Monday, January 15, 2024

‘Broker than I’ve been’: Why Donald Trump is set to win Iowa caucuses


 From Gaza to the economy, many GOP voters pine for Trump’s return to power, as presidential elections season kicks off.

It was not just freezing; it was “dangerously cold”, according to local officials, with temperatures reaching Antarctic lows after days of snowfall.

But the bitter weather did not stop hundreds of people from coming out to see former President Donald Trump in Indianola, Iowa, a small town south of the state capital, Des Moines.

A day ahead of the Iowa caucuses, they wore Make America Great Again (MAGA) hats and shirts featuring the former president’s mugshot and held Trump 2024 signs at the campaign rally. More than three years after his supporters stormed the US Capitol to prevent the certification of President Joe Biden’s victory and four criminal indictments later, Trump’s support amongst Republicans is steady.

George Hutton, a Trump supporter from neighbouring Madison County who attended the rally on Sunday, said the former president’s Republican opponents – Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and former envoy to the United Nations Nikki Haley – are “wasting their time”.

“I think Trump is going to win it by more than what they’re estimating,” Hutton said, referring to the Iowa contest.


On Sunday, rally-goers stood for 15 minutes in the cruel cold in a queue that stretched outside the community college where Trump spoke. Once inside, many did not even get to see the Republican frontrunner in person and had to settle for watching his speech on a screen in an overflow room after the main event space reached capacity.

As the presidential elections kick off on Monday evening with the Iowa caucuses, the question is not whether Trump will win but by what margin.
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Sunday, January 7, 2024

Israel Signals It Has Wrapped Up Major

Israel Signals It Has Wrapped Up Major Combat In Northern Gaza As The War Enters Its Fourth Month


The Israeli military says it has dismantled the military infrastructure of Hamas in northern Gaza and is fully shifting its offensive to the enclave’s southern half.

The Israeli military signaled that it has wrapped up major combat in northern Gaza, saying it has completed dismantling Hamas’ military infrastructure there, as the war against the militant group entered its fourth month Sunday.

Israel did not address troop deployments in northern Gaza going forward. Military spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said late Saturday that forces would focus on the central and southern parts of the territory and strengthen defenses along the Israel-Gaza border fence.

The announcement came ahead of a visit to Israel by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who on Sunday was in Qatar, a key mediator. Biden administration officials have urged Israel to wind down its blistering air and ground offensive in Gaza and shift to more targeted attacks against Hamas leaders.

In recent weeks, Israel has scaled back its military assault in northern Gaza and pressed its offensive in the south, where most of Gaza’s 2.3 million Palestinians are squeezed into smaller areas in a humanitarian disaster while being pounded by Israeli airstrikes. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insists the war will not end until the objectives of eliminating Hamas, getting Israel’s hostages returned and ensuring that Gaza won’t be a threat to Israel are met.

The war was triggered by Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel in which the militants killed about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took some 250 people hostage.

Israel’s retaliation has killed more than 22,800 Palestinians and wounded more than 58,000, according to the Health Ministry in Hamas-run Gaza. The death toll does not distinguish between combatants and civilians. Health officials say about two-thirds of those killed have been women and minors. Israel blames Hamas for civilian casualties because the group operates in heavily populated residential areas.

An airstrike near the southern city of Rafah killed two journalists on Sunday, including Hamza Dahdouh, the oldest son of Wael Dahdouh, Al Jazeera’s chief correspondent in Gaza, according to both the Qatari-owned Arabic-language channel and local medical officials. Al Jazeera broadcast footage of Dahdouh weeping and holding his son’s hand before walking away in a daze. Israel’s military had no immediate comment.

Al Jazeera strongly condemned the killings and other “brutal attacks against journalists and their families” by Israeli forces, and urged the International Criminal Court, governments and human rights groups to hold Israel accountable.

Dahdouh lost his wife, two children and a grandchild in an Oct. 26 airstrike, and was wounded in an Israeli strike last month that killed a co-worker.

“The world is blind to what’s happening in the Gaza Strip,” Dahdouh said, blinking back tears.

