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President Donald Trump says he will declare the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow sea passage between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula, part of United States territory.
The United States is sending a second aircraft carrier, the USS George Washington, to join the USS Abraham Lincoln near Iran, giving it two carrier groups in the region.
NATO fighter jets shot down a drone that crossed into Latvia near its border with Russia and Belarus on Friday.
A U.S. trade court ruled that the government must refund tariffs to every company that paid them, not just the business that brought the case. The Trump administration is now appealing to stop those refunds while it fights over whether the tariffs were legal in the first place. Because the U.S. has used tariffs as pressure in trade talks with other countries, the outcome could affect that leverage too. It is still unclear whether the appeal will pause the refunds, or whether the case will reach the Supreme Court.
Two US human rights groups, DAWN and the Taxpayer Alliance Against Genocide, are suing the Trump administration over sanctions it placed on the International Criminal Court, the world's top war-crimes tribunal.
A Canadian company has found a large oil and gas field in the Baltic Sea off Poland's coast — reportedly Poland's biggest find since World War Two.
The US Senate passed a broad sanctions bill targeting Russia's energy industry and Iran, after the measure had been stuck in Congress for months.
The EU's migration commissioner, Magnus Brunner, says Brussels should use trade deals and visa rules as leverage over Morocco to stop another mass crossing like the one a week earlier, when tens of thousands of migrants entered Ceuta, a Spanish territory on the coast of North Africa.
German officials found an explosive drone near a jet at Leipzig airport and are calling it a serious attack on Germany.
A Ukrainian drone strike hit an industrial area outside Moscow, killing five people and wounding six, according to the regional governor.
A Shanghai company called Aishengna, founded only in 2023 and backed by the state, has started full-scale production of DUV lithography machines, the equipment that uses light to print circuit patterns onto silicon and that every computer chip needs to be made.
Spanish authorities say nearly 50,000 migrants crossed by sea from Morocco into Ceuta, a small Spanish territory on Africa's coast, within a single day.