US ambassador to France vows not to interfere in its domestic affairs

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Charles Kushner, father of president’s son-in-law Jared, failed to show up to meeting to explain US comments relating to death of far-right activist

Donald Trump’s envoy to Paris has called France’s foreign minister and pledged not to interfere in the country’s domestic affairs, a day after he was barred from talking to government officials for failing to attend a formal meeting at the ministry.

The foreign ministry said on Monday that Charles Kushner would not be permitted to carry out his diplomatic duties until he had explained his refusal to comply with the summons over US comments about the killing of a far-right activist in France.

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7 years in prison for praying at the Western Wall? Netanyahu’s coalition is threatening a war on Jewish unity. – Jewish Telegraphic Agency

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  1. 7 years in prison for praying at the Western Wall? Netanyahu's coalition is threatening a war on Jewish unity.  Jewish Telegraphic Agency
  2. Why I support the Ezrat Yisrael egalitarian prayer space, separate from the Kotel  eJewishPhilanthropy
  3. The Blogs: A declaration of war on world Jewry  The Times of Israel
  4. Netanyahu Cancels Gov't Vote on Law Banning Egalitarian Prayer at Western Wall  Haaretz
  5. Coalition bill to give Rabbinate Kotel power  The Jerusalem Post
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Trump Iran airstrikes decision to be guided by Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff’s advice

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Exclusive: Trump’s decision will be driven by envoys’ judgment on whether Iran is stalling on a nuclear deal

Donald Trump’s decision to order airstrikes against Iran will hinge in part on the judgment of Trump’s special envoys, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, about whether Tehran is stalling over a deal to relinquish its capacity to produce nuclear weapons, according to people familiar with the matter.

The president has not made a final determination on any strikes, as the administration prepares for Iran to send its latest proposal this week, ahead of what officials have described as a last-ditch round of negotiations scheduled for Thursday in Geneva.

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Channel 4’s Dirty Business is a clarion call to nationalise the water industry

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As the drama shows, private firms no longer able to pollute the coast of England of Wales just switched to rivers instead

There is a moment in Channel 4’s drama Dirty Business when Julie Maughan holds the body of her dead child and lets out an anguished cry. It is as brutal as it is compelling.

Her eight-year-old daughter Heather had just died in hospital, two weeks after playing in the sea on the beach at Dawlish Warren in Devon, where she contracted E coli O157, a bug which comes from raw sewage. She became ill with diarrhoea and blood loss. Transferred to Bristol children’s hospital, her parents agreed to switch off her life-support machine after she suffered kidney failure and brain damage.

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Hamas seen working to maintain control of Gaza via Trump-backed bodies – The Times of Israel

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  1. Hamas seen working to maintain control of Gaza via Trump-backed bodies  The Times of Israel
  2. Hamas is reasserting control in Gaza despite its heavy losses fighting Israel  BBC
  3. Board of Peace: Gap between vision and reality  The Jerusalem Post
  4. Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ Presses Hamas on Disarmament, Officials Say  The New York Times
  5. Hamas moves to reassert control in Gaza areas vacated under US-led deal | Daily Sabah  Daily Sabah
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40,000-year-old Stone Age symbols may have paved the way for writing, long before Mesopotamia – Phys.org

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  1. 40,000-year-old Stone Age symbols may have paved the way for writing, long before Mesopotamia  Phys.org
  2. Ancient art could hold clues to the origins of written language  Scientific American
  3. The first record-keepers? Stone Age carvings ‘resemble writing’  The Times
  4. These Hunter-Gatherers Developed A System Of Written Signs Thousands Of Years Before Writing Was Invented  IFLScience
  5. Earliest known writing dates back over 40,000 years  Popular Science
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