Another airstrike hit a house between Khan Younis and the southern city of Rafah, killing at least seven people whose bodies were taken to the nearby European Hospital, according to an Associated Press journalist at the facility. One man hurried in carrying a baby, and later walked the blanket-wrapped child to the morgue.

“Everything happening here is outside the realms of law, outside the realms of reason. Our brains can’t fully comprehend all this that is happening to us,” said a grieving relative, Inas Abu al-Najja, her quavering voice rising. Men worked the rubble with picks and bare hands.

On Sunday, officials at Nasser Hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis received the bodies of 18 people, including 12 children, killed in an Israeli strike late Saturday. More than 50 people were wounded in the strike on a home in the Khan Younis refugee camp, set up decades ago to house refugees from the 1948 war over Israel’s creation.

Israeli forces pushed deeper into the central city of Deir al-Balah, where residents in several neighborhoods were warned that they must evacuate.

The international medical charity Doctors Without Borders, known by the acronym MSF, said it was evacuating its medical staff from Deir al-Balah’s Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Hospital.

A bullet penetrated a wall of the hospital’s intensive care unit on Friday, and “drone attacks and sniper fire were just a few hundred meters from the hospital” over the past couple of days, said Carolina Lopez, the group’s emergency coordinator there. She said the hospital received between 150 and 200 wounded people daily in recent weeks.

The International Rescue Committee and Medical Aid for Palestinians said they also were forced to withdraw from the hospital. “The amount of injuries being brought in over the last few days has been horrific,” surgeon Nick Maynard with the IRC medical team said in a statement.

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Friday, December 15, 2023

Nikki Haley’s greatest trick is convincing voters she’s a moderate

With a brand new endorsement from New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu in hand, former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley is poised to become the candidate of Republican moderates and the main alternative to Donald Trump in the GOP presidential primaries — or so claims one report after another. It’s an easy way to think about the race and the axis of disagreement within the Republican Party: the hard-right Trump on one side, the moderate Haley on the other. 

Some more moderate GOP voters will indeed be drawn to Haley, if only because she is not Trump. But this is not an ideological contest; the fact that multiple news outlets are framing it that way shows how misleading it is to fall back on old categories when trying to understand today’s Republican Party. 

When Trump seized control of the GOP in 2016, he scrambled its usual platform: discarding some traditionally conservative positions (such as support for free trade), embracing others (tax cuts, opposition to abortion rights), and even creating new standards separating “real” Republicans from RINOs (“Republicans In Name Only”). The most important standard was and still is support for Trump himself — not only merely his views but his very person, a figure of worship to whom true Republicans must abase themselves in the most abject way possible.

As an unusually shrewd politician, Haley has managed to dance around the pro-Trump/anti-Trump dividing line without ever placing herself neatly on one side or the other. She managed to serve two years as his ambassador to the United Nations and leave without having him turn on her in rage, unlike so many of the others who served in his Cabinet.

That history, and her opposition to Trump today, has nothing to do with ideology. Yet perhaps out of a vain hope that the Republican Party can become something it won’t, some persist in describing her as a “moderate.”

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Friday, November 24, 2023

China offers visa-free entry for citizens of France, Germany, Italy


China will temporarily exempt citizens of France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Malaysia from needing visas to visit the world's second-largest economy in a bid to give a boost to post-pandemic tourism.

From Dec. 1 to Nov. 30 next year, citizens of those countries entering China for business, tourism, visiting relatives and friends, or transiting for no more than 15 days, will not need a visa, a foreign ministry spokesperson said on Friday.

China has been taking steps in recent months - including restoring international flight routes - to revive its tourism sector following three years of strict COVID-19 measures that largely shut its borders to the outside world.

The government is also looking to re-establish its image around the world after clashing with many Western countries on various issues including COVID, human rights, Taiwan and trade.

A recent Pew Research Center survey in 24 countries revealed that views of China were broadly negative, with 67% of adults expressing unfavourable views.

More than half of the respondents said China interfered in the affairs of other countries and did not take into account the interests of others.

