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World Service,16 Mar 2026,49 mins

Trump repeats his call for other nations to assist in securing the Strait of Hormuz

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President Trump has criticised US allies for their reluctance to help break the Iranian blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, saying countries protected by American troops did not want to get involved. The EU's top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, said there was no appetite among EU nations to extend the bloc's Red Sea naval mission to help reopen the waterway. Also in the programme: Israel says people displaced by its war with Hezbollah in southern Lebanon won't be allowed home until northern Israel is safe from attack; a new study finds that babies experiment with deceptive behaviour much earlier than we previously thought; and the daughter of the woman who popularized Swedish death cleaning, on why end-of-life tidying struck such a chord. (Photo credit: Getty Images)

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