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Trump slows Syria pullout but claims ‘hero’ status

Even toads have more class!

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Troops ‘fighting Isis remnants’ and ‘slowly’ being sent home, tweets US president

Donald Trump has appeared to water down plans for an immediate pullout of US troops from Syria, even as he defiantly claimed that his achievements in the conflict should make him a “national hero”.

The tweeted comment on Monday came the day after a senior Republican senator said the US president had promised to stay in Syria to finish the job of destroying the Islamic State group – days after he shocked allies, and his own military establishment, by saying troops were coming home.

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Palestinian superbug epidemic could spread, say doctors

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Medics say antibiotics shortage stops them following protocols to fight drug-resistant bacteria

Doctors in Gaza and the West Bank have said they are battling an epidemic of antibiotic-resistant superbugs, a growing problem in the world’s conflict zones, which could also spill over the Palestinian borders.

The rise and spread of such virulent infections adds to the devastation of war, increasing medical costs, blocking hospital beds because patients need care for longer, and often leaving people whose injuries might once have been healed with life-changing disabilities.

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Trump reaffirms demand for border wall as shutdown enters 10th day

Such a baby and his tantrum is costing billions to tax payers and not protecting anyone!

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President said all-concrete wall was ‘never abandoned’ after three people close to him suggested on Sunday he does not want a wall

Donald Trump may or may not want an actual wall along the US border with Mexico – three people close to the president suggested on Sunday he does not but on Monday the president returned to tweeting, stridently, that he does.

Related: Democrat-controlled House faces question: what not to investigate?

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‘War on transparency’: US agency plans crackdown on information requests

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Trump administration criticized for trying to make it harderto obtain records of interior department dealings

Trump administration officials took steps on Friday to crack down on transparency at one of the largest US federal agencies, proposing a slew of changes that could make it harder for the public and media to obtain records of agency dealings.

The proposal is part of an effort to grapple with what the interior department describes as an “unprecedented surge” in requests under the Freedom of Information Act (Foia), the United States’ pre-eminent open government law, since 2016 when Donald Trump took office.

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