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Iran and Oman near deal on Strait of Hormuz
The New York Times reports that Iran and Oman are close to a pact on the Strait of Hormuz that would reopen the waterway while giving Iran…
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Businessman sentenced for causing injury by dangerous driving
Scott Baines, a 50-year-old Sunderland businessman, pleaded guilty to causing serious injury by dangerous driving after he reversed his Land Rover…
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Pell Grant program faces growing funding shortfall
Bipartisan changes to the FAFSA increased Pell Grant eligibility and awards, producing measurable gains—about 570,000 more students became eligible…
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Nigeria embraces cryptocurrencies as regulators unify oversight
Nigeria announced a coordinated regulatory shift that fully recognises cryptocurrencies, stablecoins, and virtual assets, with the central bank…
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Lagos police uncover suspected counterfeit drug distribution network
Lagos state police say operatives of the Violent Crime Response Unit arrested two men after intelligence led to raids on warehouses where suspected…
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Kenya puts academic records on blockchain for verification
Kenya's National Examinations Council and Avalanche have launched a blockchain-based verification platform that places over 30 million academic…
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Brown president Christina Paxson to step down in June 2027
Christina H. Paxson, Brown University's 19th president and the longest-serving Ivy League president, will leave in June 2027, a year earlier than her…
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FalconX cuts 10% of global staff
Digital assets brokerage FalconX has cut about 10% of its global workforce as it braces for a prolonged downturn in cryptocurrency markets, according…
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Trump says negotiations with Iran will resume
President Donald Trump announced that negotiations with Iran would resume Monday after he scrapped a planned military strike over the weekend, saying…
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Hughes Network Systems files for Chapter 11 over $1.5 billion debt
Hughes Network Systems, the consumer satellite-network company owned by Charlie Ergen's EchoStar, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Sunday. The…
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Snap stock falls ahead of quarterly results
Snap shares fell 3.6% in premarket trading as the company heads into its quarterly report due after the market close, with investors watching for…
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ICE expands DNA collection, adds hundreds of thousands to FBI database
Internal documents, ICE training slides, FBI index counts, and a Georgetown Law analysis show a sharp expansion of DNA collection from people held…
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Hyperscale Data borrows $30 million using bitcoin-backed loan
Hyperscale Data said it implemented a bitcoin-backed decentralized finance lending strategy through the Morpho Protocol and had approximately $30…
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CuspAI raises $450 million Series B at $2.6 billion valuation
CuspAI, a Cambridge-based AI startup co-founded in 2024 by Dr. Chad Edwards and Prof. Max Welling, closed a $450 million Series B on July 20 that set…
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Hackers steal data from Liechtenstein beneficial owners register
Liechtenstein authorities say an unknown attacker gained unauthorized digital access to the register of beneficial owners during the night of July…
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Two tankers carry Saudi crude through Bab el-Mandeb
Two oil tankers, Lesvos and Desh Vaibhav, crossed the Bab el-Mandeb Strait over the weekend despite a Houthi-declared maritime embargo and heightened…
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Turkish foreign minister meets Hamas political bureau chief
Turkish foreign minister Hakan Fidan met Khalil al-Hayya, elected head of Hamas's political bureau, in Ankara to discuss the latest situation in Gaza…
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EU brings AI Act into full force
The European Union on the 2nd put its AI Act into full effect, imposing differentiated rules by risk level and immediate requirements that newly…
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Kent and Greenwich merge to form LASE super-university
Kent and Greenwich have merged to create the London and South East University Group, to be known as LASE, which will span four campuses across…
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Explosion injures daughter of Russian general in Moscow
An explosion at the Balzi Rossi restaurant on Kudrinskaya Square in central Moscow on the evening of 1 August left multiple dead and many injured…
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US F-35C launches from carrier to support Iran blockade
The US Central Command said a US Marine Corps F-35C stealth fighter launched from the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea as part…
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Bomb attack kills several at Moscow restaurant
A homemade explosive detonated by remote control on Saturday evening inside a gourmet restaurant in a central Moscow nightlife district, killing at…
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Galaxy Digital acquires McGregor site for AI data center
Galaxy Digital acquired a 500 acre site in McGregor, Texas, to develop a new AI and high performance computing data center campus, adding to its…
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Trump calls off planned strikes on Iran after tentative deal
President Donald Trump announced he called off planned large-scale U.S. strikes against Iran after saying Tehran and regional states asked for a…
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