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Briefing: Qatar Airways parks long-haul jets in storage in Spain

Strategic angle: Transfer of planes to Teruel airport signals airline is preparing for ongoing Gulf conflict

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Briefing: Trump’s Iran playbook was written in the 1980s

Strategic angle: From oil threats to ultimatums, the US president has a decades-old view of how to confront Tehran

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Briefing: America keeps bailing out Trump

Strategic angle: The country’s underlying strengths are absorbing his erratic choices, including the war on Iran

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Briefing: ‘It’s always Putin’ behind every EU migration crisis, official says

Strategic angle: Russian president is ‘biggest driver’ of immigration due to his role in wars over past decade, says EU commissioner

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Briefing: Military briefing: the high cost of using fighters to down Iranian drones

Strategic angle: Gulf states’ reliance on jets to battle waves of cheap Shaheds is testing their finances, pilots and planes

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Briefing: Iran and U.S.-Israel continue to raise the stakes as Strait of Hormuz tensions build

Strategic angle: Iran widened its warnings to target buyers of U.S. Treasury bonds, the latest salvo in an intensifying exchange of threats as the war entered its fourth week.

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Briefing: Lai Administration Reverses Course on Nuclear Energy

Strategic angle: The Lai Administration shifts its stance on nuclear energy, signaling a significant policy change.

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Briefing: The President’s Malaria Initiative and Other U.S. Government Global Malaria Efforts

Strategic angle: This fact sheet provides a snapshot of global malaria efforts and examines the U.S. government’s role in addressing malaria worldwide.

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Briefing: When Did Automakers Start Offering A Smokers Package Instead Of The Lighter And Ashtray?

Strategic angle: The cigarette lighter and ashtray once were in every new car. Then the culture shifted, and these became options automakers could use to make an extra buck.

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Briefing: A Corvette That Forgot It Was A Corvette Just Sold For Near-New C8 Money

Strategic angle: A carbon-fiber Targa with LS2 power and Italian-influenced styling just sold for $66,500, odometer mystery and all.

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Briefing: Lexus Driver's 'Clunky' Noise Mystery Solved by Mechanic

Strategic angle: A Lexus owner's complaint leads to a surprising discovery during a routine check.

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Briefing: 'Why was the threat of Iranian drones overlooked for so long?'

Strategic angle: Historian Jean-Pierre Filiu discusses the oversight of Iranian drone threats and Ukraine's response.

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Briefing: BMW’s Baby SUV Pulls Off The Neue Klasse Look Without The Neue Klasse Commitment

Strategic angle: Refreshed combustion X1 fuses Neue Klasse design cues and infotainment tech with existing ICE platforms

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Briefing: Women's junior flyweight boxer in coma after KO

Strategic angle: Isis Sio, 19, is in a medically induced coma following a knockout during a recent bout.

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Briefing: Not just buying 'things': Why China's emotional economy is on the rise

Strategic angle: Amid a prolonged economic slowdown, one segment of the world's second-largest economy is growing quicker than the rest: China's so-called emotional economy.

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Briefing: Man Buys Parts From Amazon. Then He Takes His Car To The Mechanic: 'I'm Sorry To Tell You But...'

Strategic angle: "Them Amazon parts..."

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Briefing: How conversation works—and why people with hearing loss rely more on their powers of prediction

Strategic angle: "Ultimately, the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or friendship, is conversation," wrote Oscar Wilde.

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Briefing: Sea turtle shells reveal hidden records of ocean change

Strategic angle: Techniques developed to study the distant past are now being repurposed to help us better understand the lives of modern sea turtles.

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Briefing: Ovechkin scores 1,000th career goal in Caps' loss

Strategic angle: Alex Ovechkin reaches a milestone but the Capitals fall to the Avalanche in overtime.

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Briefing: His Wife Watched Him Park In All 108 Spots For Nearly Two Years. Now He’s After One With Over 400

Strategic angle: One father of two spent nearly two years methodically parking in every space at his local supermarket, and he already has a bigger car park lined up.