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Today’s Brief

Norway lowers its flags

Floods kill hundreds as central banks tighten, kings die and Hormuz talks stall

The day’s news carried a hard mix of natural disaster, institutional strain and geopolitics that refuses to stay in one lane. Markets heard a hawkish Fed, Europe saw more economic drag, and the Gulf again reminded everyone that oil still travels through narrow water.

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Fedorov becomes Italian defense adviser
Establishes a drone pact between Italy and Ukraine as part of his new advisory role to modernize the Italian armed forces.

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Culture, media and the new divides

Irish regulator Coimisiún na Meán publicly demands Meta extend US settlement protections to EU users under DSA Article 28.

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