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NASA is abandoning efforts to build a space station orbiting the Moon, and will instead put $20 billion toward a lunar base, officials announced Tuesday. The ambitious plan calls for dozens of launches in the next decade, with crews eventually exploring the lunar south pole. “The goal is not flags ...

The first Chinese-owned cargo vessel successfully passed through the Strait of Hormuz since Iran began letting a select number of ships navigate the waterway, Caixin reported. In the last three weeks, Tehran has let some non-Western ships pass through a “safe” corridor in the strait that bypasses traditional shipping lanes, ...

Volkswagen is pivoting from cars to military tech at one of its factories, a reflection of the challenges facing Germany’s auto sector. The company plans to use an embattled German car plant to manufacture components for Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system, the Financial Times reported. It’s the highest-profile example ...

A spike in jet fuel prices stemming from the Iran war is passing through to consumers, resulting in more expensive airfares for summer travel, analysts said. The CEO of United Airlines, the world’s largest by capacity, warned Tuesday that ticket prices may increase by 20%. Global airlines are making contingency ...

Meta appointed its chief technology officer to oversee efforts to drive AI adoption across its workforce, The Wall Street Journal reported, as the company looks to remove organizational layers and speed up work. CEO Mark Zuckerberg is also building a personalized AI agent to help him do his job. Use ...

British investigators are circumspect but experts and security officials say incident has hallmarks of Iranian intelligence Middle East crisis – live updates From Golders Green, where four ambulances belonging to a Jewish charity were set alight in the early hours of Monday, a tangled trail probably leads across two continents ...

Defence chiefs have been discussing how to unblock the conduit for about a fifth of the world’s oil supplies The UK has offered to host an international security summit to draw up a “viable, collective plan” to reopen the strait of Hormuz as economic fallout from the Iran conflict continues. ...

President makes latest claim in White House press briefing as Sky News and NBC News report pending deployment of more than 1,000 soldiers to Middle East JD Vance role touted as Pakistan attempts to broker US-Iran peace talks In Australia, the number of petrol stations running out of fuel continues ...

Markets and the Treasury are pricing a quick exit. Without a credible political endgame, Donald Trump cannot deliver one Whatever else Donald Trump’s “pause” is, it is not a ceasefire. Iranian barrages targeted Israel, Gulf Arab states and northern Iraq on Tuesday, while Israeli and US warplanes struck across Iran. ...

Israel and Gulf states are targeted by Iran while Tehran denies any negotiations with US to end war Middle East crisis – live updates The US is poised to deploy airborne troops to the Middle East as strikes intensified across the region on Tuesday and Donald Trump claimed the US ...