3 h. ago Everything Trump has said he knows better than anyone from nuclear weapons to Facebook

'Nobody knows more on this than me' might as well be a Trump catchphrase – as he constantly uses the line when speaking – so here are some of the oddest things Trump has claimed to be an expert in

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3 d. ago Moment Trump learned about India and Pakistan clashes and air strikes and called it a 'shame' as two nuclear

India and Pakistan were teetering on the brink of war this morning after New Delhi hit what it called 'terrorist camps' overnight, prompting stark threats from Islamabad.

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1 week ago Leeds crossbow suspect ‘wrote Facebook manifesto citing terrorism and misogynistic rage’

Owen Lawrence, 38, believed to have shot two women in Headingley before turning weapon on himselfThe suspect in the Leeds crossbow attack wrote a Facebook manifesto espousing plans for “terrorism, revenge and misogynistic rage” that referenced the 2019 massacre in New Zealand, police believe.Owen Lawrence is suspected to have shot the women, aged 19 and 31, on Saturday in Headingley before turning a firearm on himself. Both women were taken to hospital, with one sustaining life-threatening injuries. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Tyrants like Trump always fall – and we can already predict how he will be dethroned | Simon Tisdall

The US constitution protects incompetence. But don’t underestimate the self-destructive power of the president’s own hubrisTyrants come to a sticky end, or so history suggests. Richard III and Coriolanus made bloody exits. More recently, Saddam Hussein went to the gallows, Slobodan Milosevic went to jail, Bashar al-Assad went into exile. Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi was run to ground in a sewer. Tyranny, from the Greek túrannos (“absolute ruler”), is typically fuelled by hubris and leads ineluctably to nemesis. Tyrants are for toppling. Their downfall is a saving grace.Tyranny, in its many forms, is back in vogue, and everyone knows who’s to blame. To be fair, to suggest similarities between the aforementioned abominable individuals and Donald Trump would be utterly wrong. In key respects, he’s worse. Measured by willingness and capacity to harm the world’s poorest and most vulnerable, wreak global economic mayhem and threaten nuclear annihilation, Trump is uniquely dangerous – and ever ...

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2 w. ago Trump’s transactional instincts could help forge a new Iran nuclear deal | Mohamad Bazzi

The president has a chance to make good on his reputation as a dealmaker as Iran moves closer to a nuclear weaponIn May 2018, Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew the US from the Iran nuclear deal and reimposed American sanctions that crippled the Iranian economy. Trump tore up the 2015 agreement, which had taken years for Iran to negotiate with six world powers, under which Tehran limited its nuclear program in exchange for relief from international sanctions. Trump insisted he would be able to negotiate a better pact than the one reached by Barack Obama’s administration.Today, in his second term as president, Trump is eager to fix the Iran deal he broke nearly seven years ago.Mohamad Bazzi is the director of the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern studies and a journalism professor at New York University. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Moscow may gain key role in Iran nuclear deal as US talks progress

Russia touted as possible destination for Iran’s uranium stockpile and could also act as arbiter of deal breachesRussia could play a key role in a deal on the future of Iran’s nuclear programme, with Moscow being touted not only as a possible destination for Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium, but also as a possible arbiter of deal breaches.Donald Trump, who abandoned a 2015 nuclear pact between Tehran and world powers in 2018 during his first term, has threatened to attack Iran unless it reaches a new deal swiftly that would prevent it from developing a nuclear weapon. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Iran is 'not far' from having a nuclear bomb, UN warns after Trump told Tehran to abandon nuke dream or face harsh response

Western countries have long suspected Iran of seeking to acquire nuclear weapons, an allegation Tehran has consistently denied, insisting that its programme is for peaceful civilian purposes.

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3 w. ago WW3 fears grow as Trump's tariffs spark China feud – how would you cope with war?

World War Three feels closer than ever, with the war between Russia and Ukraine continuing, Trump's tariffs sparking new tensions with China and Iran developing nuclear tech

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last month US steps up Houthi airstrikes as Iran warned of 'great danger'

The United States has launched major airstrikes on Tehran-backed Houthi rebel positions in the wake of President Donald Trump's warning to Iran of 'great danger' in continuing its nuclear weapons programme

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last month Keir Starmer set to approve nuclear plant in bid to power up economic growth

The prime minister is pinning his hopes of economic growth on a major nuclear plant and a series of mini nuclear sites

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