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Still image from handout video said to show a drone being launched by Iran from an unknown location to attack US positions at Azraq base in Jordan. IRIB/Handout via REUTERS
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- Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has threatened to close "all other export corridors that benefit the US and its allies", Iranian media reported, after Iran shut the Strait of Hormuz and the US reimposed a naval blockade of Iranian ports. Follow our live updates.
- Having choked off shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, Iran is now signaling it could play its most dangerous card yet: using Yemen's Houthi allies to shut the Bab el-Mandeb gateway to the Red Sea, opening a new front against Washington and putting two of the world's most vital energy arteries at risk.
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A turkey vulture circles over low water levels at San Carlos Reservoir near Peridot, Arizona. REUTERS/Rebecca Noble
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- Farmers and ranchers, and Americans in small towns and suburbs talk to Reuters about how they are coping as the drought-stricken West gets even drier. The drought is pitting farmers against residents of cities and suburbs as well as industrial users including data centers, solar projects and semiconductor plants.
- China has an increasingly important buffer against oil price shocks: electric taxis. Across Chinese cities, taxi usage and ridesharing are booming. In May, people took 3.05 billion trips, with government data showing trips have grown 6% since the Iran war began.
- Payments company Stripe and private equity firm Advent International have made a joint offer to acquire PayPal Holdings Inc. for $60.50 per share, in a deal that would value the payments company at more than $53 billion, two people said.
- SpaceX's slip close to its initial public offering price risks turning a marquee stock-market debut into a confidence test, potentially unsettling retail investors and complicating decisions for other companies weighing high-profile listings.
- Fender, the US maker of the iconic Stratocaster electric guitar played by Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton, has widened its legal campaign to defend the guitar's design with a notice letter sent to Yamaha, the Japanese company told Reuters.
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Reuters tracked three Boeing aircraft flying from N’Djamena, Chad, to key logistics hubs used by the Rapid Support Forces, including to Kufrah, Libya and to Nyala, Sudan.
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Companies owned by a longtime US government and military contractor have been operating several airplanes linking regional supply routes to the stronghold of a paramilitary force accused of genocide in Sudan, a Reuters investigation has found.
To the outside world, Steven Shaulis, a 63-year-old US Army Special Forces veteran, is the head of the Singapore-based CADG, formerly known as Central Asia Development Group, a global firm that has held US and United Nations contracts for over 20 years. Shaulis’ companies have earned at least $419 million from American taxpayers through military and foreign-aid projects, government records show.
Behind the scenes, Reuters found, Shaulis-controlled firms have operated at least three aging Boeing aircraft flying to key logistics hubs used by the Rapid Support Forces, the Sudanese paramilitary group accused of atrocities in the Darfur region.
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A mural of England national soccer team captain Harry Kane on Leake Street, London, July 14, 2026. REUTERS/Chris J. Ratcliffe
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The clash between Argentina and England in the soccer World Cup semi-final is loaded with history and rivalry, but also represents an interesting contrast of evolving national identities.
England, once the epitome of a team that stuck to ideas of nationhood defined by their supposed superiority to others — having invented the game, they declined to take part in the first three World Cups — now has a more inclusive approach, reflecting the country's increasing diversity and multicultural make-up.
Argentina's sense of national identity, by contrast, remains rooted in an origin myth from the 1920s, which in many ways was set up in direct opposition to the English, cultural historians say.
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