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Trump clashes with EU over Iran sanctions
If the EU and the British Government want to keep trade flowing to protect the Iran nuclear deal, it doesn’t seem to be succeeding.
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Trump tweets admission that son Don Jr. met Russian ‘to get information on an opponent’
President Trump is facing an investigation into Russian involvement in the election two years ago by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. He’s been talking about it on Twitter – and one tweet in particular seems to be causing more trouble that most.
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Donald Trump UK visit: from criticism to compliments in 24 hours
The President’s visit started amid controversy after his Sun newspaper interview blasting Theresa May, the London mayor Sadiq Khan – and claiming immigration meant Europe was “losing its culture.” Later came the apology, of sorts: Mr Trump stood side by side with the Prime Minister lavishing praise on her, saying “she’s a terrific woman, she’s doing a…
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Trump makes conservative Supreme Court appointment
In the United States, President Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court has arrived on Capitol Hill for his first day of meetings with senators. Brett Kavanaugh’s appointment would cement a conservative majority on the nation’s highest court for a generation, and leading Democrats are vowing to fight it with “everything we have”.
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AP’s Raf Wober on Trump-Kim summit: N Koreans ‘will be gobsmacked by images’
How much do ordinary North Koreans know about what’s going on in their name? From Pyongyang, AP’s Raf Wober explains what they’ve been told.
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Robin Wright: ‘This is an all or nothing, peace or war, summit’
Robin Wright, Distinguished Fellow at the Wilson Center think-tank in the United States on the ‘known unknowns’ about the upcoming summit.
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3m
Trump says North Korea summit is back on
The summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un is definitely on – after the US president said it would take place as planned in Singapore later this month. And to prove it – a senior North Korean official handed Mr Trump an enormous letter after talks at the White House. But the President has been…
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4m
Uncertainty over Korea summit
The US North Korea summit is definitely back on. Possibly. Donald Trump insists everything is going really well. Kim Jong Un is apparently totally on board too. We’ll be asking a top Korea diplomacy expert what to make of it all.
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Surprise summit in Korea
Leaders from the North and South Korea meet again on the border for a surprise second summit. Could peace in the peninsula – and Donald Trump’s planned talks with Kim Jong Un – all be back on again?
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Bloodshed at Gaza’s border – Israeli gunfire leads to dozens dead
Over 50 people were killed – several of them children – and many hundreds injured, as Palestinian protesters were met with live rounds fired by Israeli troops.
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5m
US embassy moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem
The anger and consequent bloodshed in Gaza was in response to events in Jerusalem.
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Is Iran really ‘the world’s leading state sponsor of terror’?
President Trump has claimed that Iran is the world’s “leading state sponsor of terror”. But is that fair? Before he became president, Trump said the “world’s biggest funder of terrorism” was Saudi Arabia – not Iran. So is his latest claim is just political rhetoric?
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8m
Trump pulls out of ‘defective’ Iran nuclear deal
President Donald Trump announces that the US is withdrawing from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal that his predecessor, Barack Obama, signed up to.
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4m
Former Trump adviser on Iran deal: ‘Most likely he is going to propose another agreement’
Walid Phares was foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump during the 2016 Presidential campaign.
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What is the Iran deal – and why is Trump opposed to it?
It was all about centrifuges, industrial spinning tubes designed to enrich uranium and crucial to making a nuclear bomb. Five years ago, Iran was set to spin thousands of them, but the deal brokered in 2015 stopped almost all of them and Iran’s nuclear programme was frozen. But Donald Trump has never liked it, once…