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  "id": 1634186,
  "title": "It Is That Strait",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/18/it-is-that-strait",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-18T04:34:09.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Daily Times",
    "slug": "daily-times",
    "url": "https://dailytimes.com.pk/1539921/it-is-that-strait/"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "The Strait of Hormuz has carried commerce and conflict for over two thousand years. Under the Achaemenid Empire, Persian Gulf shipping linked the Persian heartland to the Indus Valley, though overland routes still dominated. The Parthians also depended more on overland trade routes whereas the Sassanids expanded maritime trade through the Gulf in the centuries […]",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}