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The Senate has voted to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security. And, President Trump extends the deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
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It takes a lot of fuel to produce this delicate fruit, which can be a sensitive barometer as oil costs rise.
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Zelenskyy met Gulf leaders to seek support for Kyiv as the U.S. reportedly weigh diverting military resources to the Middle East.
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Paul Adams explains why it is so dangerous to navigate the strait, one of the world's busiest oil shipping channels.
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;Resize=(620)) The S&P 500, Nasdaq and Dow Jones Industrial Average all sank in early trading, a day after Wall Street's worst drop since the conflict with Iran started.
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Women in their 60s and beyond will likely play a key role in choosing which Democrat will face Senator Susan Collins: Gov. Janet Mills, 78, or Graham Platner, 41.
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For the second time this week, President Trump extended an ultimatum for Iran to completely open the Strait of Hormuz to international shipping traffic, saying peace talks "are going very well."
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Dubai in the UAE has been the biggest driver of growth in recent years, and the Middle East tensions come at a critical time in the luxury industry.
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The boy, 16, from Northumberland is jailed for three-and-a-half years, plus a year of supervision.
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;Resize=(620)) After a two-month absence sparked by her 84-year-old mother's apparent abduction, Savannah Guthrie will return to NBC's Today show next month, saying in an interview that aired Friday 'joy will be my protest.'
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The US president's commitment to deadlines is fluid but he uses them for a purpose, writes the BBC's James Landale.
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The US television presenter will return to hosting the NBC news programme in April.
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The meeting in France is slated to discuss efforts to stop the war in the Middle East, end Iran's nuclear and ballistic missile development, and reopen maritime trade routes.
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When the world map of literal power changes, the political hierarchy shifts, too
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Senators at last agreed via voice vote early Friday morning to approve a funding package that funds the Department of Homeland Security besides ICE and part of CBP.
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A U.S. judge pressed the Trump administration Thursday about its basis for barring Venezuela's government from paying former President Nicolás Maduro's legal fees in the drug trafficking case that has put him behind bars in New York.
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Ousted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was shackled at the ankles and wearing a beige smock over an orange shirt as he appeared in federal court Thursday for the first time in three months.
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Fertilizer prices are climbing as a result of disruptions in the Middle East, putting global food supplies at risk.
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Investors are grappling with sharp divergence across the Gulf's markets, as the Iran conflict drives asset volatility in the region.
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A small street stall and a big restaurant chain in India rethought how to cook after the war in the Middle East squeezed their supply of liquified petroleum gas.
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The experimental drug reduced flare-ups for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, Astra said Friday.
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The findings appear to be the most comprehensive estimates yet of the growing toll of dead and wounded civilians in the month-long war.
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Mohammad al-Malhi is the seventh Palestinian killed by a settler in a surge of violence since the start of the war with Iran.
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In an unexpected breakthrough, the 40-foot mammal swam to deeper water on Friday morning through a channel that rescuers had dug for it.
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The US president's youngest son contacted officers when he was in the US to say his friend had been attacked in January 2025.
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Helium has emerged as a key focus for the tech sector as industry watchers cast their minds to the implications of a prolonged Iran war.
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Bonds issued by various European countries continued to sell off on Friday, deepening a rout that has been mostly continuous since the U.S.-Iran war began.
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After a fatal collision between an Air Canada jet and a fire truck on a runway, attention has focused on why the truck didn't heed frantic calls to stop.
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Zelenskyy met Gulf leaders to seek support for Kyiv as the U.S. reportedly weigh diverting military resources to the Middle East.
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Asia-Pacific markets traded mixed as the prospect of a peace deal in the Middle East remained murky amid contradictory messaging from the U.S. and Iran.
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A police force in England said it would look again at allegations against the influencer from 11 years ago. Mr. Tate was not charged in the case and denies any wrongdoing.
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Volodymyr Zelensky says the Gulf kingdom faces the same type of attacks from Iran that Kyiv has been resisting.
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Plus, the Friday news quiz.
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The authorities have made a wave of arrests to stop people posting footage of strikes, citing security risks. Experts also see a fear of damage to the countries' image as safe havens.
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One month since the US and Israel launched strikes on Iran, Tehran residents tell the BBC their lives have been devastated.
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Rescue teams now believe the whale has reached deeper water in Lübeck Bay and hope it will head for the wider sea.
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;Resize=(620)) Israel launched a wave of strikes on Iran early Friday ahead of a planned United Nations Security Council meeting to discuss attacks on Iranian civilian infrastructure, while Iran and the United States appeared at a diplomatic impasse, setting the stage for more potential escalation as the first month of the Middle East war neared its end.
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A stranded whale in Germany's Baltic Sea has finally swum free after rescuers cut an escape route, but it still faces danger
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Also, transgender athletes were barred from women's Olympic events. Here's the latest at the end of Thursday.
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The decision is an early victory for the artificial intelligence company in a rancorous legal battle with the Department of Defense.
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Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska is drafting a formal authorization for the use of military force in Iran, seeking to put some parameters around the operation as the Trump administration has boxed out Congress.
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Protesters gathered in Manhattan as ousted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores returned to federal court on Thursday.
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Iran is forcing oil tankers to take a new route in the Strait of Hormuz, with some ships charged millions of dollars to transit "the Tehran toll booth."
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Venezuela's former President Nicolas Maduro appeared in a Manhattan federal courthouse for a pretrial hearing on narco-terrorism and other charges.
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U.S. and Israeli airstrikes killed Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, this weekend. His death closes a nearly four-decade chapter in Iran marked by iron-fist rule and resistance to the U.S. and Israel.
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