"This decision will facilitate travel to China for many German citizens to an unprecedented extent," Germany's ambassador to China, Patricia Flor, said on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter.

"We hope that the Chinese government will implement the measures announced today for all EU member states," she said.

Visa-free travel to Germany for Chinese nationals would only be possible if all members of the European Schengen Agreement approved, she said.

French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna, who is in Beijing, wrote on X: "An excellent new announcement on the occasion of my visit from my counterpart Wang Yi!"

This month, China expanded its visa-free transit policy to 54 countries to include citizens of Norway.

In August, China scrapped all COVID test requirements for inbound travellers. It resumed 15-day visa-free entry for citizens of Singapore and Brunei in July.

International flights in and out the country, while recovering more slowly than services on the domestic network, have been picking up.

China's aviation authority said in October that 16,680 weekly flights were expected from November through March, with passenger flights expected to reach 71% of the total four years ago.

The European Chamber of Commerce in China also said the move would help boost business confidence. "It is a positive that the authorities are taking steps to facilitate people-to-people exchanges," it added.

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Tuesday, November 14, 2023

BNT - Lawyer for Stephen Lawrence’s mother writes to Met over ‘corrupt’ officer claims


A lawyer representing the mother of Stephen Lawrence has demanded answers from the Metropolitan Police following allegations a senior officer involved in her son’s murder case was corrupt.

Mr Lawrence was murdered in a racist attack by a group in south-east London in 1993.

The BBC has reported that a secret Met Police report from 2000 concluded Ray Adams, a former Scotland Yard commander in the section of the force responsible for the murder investigation, was corrupt.

Among the allegations are that Mr Adams was cleared by a police corruption probe in the 1980s following false evidence given by a man linked to the family of one of Mr Lawrence’s killers.

Mr Adams was questioned about corruption during the 1998 Macpherson inquiry into Mr Lawrence’s death, but the report and its findings were not released.

The inquiry said it had not seen evidence that Mr Adams was involved in trying to hold back the murder investigation.

Imran Khan KC, who represents Mr Lawrence’s mother Baroness Doreen Lawrence, told the PA news agency he has written to Scotland Yard to ask when it knew about the information, why it has not been mentioned, and what steps are being taken.

Mr Khan told the BBC the report about Mr Adams, 81, who denies any wrongdoing, was “dramatic, disturbing and shocking”.

The lawyer said he wants the Met to “apologise for not telling Baroness Lawrence and her family about what they knew, and I want them to apologise to Sir William Macpherson’s inquiry and to admit that they misled that inquiry”.

Mr Lawrence was murdered by a gang of racists in Eltham, south-east London, in April 1993, as he ran to catch a bus with his friend Duwayne Brooks.

Only two of his killers – Gary Dobson and David Norris – have ever been brought to justice.

The original investigation into his death was hampered by institutional racism in the Metropolitan Police, and claims that corrupt officers had sought to protect Norris, whose father Clifford Norris was a notorious drug dealer.


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Friday, November 3, 2023

BNT - Tests of the Angara-A5 launch

 The final tests of the Angara-A5 launch vehicle took place at the Vostochny Cosmodrome


The Angara-A5 heavy launch vehicle is undergoing final tests before the first launch from Vostochny, Roscosmos reported.

Work on creating a launch complex for Angara-A5 at the Vostochny cosmodrome will be completed on time, as announced by the head of Roscosmos, Yuri Borisov, at a meeting with Vladimir Putin on January 19 this year.

The first launch of the launch vehicle as part of flight tests from the Vostochny Cosmodrome is planned for December 2023. Based on the results of electrical tests of the Angara, specialists will evaluate the operation of its systems and complete the production of the rocket. After this, the rocket can be considered ready for the first launch; it will go to the launch site.

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Friday, September 22, 2023

BNT - Movie ‘Rebound’

“The emotion of the movie ‘Rebound’ is recreated with a victory and gold medal in the Chuseok match between Korea and Japan.”


“I will definitely win the Korea-Japan game during the Chuseok holiday and climb to the highest level.”

