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Israeli media is reporting that US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu got into the “shouting match from hell” during a phone call over the weekend.
Mr Netanyahu has reportedly been pressing Mr Trump to reignite the war against Iran for weeks, since before the Israeli election, which saw his Likud party lose its majority. Gadi Eisenkot, who leads the bloc of opposition parties, has since been invited to form a governing coalition by President Isaac Herzog.
It came as bizarre details of a “total breakdown” inside the Trump administration’s inner circle suggest one of his closest allies is defying him.
Axios today revealed that President Donald Trump has ordered a crackdown on the export of high-tech AI chips to China three times since his return to the presidency, but every time, “nothing happens”.
Others in the administration are blaming his Commerce Secretary, Howard Lutnick, saying he has “repeatedly stood in the way” of carrying out the President’s instructions.
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Elsewhere a major European nation has been “brought to a standstill”, with millions of its workers joining a strike, hundreds of thousands marching in protest and acts of violence and vandalsim breaking out on the streets of its second-largest city.
Images from Barcelona, Spain show some protesters clashing with police, with parts of the city set ablaze.
More than 100,000 demonstrators marched in Madrid alone, braving the pouring rain.
According to Spain’s unions, about four million people joined the country’s first general strike in well over a decade.
The country’s population is furious about housing affordability and the broader cost of living.
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