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French president hits back after Trump mocks how his wife treats him
French President Emmanuel Macron hit back at Donald Trump on Thursday after the US president mocked Macron’s relationship with his wife as he chided France for refusing to join the US-Israeli offensive against Iran.The two leaders have touted their friendly relationship in the past, especially during Trump’s first term in office. But at a private event Wednesday, Trump lambasted the…
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‘You have to be serious’: Macron criticises Trump’s mixed messages about Nato and Iran
Emmanuel Macron has sharply criticised Donald Trump’s inconsistent and often contradictory pronouncements on the Iran war and Nato, saying if “you want to be serious” it was better not to come out with a something different every day. “There is too much talk … and it’s all over the place,” the French president said on Thursday during a state visit…
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Trump makes his best case for the war — but fails to ease worries about how it will end
Donald Trump faced a high bar Wednesday night in his national address on Iran. He appeared before a country that has not only lost confidence in his presidency, according to the latest polls, but that has soured on his new war and is profoundly worried about its impact on the economy. Millions of people in the Middle East and across…
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Is Iran war really ‘America First,’ Iranian president asks in letter to US public
Iran’s president has written an open letter to America asking whether the Trump administration’s war with his country is putting “America First.” “Exactly which of the American people’s interests are truly being served by this war?,” Masoud Pezeshkian wrote in the letter, addressed “to the people of the United States of America” and posted on X late Wednesday local time,…
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Israel’s perpetual war with Iran may be hard to win with military might alone
On the highway from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, American flags now hang alongside Israeli ones – a public sign of appreciation for US involvement in fighting Iran. “We used to beg American administrations only to recognise a Credible Military Threat [from Iran],” said Israel’s former National Security Advisor, Tzachi Hangebi, who left office four months before this war began. “The…
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Can Donald Trump singlehandedly withdraw the US from NATO?
For years, President Donald Trump has voiced sharp criticism of NATO, including a slew of statements since the beginning of the Iran war. In two recent interviews, he has said he would consider taking the significant step of withdrawing the United States from the alliance altogether. Trump told Britain’s Telegraph newspaper in an interview published Wednesday that he would reconsider…
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Iran-Israel War: UK deploys more troops, air defence systems to Middle East
The United Kingdom has announced the deployment of additional troops and air defence systems to the Middle East as part of what it described as defensive measures against growing threats linked to Iran. UK Defence Secretary John Healey disclosed the move during an official visit to Gulf countries, stating that the new deployments would bring the total number of British…
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As Trump touts ‘reasonable’ Iranian negotiators, there’s uncertainty about their decision-making power
As President Donald Trump’s envoys gear up for another go at diplomacy with Iran, a major question hovers over their efforts: do the officials they’re communicating with have the juice to make a deal? It’s not entirely clear to American officials whether the regime figures receiving their messages — which have been passed along by Pakistan and Turkey — have…
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Most Syrian refugees in Germany expected to return home in three years, Merz says
Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz says that he and the Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa hope that 80% of the Syrians in Germany will return home in the next three years. During the civil war in Syria, almost a million Syrians sought refuge in Germany. Speaking after a meeting with Sharaa in Berlin, Chancellor Merz said that more than a year after…
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Zelensky says allies asked him to scale back attacks on Russian energy
Volodymyr Zelensky has said Ukraine’s allies have urged him to scale back attacks on Russia’s energy infrastructure amid the ongoing global fuel crisis – but that they would only end if Russia stopped targeting Ukraine’s first. The Ukrainian president told journalists in a WhatsApp voice message that, by launching attacks on Russia’s energy system, Ukraine was only responding in kind.…
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