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Migration pressure at Europe’s edge: Spanish police cleared hundreds of migrants from a beach camp in Ceuta after mass crossings from Morocco, highlighting persistent pressure along Europe’s Mediterranean and North African frontier. 

The Strait of Hormuz is open, but the U.S.–Iran confrontation is far from settled. After weeks of military escalation, the contest is moving into a harder and potentially longer phase: sanctions, shipping risk, diplomatic deadlock and pressure on countries that still trade with Tehran. Washington says it will impose the “toughest sanctions in history” on