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A ship transits the Strait of Hormuz after a two-week interim ceasefire was reached between the United States and Iran on the condition that the Strait of Hormuz be reopened on April 8, 2026 in Oman.Shadi JH Alasar | Anadolu | Getty ImagesIran on Friday declared the Strait of Hormuz fully open to commercial traffic during the ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon. “Following the ceasefire in Lebanon, all commercial shipping routes through the Strait of Hormuz are declared fully open for the remainder of the ceasefire period,” Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi said in a social media post. However, ships…
British counter-terrorism officers in protective suits inspect a scene near the Israeli embassy in London after police said an anonymous group claimed to have targeted the building with a drone carrying dangerous goods. The Metropolitan Police said officers were examining items found nearby and whether they were linked to the claims made in the online video. A video circulating online shows an unidentified person wearing a hazmat suit operating two drones. The video, allegedly posted by a mysterious pro-Iranian group, claims the embassy was targeted, but does not show the actual attack. Police said: “While we can confirm that the…
Frank Lampard has been proving his doubters wrong for a very long time.The West Ham fan forum of 1996 is now firmly etched into football lore. Lampard’s uncle Harry Redknapp sat at his desk defending his nephew from fans who thought he had won his first-team place through nepotism when he was still a teenager. “I’m telling you right now, he’s going to get to the top in no time,” Redknapp was adamant. Use Chrome Browser for a more accessible video player Flashback to 1996, when Harry Redknapp told a West Ham fan forum that Frank Lampard was “right at…
Stocks @ Night is a daily newsletter delivered after hours, giving you the first information about tomorrow and the last information about today. Sign up for free to receive it straight to your inbox. Here’s what CNBC television producers had their eye on Thursday and what they’re looking at for the next session on Friday. Aiming for 13 on Friday The Nasdaq has now risen for 12 straight days. This is the longest continuous rise since 2009. The stock market bottomed out during the global financial crisis, which was brought on in part by the subprime mortgage crisis. Here at…
This report is from this week’s The Tech Download newsletter. Is it what you see? You can subscribe here.Nvidia has established itself at the center of the AI boom by dominating the most powerful chips for training and running models, but a growing number of startups are looking to challenge the company’s dominance.And investors are committing increasingly large sums of money. According to Dealroom, in 2026, AI chip startups raised $8.3 billion in funding worldwide. Barring a near-total market collapse, record amounts are expected to be poured into the sector this year. So what causes the spikes?Nvidia’s graphics processing units…
Chelsea co-owner Behdad Egbali said the club would begin signing “ready-to-play” players and revealed that the departure of former head coach Enzo Maresca was “not the change we wanted”.Egbali, co-founder of Clearlake Capital, the majority shareholder in Bruco, the consortium that bought Chelsea, and the owner of Ligue 1 side Strasbourg, gave a rare interview about a range of issues at the club, including head coach Liam Rosenior. Chelsea are in danger of not qualifying for next season’s Champions League with a four-point difference from fifth-place Liverpool. They have won only one of their last seven league games, losing the…
Kazuhiro Nogi | AFP | Getty ImagesAsia-Pacific markets were mostly lower on Friday, as cautious optimism over the Middle East conflict dampened sentiment, diverging from Wall Street’s record gains.US President Donald Trump said on Friday that the Iran war “should be over pretty quickly,” repeating his rosy predictions about the end of the conflict. Hours earlier, President Trump confirmed that Israel and Lebanon had agreed to a 10-day ceasefire starting at 5 p.m. ET. The speaker of Iran’s parliament said that an important condition for starting negotiations between the United States and Iran is for Israel to stop attacking Lebanon.…
U.S. technology companies are stepping up their efforts to lobby government officials at home and abroad to protect their interests and develop contingency plans amid the Iran war, industry sources told CNBC.The conflict in the Middle East has thrown the global business sector into turmoil, with soaring oil prices and major disruptions to supply chains. The tech industry has seen assets in the region become military targets, and analysts predict shortages of key materials needed to build AI infrastructure. “U.S. tech companies are actively engaging with both U.S. diplomats in the Middle East and diplomats in the region,” Sean Evins,…
A man stands next to a tugboat guiding the Russian oil tanker Anatoly Kolodkin at an oil terminal in the port of Matanzas, northwestern Cuba, on March 31, 2026.Yamil Raji | AFP | Getty ImagesEnergy transport is increasingly being used as a foreign policy tool as the Trump administration seeks to rein in two blockades on opposite sides of the world.The United States, under the direction of President Donald Trump, has launched a naval blockade targeting Iranian shipping in and around the strategic Strait of Hormuz, aiming to put economic pressure on Iran and bring an end to the Middle…
Israel and Lebanon have announced a 10-day ceasefire to allow negotiations for a more permanent security and peace agreement to continue.The truce was announced by United States President Donald Trump on Thursday and came into effect at 21:00 GMT.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listThe ceasefire follows six weeks of fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed Lebanese group, Hezbollah. In its war on Lebanon, Israel has killed at least 2,196 people and displaced more than one million.But on Friday morning, Lebanon’s army reported several ceasefire violations by Israeli forces.Will the ceasefire last? What are its terms? Here’s what we…