Gulf states could be left in the lurch and exposed by the US-Iran deal – The Times of Israel

  1. Gulf states could be left in the lurch and exposed by the US-Iran deal  The Times of Israel
  2. Gulf Countries Confront Questions About Relying on U.S. for Protection  The New York Times
  3. View / The Gulf’s other postwar challenge  Semafor
  4. How the Gulf will manage collective security after the Iran war ends  Al Jazeera
  5. No victory, no defeat: Iran war pauses with a fragile freeze  South China Morning Post
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Trump hails Iran deal that fixes nothing except a problem his war caused

Deal will leave things almost exactly as they were before feckless war of choice started

If we get to a Friday signing ceremony without this uncertain new US-Iran deal being derailed by any of its inherent ambiguities, then nuclear talks can finally restart in the same place – and at almost exactly the same point they were before this conflict started.

The world will have irrevocably been changed in other ways. There is no going back for the 120 Iranian children in Minab killed in their primary school in the war’s first hours, nor for their bereaved parents, or any of the thousands in Iran, Lebanon and around the region whose lives were erased or blighted by a feckless war of choice.

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Woman, 21, dies after being thrown from Brazil rope jump bridge without harness

Instructors hurled Maria Eduarda Rodrigues de Freitas into 40-metre abyss without attaching safety equipment

A 21-year-old woman who died when two rope jumping instructors threw her from a bridge without first harnessing her to security equipment, has been buried in Brazil’s São Paulo state.

Maria Eduarda Rodrigues de Freitas was rope jumping on Saturday at Ponte do Esqueleto, an abandoned bridge in the municipality of Limeira where tourists practice extreme sports. The young woman, who aspired to become a physical education teacher, had asked to be launched from the bridge airplane style, with two instructors hoisting her above their shoulders as she spread out her arms.

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Technology secretary says she wants regulator to design plans for online age verification by October – as it happened

Liz Kendall also wants Ofcom to report to parliament every year on how effectively social media firms are keeping under-16s off their platforms

Starmer acknowledges some teenagers will get round these restrictons. But that does not make the rules pointless, he says.

Will it mean that no child ever looks at social media again? No.

But look, this might shock you, but it doesn’t shock parents of teenagers; they get around other laws too.

Some technology companies want us to think that social media is unchangeable, part of an almost natural order.

But we have to resist that kind of learned helplessness. We have agency, we can change it, and we will.

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Iran live updates: US intel pessimistic on Iran’s willingness to make nuclear concessions – ABC News – Breaking News, Latest News and Videos

  1. Iran live updates: US intel pessimistic on Iran's willingness to make nuclear concessions  ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos
  2. Trump’s agreement with Iran is the moment Netanyahu has been dreading  CNN
  3. Israeli ambassador to U.S. says Israel is 'not going to withdraw from South Lebanon'  NPR
  4. Israelis denounce Trump’s deal with Iran  The Washington Post
  5. Netanyahu and Trump on collision course as US, Iran agree to halt war  Reuters
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Hungarian parliament votes for 8-year term limit that would stop Orbán returning – politico.eu

  1. Hungarian parliament votes for 8-year term limit that would stop Orbán returning  politico.eu
  2. Hungary moves to limit PMs' terms in office, blocking Orban's return  Le Monde.fr
  3. Hungarian MPs approve PM limits to block potential return of Orban  Al Jazeera
  4. Orbán barred from office for life under new Hungarian constitution  Yahoo
  5. Hungarian parliament rules out Orban return with eight-year limit for prime ministers  Reuters
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