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Iran’s economy in crisis as US launches new sanctions campaign

Trump’s Operation Economic Outcast is expected to push many Iranians into deeper poverty as food inflation soars

The Guardian - UK

Clamping down: China tightens exit rules

The Chinese government announced new border regulations in late July in a move seen as expanding state control over its citizens. The new rules, which come into effect on September 15, tighten checks on travellers and provide new grounds for restricting Chinese citizens from leaving the country, including exit bans…

France 24

Regime Change might be 2026’s nonfiction bestseller. Here’s why it’s essential, chilling reading

Not long after the second world war, the Jewish, German-born political philosopher Leo Strauss coined the term reductio ad Hitlerum. It suggests that simply comparing something to Adolf Hitler does not inevitably taint it with the Nazi dictator’s terrible crimes. Hitler was a vegetarian, but that doesn’t make all vegetarians…

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Belfast Zoo welcomes three ‘playful’ young lion brothers

Belfast Zoo is hoping to hold the lions until full maturity, which is four-and-a-half to five years old

The Independent UK

New book reveals Trump compared himself to Mao, Stalin, Attila the Hun, called Netanyahu a 'con man'

US President Donald Trump compared himself to some of history's most feared leaders, including Mao, Stalin, Attila the Hun, Genghis Khan, Napoleon and Hitler, revealed in a book published by New York Times reporters in excerpts reported by CNN.

The Times of India

Trump news at a glance: Israel-Hezbollah clashes ground Vance trip; Qatar jet is new Air Force One

US-Iran meeting in Switzerland cancelled because of Lebanon fighting; Trump unveils new Air Force One – key US politics stories from Friday 19 June at a glance

The Guardian - AU

Comparison to Hitler, Mao, Stalin? Trump says: ‘Sounds good to me!’

‘Historian’ claims ‘overwhelming difference’ between him and rogues’ gallery of autocrats is that Trump is more powerful

The Guardian - US

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Trump's 'Historian' Who Ranked Him Above Stalin And Hitler Was Really A Golf Caddy, New Book Reveals

Donald Trump's claim of being ranked above infamous leaders by a 'presidential historian' is traced to Dave King, a businessman and golf caddy, raising questions about credibility and political influence.

International Business Times UK

Seven Pages Of Nixon Grand Jury Testimony Reveal The Real Threat Of the Deep State

Nixon's enemies within his own administration were spying on and trying to subvert the elected President.

Reason

Experts reveal the ancient wellbeing practice proven to help fight insomnia during menopause — and how to do it

Instead of asking women to sit still and 'empty their minds'... it gives the brain something gentle and rhythmic to focus on'

Tom’s Guide

Can Venezuela’s Delcy Rodríguez become a Latin American Deng Xiaoping?

Maduro’s Sorbonne-educated successor is talking up an era of ‘reform and opening up’ modelled on China’s post-Mao boom

The Guardian - UK

‘A cave complex worthy of Batman!’ Mind-boggling buildings that showed the world a new China

The birth of the People’s Republic is seen as a time of drab buildings. But this dazzling show, featuring a factory in a cave and a denounced roof, tells a wildly different story

The Guardian - UK

A cultural revolution? Trump’s America feels oddly familiar to those watching from China

Demands of absolute loyalty and attacks on institutions have raised memories of Mao-style chaos from US watchers in China

The Guardian - UK

Award-winning author says China ‘too dangerous’ to visit her dying mother

Jung Chang has not seen her mother since 2018, as she fears being jailed over her outspoken criticism of the Chinese Community Party

The Independent UK

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Britain and France Talk Palestinian Statehood

Plus: Ocasio-Cortez told to pay up, Mao revisionism, and more...

The Guardian - UK

Three Revolutions by Simon Hall review – how Russia, China and Cuba changed forever

A historian explores eyewitness accounts of the most dramatic political unpheavals of the 20th century

The Guardian - UK

Shanghai Dolls review – treachery and affinity between the women of Mao’s world

Amy Ng’s ‘untold true story’ of two friends, who become China’s foremost theatre director and Mao Zedong’s wife, is a story of survival and a play of ideas

The Independent UK

‘The police were scared there would be riots’: When Wham! took Western pop to China

IN FOCUS : The CIA wanted them to spy as well as perform. The Communist Party insisted that fans were not to dance to them or learn their ways. Forty years ago, George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley were the first Western band to tour China – Mark Beaumont revisits an…

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The leader of a major government union outlines their strategy to battle Trump federal cuts—And says Elon Musk has ‘no clue’ about workers

AFSCME president Lee Saunders says that unions must organize, mobilize, and educate in this crucial moment.

The Independent UK

Voices: Putin cannot be trusted to stick to a ceasefire in Ukraine

COMMENT: As the Russian leader says the US-brokered truce is ‘difficult to accept’, a pause in fighting could be exactly what he needs to regroup – and to shatter the wartime solidarity keeping Ukrainian society united against his invading forces, says Mark Almond

The Guardian - UK

The week in audio: Mad, Sad and Bad with Paloma Faith; Fin vs History; Welcome to Hell and more

Reasons to cheer, as Paloma Faith cosies up to Mel B and Alan Carr, while comedians Fin Taylor and Horatio Gould have a laugh at Chairman Mao’s expense. Plus, a terrifying case of cyber-stalking with Carole Cadwalladr

Evening Standard

I run the Unruly Pig, the UK's best gastropub — this is the secret to our success

What makes a truly great gastropub? The team, says Brendan Padfield

The Guardian - UK

The man making a business out of China’s burnout generation

Li Jianxiong was a highflying marketing executive in Beijing until a breakdown sent him to the west on a wellness voyage of discovery – just as his peers were losing faith in the Chinese Dream

The Guardian - UK

Prince Andrew may have been a victim of Chairman Mao’s ‘magic weapon’

The United Front Work Department aims to befriend, bribe and seduce ‘useful idiots’. Was Andrew caught up in its net?

The Guardian - UK

Is this a mountain? A multistorey car park? Or both? Inside Shanghai’s audacious £225m summit

It’s got winding trails, a gushing waterfall, some 7,000 trees – and room inside for 1,500 cars. We explore the astonishing Twin Hills project, which isn’t even the city’s first manmade mountainscape

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