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Donald Trump said he was sending a second aircraft carrier to the Middle East, escalating tensions with Iran.

Deploying the USS Gerald Ford, the world's largest warship,

was needed, quote, in case we don't make a deal with Iran on its nuclear program, he said.

An outcome he has previously warned would be, quote, very traumatic. The two sides held indirect talks in Oman last week.

Sultan Ahmed bin Salim left his roles as chair and chief executive of D.P. World,

an Emirati logistics giant, after his association with Jeffrey Epstein, a dead sex offender,

emerged in documents released by

America's Justice Department. Dubai's government said he would be succeeded by Esa Karzim as chair

and Uvrach Narayan as chief executive. Earlier Goldman Sachs top lawyer, Catherine Rumler, resigned

over her links to Epstein.

America's annual inflation rate fell further than expected in January to 2.4%.

That was down from 2.7% in December and below economists' expectations of 2.5%.

The core rate, which strips out volatile food and energy prices,

was in line with expectations at 2.5%. The figures reassured investors that the Federal Reserve

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