Unreleased Documentary Footage Captures Graham’s Obsessive Push for Iran War – WSJ

  1. Unreleased Documentary Footage Captures Graham’s Obsessive Push for Iran War  WSJ
  2. Graham called yearslong push for war with Iran ‘the best thing I’ve ever done’ in new footage  CNN
  3. Report: Netanyahu talked Graham out of lobbying Trump to join war on Hezbollah; late senator doubted Kushner, Witkoff  The Times of Israel
  4. Lindsey Graham’s Scathing Verdict on Trump’s Goons Revealed  The Daily Beast
  5. Newly-uncovered footage offers behind-the-scenes look at Lindsey Graham's career  The Jerusalem Post
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Family of former Vodafone manager found drowned call for ‘Adrian’s law’ to protect franchisees

Adrian Howe’s family believe that fears his deal would be financially ruinous led him to kill himself

The family of a former mobile phone store manager who was found drowned days before his new Vodafone franchise was to open its doors is pressing the government to introduce a new franchising law in his name.

The call comes a week after Vodafone settled a long-running legal claim filed by 62 of its former franchisees who alleged that the company “unjustly enriched” itself at their expense by up to £85m.

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Police hunt for suspect after one killed and 16 injured in attack at Berlin Pride

Authorities issue wanted notice for Abdul Ballout, 21, after deadly van ramming described as Islamist terrorism

German authorities have issued a wanted notice for a suspect in a deadly van ramming near Berlin’s Pride festival that has been described as an Islamist attack.

The interior minister, Alexander Dobrindt, named the chief suspect as 21-year-old Abdul Ballout. German media reported he was a supporter of Islamic State with a criminal conviction in May.

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How Trump could undermine the midterms

The president really has no power over elections – but that hasn’t stopped Trump from laying the groundwork to challenge results in November

When Donald Trump commandeered primetime US television last Friday, he delivered a familiar, but still extraordinary, message. The president argued once again that the results of the 2020 election, which he lost to Joe Biden, were illegitimate.

US elections are “vulnerable to being rigged and stolen”, Trump alleged, claiming that “the trust of the American people was lost” when he was defeated.

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‘Scandalous, irrational and irresponsible’: French beekeepers’ fury at lifting of pesticides ban

Allowing use of two neonicotinoids to combat crop-ruining disease will kill bees and reduce harvests, union says

Beekeepers and environmentalists in France have reacted furiously after parliament approved a bill reauthorising two banned pesticides scientists say can poison bees.

“There are no words to describe the frustration,” said Carolyn Bouguet, a beekeeper in Essonne, greater Paris. “Bee populations have already been badly compromised by climate change, new parasites and loss of habitat. And now this.”

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Venezuela men sue aviation firms who flew them to notorious Salvadorian jail

Exclusive: CSI Aviation and GlobalX accused of violating civil rights as part of Trump immigration crackdown

Venezuelan men sent last year to a notorious Salvadorian terrorism prison by the Trump administration are suing the US aviation companies that transported them there.

A lawsuit filed this week in federal court in Washington DC accuses the companies CSI Aviation and GlobalX of violating the Venezuelans’ civil rights, false imprisonment, intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligence and other violations, for their role in flying the three planes that took the men to El Salvador.

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New front in US-Iran war escalates as Houthis fire at Saudi oil facilities – Al Jazeera

  1. New front in US-Iran war escalates as Houthis fire at Saudi oil facilities  Al Jazeera
  2. Houthis claim attack on Saudi oil refinery as Iran war widens to Red Sea  The Washington Post
  3. Saudi military strikes Houthi targets in Yemen after Iran-backed militia attacked Red Sea shipping  CNBC
  4. Most Gulf markets ease after Houthi attacks on Saudi Red Sea oil sites  Reuters
  5. U.S. carries out more strikes as Trump threatens Iran, Houthis with "major military punishment"  CBS News
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