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Hot springs to rice crackers: Japan’s small businesses suffer Iran war energy crunch

Reliance on imported fuel is strangling the world’s fifth-largest economy

Deal scrutiny deepens over official fears of strategic tech flowing overseas

Is private credit at an inflection point?

Quinn Emanuel says judge must recuse herself over post, which judge says she may have liked ‘accidentally’

Small-business owner focused campaign on rising costs in Donald Trump’s backyard

Nations position themselves as reliable suppliers in a ‘desperate’ world

Terns Pharma stock has jumped since promising clinical data on its bone and blood cancer treatment last year

From Hélène Duchêne, France’s Ambassador to the UK, London SW1, UK

From Gregory Shenkman, London SW7, UK

From Dick Sands, London TW8, UK

From Bert Ely, Ely & Company, Alexandria, VA, US

From Karim Henide, London SW13, UK

From AJ Warren, Aldeburgh, Suffolk, UK

From Terence Gower, New York, NY, US

Jurist expresses scepticism about Trump administration’s position and calls defence department’s actions ‘troubling’

From Sir John Rose, Former Chief Executive, Rolls-Royce plc, London SW11, UK

Bond deals tied to acquisition of video game maker show appetite for risky debt despite geopolitical tumult

Donald Trump continues to play up prospect of deal with Iran, saying they are ‘talking sense’ in negotiations with the US

Members of 82nd Airborne to join other forces in the Middle East ahead of president’s deadline for Tehran to end conflict

But Mette Frederiksen may still secure a third term in office because her rightwing rival fared even worse

CEO Sam Altman is shifting AI start-up’s strategy to focus on its core products

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