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Trump tweets photo of Iran rocket site and says US ‘not involved’ in failed launch

Does he have an absolute right to give information to Russia and China that compromises our safety? Congress – do you have an answer?

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US president’s release of high resolution photo raises concerns over disclosure of classified information

President Donald Trump has released a photograph of an apparently failed Iranian rocket launch and said the US had nothing to do with it, prompting concerns he disclosed classified information.

Tehran has made no official comment on the indications from aerial photos that a rocket exploded on Thursday on the launch pad at the Semnan Space Center in northern Iran.

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Greta Thunberg ‘wants a concrete plan, not just nice words’ to fight climate crisis

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Young activists will pressure world leaders to address crisis, says 16-year-old Swedish activist in Guardian interview

Unprecedented pressure exerted by young activists will push world leaders to address the unfolding climate crisis, even with a recalcitrant US under Donald Trump, Greta Thunberg has told the Guardian.

Thunberg, the teenager whose school climate strikes have ignited a global youth-led movement, said that her journey to New York on a solar-powered yacht was symbolic of the lengths young people will take to confront the climate crisis.

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Alabama man sentenced to life for stealing $50 to be released from prison

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Alvin Kennard was imprisoned in 1983 with a disproportionately harsh sentence under the ‘three strikes law’

A man from Alabama who was sentenced to life without parole after stealing $50.75 from a bakery in his 20s is to be released after more than three decades in prison.

Alvin Kennard, who was convicted of first degree robbery following the bakery incident, was 22 when he was first imprisoned in 1983.

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