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Analysis of the 2025 Federal Tax Changes Under the “One Big Beautiful Bill” Legislation
JD Supra - California
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July 8, 2025
Key Takeaways: President Donald Trump signed wide-ranging tax legislation, P.L. 119-21 (the Legislation) on July 4, 2025. The Legislation includes net tax cuts of $4.5 trillion and spending cuts of $1.2 trillion, for a cost compared with current...
Cold War over, but nuclear weapons more dangerous now, says Tok Mat
Free Malaysia Today
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July 8, 2025
Foreign minister Mohamad Hasan delivering his opening remarks at the SEANWFZ Commission meeting. KUALA LUMPUR: Foreign minister Mohamad Hasan has warned that nuclear weapons are even more dangerous today than during the Cold War, as new...
Iran-linked hackers threaten to release Trump aides’ e-mails
The Straits Times
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June 30, 2025
The hackers said they were organising a sale of stolen e-mails and wanted Reuters to "broadcast this matter". PHOTO: REUTERS WASHINGTON - Iran-linked hackers have threatened to disclose more e-mails stolen from US President Donald Trump’s circle,...
Iran Air Conflict: Casualties and Strikes on Nuclear Sites
Mezha
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July 1, 2025
As Reuters writes, earlier the Iranian Ministry of Health reported 610 deaths in the country. The spokesperson for Iran’s judiciary, Asgar Jahangir, reported that approximately 935 people have died as a result of the 12-day air war in the country,...
Media, monarchists, and the new battle for Iran's narrative
The New Arab
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July 3, 2025
As Iran emerges from a major conflict with Israel, one of the most striking aspects was the open support of monarchist groups for the war, framing it as a historic chance to overthrow the Islamic Republic. Centred around Reza Pahlavi, son of the...
Iranian hackers resurface with threat to leak Trump aides’ emails for sale
The News International
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WASHINGTON: A group of hackers, claiming to be tied to Iran, have warned they will release more emails stolen from people close to Donald Trump, after they shared an earlier batch with the media before the 2024 US election. In online chats with...
Suspected Iran spies accused of plotting assassination of ‘senior figure’ in Israel
The Times of Israel
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July 3, 2025
State prosecutors filed an indictment Thursday against two young men from Tiberias accused of carrying out missions on Iran’s behalf, including a plot to assassinate a “senior figure” in Israel. Another suspected spy was indicted on similar...
US intelligence director’s team has sought spy agency data to enforce Trump’s agenda
Anchorage Daily News - Alaska
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Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard during a House Intelligence Committee hearing on March 26, 2025. (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post) A special team created by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has expressed a...
Iran calls for UN condemnation of Israel, US aggression
Mehr News Agency
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July 1, 2025
In a letter to the UN chief and Security Council president, Iranian envoy Amir Saeed Iravani on Monday called for recognition of Israel and the US as aggressors against Iran. The full text of letter by Iravani is as follows: In the Name of God,...
Israelis dropped excess munitions from Iran strikes on Gaza
Mehr News Agency
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July 3, 2025
Citing sources from the Israeli air force, the Israeli newspaper Maariv said on Wednesday that the Israeli warplanes sent to carry out operations against Iran were not only equipped with air-to-air missiles but also with air-to-surface munitions....
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How much is Brics worth for India? A look at business, trade links
Firstpost
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July 8, 2025
India’s trade ties with the Brics bloc are expanding rapidly, as the country deepens its economic engagement with a group that now represents nearly half the world’s population and about 40 per cent of global GDP. However, the surge in trade...
Israel and Gaza: they make a desert and call it peace
The Guardian
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July 8, 2025
Visiting Washington, Benjamin Netanyahu delighted in telling Donald Trump that he had nominated him for the Nobel peace prize. The Israeli prime minister cited Mr Trump’s efforts to end conflicts in the Middle East. But in truth he is grateful to...
Netanyahu meets with Speaker Johnson ahead of second White House meeting with Trump
Spectrum Bay News 9 - Florida
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July 8, 2025
WASHINGTON — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was on Capitol Hill on Tuesday to meet with Speaker Mike Johnson before a second meeting with President Donald Trump later in the day to discuss “almost exclusively Gaza” ceasefire...
Türkiye’s emergence as an international education hub
Sabah
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July 8, 2025
Education has always been one of the most powerful tools not only for personal development but also for cultural transmission, social transformation and international interaction. Over the past three decades, rapid advancements in digitalization,...
Iran says more than 900 killed in war as death roll raised
1News
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Iran has raised the official death toll for its war with Israel, with official media reporting that 935 people were killed in the country during the 12-day conflict. The state-run IRNA news agency did not give a breakdown between military and...
Kerry Katona gives her views on Israel-Iran conflict in her latest magazine column as she details her fears on keeping her family safe
Daily Mail
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July 3, 2025
Kerry Katona has weighed in on the terrifying Israel-Iran conflict, insisting she's 'focusing on keeping her family safe'. In her weekly new! magazine column, Kerry, 44, admitted she's been 'really afraid' watching the war break out between...
Iran raises death toll from war to 935, won't guarantee safety of nuclear inspectors
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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June 30, 2025
Iran has raised the official death toll for its 12-day war with Israel, with official media reporting that 935 people were killed in the country based on the latest forensic data. Among the dead were 38 children and 132 women, said Asghar...
Iran may go after US defense firms with cyber attacks, warn Pentagon, Homeland Security
Breaking Defense
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June 30, 2025
Flag of Iran on a computer binary codes falling from the top and fading away. (Getty images) WASHINGTON — With a tenuous ceasefire holding in the wake of US and Israel airstrikes on Iran, the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security have both...
Pilots who bombed Iran sites invited to White House for July Fourth
Military Times
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July 3, 2025
U.S. pilots who carried out the mission to bomb key nuclear sites in Iran were invited to mark the Fourth of July at the White House on Friday, multiple news outlets reported. Pilots flew B-2 Spirit stealth bombers, F-22 Raptor fighter aircraft...
Reject Western Marxism, defend the socialist countries, and stand with the peoples of the world against imperialism
Friends of Socialist China
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July 8, 2025
On Saturday 5 July 2025, Friends of Socialist China hosted – along with the Morning Star, the International Manifesto Group, Critical Theory Workshop and Iskra books – a discussion of Domenico Losurdo’s crucial book, Western Marxism: How it was...