Korean 3-on-3 (Chosun University) coach Kang Yang-hyeon (Chosun University), the actual protagonist of the movie 'Rebound', and the future of professional basketball, Myung-jin Seo (24, Hyundai Mobis), Won-seok Lee (23, Samsung), Doo-won Lee (23, KT), and Dong-hyun Kim (21, KCC). 3x3) The men's basketball team is aiming for a gold medal at the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games. The seniors are determined to win the championship, which they unfortunately missed out on five years ago at the 2018 Jakarta-Palembang competition due to being blocked by China's 'Great Wall of China', and provide an emotional experience no less than that of the movie.

The reality of Korean 3x3 basketball is, with a bit of exaggeration, similar to the challenging environment of the Busan Jungang High School basketball team in the movie, which achieved the runner-up finish in the national competition with just six players. They trained with less attention and infrastructure than 5-on-5 basketball, and in the 3x3 event, the four novice players had a hard time adapting to the new rules and intense physical competition.

However, the goal of becoming the ‘top of Asia’ has never changed. This is because I believe in the power of the Taegeuk symbol and the heavy sweat I shed for about a month and a half after being called up. The national team, which recently met at the Goyang Gymnasium in Gyeonggi Province, unanimously expressed confidence that “all preparations have been completed.” Seo Seong-jin, who served as captain of the national team composed of players under the age of 24 according to the age limit for the competition, expressed his candidacy by saying, “If you are a member of the national team, you must reach the highest level.” Lee Won-seok also said, “I will finish with a good result as the captain said,” and Lee Doo-won pledged, “I will take responsibility for the Taegeuk mark and show it through actions rather than words.” Kim Dong-hyun also emphasized, “As the youngest member, I will make good use of the atmosphere and bring home the gold medal.”

The national team was selected with an age limit, so the name value is lower than that of the 5-on-5 basketball team, but the most promising players in professional basketball have gathered. Seo Myung-jin, who graduated from Busan Jungang High School and entered the professional ranks immediately in the 2018-19 season, played a total of 204 games over 5 seasons. He gained sufficient experience as a guard and was equipped with stable game management and a sophisticated outside shot. Won-Seok Lee and Doo-Won Lee are the 1st pick in the 2021 Rookie Draft and the 2nd pick in the 2022 Rookie Draft, respectively. Although both are well over 200cm, they are big men with both strength and speed. The youngest guard, Kim Dong-hyun, is full of fighting spirit and energy. Coach Kang explained, “The players were completely unfamiliar with 3x3, so they struggled a lot in the beginning, but they have such basic skills that they have now completely adapted. The more they train, the stronger they feel.”

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Saturday, September 2, 2023

BNT - Professor Joo Seok-joong


“I hope you don’t wake up to an emergency call from heaven”… 

Funeral ceremony for the late Professor Joo Seok-joong"

A funeral was held on the 20th for the late Joo Seok-joong (59), a professor in the Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery at Asan Medical Center in Seoul, who died in an unexpected car accident.

This morning, a funeral ceremony was held at the funeral hall of Asan Medical Center in Songpa-gu, Seoul, with the deceased's family, colleagues, and acquaintances in attendance.

Kim Seung-hu, dean of the Ulsan University College of Medicine, who was in charge of the investigation, said, "What was so urgent that you left so suddenly? There is no way to contain your sorrow," and remembered, "The people around Professor Joo were peaceful due to the kindness of Professor Joo, who cared for others first."

Professor Kim Hong-rae, who was with the deceased as a colleague in Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, said in his memorial address, "The doctor did his best for the patients in any situation, and delivered new life and comfort to the patients." “It was a great happiness,” he said.

He also said his final greetings to the deceased, saying, "I will do my best for the patients in honor of the teacher's wishes," and "I hope in heaven you will be comfortable without being woken up at night by emergency calls."

At the funeral, there were artificial flowers sent by President Yoon Seok-yeol, Minister of Health and Welfare Cho Gyu-hong, and Asan Foundation Chairman Chung Mong-joon to commemorate the deceased.

