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Iran’s Revolutionary Guard sidelines president as military grip expands
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the elite branch of the Iranian armed forces, has blocked President Masoud Pezeshkian’s presidential appointments and erected what sources described as a security cordon around Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, a report published Tuesday by Iran International said. The IRGC effectively has assumed control over key state functions, the report claimed. “It was always a…
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Trump’s Bible reading streams tonight at a complicated moment for his relationship with American Christians
One day after he posted — then deleted — an image comparing himself to Jesus Christ, President Donald Trump sat at his desk in the Oval Office and read from the Bible directly to a camera. The president recorded his two-and-a-half-minute passage, 2 Chronicles 7:11-22, last week, and it will be played at the museum and online via the faith-based…
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Jimoh Ibrahim presents Letter of Credence, says Tinubu will resolve all generational grievances
Newly appointed Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Jimoh Ibrahim, has formally presented his Letter of Credence at the United Nations, declaring that President Bola Tinubu is committed to resolving all generational grievances in Nigeria. In the speech delivered during the presentation ceremony, Ibrahim stated: “President Bola Tinubu will resolve all generational grievances.” He said the President remains…
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Jenna Bush Hager sits down with former Presidents George Bush, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden
For a “TODAY” exclusive, Jenna Bush Hager has sat down with each of the four former living U.S. presidents. During their sitdown, presidents Joe Biden, 83; Barack Obama, 64; Bill Clinton, 79; and her father, George W. Bush, 79, shared a message for the American people ahead of the nation’s 250th anniversary in July. Jenna shared Monday on “TODAY” that…
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Iran’s president stresses importance of diplomacy while noting distrust of U.S.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Monday that every rational and diplomatic path should be used to reduce tensions with the U.S., but added that vigilance and distrust in interactions with Washington were an “undeniable necessity”, according to the state news agency IRNA. A two-week ceasefire between Iran and the U.S. is set to expire on Wednesday, with U.S. representatives…
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Tehran will never cede control of Strait of Hormuz, senior Iranian politician tells BBC
“Never.” That’s when a senior Iranian lawmaker says they’ll be ready to give up their control of the Strait of Hormuz. “It’s our inalienable right,” Ebrahim Azizi, a former commander in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), tells the BBC in Tehran. “Iran will decide the right of passage, including permissions for vessels to pass through the Strait.” And he…
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Carney says Canada’s US ties have become a weakness
Pope Leo urged Angolans on Sunday to overcome divisions after decades of bloody conflict in an address to an estimated 100,000 people who flocked to a Mass in a dirt field near the capital Luanda. In one of the biggest events of his four-nation Africa tour, the pope called Angola, which experienced a bloody, 27-year civil war from 1975 to…
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Pope urges Angola to overcome divisions at Mass attended by 100,000 people
Pope Leo urged Angolans on Sunday to overcome divisions after decades of bloody conflict in an address to an estimated 100,000 people who flocked to a Mass in a dirt field near the capital Luanda. In one of the biggest events of his four-nation Africa tour, the pope called Angola, which experienced a bloody, 27-year civil war from 1975 to…
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High-profile Russian lifestyle influencers lash out in rare display of anger at Putin’s
Russian beauty influencer Victoria Bonya, pictured in Cannes, France, in 2018, says Russia’s internet restrictions are preventing people from communicating with loved ones. “Vladimir Vladimirovich, people are afraid of you.” Those were the opening words of an Instagram post addressed to President Vladimir Putin by Russian beauty influencer Victoria Bonya, known for her make-up tips and lifestyle content. “The people…
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Ukraine strikes Russian oil refineries hours after US waives sanctions on Moscow’s oil
Ukraine attacked two Russian refineries and other key oil targets overnight into Saturday, officials said, just hours after the United States granted Moscow another waiver on the sale of its sanctioned oil. Kyiv’s drone forces commander Robert “Madyar” Brovdi said on Telegram that Ukraine had struck the Novokuybyshevsk and Syzran oil refineries in Russia’s Samara region, the Tikhoretsk oil terminal…
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