Singapore World News API

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            "title": "Iran announces Strait of Hormuz closure after US launches new strikes",
            "description": "Tehran warns that any ships attempting passage will be fired upon. Read more at straitstimes.com.",
            "content": "Follow our live coverage here.\nTEHRAN/WASHINGTON – Iran’s military command said on June 11 that it will target any ship transiting the Strait of Hormuz, after it struck two vessels attempting to pass through the strategic waterway, as talks to end th... [5039 chars]",
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            "title": "Commentary: Comparing the Straits of Malacca and Singapore to Hormuz is a fallacy",
            "description": "Comparing the Strait of Hormuz with the Straits of Malacca and Singapore is like comparing apples and oranges, say Collin Koh, Thomas Lim and Eric Ang from the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies.",
            "content": "SINGAPORE: When a spate of kidnap-for-ransom activities occurred in the Sulu Sea about a decade ago, a flurry of commentaries emerged to call the area between eastern Malaysia and the Philippines the “new Somalia”.\nUltimately, the Sulu Sea did not be... [7590 chars]",
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            "title": "Four days of extreme rain in Indonesia killed 7% of world’s rarest great apes, study finds",
            "description": "Critically endangered Tapanuli orangutan population falls after heavy rain and landslides, fuelled by climate crisis, in North Sumatra",
            "content": "Extreme rainfall and landslides fuelled by the climate crisis killed 7% of the remaining population of the world’s rarest great ape, a study has found, prompting fears for the species’ survival.\nThe research suggests 58 out of the remaining 800 criti... [2499 chars]",
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