Professor Joo died on the 16th after being hit by a dump truck that was turning right while riding his bicycle on a road near Asan Medical Center in Seoul. As the director of the Aortic Disease Center at the Heart Hospital of Asan Medical Center in Seoul, he has practiced medicine in specialized fields with high work intensity, such as aortic disease and aortic valve stenosis.


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Wednesday, August 2, 2023

BNT - Donald Trump Charged by Justice

In Third Criminal Indictment, Donald Trump Charged by Justice Department Over Jan. 6 Role

Donald Trump was criminally indicted for a third time on Aug. 1 as a Washington grand jury voted to prosecute the former President on four counts related to his efforts to remain in power after losing the 2020 election and his role in the events leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021 storming of the U.S. Capitol. The prosecution sets up yet another complicated and explosive legal battle as Trump vies for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. 


The latest indictment, which the Justice Department announced Tuesday and references six unnamed co-conspirators, follows an investigation that stretched almost eight months by Special Counsel Jack Smith, whose team had interviewed dozens of prominent figures in Trump’s orbit, including former Vice President Mike Pence, over Trump’s efforts to disrupt the peaceful transition of power on Jan. 6. The four charges include conspiracy to defraud the government, conspiracy against the right to vote, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, and obstruction of an official proceeding.


“Each of these conspiracies—which built on the widespread mistrust the Defendant was creating through pervasive and destabilizing lies about election fraud—targeted a bedrock function of the United States federal government: the nation’s process of collecting, counting, and certifying the results of the presidential election,” the indictment says.


In a Truth Social post published shortly before the DOJ announced the charges, Trump called the indictment “fake” and accused Smith of trying to “interfere” with the 2024 election. “Why didn’t they do this 2.5 years ago?” he wrote. “Why did they wait so long? Because they wanted to put it right in the middle of my campaign.”

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Thursday, July 27, 2023

BNT - A Korean research team develops the world's

first eco-friendly filter that removes microplastics from water

A collaboration between the two technologies: ‘electrophoresis’ of Kiwon and ‘triboelectric generator’ of DGIST


The Korea Institute of Industrial Technology (KITECH) and the Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DIGIST) joint research team announced on the 6th that they have developed the first eco-friendly filter that can remove not only micro but also nano-sized microplastics from water. As the world's first eco-friendly filter that removes microplastics without environmental pollution, it is expected to contribute to solving the problem of microplastics, which is emerging as a major environmental problem. The result was published in the June 11 online edition of ‘Nano Energy’, an international academic journal in the field of energy engineering, and is scheduled to be published in September.

Microplastics in Drinking Water and Oceans

Microplastics are small plastic particles less than 5 mm in diameter. There are primary microplastics, which are made small from the beginning, and secondary microplastics, which are finely broken and split. It mainly flows into the sea and contaminates the marine ecosystem. Through the disruption of the endocrine system of marine organisms, it accumulates in humans, the top predator, and acts as a threatening factor, such as disturbing human body functions.

The severity of the microplastic problem and its dangers to humans have been constantly warned for a long time. (Link to article – ‘Concentration of microplastics in your blood’) However, microplastics are so small that it is difficult to separate or process them with filters that have been used to filter out impurities. In particular, in the case of ultra-fine plastics having a nanometer (nm) size smaller than a micrometer (㎛), the filter may be clogged or the filter itself may cause pollution of the marine ecosystem.

In the midst of the need for a new method of environmentally friendly microplastic removal technology that can overcome these limitations, an eco-friendly power plant that removes microparticles in water was developed for the first time. A joint research team led by Dr. Cho Han-cheol's research team from the Precision Machinery Process Control Research Group at the Korea Institute of Industrial Technology and Professor Joo-hyeok Lee of the Department of Energy Engineering at DGIST succeeded in developing an eco-friendly particle removal technology that can treat microplastic particles in water for the first time in the world.

