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• Putin says he thinks Ukraine war 'coming to an end'

  Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday hinted that the Ukraine war could soon end. Speaking to reporters after marking Russia’s Victory Day parade, Putin said: “I think that the ‌matter is coming to an end.” The comment was made in response to a question about whether Western help to Ukraine went too far. The Russian leader said: “They started ratcheting up the confrontation with Russia, which continues to this day. I think it is heading to an end, but it’s still a serious matter.” Putin’...

• US 'not really that much better off' than before Iran war: Retired admiral

  “I don’t think [Iran] had a nuclear weapon. I don’t think it was… coming about imminently,” McRaven, the former head of U.S. Special Operations Command under President Obama, told host Martha Raddatz on ABC’s “This Week.” “But the fact of the matter is we’re not really that much better off now than we were before February 28th,” he continued, referring to the day that the U.S. and Israel launched strikes on Iran. “Yes, we have sunk their navy. Yes, we have destroyed their air force. Yes, we have...

• With food benefit cuts looming in the US, Californians eye billionaire tax

  Greer Dove’s days are packed with studying business and finance, as well as doing administrative work at college, along with caring for her eight-year-old daughter with special needs. But once a week, Dove, a single mother, makes sure to drop in at the food bank in California’s Marin County to pick up vegetables, fruit and other food. Along with the federal government’s food benefits, they keep her housing running. “We need this so we can keep functioning at a high level,” she says. “She loves f...

• Trump says he will send an ‘Election Integrity Army’ into every state for midterms

  Donald Trump announced Sunday that Republicans plan to dispense a large “Election Integrity Army” to every single state for the 2026 midterms – invoking his debunked claims that the United States does not have fair elections. In a message on his Truth Social platform the president appeared to attribute his “Historic Election in 2024” to the fact that the Republican National Committee sent thousands of volunteers across the country to poll watch or assist with election litigation through a volunt...

• Trump legal attack on Southern Poverty Law Center stirs fears for nonprofits

  The Trump administration has launched a legal attack on the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), raising questions about the future of other nonprofits at odds with the president. The center pleaded not guilty Thursday in an unusual case, one that accuses the SPLC of turning its back on its very mission: using a now-defunct informant program to funnel money to the hate groups like the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) it spent decades fighting. It’s a claim the SPLC strongly denies — one it says is “not even su...

• Inside the ‘miracle’ drug rollout that could end Aids

  Lianne was just 13 when she lost her parents to Aids. Newly orphaned, she had to find a way to keep herself and her younger sister alive. With no money to finish school, unable to find a job and struggling to put food on the table, there was only one option – sex work. Now 24, she knows the dangers in Eswatini, a kingdom in southern Africa once described as the epicentre of the HIV epidemic and a country still struggling with some of the highest infection rates in the world. “Both my parents pas...

• US strikes Iranian fast boats as Iran attacks UAE oil facility

  President Donald Trump says the US has struck seven Iranian “fast boats” in the Strait of Hormuz, as Washington seeks to guide stranded ships out of the Gulf through the largely closed waterway. The UAE and South Korea both reported strikes on ships in the vital channel on Monday. The UAE also said a fire broke out at the oil port of Fujairah after an Iranian attack. Shipping company Maersk told the BBC that one of its US-flagged vessels had successfully exited the strait with US military protec...

• Leipzig: 2 killed after car drives into crowd

  At least two people were killed after a car drove through a crowd in the eastern German city of Leipzig, authorities said. Around 20 other people were hurt, including three who were seriously injured. Police said the suspect was a 33-year-old German male who was apprehended inside the vehicle after it came to a stop. “The driver has been arrested; there is currently no further danger from him,” they said.

• China: Explosion at fireworks factory kills at least 21

  An explosion ripped through a fireworks plant in the central Chinese province of Hunan, leaving at least 21 people dead, state media reported Thursday, A total of 61 people are reported to have been injured in the incident. What do we know? The blast occurred in the ​city of Changsha on Monday at around 4:40 pm local time (8:40 am UTC), state-run outlets CCTV and Xinhua reported. The city is home to a hub for fireworks manufacturing. The causes behind the incident were not immediately clear. N...

• ‘Extensive brutality’: Rebel attacks reap hell on Congolese civilians

  Amnesty International has accused a rebel group in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) of mass war crimes and crimes against humanity. In a damning new report published Monday, the rights group said the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) was behind multiple cases of murder, abductions, forced labour and marriage, sexual abuse of women and girls, and the exploitation of children. The report is entitled “I’d Never Seen So Many Bodies: War Crimes by the Allied Democratic Forces in the easter...

• A gold-fueled mining rush scars Brazil’s Amazon, spiking deforestation and mercury risks

  The surge in gold prices in recent years has fueled a renewed mining rush in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, accelerating deforestation in protected areas and driving mercury contamination to hazardous levels, officials and experts say. A study released Tuesday by the nongovernmental organization Amazon Conservation, in partnership with Brazilian nonprofit Instituto Socioambiental, found illegal mining sites drove clear-cutting inside three conservation areas in the Xingu region, one of the world’s...

