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Former US official Blinken: ‘Getting out of the Iran nuclear agreement was a mistake’

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Antony Blinken served as US deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the Obama administration. In an interview with FRANCE 24, he shared his perspective on the rising tensions between the US and Iran, as well as US-North Korea diplomacy, the situation in Venezuela and his support for Joe Biden’s presidential bid.

Nigel Farage doused with milkshake in Newcastle

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Man arrested after Brexit party leader is latest EU elections candidate to be soaked

Nigel Farage has been hit by a milkshake in Newcastle city centre, after a spate of similar incidents against far-right candidates in the European elections campaign.

The Brexit party leader appeared to be furious after the incident and was heard to mutter, “it’s a complete failure, you could have spotted that a mile off” as his security team led him away.

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‘Future of Britain is in Europe,’ the Queen told Germany in 1988

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Diplomatic cables reveal the monarch also appeared to back the creation of a single market

The Queen confided to the German ambassador that she believed the future of Britain lay in Europe, newly released diplomatic cables from 1988 have shown.

“Some have not realised this yet,” the monarch allegedly said of her subjects. She also appeared to back the creation of the single market.

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The Democratic 2020 frontrunners are too old. And I say that as an old man myself | Art Cullen

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Call me ageist, but I worry about the fact that Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren will all be over 70 on election day

I became eligible for social security the week I realized new eyeglasses were needed to renew my driver’s license. I find myself remembering a bad date in 1978 and not remembering where I am supposed to be in 15 minutes. I need a little nap after lunch. I wonder whatever happened to rock’n’roll. Brother John and I review our surgeries past and planned, and begin to sound like our crazy uncles.

Related: Joe Biden to reject Trump’s ‘clenched fist, closed hand and hard heart’

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