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| Hello. My colleagues have been picking over the deal to end the US-Iran conflict to sum up where the months-long war has left things. Elsewhere, we hear reports it has been raining oil in Russia, and learn of high jinks at the World Cup. | |
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TOP OF THE AGENDA | What is - and isn't - in the Iran deal |
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| | Vance said for Iran to benefit from the deal, it must follow through on a commitment to destroy its enriched uranium. Credit: Reuters | US Vice-President JD Vance has been defending the deal to end the Iran conflict, while warning the US won't ease its "economic chokehold" unless Tehran's leaders "fundamentally change their behaviour". However, as Amir Azimi from the BBC's Persian Service explains, Iran believes the deal leaves it stronger than before. Meanwhile, our international editor Jeremy Bowen says the deal "lays out the political, military and economic consequences of the ill-judged" war - here's his analysis. And as BBC Verify examines what it all means for weapons, ships and money, it finds key detail missing from the paperwork - particularly around nuclear material. |
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Will attacks make Putin change tactics? |
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| Specks of black oil have been raining over Moscow after the huge Ukrainian drone attack that damaged a refinery. While authorities denied reports of "oil rain", residents told the BBC a fine drizzle had left "unpleasant black spots" on their clothes. And after one pro-Kremlin newspaper acknowledged Ukraine's long-range strikes were causing problems, our Russia editor Steve Rosenberg considers whether the country's president Vladimir Putin will change tactics. |
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| The twisted life of teacher who killed his adopted son | Jamie Varley, 37, subjected Preston Davey to months of horrific physical, sexual and emotional abuse, a UK court heard. | Get the full story > |
| | Suspected gang leader shot in flower bouquet ambush | The man, accused of leading a faction of one of Ecuador's most feared criminal gangs, was killed as he left an airport. | Read the details > |
| | Man held after boy injured in zoo crocodile enclosure | The 30-year-old was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after the child, three, was critically hurt at the zoo in England. | Read more > |
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| Bostonians bemused by comical cones | | He might be a basketball legend, but Bill Russell didn't escape the traffic-cone treatment. Credit: BBC | Something strange is happening on the streets of Boston. The city's many statues have been acquiring some new and unusual headwear - and it's all to do with the World Cup. |
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| | Claire Thomson and Megan Bonar, BBC News |
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| | Scotland fans visiting the city for the World Cup have been decorating its statues with bright orange traffic cones, much to the bemusement of locals. The practice is familiar to anyone from Glasgow, where the Duke of Wellington statue at the Gallery of Modern Art has been wearing a cone at a jaunty angle since the 1980s.
A similar treatment was given to the statue of Boston Celtics basketball legend Bill Russell at City Hall Plaza. Brendan McGillicuddy, 26, from Boston, told the BBC he admired the statue's new addition on his way to work. "I welcome it," he said. "I have no idea what it means but it's a nice little symbol of Scotland." |
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