| To understand Trump-team leaks, look at the leakers’ motives Posted: 02 May 2018 02:11 PM PDT ![To understand Trump-team leaks, look at the leakers' motives]( "To understand Trump-team leaks, look at the leakers' motives") News leaks have bedeviled many US presidential administrations. Teddy Roosevelt loved dropping the press tidbits but was shocked when they weren't printed verbatim. Richard Nixon hated leaks and formed an internal anti-leak Plumbers team, inadvertently leading to Watergate abuses.
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| Africa’s new giving hands Posted: 02 May 2018 12:11 PM PDT ![Africa's new giving hands]( "Africa's new giving hands") Earlier this year, Africa received an image makeover with the release of the blockbuster superhero movie "Black Panther." Far from being depicted as backward or poverty stricken, the fictional African country of Wakanda was shown as a technological marvel and a model for equality of the sexes.
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| As Trump mulls withdrawal from Iran deal, Europe braces for fallout Posted: 02 May 2018 11:22 AM PDT ![As Trump mulls withdrawal from Iran deal, Europe braces for fallout]( "As Trump mulls withdrawal from Iran deal, Europe braces for fallout") European leaders fear they are running out of time to convince President Trump not to ditch an international agreement to stall Iran's nuclear ambitions. The US president must decide by May 12 whether to keep the US in the 2015 agreement, under which Iran agreed to curb its enrichment of uranium that could be used to build a bomb, in return for an end to most international sanctions. Washington's European allies, fierce defenders of the agreement, call it the world's best bet to prevent Tehran from becoming a new nuclear weapons power.
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