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Last salute to Iranian leader!

by our Arab Affairs correspondent

Millions of Iranians paid their last respects to Sayyed Ali Khamanei at memorial ceremonies across the country as leaders from the Arab world, the broader Muslim community and the Global South landed in Tehran for the final salute to the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic who was martyred during the first wave of American and Israeli terror attacks in February.

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Cuba Does Not Abandon Venezuela

by Alejandra García Elizalde (Radio Havana Cuba)

Venezuela was just beginning to recover from the wounds left by the 3rd January attack when a new tragedy struck the country once again. On that day, American bombs rocked Caracas and La Guaira, leaving more than a hundred dead. Among them were 32 Cuban fighters who lost their lives defending Venezuelan soil. Months later, while the nation was still seeking solace in its grief, the earthquakes of 24th June opened a new chapter of loss and uncertainty.

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Editorial

If wishes were fishes…

…we’d all cast nets, they used to say. Now all we hear in the Westminster bubble are the odds on the gravy-trainers lobbying for jobs in the new Burnham government and the echoes of the media pundits on the direction that the ‘King of the North’ will take when he moves into Downing Street. A lot of the speculation is, of course, inspired directly by the Burnham team, who hope their leader’s ‘coronation’ will lift Labour out of the pit of despair in which Starmer left the party after his two years of misrule ended this month.

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