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Trump Is About to Make the Oil Crisis Even Worse
- The Iran war — and the accompanying oil and gas crisis it set off — remains far from resolved. On Saturday, a marathon day of negotiations between Iran and the U.S. in Pakistan ended with no agreement in place. Vice-President J.D. Vance said Iran "chose not to accept our terms," which he framed as reasonable; Iran countered that "excessive demands" by America prevented any agreement. One of those ...

Source: nymag.com
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Meet Péter Magyar, the man replacing Viktor Orbán as Hungary's prime minister
- No compatible source was found for this media. Hungary's Viktor Orbán was one of President Trump's favorites. During his 16-year term in office, Orbán openly championed Mr. Trump's reelection and the two men got into frequent, detailed exchanges on In the run-up to Sunday's election, Vice President JD Vance flew to Budapest and called for people to But in the end, none of that mattered. , ending his ...

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The Pride Flag Will Again Fly at Stonewall National Monument
- The iconic rainbow Pride flag is set to return to the Stonewall National Monument in Manhattan, but it still took a lawsuit to get the Trump administration to reverse course. The Associated Press reports that the federal government is poised to settle a lawsuit filed by several LGBTQ nonprofit and historic-preservation groups that argued that the National Park Service's removal of the Pride flag in February was in ...

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French cement maker convicted of financing terror groups to keep its Syria plant working
- Lafarge fined more than €1m and its former boss jailed for paying nearly €5.6m to groups including Islamic State A French court has fined the cement group Lafarge more than €1m (£870,000) and sentenced its former boss to six years in prison for paying protection money to Islamic State and other terror groups to maintain its business in war-torn Syria from 2013 to 2014. The ruling follows a 2022 ...

Source: theguardian.com