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August 9: Todd Blanche Confirmation and Iran’s Strait of Hormuz Conditions
In U.S. news
Todd Blanche, who previously defended Donald Trump in a criminal trial, has been confirmed as U.S. attorney general. The appointment is raising immediate questions over whether the Justice Department can maintain independence from the president Blanche once represented.
In the Middle East
Israel has issued a tender for 627 settlement homes in the occupied West Bank. Palestinian officials say the construction would further isolate Palestinian communities from Jerusalem.
Iran has also set out new, unspecified conditions for reopening the Strait of Hormuz, while President Masoud Pezeshkian pursues a possible deal. Leaving the conditions undefined is not exactly a confidence-building detail for one of the world’s most important shipping routes.
In Canada
A fast-moving wildfire has driven more than 20,000 people from parts of British Columbia’s Okanagan region, as emergency services respond to the expanding fire.
In Finland
Nikita and Olga Belov, a Russian couple who fled in 2022 after opposing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, face deportation after repeated asylum denials. They say Russian authorities have issued military summonses, made threats and tried to locate them, and they fear arrest, imprisonment and torture if returned.
In UK employment
Internal documents suggest thousands of temporary DPD workers may have missed sick pay and pension contributions. The payments appear to have been absent from calculations involving recruitment agencies, raising possible breaches of employment law.
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