Donald Trump likely to scrap Iran deal amid 'insane' changes of stance, says Macron
French president’s frank comments come after Congress address in which he stood up for policies his US counterpart has sought to destroy
Emmanuel Macron conceded he had probably failed in his attempt during a three-day trip to Washington to persuade Donald Trump to stay in the Iran nuclear deal, describing US flip-flopping on international agreements as “insane”.
The French president had hoped to convince Trump to continue to waive sanctions on Iran, as agreed by the 2015 nuclear deal, in which Iran agreed to accept strict curbs on its nuclear activities. Macron offered Trump the prospect of negotiations on a new complementary deal that would address Iranian missile development and Tehran’s military intervention in the Middle East.
But speaking to US reporters before leaving Washington, Macron said: “My view – I don’t know what your president will decide – is that he will get rid of this deal on his own, for domestic reasons.”
Kim Jong-un to walk across Korean border and plant tree with Moon Jae-in during historic meeting
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un will plant a commemorative tree with South Korean president Moon Jae-in after walking across the border between the two countries for a historic summit on Friday.
The two leaders will also inspect a South Korean guard of honour before talks on the southern side of the uninhabited “truce village” of Panmunjom, Seoul said on Thursday.
Mr Kim will be the first North Korean leader to set foot in the south since the end of the Korean War in 1953.
Turkey: Opposition Cumhuriyet journalists sentenced to jail on terror charges
International rights groups criticized the case as emblematic of deteriorating press freedom in Turkey. Cumhuriyet is one of the newspapers critical of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
A Turkish court on Wednesday sentenced 14 staff members of the country's main opposition newspaper, Cumhuriyet, to prison on charges of supporting terrorist groups.
Rights groups, including Amnesty International and Reporters Without Borders, had sharply criticized the case amid broader fears about a crackdown on press freedom in Turkey.
High court upholds ruling blaming local gov'ts over school kids' death in tsunami
A high court upheld a lower court ruling Thursday ordering the city of Ishinomaki and Miyagi Prefecture to pay around 1.4 billion yen in damages to the families of 23 elementary school pupils killed by tsunami following the March 2011 earthquake in northeastern Japan.
In the Sendai High Court ruling, Presiding Judge Hiroshi Ogawa said the authorities "failed to fulfil their obligation to revamp a risk management manual in line with the realities of Okawa Elementary School."
The focal point at the high court was whether the court would acknowledge any flaws in the disaster prevention measures taken by the city and the public school before the deadly tsunami, as the Sendai District Court ruling had denied such flaws.
HOW THE NYPD UNION IS MANUFACTURING OUTRAGE ABOUT A 70-YEAR-OLD BLACK PANTHER’S PAROLE
JUDGING BY TABLOID headlines appearing on New York City newsstands, it might appear as though hundreds of thousands of people object to the release of former Black Panther Herman Bell from prison. That’s how many letters, the tabloids proclaim, were written in protest of the New York State Parole Board’s decision last month to release the 70-year-old prisoner, after 45 years behind bars.
“367,000 reasons not to parole cop-killer Herman Bell,” pronounced a New York Post editorial, noting that “more than 367,000 online letters were sent to the state Board of Parole following its recent decision to release cop killer Herman Bell.” The city’s other big tabloid, the New York Daily News, cited the same figure, attributing it to the New York City Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association.
Generation Z: politicised by necessity and already changing the world
By Amelia Lester
What were you doing in the year 2000? The graduating students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida were not watching Ian Thorpe and Cathy Freeman at the Sydney Olympics. They were busy being born. In February this year, they saw 17 of their peers and teachers shot and killed on school grounds with a legally acquired semi-automatic rifle. In March, they organised an international protest, March for Our Lives, in which more than 1.2 million people took to the streets advocating for sensible gun laws; lately, they've been receiving admissions information from universities about where they're going next, and, hopefully, passing their driving tests.
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