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*Iran Detests America's 'Unacceptable' Demands *War Intensity May Increase *Turkey, Egypt Scramble To Get Talks Back On Track Regional mediation efforts to broker a ceasefire between the United States (US) and Iran have reached a dead end, mediators said on Friday, the Wall Street Journal reported. The push, led by Pakistan, has failed to yield a breakthrough, with Tehran formally notifying mediators that it is unwilling to send officials to Islamabad, the Pakistani capital, for talks in the coming days. Iran has also stressed that it finds Washington's demands unacceptable, effectively closing off the current framework for negotiations. The breakdown…

*Appoints VP Vance As Fraud Czar US President Donald Trump has announced a fresh crackdown on fraud in Democratic states and tapped Vice President (VP) JD Vance to lead the charge. Officials swiftly announced a string of arrests in California. In a Truth Social post today, the President announced that his VP is now “in charge of ‘fraud’ in the United States”, claiming the problem is “massive and pervasive” and that Vance’s new role as “fraud czar” will be “a major factor in how great the future of our country will be." Trump said that Vance would focus on “everywhere…

*Military Ruler Is Now In His Fourth Year As President “Democracy, we kill children. Democracy, we drop bombs, we kill women, we destroy hospitals, we kill civilian population. Is that democracy?” This was the position of Burkina Faso military President Ibrahim Traore yesterday,four years into his reign, as he told his country to forget about democracy as it is “not for us." Traoré was speaking in an interview with the country’s broadcaster, Radiodiffusion Télévision du Burkina (RTB). Traoré took power in a coup in September 2022, toppling another junta that had taken power just nine months earlier. He has since…