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Iran has named hardliner Mojtaba Khamenei as the country’s new supreme leader; Donald Trump says oil price spike ‘a small price to pay’ as markets tumble

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Donald Trump has said a decision on when to end the war with Iran will be a “mutual” one he’ll make together with Benjamin Netanyahu, the Times of Israel has reported.

It said Trump also claimed in a brief telephone interview on Sunday that Iran would have destroyed Israel if he and Netanyahu had not been around. The US president said:

Iran was going to destroy Israel and everything else around it … We’ve worked together. We’ve destroyed a country that wanted to destroy Israel.

I think it’s mutual … a little bit. We’ve been talking. I’ll make a decision at the right time, but everything’s going to be taken into account.

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Sunday’s attack brought death toll to at least 157 people since the Trump administration began targeting alleged ‘narco-terrorists’

The US military said it killed six men on Sunday in a strike on an alleged drug-smuggling vessel in the Eastern Pacific as part of the Trump administration’s campaign against alleged traffickers.

Sunday’s attack brought the death toll to at least 157 people since the administration began targeting “narco-terrorists” in small vessels in September.

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Keith Midson has added a photo to the pool:

Taroona, Tasmania.

EINDHOVEN (ANP) - In een restaurant aan de Kruisstraat in Eindhoven is brand uitgebroken nadat vermoedelijk zwaar vuurwerk naar binnen was gegooid. Dat meldt de politie op X. Het vuurwerk veroorzaakte een explosie. Er is niemand gewond geraakt.

Woningen rondom de eetgelegenheid zijn ontruimd. Volgens de politie zijn een of meerdere daders met een auto op de vlucht geslagen.