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Sofia Ferreira Santos BBC News Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images The director of national intelligence had previously said Iran was not building nuclear weapons Tulsi Gabbard says Iran could produce nuclear weapons “within weeks”, months after she testified before Congress that the country was not building them. The US Director of National Intelligence said...
Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has long warned that Iran is close to developing nuclear weapons. After Israel launched attacks on Iran last week, Netanyahu said Iran could produce a bomb within months. BBC Verify’s Ros Atkins explains what we know about Iran’s nuclear programme. Produced by Aisha Sembhi. Additional reporting by Thomas Spencer and...
“We did not have any proof of a systematic effort to move into a nuclear weapon,” IAEA’s Rafael Grossi said. Honest, paywall-free news is rare. Please support our boldly independent journalism with a donation of any size. The head of the leading intergovernmental watchdog for nuclear energy and atomic weapons has confirmed that the agency...
US spies have assessed that Iran has not been pursuing a nuclear weapon for over 20 years. Truthout is an indispensable resource for activists, movement leaders and workers everywhere. Please make this work possible with a quick donation. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he doesn’t care that his own Director of National Intelligence...
Israel says one of its main goals is to destroy Iran’s nuclear capabilities. The Fordo nuclear site, which is buried inside a mountain, is one of the most heavily fortified. There’s only one conventional weapon that could destroy it – and only the US is known to have it. BBC Verify’s Merlyn Thomas looks at...
A 27-year-old motorcyclist has been arrested for failing to stop for police after breaching a road closure and alleged weapon and drugs offences. Devon and Cornwall Police said the man from Cornwall drove along a road near Vue Cinema that had been closed during the English Riviera Airshow at Paignton on Saturday. The force said:...
Sarah Smith North America editor Getty Images Since returning to power, US President Donald Trump has wielded tariffs – or the threat of them – as his economic weapon of choice. He has slapped import duties against allies and adversaries alike, and raised their rates to staggeringly high levels, only to change his mind and...
Yogita Limaye BBC News Reporting fromRodynske, Donetsk region Watch: BBC team flees drone attack in Ukraine An acrid smell hangs over the town of Rodynske. A couple of minutes after we drive into the city we see where it’s coming from. A 250kg glide bomb has ripped through the town’s main administrative building, and taken...
Jeremy Bowen International editor, BBC News Watch: Jeremy Bowen questions Unrwa commissioner on food aid in Gaza How do you measure misery? For journalists the usual way is to see it, to feel it, to smell it. Beleaguered Palestinian colleagues in Gaza are doing that, still doing invaluable reporting at great risk to themselves. More...
This move makes the war on Harvard look like a brief skirmish. In fact, Donald Trump’s executive order may moot it altogether by simply bypassing the administration at Harvard and other Academia institutions. Trump has unveiled what he calls his “secret weapon” for transforming higher eduction — an executive order that will transform the federal...
Secret weapon? Thus far, the Trump administration has deployed plenty of public weapons in the fight to end anti-Semitism and illegal discrimination in Academia, and especially in the Poison Ivies. The most obvious weapon has been money, and that was enough to get Columbia’s attention, if not its full cooperation. For Harvard, Donald Trump and...
Getty Images More than 2,700 people were killed in a devastating earthquake that hit Myanmar on 28 March In the immediate aftermath of an earthquake, there is a 72-hour “golden window” when those trapped under rubble are most likely to survive. But in the 72 hours after a 7.7 magnitude quake struck Myanmar on Friday,...