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The World in Brief from The Economist
Trump says Iran war could be over “very soon”; stocks bump up on hopes the war will end, and more
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Donald Trump told Reuters, a news agency, he no longer cared about Iran’s enriched uranium, despite previously arguing the war was about stopping a nuclear threat; American stocks rose as investors became more hopeful of a ceasefire between America and Iran.
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