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Wes Streeting has suggested he would be prepared to trigger a Labour leadership contest to replace Sir Keir Starmer as prime minister as early as next week.
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Israel has killed over 260 journalists and media workers in Gaza since October 7, 2023. With Israel's latest and ongoing assault on Lebanon, the death toll of journalists there has reached 28. Irish filmmaker Seán Murray investigates Israel's killings of journalists in his new feature documentary Journacide: The War on Truth. He says the term "journacide" applies to Israel's military actions because of the "explicit nature of the targeting and killing of journalists" as a way to silence the truth. Murray calls it "the Gaza doctrine that is now being applied in Lebanon."
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Candidates are making their final pitch for votes in the Makerfield by-election in a contest that could determine who becomes the next prime minister.
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The contest to fill Alabama's open Senate seat had become closer than expected between the House lawmaker and Jared Hudson, a political newcomer.
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More than 100 days into hostilities, Iran and the United States say they have reached a preliminary deal to end the war. Israel, however, is not a party to the tentative deal and says it plans to keep occupying areas of southern Lebanon — a position still contested by Iran and the key sticking point to the partial ceasefire deal agreed to by the U.S. and Iran in April. Although the new agreement is set to be signed Friday, Israel's unrelenting assault on Lebanon could once again spoil any deal.
"This is going to become the center of whether any actual agreement takes place," says Drop Site News's Jeremy Scahill, who joins Democracy Now! to break down what we know about this latest round of diplomacy. As the U.S. now intends to end the war without accomplishing its initial goals of regime change and nuclear capitulation, it appears that Trump has "finally accepted some version of his manufactured and almost entirely false victory narrative." Scahill, who has spoken extensively to Iranian officials about the negotiations, says it remains to be seen if Iran can successfully "decouple" the U.S.-Israeli alliance from Israel's expansionary front in Lebanon, or whether it has relinquished too much of its own "strategic leverage" by agreeing to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
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