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...The USS Dwight D Eisenhower, an American aircraft carrier, is in the area. Greece and Denmark have said they will also send warships....
...“You’d have one ship on patrol like you saw in [the Tom Hanks movie] Captain Phillips and so when there was some kind of problem, they’d come respond,” says Bryan Clark, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute...
...Baghdad recalled its ambassador to Tehran over the attack, according to Iraqi state media, and summoned Iran’s chargé d’affaires....
...“The legislative path is murky for sure but I’d never say never given the stakes involved on both issues,” said McGuire. But many Republicans are increasingly dismissive of the merits of Ukraine aid....
...“The only thing I’d say in response to that is, President Biden is my president as well,” he said....
...“When you don’t have your own raison d'être, no ideology, industry, money, or anything of your own, then you don’t have a future....
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...He added: “I’d like to see a Security Council that functions but that is very challenging in a time when you have the antagonisms that we have with Russia and the competition that we have with China.”...
...A National Security Council official said the Biden administration “continue[d] to be in regular communication” with Israeli counterparts “across the spectrum, from government officials to opposition leaders...
...“If you and I, 10 years ago, were talking about normalisation with Saudi Arabia, I think we’d look at each other like, ‘who’s been drinking what?’,” Biden said....
...About 7mn barrels a day of crude oil and refined products flow through the Bab-el-Mandeb strait but the route has become vital for Russia to export to Asia with 4mn b/d heading south, according to Kpler...
...“If I were he, I’d be careful what I ate, I’d be keeping an eye on my menu.”...
...“They have happened with more frequency than we’d like,” he said of the intercepts. “Not all of them are unsafe and unprofessional, but these two were.”...
...“The time to move forward is now, we’d like to see that happen before the Vilnius summit,” he said. US president Joe Biden spoke to Erdoğan on Monday to congratulate him on his re-election....
...Though Maestro is the emotional panorama you’d expect from a life fully lived, the tempo is constantly brisk....
...“And for Ukraine, you have these new units that have not had as much time to train as they’d like on the new Nato equipment or to train as an assault unit.”...
...National security adviser Jake Sullivan said the US had not gotten any official requests from Brazil’s government about Bolsonaro’s status in the country, but added that if it did, “we’d treat them seriously...
...We’d like to see it get back on the schedule as soon as possible.” A Russian foreign ministry official told the Tass news agency that the talks would be rescheduled, but offered no other details....
...“It looks like something from the second world war, like a staging ground for D-Day,” he said, describing the battlefield as a mess of trenches, bunkers, tank traps, razor wire and artillery craters....
...Additional reporting by Felicia Schwartz in Washington...
...The actual fall in output from the Opec+ group’s lowered target is likely to be closer to 1mn b/d, rather than the headline of 2mn b/d, as many of its weaker members have struggled to hit production targets...
...“It would require somebody actually buying a terminal and smuggling it into Iran, but they’d be taking a risk because the government won’t be pleased with that.”...
...james.politi@ft.com, mehul.srivastava@ft.com Additional reporting by Felicia Schwartz in Washington...
...Additional reporting by Silvia Sciorilli Borrelli in Milan, Max Seddon in Riga and Felicia Schwartz and Stefania Palma in Washington...
...Additional reporting by Felicia Schwartz...
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