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Is the Strait of Hormuz really open again? Here's what we know — and don't know
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U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick takes a swipe at Canada's trade strategy ahead of review

U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on Friday criticized the current iteration of North America's free trade agreement as a bad deal, taking a swipe at Canada's trade strategy ahead of upcoming negotiations.
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Acting ICE director to leave as controversies, funding questions continue to swirl around agency

Todd Lyons, acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), is planning to depart at the end of next month. Lyons's boss Markwayne Mullin at the Department of Homeland Security says he hopes that the Trump administration can carry out deportations "in a more quiet way," after several deaths and a drumbeat of negative media coverage.
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Calls grow for Starmer to resign, as the shadow of Epstein still looms large over 10 Downing St.

Calls are growing for Keir Starmer to resign after it was revealed that Peter Mandelson, who was a close friend to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, failed a security vetting process but was appointed as the U.K's ambassador to the U. S. anyway.
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1 killed in Israeli strike in southern Lebanon on 1st full day of ceasefire deal

An Israeli drone strike killed one person in southern Lebanon on Friday, the first full day of a U.S.-brokered truce meant to end hostilities between Israel and the militant group Hezbollah, paramedics in the area and the head of a local hospital told Reuters.