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Tech

Google app starts rolling out quick access to AI Mode history

The Google app introduces a new feature for easier access to AI Mode history.

Editorial Staff Mar 18

Money

Briefing: Iran still seen capable of escalating attacks on Gulf’s energy

Strategic angle: Analysts warn Tehran’s ability to prolong disruption to oil and gas flows ‘has a way to go’

Editorial Staff Mar 18

Money

Briefing: Trump has broken it. Now he owns it

Strategic angle: Continued closure of the Strait of Hormuz threatens the movement of gas and fertilisers as well as oil

Editorial Staff Mar 18

Money

Briefing: Europe’s airlines eye opportunities from Iran war fallout

Strategic angle: With services of dominant Gulf rivals disrupted, there is a brief window to provide direct flights that avoid the region’s hubs.

Editorial Staff Mar 18

Money

Briefing: Iran conflict turns shipping market into ‘wild west’

Strategic angle: Containers are being dropped off at far-flung ports while freight rates have soared.

Editorial Staff Mar 18

Money

Briefing: The sum of all fears for Lebanon

Strategic angle: Many in the country, haunted by memories of the 1980s, are convinced Israel is preparing a broad land offensive.

Editorial Staff Mar 18

Money

Briefing: UAE set to show leniency on tax rules for expats leaving to avoid Iran war

Strategic angle: Move would be particularly important for Dubai, which has attracted wealthy individuals with its zero income tax rate.

Editorial Staff Mar 18

Life

Briefing: A 'consortium' of bacteria cooperates to eat phthalate plasticizers that single microbes can't stomach

Strategic angle: Plastic trash has reached the world's most remote locations, from the bottom of the Mariana Trench to the summit of Everest.

Editorial Staff Mar 18

Politics

Briefing: US: Judge orders VOA employees to be reinstated

Strategic angle: A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration must reinstate more than 1,000 Voice of America employees who were placed on leave.

Editorial Staff Mar 18

Politics

Briefing: Death of Ali Larijani deepens crisis at heart of Iran's leadership

Strategic angle: Larijani has long been seen as one of the Islamic Republic's most experienced and influential policy makers.

Editorial Staff Mar 18