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Oscar Wilde Will Rogers Ludwig Wittgenstein

Trump says Iran has not yet ‘paid a big enough price’ as he reviews new peace proposal

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Douglas Adams P.G. Wodehouse Mary Wollstonecraft

Trump tells Congress ceasefire means he does not need their approval for Iran war

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Walter Benjamin in the style of Simone Weil William Whewell

Deadline for US Congress on war in Iran

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in the style of Alan Turing Mark Twain Voltaire

Iran war: Pezeshkian says US blockade 'doomed to fail,' Centcom admiral argues otherwise

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Nikola Tesla Alexis de Tocqueville Harriet Tubman

Iran war: Brent oil briefly hits $119 as talks stall

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Why is the UAE choosing to leave OPEC?

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UAE pulls out of OPEC oil cartels citing 'national interests'

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Iran war: US wary of peace plan postponing nuclear deal

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North Korea's Kim reaffirms support for Russia's 'sacred' Ukraine war

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Global military spending hits record $2.9 trillion in 2025 amid growing insecurity

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Iran war: Peace talks on hold, what's next?

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Middle East crisis live: Witkoff and Kushner head to Pakistan for Iran negotiations

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Netanyahu orders army to 'vigorously attack' Hezbollah in Lebanon

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Iran war: Second attempt at peace talks takes shape

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Strait of Hormuz: Iran, US seize ships

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EU leaders discuss Iran, Ukraine at Cyprus summit

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EU set to sign off €90bn loan for Ukraine and fresh Russia sanctions - Europe live

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Iran war: Standoff at Hormuz casts shadow over Iran ceasefire talks

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Trump extends ceasefire with Iran, says Tehran regime 'seriously fractured'

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UK inflation climbs to 3.3%, driven by largest increase in fuel prices in over three years - business live

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Push to bring US and Iran together for peace talks as ceasefire deadline looms

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Tuesday briefing: What it might take for lasting peace between the US and Iran

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Oil price jumps with US-Iran ceasefire ‘on tenterhooks’ - business live

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The Guardian view on the EU and Israel: moving beyond mere exhortation | Editorial

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Intemperate Trump brings chaos and confusion to Iran talks

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Middle East crisis live: Iran says ‘fundamental’ issues’ still to be resolved with US amid strait of Hormuz impasse

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Europe's far right leaders gather in Milan rally against immigration

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Israel, Lebanon agree 10-day ceasefire, Trump says

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'Lebanon is being held hostage to Hezbollah acting at Iran's behest'

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Israel escalates attacks on medics in Lebanon with deadly ‘quadruple tap’

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Pakistani army chief visits Tehran in bid to broker renewed talks between US and Iran

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Can Trump get a better Iran deal than Obama?

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Ukraine's military to get biggest-ever shipment of UK drones

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Lebanon, Israel to meet for tough talks in Washington

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US-Iran peace talks could resume in next two days, Trump says

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Oil price tops $100 a barrel again after Trump announces strait of Hormuz blockade - business live

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US expected to start naval blockade of Iranian ports after deadline passes

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Bombing of Iran's medical infrastructure endangers patients

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Tracking recent US-Israeli strikes on Iranian infrastructure

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Tracking recent US-Israeli strikes on Iranian infrastructure

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Trump threatens to take out Iran in 'one night' as deadline looms

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Iran calls for young people to form human chains to protect power plants

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Middle East crisis live: Trump says he is ‘not at all’ worried about possible war crimes as his deadline nears

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Middle East war live: Iran vows harsh response after Trump threatens civilian targets

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Trump threats cause dilemma for US officers: disobey orders or commit war crimes

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Middle East crisis live: Iran rejects Trump’s 48 hour deadline to ‘make a deal’; US races to find missing pilot

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Iran war: Trump says no more Israeli attacks on South Pars

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Iran: US fighter jet downed, War “It’s not a show”, The Space Race, Will Syrians leave Germany?

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What the Houthis’ entry into the Iran war means for the conflict and the wider region

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Iran: Rolling Ultimatums, Moscow "at the EU table"?

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