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  • May 28

    Trump threatens to 'blow up' key US ally Oman over Strait of Hormuz control

    President Donald Trump warned he would 'blow up' Oman if it tried to jointly manage the Strait of Hormuz with Iran, stunning observers who questioned whether he had confused the key US ally with Tehran.

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Hormuz shut, Toronto choked

Washington widens Iran campaign as Kyiv reshuffles and smoky cities confront heat

The day’s main stories share a hard edge: governments are taking bigger risks and asking citizens to trust them. War widened in the Gulf, Ukraine changed hands at the top of its defence ministry, and smoke turned North American summer into a public-health warning.

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