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Approximately 20,000 seafarers are stranded on roughly 2,000 ships in the largest maritime stranding since World War II.

The messages demand cryptocurrency, Bitcoin or USDT, in exchange for "safe passage" through the Strait.

Ships submit documents, the IRGC reviews eligibility, clearance codes are issued, and the vessel transits under escort near Larak Island. »

Shuhei Yoshida, the former long-tenured leader of Sony's first-party PlayStation Worldwide Studios, has said he was fired from the role by Jim Ryan - the boss of PlayStation - because he didn't listen to him.

"Jim Ryan wanted to remove me from first-party because I didn't listen to him.

As Yoshida later remarked, he and Ryan were part of the same PlayStation generation so they knew each other well. »

Virginia voters on Tuesday approved a Democratic redistricting plan that could allow the party to pick up as many as four new seats in the midterm elections, NBC News projects.

"Virginia just changed the trajectory of the 2026 midterms, Virginia Democratic state House Speaker Don Scott said in a statement.

"This basically says, 'Hey, Republican Party, we're not dead yet,'" said Brian Kirwin, a Republican strategist based in Virginia. »

Donald Trump announced in a social media post on Tuesday that he was indefinitely extending a ceasefire with Iran at the request of Pakistan, which has been mediating talks, until the country responded to the United States’ negotiating positions or until talks reached a dead end.

The move bought time for the US and Iran to continue pursuing a nuclear deal to end the war.

“I expect to be bombing because I think that’s a better attitude to go in with,” Trump said. »