Trump and EU leaders head to Ankara for NATO summit as Turkey pushes for F-35 engines and defence role · Pollar

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Hormuz burns, Ankara keeps meeting

Trump scraps Iran truce as NATO strains and Europe fights heat, storms and market jolts

The biggest story is again the one with the shortest fuse: the United States and Iran traded blows around the Strait of Hormuz, then talked as if diplomacy were still somewhere in the building. Europe, meanwhile, sweated, flooded and argued, while regulators and courts kept tightening the screws on corporate power.

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Trump and EU leaders head to Ankara for NATO summit as Turkey pushes for F-35 engines and defence role · Pollar