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New Today -- 9 August 2017

Perspective

Trump threatens "fire and fury" against North Korea

Not since the Cuban missile crisis of 1962 has the world stood so close to the brink of nuclear war.

News & Analysis

Polls show plunging popular support for Trump

While the growing opposition to Trump centers on his attacks on health care, immigrants and democratic rights, the Democratic Party is appealing to the military-intelligence apparatus with its bogus claims of Trump ties to Russia.

Syria charges Washington with war crimes in siege of Raqqa

Saudi regime continues brutal siege against Shia minority

Grenfell fire: "It's like Victorian days, where we have nothing and they have everything"

Spectrum strike in New York-New Jersey enters fifth month

US police killings on track to reach all-time high in 2017

Tensions overshadow US, South Korea trade negotiations

Australian government threatens police violence to remove Manus Island refugees

German professor promotes World War I military figures as models

Macron to eliminate housing benefits for 50,000 people in France

Commentary

New Zealand: Pseudo-left International Socialist Organisation backs Labour, Greens in election

Irish nationalism versus socialist internationalism: A reply to a readerPart one

Arts

Aboriginal singer Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu dies, aged 46

Science

Curiosity marks fifth year on Mars