What is the principle of the eco-friendly microplastic filter? Electrophoresis and TENG
As a fine particle removal technique, ‘electrophoresis’ technology was used. It is a technique to separate organic substances using electrical properties. When a strong electric field is generated in water, micro and nano particles in the water quickly move toward the electrode (substrate) and adhere to it, thereby removing microplastic particles. The research team paid attention to the fact that the efficiency of electrophoresis can be increased through high voltage. In addition, it developed a new microparticle removal technology that removes microplastics by grafting a triboelectric generator capable of outputting high voltage and low current.

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Wednesday, July 19, 2023

BNT - Biden makes surprise first visit to Ukraine


US President Joe Biden, who was scheduled to visit Poland this week, made his first visit to Kyiv since the start of the war.

US President Joe Biden made an unannounced visit to Ukraine Monday, February 20, to meet with President Volodymyr Zelensky, a gesture of solidarity that comes days before the one-year anniversary of Russia's invasion of the country.

"One year later, Kyiv stands," Biden said. "And Ukraine stands. Democracy stands. The Americans stand with you, and the world stands with you." Biden spent more than five hours in the Ukrainian capital, consulting with Zelensky on next steps, honoring the country’s fallen soldiers and meeting with US embassy staff in the war-torn country. 

Biden delivered remarks with Zelensky at Mariinsky Palace to announce an additional half billion dollars in US assistance and to reassure Ukraine of American and allied support as the conflict continues. "One year later, Kyiv stands. And Ukraine stands. Democracy stands," Biden said. "Joseph Biden, welcome to Kyiv! Your visit is an extremely important sign of support for all Ukrainians," Zelensky wrote on Telegram, in English.

Biden stressed his "unflagging commitment" in defending Ukraine's territorial integrity, and promised new arms. He announced an additional half-billion dollars in US assistance, including shells for howitzers, anti-tank missiles, air surveillance radars and other aid but no new advanced weaponry.

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Saturday, July 8, 2023

BNT - Biden to 'contrast notes' and Sunak on Ukrainian fightback



Joe Biden is supposed to raise worries over the harmony cycle in Northern Ireland and examine the Ukrainian counter-hostile against Russia with Rishi Sunak when they meet one week from now.

The US President will meet the Top state leader in London and with the Ruler at Windsor Palace on Monday prior to making a beeline for the Nato highest point in Lithuania.

There has been criticism of Mr. Biden's plan to provide Ukraine with cluster munitions, which are prohibited by many allies, including Britain, and he will arrive in the UK.

The White House said that Mr. Biden and Mr. Sunak would "compare notes" during their fifth meeting in as many months regarding their support for Ukraine and the situation on the battlefield.

However, post-Brexit tensions are also likely to be discussed by Mr. Biden, who has previously stated that he wants to ensure that the "Brits didn't screw around" in Northern Ireland.

Amanda Sloat, Europe senior director for the National Security Council, told reporters: He continues to place a strong emphasis on cooperating with the United Kingdom and Ireland as well as maintaining peace, prosperity, and stability throughout the entire region.

"I would imagine that those would be the general range of topics that they would discuss," and "Northern Ireland is certainly an issue that the President regularly talks about with his British counterpart" are just a few examples.

During his time in the UK, Mr. Biden will also attend a climate finance mobilization forum that focuses on supporting developing nations.

On Tuesday, both men will meet with their Nato allies in Vilnius to discuss Ukraine's bid for membership.

Ms Sloat said: " Given that both leaders will be flying to Vilnius the day before, I imagine this will be a chance for them to update each other on developments in discussions leading up to the Vilnius summit.

"It will be a chance for them to share any useful info on both of our help for Ukraine and their continuous endeavors on the front line."

The UK is one of 123 signatories to the Show on Bunch Weapons, which forbids their utilization or accumulating due to their aimless impact on regular citizen populaces.

The weapons scatter a lot of bomblets over a large area.

Even after conflicts are over, bombs that haven't been detonated may still be a threat to civilians.

House Safeguard Advisory group director Tobias Ellwood asked the US to "rethink".



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‘Broker than I’ve been’: Why Donald Trump is set to win Iowa caucuses

 From Gaza to the economy, many GOP voters pine for Trump’s return to power, as presidential elections season kicks off. It was not just fre...