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Doha talks, Słubice at 40.5

Trump tests Hormuz pause as courts, quakes and corporate breakups jolt governments and markets

The day’s news turned on fragile systems: a sea lane, a court doctrine, a heat-stressed railway and a rescue operation under broken concrete. Politics and markets both hunted for signs of control, and found plenty of improvisation instead.

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Monaco backpack bomb explosion
Identified a married couple among the victims now in life-threatening condition, as investigators confirm the suspect planted the explosive device in the lobby.

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Demography and migration

Spain's Supreme Court questioning the legality of a mass migrant regularization program introduces a new legal challenge to national migration policies within the EU framework.

Fragile US-Iran truce holds, Iraq pushes for higher OPEC quota as oil shipments resume · Pollar