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Trump accused of 'catastrophic mistake' after report he empowered Iran's nuke program

Donald Trump was accused of making a "catastrophic mistake" after a New York Times report revealed how experts say Iran's nuclear powers grew under the current president.William J. Broad and David E. Sanger, who advertise that that they have written about the Iranian nuclear program for more than two decades, wrote on Saturday:"Today, international inspectors say, Iran has a total of 11 tons of uranium, at various enrichment levels. With further purification, that is enough to build up to 100 nuclear weapons — more than the estimated size of Israel’s arsenal. Virtually all of that cache accumulated in the years after Mr. Trump abandoned the Obama-era deal. That is because Tehran lived up to its pledge to ship to Russia 12.5 tons of its overall stockpile, about 97 percent. Iran’s weapon designers were left with too little nuclear fuel to build a single bomb."That story spurred alarm online, with a former Obama National Security Council staffer Tommy Vietor, saying, "Pulling out of the Iran nuclear was a catastrophic mistake."Pod Save The World's Ben Rhodes added, "It's obvious that pulling out of the Iran Deal was a catastrophic decision by Trump. Yet that decision got far less media and political scrutiny than the Deal itself."Public school teacher Justin Parmenter joked, "Art of the Deal."

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Orbán steps back after a landslide loss, vowing to rebuild Hungary’s 'national side'

Outgoing Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will not take his seat in parliament after a landslide election loss

Authorities in southwest Colombia are on alert after a spate of violent attacks on infrastructure

Authorities in southwest Colombia are on high alert following a spate of explosive attacks and thwarted attempts to target public infrastructure

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What counts as the woods? Judge axes Nova Scotia’s ban that defied ‘commonsense definitions’

The court sided with a Canadian hiker who deliberately challenged the order imposed to curb spread of wildfiresAs wildfires raged across Nova Scotia last summer, the Canadian province made a simple plea to residents: stay away from the woods.As the situation deteriorated, authorities turned the request into a prohibition: anyone caught hiking under the shade of the forest canopy faced a C$25,000 fine – a figure more than half the average worker’s yearly salary. Continue reading...

China’s top diplomat meets leader of Myanmar's military-backed government on regional tour

China’s top diplomat has visited Myanmar’s capital and met with the leader of its military-backed government as Beijing deepens regional ties