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    With Iran, CIA faces ultimate test in its relationship with Trump

    US President Donald Trump in his 'sensitive compartmented information facility' at Mar-a-Lago, on 28 February 2026. To his right, CIA Director John Ratcliffe.
    US President Donald Trump in his "sensitive compartmented information facility" at Mar-a-Lago, on 28 February 2026. To his right, CIA Director John Ratcliffe. © Handout/Getty Images North America via AFP

    After Caracas and now Iran, the agency once disparaged by Donald Trump as an embodiment of the "deep state", is back in favour. But the CIA headed by John Ratcliffe now faces a far more complex situation with much higher political stakes.

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    France
    French foreign ministry's mishandling of FBI alert on Epstein-linked diplomat

    From left to right: Jean-Noël Barrot and Martin Briens. In the thumbnail: Fabrice Aidan and Jeffrey Epstein. In the background, the Quai d'Orsay.
    From left to right: Jean-Noël Barrot and Martin Briens. In the thumbnail: Fabrice Aidan and Jeffrey Epstein. In the background, the Quai d'Orsay. © P. Kovalenkov/Alamy//A. Sciard/IP3 Press/ M. L. Antonelli/Avalon/C. Herrera-Ulashkevich/C. Petit Tesson/EPA/MaxPPP - Photo editing and assembly: Bénédicte Gouttebroze/Indigo Publications

    Despite the FBI warning in 2013 that a French diplomat linked to Jeffrey Epstein had been visiting child porn websites, the ministry did not refer the matter on. That decision by the minister's staff is now the focus of judicial and administrative probes.

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