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Brits reject May's Brexit plan, some turn to Boris and far right
Addressing business and political leaders in the Waterfront Hall, Mrs May said her White Paper offered a viable solution that honours the Good Friday Agreement, delivers on the referendum result, and benefits the United Kingdom economy. "You only have to speak to businesses near the border, as I did yesterday, to see that the notion of a hard border is nearly inconceivable", she said. [Full Article...]
Germany slams Mark Zuckerberg over Facebook's Holocaust denial policy
Zuckerberg told Recode's Kara Swisher , who will become an opinion contributor with The New York Times later this summer. He added that he doesn't think they are " intentionally " getting it wrong. Zuckerberg said that instead of banning such items, the company would make sure they were not presented prominently in the News Feed, the posts that are seen most frequently by individual users. [Full Article...]
Carter Page denies being a Russian agent after wiretap application released
Agents believed Page had been "the subject of targeted recruitment by the Russian government", according to the documents. Democrats also argue the FBI's interest in Page predated its knowledge of the opposition research dossier and say it was not the dossier and the Page FISA warrant that prompted the FBI's counterintelligence investigation into Russia, but rather an earlier conversation ... [Full Article...]
Rohani warns Trump: War with Iran 'is the mother of all wars'
Iran's semi-official ISNA news agency quoted President Hassan Rouhani as warning Trump: "Do not play with the lion's tail or you will regret it". "If Iran's oil export is blocked, no other country in the region will export oil either", Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Saturday in a meeting with Foreign Ministry officials and Iranian diplomats. [Full Article...]
Kimberly Guilfoyle leaving Fox News to campaign with Donald Trump Jr
By May, the 40-year-old was reportedly dating 49-year-old Fox News co-host Kimberly Guilfoyle . "Kim is one of the most influential voices in the MAGA movement and knows how to light up a crowd", Surabian wrote. She said in 2017 that she had been in conversations with the White House for the role of press secretary, though people familiar with the matter told CNN at the time there wer... [Full Article...]
Iran's Supreme Leader Warns of Closing Strait of Hormuz
Washington hit Tehran with an initial round of sanctions and threatened to retaliate against foreign companies that continue to do business with Iran despite the penalties. "America must understand well that peace with Iran is the mother of all peace, and war with Iran is the mother of all wars". The strait is not only used by Iranian ships, but also by Gulf countries who rely on safe pa... [Full Article...]
Hungary's Orban visits Jerusalem Jewish shrine
Orban was scheduled to have dinner Thursday with the Netanyahus at the prime minister's residence in Jerusalem. Donning a dark hat in accordance with Jewish practice, Mr. "Israel was established so that Jews could stand up to the world and not fear or be subservient to anti-Semites", said Yair Lapid of the centrist Yesh Atid party. [Full Article...]
Irans Rouhani warns Trump about mother of all wars
The Jerusalem Post reports has reviewed the 211-page Hamburg document that states "some of the crisis countries... are still making an effort to obtain products for the manufacture of atomic, biological and chemical weapons of mass destruction (proliferation) and the corresponding missile carrier technology (rocket technology)". [Full Article...]