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News imageA file photo of US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner walking together
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US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to fly to Pakistan for Iran talks, White House says

Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi is now in the capital Islamabad, but Iranian state media reports that talks with the US are not on the agenda.


News imageAn image of Mojtaba Khamenei in the middle of a road where yellow and green taxis and motorcycles are parked, with a man wearing sunglasses, black trousers and a grey T-shirt holding a phone to his right ear.

Who is making decisions in Iran?

Iran's new supreme leader is supposed to have the final say, but in practice the picture is far murkier.

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News imageDonald Trump looks on as Jerome Powell speaks at the White House in November 2017

US justice department drops probe into Fed chairman Jerome Powell

President Donald Trump had accused Powell of improper cost overruns in renovating the Fed's building.

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Nato says 'no provision' to expel members after report US could seek to suspend Spain

An internal Pentagon email reportedly outlines options to punish allies over a perceived lack of support for Iran war.

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'My living nightmare' - Rob Reiner's son bares soul on how he found out parents were dead

The actor says the grief of his parents' brutal deaths and the arrest of his own brother left him in a "trance".

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Demonstrators display 20,000 teddy bears for missing Ukrainian children

Each bear in the installation in Washington, DC, is meant to represent one of the children Ukraine says have been abducted by Russia.

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Relatives of 10 scientists who died or vanished grapple with impact of wild speculation

Conspiracies are running rampant online after the deaths or disappearances of at least 10 people tied to sensitive US research.

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The enchanting history of Oxford University's 750-year-old medieval library

Predating the Aztec Empire, Merton College Library in Oxford has been used by everyone from celebrated 14th-Century mathematicians to JRR Tolkien.

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Bees behaving strangely? It must be hurricane season

In Fiji in the South Pacific, farmers are reading nature's warning signs to predict hurricanes – from creeping Yam vines to hornets nesting.


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