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It’s Trump versus the elephants
Trump’s Republican Party is represented by the elephant but the president seems to have forgotten it, says PETER FROST
While Iranians take to the streets en masse to protest sky-high inflation, Trump and Netanyahu are threatening military intervention. The Iranian population is trapped between a repressive regime, a suffocating economic war from the outside, and a history of dark alliances, argues MARC VANDEPITTE
Unison Scotland’s BRENDA AITCHISON says her union won’t tolerate further cuts to public services
The Danish Communist Party’s Lotte Rortoft-Madsen assesses the fallout from US threats to annex the huge Arctic island
Trump threatens war and punitive tariffs to recapture Iranian resources – just as in 1953, when the CIA overthrew Mossadegh and US corporations immediately seized 40% of the oil, says SEVIM DAGDELEN
Once derided by Farage as a ‘fraud,’ Jenrick has defected to Reform, bringing experience and political ruthlessness to the populist right — and raising the unsettling prospect of a Farage-led movement with a seasoned operative pulling the strings, says ANDREW MURRAY
WE have all seen the horrendous photographs of rich US men, women and even children, automatic rifle in hand, kneeling next to, or even on top of some handsome wild creature, be it elephant, lion, rhino or some other exotic and threatened creature.
Social media is full of such pictures that start off as a boastful post from the hunter but more often, on my pages, turn up as a protest against this so-called ugly and ignorant sport.
When I heard that President Donald Trump has created a new advisory board to rewrite federal rules for importing the heads and hides of African elephants, lions and rhinos, I thought, but only for a fleeting moment, it might be good news for the animals.
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