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Donald Trump defended himself yesterday against criticism from his fellow Republicans as he appeared close to reaching a deal with Iran to end the war.

As hawks in his party called the proposed deal a disaster and questioned why the US president had started the conflict in the first place, Trump claimed on social media that his deal would be “the EXACT OPPOSITE” of the one agreed to by Barack Obama, from which Trump withdrew in 2018.

He added that he was not rushing toward a deal, saying “both sides need to take their time to get it right…There can be no mistakes!” »

What did Iran say? Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei spoke at a press conference about the outlines of a possible agreement with the United States to end the war: “It is correct to say that we have reached a conclusion on many of the issues under discussion. But to say that this means that the signing of an agreement is imminent – no one can make such a statement.”

Trump “alienated” voters ahead of midterm elections, ousted Republican Thomas Massie warns. Thomas Massie speaks with supporters after his concession speech May 19 in Hebron, Kentucky. Photograph: Jon Cherry/Getty Images

Donald Trump’s Republican Party is on track for a damaging defeat at the November polls, according to a maverick U.S. lawmaker ousted by a challenger hand-picked by the president.

Thomas Massie, a Republican from Kentucky, became the latest Trump target to be defeated in the party’s primaries this week. He had repeatedly broken with the president over military action against Iran, government spending and the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

With control of the US Congress at stake, Massie warned on Sunday that Trump had “disenfranchised” many Americans who voted for him – and their party – in November 2024.

Why does he think voters are disenfranchised? Massie pointed to several prominent groups — including Make America Healthy activists, fiscal hawks pushing for drastic government budget cuts, and voters who don’t want the United States to engage in wars — who he said had been “alienated” by the administration’s actions. “And so I fear that in November it will cost the party dearly.”

An overheated chemical tank in Southern California could explode, the EPA chief said. A drone view shows water sprayed during a chemical incident in Garden Grove, California, on May 23. Photograph: David Swanson/Reuters

Government officials in Orange County, Calif., have warned that an overheated chemical tank will “fail” and could lead to a chemical explosion in the area, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency said yesterday.

“We’re being told the tank is going to fail, but there are different scenarios as to what that means,” Lee Zeldin told CNN’s State of the Union. Zeldin, a former Republican congressman with no prior experience in environmental policy, was Trump’s pick to head the EPA.

“The worst-case scenario” for the aerospace facility in the city of Garden Grove, just five miles from Disneyland, Zeldin said, would be “an explosion that would cause other tanks to explode.”

Furthermore… Mothers gather in front of Paris city hall to protest against sexual abuse committed against children by school and nursery staff. Photograph: Amaury Cornu/Hans Lucas/AFP/Getty Images

France is facing a child abuse scandal as “supervisors” in dozens of public nursery and primary schools are investigated for violence, sexual assault and rape. Paris police are investigating more than 100 allegations of mistreatment by school supervisors who monitored lunch breaks, naps and after-school activities.

Politicians must be held accountable if their lies harm democracy, according to Andrew Weissmann, a former US federal prosecutor and general counsel for the FBI prosecuted by Donald Trump.

Sweden’s prime minister has vowed to put IVF at the heart of his re-election campaign as he tries to win over female voters amid record birth rates in the country.

Today’s statistic: Movies are more likely to star an actor named Chris or a talking animal than a woman over 60, a study finds. Emma Thompson is among the voices supporting an anti-ageism campaign. Photograph: Matt Towers/PA

Box office hit films are four times more likely to feature a talking animal than a woman over 60, according to a survey by Age Without Limits. The anti-ageism campaign studied the top 100 films released in the UK in 2023, 2024 and 2025, and found that while five featured an older woman, around 20 featured talking creatures.

Building Power: Eva versus Goliath – the 20-year-old climate activist who takes on Trump and the fossil fuel industry Eva Lighthiser. Photograph: Will Warasila/The Guardian

Young Americans are suing the president over executive orders they say are worsening the climate crisis and violating their constitutional rights. One of them is Eva Lighthiser. She and 22 other plaintiffs accuse the U.S. government of promoting fossil fuels that contribute to global warming through a series of executive orders.

Don’t miss this: Democrats’ 2024 post-mortem ‘fails to confront the truth’. “I do not approve of the content of this report,” Ken Martin conceded when the autopsy was made public. Photograph: Allison Robbert/AP

The Democratic National Committee’s long-delayed post-mortem on the party’s 2024 electoral defeat has been overshadowed by the chaotic circumstances of its release, including the DNC chair publicly distancing himself from it. The document has two glaring omissions: the decision to let Joe Biden seek re-election until it was too late, and the political impact of the Gaza genocide, writes Norman Solomon.

…or this: “He causes deep disappointment” – the mood in Russia is turning against Putin. “There is no doubt that Putin is entering the most difficult period of his long reign. » Photography: Alexandre Nemenov/EPA

Interviews with several people close to the Russian leader, as well as Russian business sources and Western intelligence officials, paint a portrait of an isolated leader surrounded by an elite that is rapidly becoming disillusioned, both with the faltering war in Ukraine and the domestic economic slowdown. There is no doubt that Putin is entering the most difficult period of his long reign.

Climate assessment: could nature itself hold the solution to the climate crisis? Technological interventions face enormous financial or practical challenges, but there is another solution. Illustration: Elia Barbieri/The Guardian

Many people believe that the scale of the climate challenge requires immense technological innovations, geoengineering or the transformation of our economy. But these solutions often involve painful compromises. There is, however, a set of solutions that present no compromise when applied well. Restoration of natural habitats such as forests.

Last thing: K-pop androids and automated performers: welcome to South Korea’s strange and ambitious robot theme park. South Korea’s Galaxy Robot Park hopes to attract tourists to concerts and fashion shows, but will robots ever be able to replicate K-pop’s connection with fans? Photograph: Jeon Heon-Kyun/EPA

Four child-sized humanoid robots take the stage in an arena in eastern Seoul and, as the first beats of a song by K-pop star G-Dragon begin, they begin dancing until mid-performance, one of them appears to malfunction and has to be removed from the stage. Welcome to the “world’s first robot theme park”.

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