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Secretary of State Marco Rubio also said that Iran has signaled it wants to negotiate with the United States, even as the two sides escalated their attacks.
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Politics Farage’s Great Gamble A by-election victory will not mean Reform UK’s mastermind is out of the woods. UK Special Coverage Nigel Farage has just taken the biggest gamble of his decades-long political career. To try to draw a line on the financial scandals that have dogged him for the past few months, the Reform UK leader has asked the voters to decide his fate. He has resigned as the member of Parliament for Clacton and will face a by-election in August to try to win his job back. The big gamble here is not really whether Farage will be returned to parliament. Barring some freak event, he can be reasonably…Open