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The closure of the Strait of Hormuz for longer could deepen the worries of the world's fastest-growing economy
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Economists had been expecting gross domestic product to add 0.2%.
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After surging about 10 percent on Thursday, oil prices had little reaction to the decision by President Trump to waive sanctions on the sale of some Russian crude.
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The U.S. Central Command said that the loss was "not due to hostile or enemy fire."
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European stocks traded lower Friday as the conflict in the Middle East weighs over markets.
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The US Central Command says rescue efforts continue after a refuelling aircraft went down over western Iraq.
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The crash was not because of hostile or friendly fire, U.S. Central Command said. Four crew members died, it said, bringing the number of U.S. service members killed in the Iran conflict to at least 11.
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Plus, the Friday news quiz.
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The attacker who drove into Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township, a 41-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen, is dead. No one else was killed.
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Our Beirut bureau chief, Christina Goldbaum, shows how Israeli airstrikes have affected Lebanon and its capital. Hundreds of thousands of people have fled areas around Beirut and in a huge swath of southern Lebanon after Israel issued evacuation warnings in its conflict with Hezbollah.
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Analysts had been expecting 0.2% growth for the UK economy at the beginning of the year.
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Armed police were sent to the scene and pictured as they entered classrooms.
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Venezuela gave Trump a taste of success. This isn't the first time an American president has gotten hooked on overthrowing foreign governments.
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Buyers show interest in released Russian oil after the U.S. temporarily lifts sanctions.
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The KC-135 tanker, which had a crew of six, was involved in an apparent accident with another KC-135. The other aircraft landed safely, officials said.
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The Iran women's national football team have become "heroes" and deserve to be free to live their lives, says former Iran men's head coach Afshin Ghotbi.
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In first study of its kind, Cambridge researchers found AI toys could misread some children's emotions.
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A study tracks how the North American Free Trade Agreement and trade competition with Mexico led to earlier deaths for American factory workers.
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"Selfish and narcissistic" Rodney Ade Roberts is jailed for more than five years for scamming three women.
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China may never be able to realize its longtime promise to shift away from an overreliance on exports.
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Ukraine wants to leverage its defense expertise into security partnerships and to reap potentially vast profits for its arms industry.
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Seema Misra calls for accountability as a report by MPs raises concerns about ongoing delays.
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The surge in capital punishment is a cruel and unjust development.
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Jack Draper is penalised with a controversial hindrance call as Daniil Medvedev ends the Briton's Indian Wells title defence in the quarter-finals.
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The FBI says the incident is being investigated as a "targeted act of violence against the Jewish community".
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;Resize=(620)) Almost two weeks into the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran, the conflict in Lebanon is quickly escalating and expanding into more regions of the country. It began after the Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah fired rockets into Israel, pulling Lebanon back into a major conflict with Israel.
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The BBC visited the city of Nabatieh, witnessing the pace and scale of Israel's bombing as its war with Hezbollah continues to escalate.
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Mojtaba Khamenei issues first message as Supreme Leader, but doesn't appear in person.
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;Resize=(620)) While the war marches on in Iran, exiled Cubans in South Florida are keenly waiting, watching and wondering when the U.S. administration will turn its full attention south.
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Prime Minister Mark Carney said Canada would build three bases in the region. The government also plans to improve infrastructure and airports in the north.
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China's Foreign Ministry criticized the Trump administration's trade investigation as a "pretext" for tariffs. Meanwhile, China is moving ahead with a five-year plan that may rankle trade partners.
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The Trump administration has been trying to choke the Cuban government through an oil blockade. The prisoner release appears to be an effort to appease Washington.
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The Trump administration began a trade investigation Thursday into whether dozens of countries have policies to combat forced labor.
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Six US voters tell the BBC how they feel about the major US military intervention in Iran.
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Iran's new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, broke his silence Thursday after four days of rumors that he had been injured in an airstrike.
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The Iran war shows that despite President Trump's rejection of globalization, the world economy still relies on international links.
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European stocks ended Thursday's session lower as investors monitor the Iran war and global oil prices.
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Trump, who promised to lower gas prices, is tapping the Strategic Petroleum Reserve as war drives prices up. And, the U.S. investigates the strike on an Iranian school that killed at least 165 people.
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Will they finally capitalize on Trump's chaos?
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Reserves or no reserves, the outlook remains bleak as long as a major oil and gas trade route remains virtually closed.
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