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President Donald Trump has said that he thinks the ceasefire and interim agreement to end the war with Iran are now "over." Trump said he would allow negotiators to keep talking but that "it’s just a waste of time dealing with them." He said at a Nato summit in Turkey: "I don't want to deal with them anymore, they're scum," adding: "They're sick people, they're led by sick people . . . As far as I'm concerned, it's over" His comments were made after Iran launched attacks against American bases in the Gulf, retaliating for a new wave of strikes by the U.S., which said Tehran hit three commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz. The U.S. also revoked Iran's ability to sell oil on the global market.
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Unions and lawmakers fear that the European Union's new proposal, "EU Inc", a rulebook which aims to streamline business registration across member states, allowing companies to set up online in under 48 hours, could undermine labour rights and worker protections. "On the surface it looks like a technical company law proposal," Marcus Meyer-Erdmann, a researcher at the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI), said. "But underneath there are a lot of core elements like pay, worker protection, individual workers' rights, also dismissal protection . . . that would be rendered obsolete in a sense." Finnish radical left EU lawmaker Li Andersson said the proposal "clearly opens up the possibility" for companies to register where labour rights are the weakest. But centrist French EU lawmaker Pascal Canfin is offering reassurances that workers' rights will be protected. "The proposal must not have loopholes that allow abuses," he said. Canfin is to take part in negotiations on behalf of the parliament,
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