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The Democrats “urgently” called for the White House to issue the full disclosure of financial transactions of senior officials amid Trump’s tariff rollbacks.

Forcing Ukraine to recognize Russian sovereignty over Crimea would be “a return to the right of conquest,” experts say.

A major power outage struck Spain and Portugal on Monday, shutting down transit and causing major gridlock in both countries. The two governments met to discuss the outage, the cause of which was not immediately known. This is the biggest power outage on the European continent since 2003. Also, a massive explosion in an Iranian port killed at least 40 people over the weekend and injured hundreds of others. And, the corruption behind the deadly nightclub fire in North Macedonia almost a month ago.Listen to today’s Music Heard on Air.

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The move is part of a broader wave of strategic e-commerce acquisitions that has seen Russia’s digital economy increasingly come under state control.