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Nara Smith Reveals Daughter Whimsy Lou's Cancer Diagnosis: 'My Heart Dropped'

LOS ANGELES, July 2 -- It was the kind of quiet that stops a room. Lucky Blue Smith went silent when the doctors delivered the news, and Nara Smith knew before the words landed that something had shif... Read More


Markets See a Durable Iran Ceasefire. Trump's Ex-NSA Sees an Iranian Win.

New Delhi, July 2 -- WASHINGTON - The global oil market and Donald Trump's former national security adviser are reaching opposite conclusions about the Iran ceasefire, and both may be correct. Brent ... Read More


China Hits Canadian Pea Starch With 73.5% Deposit as Bilateral Trade Thaw Ends

BEIJING, July 2 -- Canada's pea starch exporters started July facing a 73.5 percent cash deposit on every shipment into China, their largest Asian buyer, after Beijing's Ministry of Commerce issued a ... Read More


The Company That Bought AOL and Vimeo Is Now Public - at an $18 Billion Valuation

New Delhi, July 2 -- Vimeo built a video platform over two decades with engineers, product designers, and a team that understood what filmmakers needed. When Bending Spoons acquired the company in Sep... Read More


US-Iran Ceasefire Clears Room for Trump's Tariff Campaign Against 60 Nations

DUBAI, July 2 -- For American motorists, the US-Iran ceasefire delivered something straightforward: cheaper fuel for the first time in months, as Brent crude posted its worst quarterly decline since 2... Read More


Oil's Worst Quarter Since 2008 Cuts UAE Petrol 14% as Iran Deal Remains Unfinished

New Delhi, July 2 -- surrendering the entire war premium that accumulated when Iran's military operation against Israel shut the Strait of Hormuz in March. Brent crude ended the second quarter at $71... Read More


National Grid Is Spending $1.75 Billion to Power Microsoft's AI - by Bypassing the Grid

The investment, July 2 -- The company that operates Britain's high-voltage transmission lines announced Tuesday it would invest $1.75 billion into a Houston startup building a gas-fired power plant in... Read More


French Investment in Saudi Arabia Nearly Tripled, With 30 Firms Now Calling Riyadh Home

New Delhi, July 2 -- France's economic relationship with Saudi Arabia has changed character over three years, not just scale. Sultan Al-Musallam, secretary-general of the Federation of Saudi Chambers... Read More


The Ceasefire Opened the Strait. The War Risk Insurance Market Has Not.

New Delhi, July 2 -- LONDON - A $150 million crude carrier transiting the Strait of Hormuz is paying up to $7.5 million per voyage in war risk insurance, an amount that at pre-crisis rates would have ... Read More


The Gulf States Lobbied Hardest for the Deal. The Deal Left the Strait Unresolved.

New Delhi, July 2 -- DOHA - Three months before Qatar agreed to host the negotiations that produced the framework now running through its 60-day diplomatic window, Iran's missiles set fire to Ras Laff... Read More