Trump tweets row and Iran prisoner ‘in psychiatric ward’

The row over US President Donald Trump’s tweets attacking four Democratic congresswomen shows little sign of abating. The House of Representatives has passed a motion denouncing “racist comments that have legitimised fear and hatred of New Americans and people of colour”.

The motion got through the Democrat-controlled House by 240 votes to 187. It follows Mr Trump tweeting that Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib – who are all US citizens – should “go back” to their own countries.

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian woman jailed since 2016 in Iran after being convicted of spying, has been admitted to a hospital psychiatric ward, her husband says. The 40-year-old mother-of-one, who denies the accusations against her, went on hunger strike for 15 days last month to protest against her continuing detention. The Foreign Office has said it is “extremely concerned” about Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s welfare and that it will continue to “call for her release at the highest levels”.

But a party spokesman said the leader and others stood “in solidarity with Jewish people”. Read our guide to the ongoing controversy over claims of anti-Semitism within Labour.

There is a beloved story about the dimensions of the space shuttle. Apparently the booster rockets had to fit through railway tunnels designed to accommodate a horse and cart. In short, the space shuttle boosters were the width of two horses’ backsides.

A similar – and quite true – story can be told about the new poster child of the space industry, the CubeSat. Its dimensions were determined by the size of a Beanie Baby. The cuddly toy was all the rage in 1999, when Stanford University professor Bob Twiggs was teaching his graduate students to design satellites. Back then, satellites were big.

The Times says Tory leadership favourite Boris Johnson is planning an early general election if he becomes prime minister. Meanwhile, the Financial Times quotes an EU diplomat saying Mr Johnson is living in a “fantasy” world if he thinks the Irish backstop – the insurance policy designed to prevent a hard border on the island of Ireland – is negotiable. The Daily Mail leads on the “disgraceful neglect” of people with dementia. And the Sun says a two-year-old boy in Hull has been bitten by a bat while asleep in his cot.

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