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| Hello. Washington and Tehran are locked in a war of words over whether US strikes on Iran's nuclear programme were a success or not. North America correspondent Anthony Zurcher explains why the perception of the strikes weighs so heavily on the Trump administration. In Florida, BBC Mundo visits the site of the so-called 'Alligator Alcatraz' migrant detention facility. And finally, a Japanese airport was forced to close after a bear was spotted on the runway. | |
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TOP OF THE AGENDA | US hails 'historic' strikes as Iran's leader claims they failed |
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| | Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth offered starkly different assessments of the American strikes. Credit: Reuters, Getty Images | Tehran and Washington are locked in a battle of narratives over the success of US strikes on Iran's nuclear program. Speaking on Thursday, the US defence secretary hailed the strikes as "historically successful", while Iran's supreme leader said the US "failed to achieve anything significant". So has Iran's nuclear programme been destroyed, or merely set back? We still don't know, writes security correspondent Frank Gardner. One thing that is clear however, is that the pace of US politics moves quickly and the stakes are high. "Polls indicate that US President Donald Trump’s popularity has sagged recently," writes North America correspondent Anthony Zurcher, but if the strikes are viewed as a foreign policy success they could give him a "political boost". |
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| Three Palestinians killed during Israeli settler attack | Israel said its forces returned fire after being shot at, but the Palestinian foreign ministry blamed settlers for the deaths. | Read more > |
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| Anna Wintour steps back as Vogue's editor-in-chief | Dame Anna, who after 37 years was the longest-serving editor-in-chief of the magazine, will retain a senior role. | More on her career > |
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| 'Stockholm syndrome' theory criminal dies | Clark Oloffson rose to global notoriety in 1973 after a kidnapping and bank robbery in the Swedish capital. | What happened > |
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| Who is Lauren Sanchez, Jeff Bezos's bride-to-be? | The 55-year-old started her career as a journalist and is also a pilot with a keen interest in aviation. | Find out > |
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| The virtually abandoned airport being turned into 'Alligator Alcatraz' | | The centre is being built on a pilot training runway in the middle of the Unesco World Heritage Site. Credit: Getty Images/Miami Herald | In the middle of Florida's Everglades, a new migrant detention centre, dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz", is being built. The facility was proposed by state lawmakers to support President Trump's mass deportation agenda. Officials say the centre will have the capacity to hold around 1,000 detainees and will open within a few weeks. However, it's quickly becoming a controversial symbol of the Trump administration's immigration policy. |
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| | Cecilia Barría and Walter Fojo, BBC Mundo |
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| | "You don't need to invest that much in the perimeter. If people get out, there's not much waiting for them other than alligators and pythons," explains the state's attorney general, James Uthmeier, a Republican, in a video set to rock music and posted on social media.
The airfield where the detention centre will be based is mainly a pilot training runway surrounded by vast swamps in the middle of the Everglades, an ecologically important subtropical wetland. In the stifling summer heat, rife with mosquitoes, we manage to advance only a few metres into the compound when, as expected, a guard in a lorry blocks our way. We hear sounds coming from a small canal next to the compound. We wonder whether it's fish, snakes, or the hundreds of alligators that roam the wetland. |
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SOMETHING DIFFERENT | Self-drive tuk-tuks | A local startup is helping travellers experience Sri Lanka like a local. | |
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And finally... in Japan | Once again, bears are wreaking havoc. This time in Japan, where one managed to get onto an airport runway, forcing staff to cancel flights and close for the day. Watch as staff tried (and failed) to chase the black bear away, with the situation ending in a "stalemate". | |
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US Politics Unspun newsletter | No noise. No agenda. Just expert analysis of the issues that matter most, from North America correspondent Anthony Zurcher. | |
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