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Trump vowed to ease sanctions on Syria. How quickly that happens is up for debate

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Analysis: Trump takes new pages out of strongman’s playbook with Harvard crackdown and crypto gala

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Top Dem strategist James Carville tells progressives to start their own ‘pronoun’ party — while bashing Arizona state chair

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Malcolm Turnbull accuses ‘stupid’ Nationals of ‘holding a gun’ to Liberal party’s head with Coalition split

MPs pushing behind the scenes for parties to mend the rift acknowledge ‘really messy’ week as regional areas battle floods and drought

The former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has accused the Nationals of “holding a gun to the Liberal party’s head” over the threat to split the Coalition this week, claiming the rural party been “stupid” in its actions.

The Nationals MP Darren Chester, who was among a band of MPs pushing behind the scenes for the Coalition to mend its rift, acknowledged it was “frustrating” for the opposition to be bickering among themselves as regional and rural areas battled floods and droughts, and urged colleagues to get on with the job.

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