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US President Donald Trump’s “maximum pressure” campaign against Iran’s economy is doomed to fail, a former member of his Iran negotiating team argued. Washington’s effort to sanction countries doing business with Tehran “poses a greater threat to US credibility” than to the regime’s economy, Nate Swanson wrote in Foreign Affairs. ...

A synthetic Israel-funded think tank has published more than 100 articles since it launched less than a month ago. First spotted by Politico, the Hanover Institute for Public Policy is run by the American advertising firm Piro Inc, paid for by Israel, and appears designed to generate content for LLMs ...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is looking for a federal contractor to provide it with access to the country’s voter registration and voter history data, according to newly released procurement records reviewed by 404 Media. The procurement records say ICE is seeking the data to help detect fraud. But given ...

The latest escalation in an ongoing trade war between the US and Canada will see new levies on goods from steel to furniture, fresh tuna and makeup. ...

Iconic country musician Dolly Parton has died at the age of 80, the singer’s team announced on social media. ...

A viral bakery in London has fired a warning shot at an alleged copycat in Khobar, whose owners had built an almost like-for-like replica in the Saudi port city. “It has recently come to our attention that a bakery is operating using our brand name and logo in Saudi Arabia,” ...

Kuwait is advancing its citizenship crackdown under new rules introduced Sunday that bar naturalized citizens from voting and replace paper nationality certificates with electronic ones. Naturalized citizens could previously vote once they had held citizenship for 30 years, though they could not run for office or be appointed to parliament. ...

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman concluded a visit to France with a raft of agreements covering many of his top priorities including AI, geopolitics, and even his favorite pastime: video games. France has become the fourth-largest investor in Saudi Arabia, and MBS is returning the favor: A €6 billion ...

Denmark’s state-owned export bank lent €100 million to build a large new wind farm in Ukraine. The project, which will use turbines from the Danish manufacturer Vestas and be operated by the Ukrainian agricultural company Kernal for both its own use and power sales to the country’s battered grid, stems ...

The capacity of gas-fired power plants currently being planned to supply power to US data centers nearly doubled in the first half of 2026. A new study from Global Energy Monitor counted 189 gigawatts of gas-fired capacity in development in the first half of 2026. But it remains unclear if ...