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The sea’s grip on the global economy: The chokepoints that can bring world trade to its knees

The closure of Hormuz and problems in Bab el-Mandeb and Panama show how a handful of strategic waterways can disrupt trade, ...
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How the Democrats won back the US-Mexico border

The U.S.-Mexico border was one of the regions where Donald Trump enjoyed his strongest support in the 2024 election, a key ...
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An encrypted chat, a hard drive and dozens of arrests: How Mexico unraveled the CJNG network behind Carlos Manzo’s murder

Using previously unpublished information, EL PAÍS reconstructs the authorities’ investigation into the 2025 assassination of ...
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Mary Austin, Freddie Mercury’s former fiancée who has spent years safeguarding his legacy: ‘Our love was much more powerful than I ever realized’

The main heir to the rock icon’s estate recently published ‘A Life in Lyrics,’ a collection of handwritten lyrics and ...
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‘I don’t know if I will still be alive tomorrow’: Dozens of Ethiopians ask the world for help from Saudi Arabia’s death row

EL PAÍS contacts two prison inmates in the Gulf country who fear they may be next in a series of executions that human rights ...
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Nightmare before Christmas in Hollywood

California’s entertainment industry is bracing for more layoffs and cost-cutting. The box office is booming, but soaring ...
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Paul Smith, still at the top of fashion at 80: ‘I dress very famous people, but I think of them as ordinary people’

The dean of British fashion marks his 80th birthday and 56 years in the industry with the publication of his memoir. We spoke ...
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Palmer Luckey and Ben Lamm, the billionaire geeks behind military superdogs

Their company, Warhound, aims to combine genetic engineering and defense technology to create canine units for the ...