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Far-Right Party Tries to Expand Its Appeal in Germany’s West

To reach voters outside its Eastern heartlands, the AfD is putting a new gloss on its anti-immigrant message — while sticking with its agenda.

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Duisburg has long been at the heart of Germany’s steel industry. The site of one former steel plant is now an urban park.
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Europe Is Finally Ready to Spend More on Defense. The Hard Part Is How.

After a yearslong debate over NATO spending, European nations are poised to commit more funds to deter Russia. Now the region must decide how to unify its fragmented manufacturing.

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A production line for small-caliber ammunition made by the defense technology company Mesko in Skarzysko-Kamienna, Poland. Europe is realizing that it must be able to defend its own backyard.
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With Military Strike His Predecessors Avoided, Trump Takes a Huge Gamble

President Trump is betting the United States can repel whatever retaliation Iran orders, and that it has destroyed the regime’s chances of reconstituting its nuclear program.

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President Trump said Saturday that if Iran does not turn to peace, it will suffer “tragedy” greater than it has to date.
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Israel-Iran war live: Trump says Iran’s key nuclear facilities ‘obliterated’ in US strikes and that Tehran must now make peace

In a post on social media earlier, the US president said ‘A full payload of BOMBS was dropped on the primary site, Fordow. All planes are safely on their way home’

We’re also still awaiting reactions from the Democratic leadership in the US.

Trump’s closest supporters have posted their support for the attack on social media.

South Carolina senator Lindsay Graham says:

Good. This was the right call. The regime deserves it. Well done, President @realDonaldTrump

To my fellow citizens: We have the best Air Force in the world. It makes me so proud. Fly, Fight, Win.

The prospect of an Iranian regime acquiring nuclear weapons represents the most acute immediate threat to America and our allies.

President Trump has persistently and unequivocally stated that those threats cannot be countered without dismantling the Iranian regime’s enrichment capacity.

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© Photograph: Carlos Barría/AFP/Getty Images

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Cheering support and instant condemnation: US lawmakers respond to attack on Iran

Ro Khanna and Bernie Sanders denounced the decision to launch attack, while most Republicans praised the action

American politicians reacted to the news of the US bombing of nuclear targets in Iran with a mix of cheering support and instant condemnation, reflecting deep divisions in the country that cross party lines as Washington grapples with yet another military intervention overseas.

Donald Trump announced on Saturday night that the US had completed strikes on three nuclear sites in Iran, directly joining Israel’s effort this month to destroy the country’s nuclear program.

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© Photograph: John Nacion/Shutterstock

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Donald Trump says US has attacked three Iranian nuclear sites and ‘totally obliterated’ them

The strikes hit uranium enrichment sites at Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan, Trump said

Donald Trump on Saturday said on national television that the US had bombed and destroyed three nuclear sites in Iran, directly joining Israel ’s effort to destroy the country’s nuclear program in a risky gambit to weaken a longtime foe amid Tehran’s threat of reprisals that could spark a wider regional conflict.

“Our objective was the destruction of Iran’s nuclear enrichment capacity and a stop to the nuclear threat posed by the world’s number one state sponsor of terror,” Trump said in a speech from the White House. “Tonight, I can report to the world that the strikes were a spectacular military success. Iran’s key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated.”

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© Photograph: Carlos Barría/Reuters

© Photograph: Carlos Barría/Reuters

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Trump: Iran’s nuclear sites completely obliterated

President Trump spoke to the nation in his address from a part of the White House known as the Cross Hall. Trump caught the world off-guard on Saturday by bombing three Iranian nuclear sites — after his apparently strategic deception indicating that such strikes weren’t imminent and trickery with the deployment of US Air Force...

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Watch Live: Trump addresses the nation after launching military strike on Iran

President Trump is set to address the nation at 10pm EST, after the United States military launched airstrikes on Iran Saturday night in a historic attack. “We have completed our very successful attack on the three Nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan. All planes are now outside of Iran air space,” Trump...

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