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The US president claimed two days of talks led to his order to postpone strikes on Iranian energy facilities but Tehran has denied any discussions have taken place US President Donald Trump has said he has ordered the Department of War to postpone strikes on Iranian power plants for five days, following what he claimed were “productive conversations” between Washington and Tehran.While Iranian media has denied outright that any talks with the American side took place at all, footage has emerged of significant blackouts affecting the Iranian capital on Sunday night. Trump had upped the ante over the weekend, threatening strikes on…

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has a “very bad feeling” about what the war in Iran means for his own prospects, and worried Middle Eastern countries carelessly burning through cutting-edge air defence missiles is going to cause a global shortage that Ukraine will suffer from most. “President Trump is concentrating on Iran” and Putin wants a long war to maximise the harm to Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky said as he expressed he has a “very bad feeling” about the war in Iran and what it means for his own military effort. Predominantly this is about global attention shifting away from rebuffing…

Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) said the Trump administration’s military actions in Iran were  “spinning out of control.” Murphy said, “This war is spinning out of control. Prices are spiking for millions of Americans. There’s a new war breaking out between Israel and Lebanon. Oil assets of our allies are continuing to be hit in the region. There’s no end in sight. The Secretary of Treasury just said we’re going to escalate in order to de-escalate. It’s like they’d never read a history book. That’s exactly what our war leaders said in the middle of Vietnam and…

A group of Senate Republicans believe they’ve found a path to ending the five-week Department of Homeland Security shutdown after meeting Monday with President Donald Trump. Asked after the White House meeting if they had a solution after meeting with Trump, Sen. Katie Britt of Alabama told reporters, “We do.” Britt and Sens. Bernie Moreno of Ohio, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Steve Daines of Montana met with Trump to try to pitch to accept an agreement that would fund most of DHS. Their pitch, according to two people with knowledge of it, was to pass a funding bill…

From drone strikes to economic risks, regional leaders are choosing restraint over retaliation – revealing deeper fears of escalation and unreliable alliances Speaking on Sunday at a site in Arad struck by an Iranian missile, where more than a hundred people were injured, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged more countries to join the war effort.“What more proof do you need that this regime that threatens the entire world has to be stopped? Israel and the United States are working together for the entire world. And it’s time to see the leaders of the rest of the countries join up.”Yet,…

Iran Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is “wounded, isolated, and not responding to messages being relayed to him,” according to anonymous alleged U.S. and Israeli security officials speaking to mainstream media outlets this weekend. The assessment was relayed by the Washington Post in an otherwise dour status report on Sunday, which portrayed Operation Epic Fury as boiling down to a vicious struggle for control over the Strait of Hormuz in which Iran supposedly holds most of the cards. Even the dubious condition of Khamenei, who was hastily appointed two weeks ago to replace his slain father Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, made the…

David Simon, who died Sunday at 64 after a battle with pancreatic cancer, was the last of a kind: a builder in an age of talkers, a dealmaker who let the deals speak for themselves, a billionaire who never confused running a great company with saving the world. He built the largest retail real estate empire in the history of American commerce, generated returns of more than 4,500 percent for shareholders, and did it all without signing a single open letter, joining a single CEO coalition, or turning his company into a vehicle for his politics. In an era when…

Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said TSA wait times were “going to get much worse” as the partial government shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) continues. Partial transcript as follows: KARL: And we’ve seen TSA agents last week had to start working without pay. More than 10 percent. Monday and Wednesday, did not show up. We’ve also — or the very latest we’ve heard is that some 400 TSA officers have quit since the shutdown began. You said, that this — that the lines we’ve been seeing so far will be child’s play if this goes…

Over 30 billion images generated by users over a decade are now being used to power an automated delivery service Millions of players who spent years scanning landmarks while chasing digital creatures in Pokemon Go have unknowingly helped build one of the largest real-world visual datasets in history, which is now being used to fuel an automated delivery service.Released in 2016 by US-based Niantic, Pokemon Go was one of the first widely successful augmented reality games. It used players’ phone cameras and GPS to overlay digital creatures onto real-world locations, sending millions into parks, streets, and landmarks in search of…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Sunday they have instructed the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to destroy all bridges over Lebanon’s Litani River and wipe out structures that could be used to shelter Hezbollah fighters in an effort to apply the “Gaza model” to the Iran-backed terrorists of Lebanon. “In addition, we have ordered an acceleration in the destruction of Lebanese homes in contact-line villages to neutralize threats to Israeli communities, in accordance with the model of Beit Hanun and Rafah in Gaza,” Katz said. The Litani River is the natural boundary of Southern…