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Pouria Zeraati: Important...

Important/ The Wall Street Journal, citing U.S. officials, reported that the Islamic Republic had obtained high-resolution satellite images of the base from China prior to the July 17 attack on the Mu'affaq al-Salti airbase in Jordan, in which three American soldiers were killed. U.S. officials say the regime's ability to identify and target American positions has significantly improved since the summer; of course, the Chinese images were just one of the Islamic Republic's intelligence sources, and it has also made use of assistance from Russia alongside them.

Alex Wickham: Exclusive...

Exclusive: Andy Burnham’s economic guru Jim O’Neill says the government should not raise any taxes at the budget “I do not think any further increases in taxes are going to be doing anything to sustain the growth of the economy,” O’Neill tells @BloombergUK after the UK economy beat expectations in July He says in particular the UK should not raise taxes on banks, businesses or oil and gas companies, and that the govt should not try to equalise capital gains tax and income tax “The last thing that should be going on is more taxes on business” On CGT, he says: “It’s not entirely clear it would even raise any money. It’s very misunderstood and the last thing we should be trying to do is deterring genuine risk-taking investment.” And he calls on Burnham to scrap the pensions triple lock: “The triple lock is right at the top of things that are just simply not affordable” Story by @Joe_Mayes :
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