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21/06/2019 GMT

Trump: Iran made a 'big mistake' downing drone

BBC World Service - Newsday, Trump: Iran made a 'big mistake' downing drone

President Donald Trump approved retaliatory military strikes against Iran on Thursday before changing his mind, US media reports. Senior members of the Democratic Party in the United States have warned Donald Trump of the danger of inadvertently slipping into a war with Iran.  

The US Senate has voted to block billions of dollars of arms sales to Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries.  In a rare bi-partisan rebuke of President Trump's plans, the Republican-led senate approved three resolutions to halt the eight billion dollar arms deal.

Joy Harjo has been appointed as the United State's new poet laureate - the first Native American to hold the position. Harjo is a member of the Muscogee Creek Nation She is known for such works as 'The Woman Who Fell From the Sky' and 'In Mad Love and War’.

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