For years, Donald Trump has made wind power a personal foil — a hostility said to date back to the sight of turbines near his Scottish golf course — and his objections have become a familiar part of his political playbook. The president has long derided windmills, as he calls them, as "ugly," "noisy" and "expensive," while also insisting they are deadly to birds. "Want to see a bird graveyard?" he said. Wind turbines do kill birds, that much is true. But according to the American Bird Conservancy, the toll is far lower than…

On 16 February 1992, Sheikh Abbas al-Musawi was heading to Beirut in a black Mercedes with his wife and five-year-old son when the journey turned deadly. The Iran-backed Hezbollah secretary-general was travelling with two Range Rovers carrying armed bodyguards. He was returning from a ceremony commemorating the anniversary of the killing of one of Hezbollah's founders. Trailing the convoy were Israeli Apache AH-64 helicopters, which fired missiles and killed the Hezbollah leader along with his family. A month later, a…