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Your window to world news: The United States tightened pressure on Iran with fresh sanctions and a tanker strike, Canada and Mexico pushed to renew the USMCA, Marco Rubio renewed claims of mediating India-Pakistan tensions, Japan flagged a Pakistan-linked mosque as illegal, India gained access to Anthropic’s cybersecurity AI model, and investigators uncovered fresh Pakistan links in a terror-underworld probe — here’s your global roundup for the day
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