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Israel-Iran another huge challenge for government

Laura Kuenssberg Presenter, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg•@bbclaurak BBC On a normal weekend, MPs might try to snatch a bit of downtime, or squeeze in a game of pin the tail on the donkey at a constituency summer fete. Ministers might be ploughing through documents in their red box, or rehearsing the next round of “lines…

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Gen Z makes more considered purchases than expected, embraces VTO – Snapchat report

Gen Z aren’t the fast-fashion, impulse shopping aficionados that some people think and actually prefer a gradual shopping experience, discovering brands first over time before making a purchase. Photo: Pexels That’s according to UK research from Snapchat (linked too a forthcoming product launch) and the Portas Agency, which commissioned YouGov to explore the shopping habits…

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Iran’s regime fights for survival

After Iran’s newly established Islamic leadership was dragged into war by Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in 1980, it fought, in the words of a top commander, with “empty hands”. For the republic’s young, ideologically driven leaders, determined to export their vision of Islamic radicalism, it was a brutal reckoning: Iran’s conventional army was in disarray…

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