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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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The US President declared the ceasefire memorandum with Iran "over" and US forces struck over 80 targets in Iran, escalating tensions and reversing a previous de-escalation effort.

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