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Here's what made foreign headlines today: Israeli airstrikes have hit the international airport in the capital of Yemen, where the World Health Organisation Chief was about to board a plane. The attack on infrastructure, which reportedly killed six people, was in retaliation to a drone attack by Houthi rebels. The President of Panama has hit back at Donald Trump over the fight for his country's canal. Leader Jose Raul Mulino has rejected Trump's demand for reducing tolls of US vessels passing through the Panama Canal. At least 3 people have been killed in this icy crash in Northern Norway. The bus was carrying 58 people when it slid off the highway and rolled down into a lake.

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‘Trump isn’t helping’ As Iran’s pragmatists play a high-stakes poker game with Washington, hardliners’ warnings against a deal with the US have gained force amid an erratic strategy from Trump’s and uncertainty about his commitment to a potential agreement. “Trump is not helping. He says he wants to make Iran great again then threatens Iran in the next tweet, and that fans the flame of paranoia within the Iranian system,” Vakil said. The conservatives, who have elements controlling newspapers, state broadcasters, protesters on the street and followers in the military, believe Trump is using diplomacy to prepare for another military campaign and that “every time they go down the road of diplomacy” with Trump he “betrayed them,” she added. Mojtaba Khamenei has remained quiet amid the divide. It appears that he understands that choosing a side on negotiations with an unreliable Trump could harm his office just as he is working to secure legitimacy.

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What do the hardliners want? The hardliners point to failed past deals with the US, including a nuclear agreement signed in 2015 with the Obama administration that Trump later tore up, and they cite the two times that the US attacked the Islamic Republic amid negotiations. This camp wagers on the Islamic Republic’s endurance, and claim that a policy of confrontation supported by armed regional proxies, missiles, drones and Shia religious belief has guarded the country more effectively than the diplomacy championed by the “Western-oriented” politicians. “Hardliners concluded they will achieve no deal with Trump and perhaps they’re now just living in the war between the wars,” Vakil said. “They think that they can wear Trump down and they can play for time to weaken him by extending economic pain. A hardline lawmaker described those advocating for a deal with the US as standing against former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei – killed in US-Israeli strikes at the beginning of the war.

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Heroic bus driver tells CNN's Anderson Cooper how he saved dozens of children A Nepali bus driver in an area hard-hit by last week’s floods recounted to CNN’s Anderson Cooper how he narrowly saved 50 children from the gushing water, crossing a bridge just moments before it was swept away.

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