Iran hits Gulf allies, Trump Media and Taco Bell's shredded lettuce
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Hi, I'm Peter Devon in London. It's Saturday, July 18th. Today, Iran launches renewed attacks on US Gulf allies. Trump media pitches Wall Street $100,000 a month feed of Trump's posts. Taco Bell linked to major foodborne illness outbreak. And La Minamal's Spanish neighborhood rallies behind their own, head of the World Cup final. This is Reuters World News, bringing you everything you need to know from the frontlines in 10 minutes, seven days a week.
Iran is hitting U.S. Gulf allies with fresh attacks this morning, striking Kuwait's power and desalination infrastructure for the second time in two days and suspending operation at Kuwait International Airport. Iran's Revolutionary Guards also claim they targeted a site where U.S. combat aircraft were gathered and an intelligence data center in Bahrain. The attacks follow seven straight nights of U.S. strikes on Iranian military targets, Both sides are now targeting shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, a vital route for global oil supplies. Oil prices jumped more than 4% on Friday. President Trump is blaming Canada for wildfire smoke choking parts of the US, and says he'll be adding the incalculable cost of the pollution to existing tariffs on Canadian goods.
In a Truth Social post, Trump accused Canada of willful negligence in managing its forests. Though climate experts say warming temperatures and drier conditions are actually driving the increase in fires. Hundreds of blazes are burning in Ontario, forcing mass evacuations and leaving at least one First Nation community completely destroyed. Here's Ontario Premier Doug Ford.
We are throwing every single resource we can. When you have 191 infernals running right across our province, we're deploying it based on the firefighters expertise.
Staying on Truth Social, Trump's social media company is pitching Wall Street firms a new service that offers faster access to the president's Truth Social posts. Sources say Trump media has discussed charging some traders and investment firms as much as $100,000 a month for the data feeds. A discounted three-year plan runs $60,000 a month. The company says Truth API will provide the fastest access to posts from 10 influential Truth Social accounts and has already signed up customers ahead of its August 1st launch. Democratic lawmakers are criticizing the plan, saying it could allow firms to profit from quicker access to market-moving posts by President Trump. Apple has reclaimed its spot as the world's most valuable company, overtaking Nvidia on Friday with a market cap of $4.88 trillion.
It's the first time Apple has held the top position since April last year, and it signals a broader shift in how investors are thinking about the AI boom. Rather than betting solely on chip makers like Nvidia, money is now flowing to companies positioned to monetise AI through services and hardware upgrades. Federal health officials are investigating what could become one of the largest foodborne illness outbreaks in the U.S. in recent years. More than 5,000 cases of cyclosporiasis have now been reported in Michigan alone, while the FDA has linked more than 1,644 infections across five states to Taco Bell restaurants. Health reporter Julie Steenhuizen says health investigators have traced shredded iceberg lettuce to a supplier using lettuce from Mexico, but are still working to find out more.
I mean, the most we know is that some of these cases have been related to people who ate at Taco Bell. I'll just tell you a little bit about why this is a hard food outbreak to track. Most foodborne outbreaks are bacteria like E. coli. We know what that is. This is a parasite. It's related to the malaria parasite. With a parasite, they can't grow a parasite in the lab. So it's a lot more complicated.
What happened in Iran's latest strikes on Kuwait's power and desalination infrastructure?
And what they have to do is actually like they break it, they grind it down. They get like a certain part of the genome that they try to match to other people who are sick. And then the hardest part about it is that they have to talk to everybody who is involved in the outbreak to see where they ate.
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4 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–4:13
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What happened in Iran's latest strikes on Kuwait's power and desalination infrastructure?
4:13–5:18
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Did Iran claim attacks on U.S. targets in Bahrain and what followed U.S. strikes?
5:18–6:48
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How did the Iran-U.S. exchanges affect shipping and global oil prices?
6:48–9:38
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