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We will “destroy any aggressor” – that was the message from the head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, after the US announced it would send hundreds more troops to the Gulf to support Saudi Arabia – a move the US Defence Secretary described as “defensive in nature” Saudi Arabia said it would take appropriate steps if…

Dr Maria Caffrey was a climate scientist in the US National Parks Service when Barack Obama was President. 

Let’s return to our special series on climate change. We’ve toured the glaciers of the Arctic and Europe.

The US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has blamed Iran for yesterday’s drone attacks on two key Saudi oilfields – calling it an unprecedented attack on the world’s energy supply. 

Donald Trump used his now traditional method of mass communication, Twitter, to tell the world that he had parted company with his security adviser John Bolton.

President Trump has declared that he cancelled top secret talks with Taliban leaders at Camp David – throwing into doubt months of diplomacy aimed at reaching a peace deal Afghanistan. Mr Trump blamed a suicide bomb attack in the Afghan capital Kabul last week which killed 12 people – including an American soldier. But what…

The climate activist Greta Thunberg has arrived in New York City after sailing across the Atlantic in a zero-carbon yacht. The Swedish student, who inspired climate change protests all over the world, is there for the United Nations Climate Summit.

This morning, in a Manhattan court room, dozens of women were given the chance to have their say about the abuse they claim they suffered at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein.

Western policy towards Iran is one of the most contentious issues at this summit, pitting Donald Trump against the others – a question of G1 against G6. Well this afternoon the French sprung a surprise on their guests by inviting the Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Zarif here. Jackie Long spoke to Trita Parsi, who is…

 It was a day of bracing experiences for Boris Johnson. Trump, trying to reboot that extra special relationship, while at the same time gently rebuking him on escalating a trade war with China.

The Danish Prime Minister says she is “annoyed” that Donald Trump has cancelled his state visit to Denmark, after he was told that Greenland is not for sale.

US national security advisor John Bolton is in London, where he’s had meetings to discuss an interim trade deal between the US and the UK – that could take effect on the 1st of November.

President Trump’s national security advisor John Bolton has been meeting Boris Johnson and other key government figures at the start of a two day trip to London, with hopes of a post Brexit trade deal with the US high on Britain’s agenda. 

 The US Attorney General has strongly criticised the New York prison facility where the accused sex attacker Jeffrey Epstein was found dead this weekend, after apparently taking his own life.    

The FBI has opened a formal investigation into the death of the US financier Jeffrey Epstein, who’s thought to have taken his own life while being held on sex trafficking charges.