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Trump threatens nuclear option?

by our Arab Affairs correspondent

THE BARELY OBSERVED cease-fire in the Persian Gulf ended last week in an exchange of missiles between Iran and the United States. US forces bombed Larak island in the Strait of Hormuz and Iran retaliated by launching missiles at American warplanes stationed in Jordan. Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guard Corps says they’ve dealt a “decisive” blow to a terrorist gang, linked to the United States and Israel, in the southern Sistan & Baluchestan province that borders Pakistan, killing one and capturing six others. And the Americans say they won’t return to talks unless Tehran stops attacking commercial ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz amid reports that Trump is considering using nukes against the Islamic Republic.

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Nepal flash-flood disaster – a stark warning of climate change

by Hai Feng (Global Times)

Sunday sees the sleepy commuter village of Burston in Norfolk come to life for the annual celebrations of the Burston Strike School, which ran between 1914-1939.

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Editorial

Goodbye and good riddance

IF STARMER had hoped to upstage Andy Burnham by resigning on the day Parliament re-opened he was clearly disappointed by the indifference on the street to his long-overdue departure from the political arena. No-one will miss him least of all the media gurus whose only focus was to fire speculation on who will take his seat at the by-election to choose his successor in the London Holborn & St Pancras constituency.

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