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    Spotify expands audiobooks to 180 markets with 350,000 titles in 120 languages

    Spotify announced at the Frankfurt Book Fair that it is expanding its audiobook service from 22 markets to more than 180 countries by the end of 2026, granting access to more than 750 million listeners across 120 languages.

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Drones sink ships off Bulgaria

Drone strikes widen war risks as Europe tightens politics and markets punish France

The war around Ukraine spilled further into commercial shipping, while Kyiv braced for a larger Russian aerial assault and Yemen's Red Sea fighting intensified. In Europe, governments tried to harden institutions against both security threats and market pressure, with France becoming the week's financial worry.

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  • Poland school knife attack

    Deployed pyrotechnicians to the school in Ostrołęka as part of the ongoing investigation into the knife attack that left seven injured.

  • Kyiv hit by Russian missile strikes

    Russian air strikes kill at least 15 people across Ukraine as missiles hit residential buildings and energy infrastructure, Ukrainian officials report.

  • Strait of Hormuz standoff

    Marco Rubio states Iran lost complete control of the Strait of Hormuz, declaring the waterway open to shipping

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The US under Trump: second term

G7 oil release under US diesel-export pressure and new EU hybrid safeguards extend the transactional pattern without a new tariff imposition or policy break.

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