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„Family of British couple held in Iran urge UK to raise case in talks with Tehran
Son of Lindsay Foreman, held with her husband since Jan., says British government (@GOVUK) is neglecting duty of care it owes its citizens
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The son of a British woman who has been held in Iran since Jan. on espionage charges along with her husband has called on the UK government to raise their case during talks with Iran reportedly taking place in Istanbul later this week.
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Lindsay and Craig Foreman, both 52, were arrested on 3 Jan. in Kervan, southern Iran, while travelling through the country from Armenia to Pakistan on a motorcycle journey to Australia.
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The family, who have not had direct contact with the couple since their incarceration, have said promises from the Foreign Office (@FCDOGovUK) in the past fortnight to arrange conversations with the couple had not materialised.”
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Supreme Leader in a Orange Makeup „ @POTUS @realDonaldTrump sparred on Thurs. with Jerome H. Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve, over the cost of renovations to the central bank’s headquarters in Washington during a tour of the active construction site.
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The visit by the president and other top @WhiteHouse officials was arranged to find evidence to back up allegations by the administration that Mr. Powell had mismanaged the costly project.
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The tour quickly exposed tensions between the president and Mr. Powell. Mr. Trump, standing next to the Fed chair, said the renovation cost had ballooned to $3.1 billion, beyond the $2.5 billion that the central bank has indicated.
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„Tuesday marks Hershey’s latest price hike after it raised prices a year ago.
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The chocolate maker posted a $224.2 million profit in its first-quarter earnings this year, though it noted it expected to take a $15 million to $20 million hit from the sweeping tariff policies imposed by @POTUS @realDonaldTrump this year.
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Hershey has requested an exemption from the president and is »hopeful« it could still receive one, Bloomberg reported [1] [2].”
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„Thai and Cambodian soldiers have clashed along the border between their countries in a major escalation that left at least 14 people dead, mostly civilians. The two sides fired small arms, artillery and rockets, and Thailand also launched airstrikes [1].
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Fighting took place in at least six areas on Thurs., according to Thai Defense Ministry spokesperson Surasant Kongsiri,
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a day after a land mine explosion along the border wounded five Thai soldiers and led Bangkok to withdraw its ambassador from Cambodia and expel Cambodia’s envoy to Thailand.
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– »Ich habe mich getäuscht« – sagte der ehemalige brandenburgische Ministerpräsident und frühere @spdde-Chef der @saechsischeDE. – »Weil ich das, was jetzt passiert ist, bis vor Kurzem noch für undenkbar gehalten habe«.
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Es war die plötzliche, wenn auch späte Einsicht eines eingefleischten Kremlverstehers. Dass ein russischer [Diktator] im 21. Jahrhundert so weit gehe, Panzer zu schicken und mit Raketen das Nachbarland anzugreifen, habe er sich nicht vorstellen können.
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– „»What’s happening is the demolition of the anticorruption infrastructure in Ukraine« – Daria Kaleniuk, co-founder of the Kyiv-based Anti-Corruption Action Center, told The Wall Street Journal [1]. Kaleniuk helped establish NABU following the 2013–2014 Maidan Revolution.
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In her view, the Ukrainian government was likely emboldened to weaken the agency as in recent months, the U.S. seems to have stopped paying close attention to anti-corruption reforms.
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Kyiv Mayor Vitali @Klitschko (@Vitaliy_Klychko), who has been at odds with [so-called] President @ZelenskyyUa for years, also criticized the new law.
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„After @realDonaldTrump moved to dismember the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which backed internationally oriented outlets such as @VOANews, Chinese state-made broadcasts took the place of U.S. programming on TV networks in countries as disparate as Indonesia and Nigeria.
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@realDonaldTrump, like a growing number of Republicans, viewed the media properties as suspicious fonts of »anti-American« liberalism. But Chinese propagandists exulted at the demise of these U.S.-funded news operations, which had,
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to varying extents, chronicled the state of pro-democracy movements around the world and provided space for dissident voices in countries where political freedoms are curtailed.”