How decision-making happens in Iran
Iran’s negotiators follow a mandate set by the Supreme National Security Council and approved by the Supreme Leader.
Diver who helped save soccer team in Thailand holds out hope miners trapped in Laos cave are still alive – CBS News
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- 5 villagers missing in a flooded Laos cave for more than a week have been found alive, rescuers say AP News
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- Rescuers in Laos Scramble to Reach 7 People Trapped in Flooded Cave The New York Times
White House erects UFC cage ahead of US 250th anniversary celebrations
Workers were seen assembling domed arches and a staging area on the South Lawn in preparation for next month's event.
UN chief ‘deeply concerned’ by Moscow plan for Kyiv strikes
UN Secretary-General Guterres said he was “deeply concerned” after Russia announced plans to strike Ukraine.
Iran war live: Israel kills 31 in Lebanon; Tehran blasts US truce violation
Lebanon's Health Ministry reports that Israeli attacks have killed 3,213 people and injured 9,737 since March 2.
Russia ‘relentlessly targeting’ critical infrastructure and democracy, GCHQ says
The spy agency's head will set out threats facing the UK and the measures she believes need to be taken to confront them on Wednesday.
Can EU find a Russia whisperer to mediate an end to war in Ukraine?
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Watch: UFC arena construction begins at White House ahead of fight
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Russia is targeting UK’s infrastructure and democracy, GCHQ head to say
Anne Keast-Butler will also warn of narrowing window to stay ahead of China in ‘new era of radical uncertainty’
Russia is relentlessly targeting Britain’s infrastructure and democracy while there is only a narrowing technological window to stay ahead of a fast-developing China, the head of the spy agency GCHQ will warn in a lecture on Wednesday.
Anne Keast-Butler, giving an inaugural annual lecture, will say that the UK is caught in a “new era of radical uncertainty” and that “the risk of miscalculation” is as high as she has ever seen it as hacker attacks from the two states continue.
Continue reading...High-Level British Spy Warns of Expanding Russia Threat – The New York Times
- High-Level British Spy Warns of Expanding Russia Threat The New York Times
- Russia 'relentlessly targeting' critical infrastructure and democracy, GCHQ says BBC
- Britain faces 'moment of consequence' as threats from adversaries mount, spy chief says Reuters
- UK spy chief: Time is running out for the West to confront threats from Russia and China CNBC
- GCHQ boss reveals how Russia is 'relentlessly targeting' the UK Sky News
Trump Administration to Send Americans Exposed to Ebola to Kenya – The New York Times
- Trump Administration to Send Americans Exposed to Ebola to Kenya The New York Times
- Exclusive | U.S. Races to Set Up Quarantine Facility in Kenya for Americans Exposed to Ebola WSJ
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- United States Drafts Controversial Plan to Treat Ebola-Exposed Americans on Kenyan Soil streamlinefeed.co.ke
- Trump to Ship Potentially Sick Americans to Foreign Country The Daily Beast
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Chemical tank rupture kills multiple people in US state of Washington
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Deal or no deal? Trump’s social media posts add confusion to Iran conflict – NBC News
- Deal or no deal? Trump’s social media posts add confusion to Iran conflict NBC News
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- What's involved in talks to end the Iran war? Reuters
A Dissident Escapes China by Rubber Boat and Lands in South Korea – The New York Times
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Aftermath of deadly Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon
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UK’s ex-PM Blair calls on Labour to focus on policy, not personality – Reuters
- UK's ex-PM Blair calls on Labour to focus on policy, not personality Reuters
- Tony Blair tells Starmer and rivals: abandon net zero and move closer to Trump The Guardian
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Four people killed after minibus collides with train in Belgium
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Tony Blair tells Starmer and rivals: abandon net zero and move closer to Trump
In highly unusual intervention, ex-PM says his party’s ‘almost infinite capacity for self-delusion’ makes it likely to lose next election
Tony Blair has accused Keir Starmer, Andy Burnham and Wes Streeting of putting Labour’s future at risk by abandoning the centre ground, warning that the party’s “almost infinite capacity for self-delusion” means it is likely to lose the next election.
In a scathing 5,700-word attack on the prime minister and his would-be successors published on Tuesday night, Blair argued for the government to crack down on welfare spending, abandon restrictions on oil and gas and smooth relations with Donald Trump.
Continue reading...Tony Blair’s essay on Labour failings gets full marks for being unhelpful
Intervention by former PM almost feels designed to inflict maximum annoyance on his party
Did Tony Blair ever mention he was quite good at winning elections? If you happened to miss it, then his 5,700-word opus on where Labour, Keir Starmer and the UK more generally have gone wrong is here to remind you. Several times.
“I led the Labour party for 13 years and through three general elections,” goes the second sentence. Further on, Blair laments that when the party tries to puzzle out how to win a second term, the one thing ruled out was “learning from the only time in the party’s 120-year history it has ever done so”.
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