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| Hello. US President Donald Trump has rejected a leaked intelligence report casting doubt on the impact of recent strikes on Iranian nuclear sites. My colleagues have the latest. Also, Hyunjung Kim and Gavin Butler report on South Korea's dog meat ban, and what happens now to the dogs. And finally, watch the moment two hungry runaway bears raid a honey store. | |
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TOP OF THE AGENDA | US report suggests strikes' impact limited |
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|  | The White House said the "flat-out wrong" assessment was leaked by "a low-level loser in the intelligence community". Credit: Reuters | President Donald Trump has maintained that Iran's nuclear programme was set back "decades" by recent US military strikes, disregarding an early US intelligence assessment. The leaked assessment from the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency estimates the attacks set Iran's nuclear programme back only "a few months". Speaking at a press conference in The Hague, where the Nato summit is being held, Trump insisted the strikes caused a "total obliteration" of Iran's nuclear program. As Middle East correspondent Hugo Bachega notes, it will take time to clearly determine the extent of the damage caused by the attacks - and how it will affect Iran's nuclear ambitions. |
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| | | - Analysis: Nato Secretary-General Mark Rutte has praised Trump for his "extraordinary" action in Iran. The outlook is more complicated than that, writes North America correspondent Anthony Zurcher.
- BBC Verify: As Trump and other Nato leaders meet to agree a 5% military spending target, we look at how nine of them are falling short of the current 2% threshold.
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| BEYOND THE HEADLINES | What happens to dogs after meat ban |
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| |  | Since the ban was announced, 623 of South Korea's 1,537 dog farms have closed. Credit: Hyunjung Kim/BBC | When South Korea banned dog meat in 2024, it gave farmers who had been raising the animals for slaughter until February 2027 to shutter their operations. Critics say that isn't enough time to phase out the industry, and that authorities still haven't come up with adequate safeguards for farmers or the estimated half a million dogs in captivity. |
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