BEIJING -- "If Iran wants to fight, that will be the official end of Iran," U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted on Sunday afternoon.

The president's new tweet is an escalation of his tough stance on Iran.

In an interview the FOX News that aired Sunday, Trump said that he will not let Iran have nuclear weapons.

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MOSCOW -- Russian President Vladimir Putin will not congratulate new Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on his victory, but will be ready to congratulate him if he succeeds in resolving the conflict in the rebel region of Donbas, the Kremlin said Monday.

"President Putin will congratulate President Zelensky on his first successes in resolving the internal conflict in south-east Ukraine, as well as on his first successes in normalizing Russian-Ukrainian relations," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.

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BRUSSELS -- "The war waged by the United States has made America lose more than money, but the confidence of its allies and Western countries," Mechthild Leutner, a professor with the Institute of East Asian Studies at Free University of Berlin, told Xinhua in a recent interview.

The U.S. policy, "especially during the Trump administration, has made it a country that every one knows it only cares about itself," added Leutner.

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CANBERRA -- "We put the budget to the Australian people, the whole thing, we handed down a budget, we now expect to pass a budget in its entirety," Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison told News Corp Australia on Monday.

He has promised to take swift action to legislate wide-scale tax cuts after winning Saturday's general election.

Under the tax plan, every Australian who earns between 45,000 Australian dollars (31,100 U.S. dollars) and 200,000 Australian dollars (138,223 U.S. dollars) will be subject to the same tax rate of 30 percent by financial year 2024/25. Enditem

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