• Japan pivots Indo-Pacific strategy toward Southeast Asia

  Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi announced an updated version of her country’s regional strategy in Vietnam last weekend, underlining Tokyo’s growing reliance on Southeast Asia at a time of intensifying great-power rivalry. Takaichi met her Vietnamese counterpart, Le Minh Hung, on Saturday in Hanoi, where the two leaders oversaw the signing of six cooperation agreements, including on disaster-resilient rural development, climate-resilient infrastructure and satellite data exchange. The visi...

• UAE comes under Iranian attacks for second consecutive day

  The United Arab Emirates has come under attack from Iranian missiles and drones for the second day in a row, according to its Defence Ministry. Tuesday’s attack came a day after at least three people were injured in strikes the day before, and a drone sparked a fire at a key oil facility in the eastern emirate of Fujairah. The results of the latest attack were not immediately clear. The escalation comes amid fears of a return to war between Iran and the US, after Washington launched a new init...

• Republican midterms 'coup' exposed as party quietly pushes to flip key Democrat

  The GOP’s once sure-fire odds to retain their Senate majority in the midterms are looking bleaker every day, but according to a new report from Politico, some in the party are plotting a “coup” that could save them from a complete wipeout: flipping John Fetterman, the increasingly ostracized Democratic senator. Fetterman was first elected to the Senate from Pennsylvania in 2022, besting the Trump-backed Republican Dr. Mehmet Oz and helping Democrats defy the odds and grow their majority in the c...

• Nearly half of Americans say they are cutting daily expenses to deal with spiking gas prices from Trump’s Iran war

  Many Americans are cutting back on everyday expenses as gas prices soar due to President Donald Trump’s war in Iran, now approaching the 10-week mark. About 44 percent of Americans said they’re driving less due to high gas prices, while 42 percent said they’ve slashed household expenses, according to a Washington Post/ABC News/Ipsos poll. In addition, the poll revealed that 34 percent have altered travel or vacation plans. Americans are changing their behaviors as national average gas prices hit...

• Infant formula recalled over possible toxin

  Thousands of tins of infant formula have been recalled over a toxin that could lead to illness among babies who consume it, according to a notice posted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. In the notice, shared Saturday, the FDA said a2 Milk Company of Colorado had issued a voluntary recall of three batches of its a2 Platinum Premium USA formula, advertised for children who are 12 months old and younger. Cereulide, a toxin created by some strains of the Bacillus cereus bacterium, was found...

• Chevron CEO warns Trump’s oil crisis could get even worse

  Chevron’s CEO has warned that he isn’t sure how high gas prices could get as Donald Trump continues to try to bring an end to the two-month-long Iran war. Mike Wirth was interviewed on CBS’s Face the Nation on Sunday and said that the war had exposed the relative futility of some measures taken to avert price shocks for consumers while warning that gas prices were not done rising, at least for now. Gas prices are nationally averaged at $4.46 for a gallon of low-grade fuel. Wirth said it was “ver...

• Alaska governor vetoes major election reform bill, citing 'burdens'

  Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy ® vetoed a major bipartisan election reform bill Thursday, citing the “operational burdens” that would come with implementing the changes so close to November’s elections. “Taken as a whole, the bill would impose significant operational burdens on the administration of Alaska’s elections during an election year in which several statewide contests will occur,” Dunleavy wrote in a letter to the Alaska House Speaker and state Senate president explaining his veto. The Repub...

• US military signals Qatari jet on track for Air Force One use

  The U.S. Air Force signaled on Friday that a luxury jet donated by Qatar is on track to be temporarily used as Air Force One as soon as this summer. The service announced in a news release that it has finished modifying and testing the Boeing 747, which is currently being repainted in President Trump’s preferred red, white and blue color scheme. Officials said the jet would help “relieve pressure on the aging VC-25A fleet” until Boeing can deliver new planes, which have been delayed and are now...

• Armed Services Republicans 'very concerned' about US troops withdrawal from Germany

  The chairmen of the House and Senate Armed Service committees on Saturday expressed they are “very concerned” about the withdrawal of 5,000 U.S. troops from Germany amid President Trump’s feud with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. Trump on Wednesday had announced that he was reviewing a possible reduction of U.S. troops in Germany. “We are very concerned by the decision to withdraw a U.S. brigade from Germany,” the chairs, Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.), said in a joi...

• Pete Hegseth ‘emboldened’ by firing of top military officials as he moves to ‘consolidate control’: report

  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has become “emboldened” after ousting some of the military’s most senior officials as he moves to “consolidate control” at the Pentagon, according to a report. The firing of Navy Secretary John Phelan and the Army’s chief of staff Gen. Randy George was part of Hegseth’s reported pursuit to “consolidate control” of the Pentagon, leaving him “more confident than ever in his job,” The Washington Post reports. Despite concerns from those in President Donald Trump’s inn...

• Trump flouts lower court rulings in unprecedented display of executive power

  When a federal judge shot down a Trump administration policy of holding immigrants without bond last December, it seemed like a serious blow to the president’s mass deportation effort. Instead, a top Justice Department official insisted the ruling wasn’t binding, and the administration continued denying detainees around the country a chance for release. By February, the district court judge, Sunshine Sykes, was fed up. Sykes, a nominee of President Biden, accused Trump officials in a ruling that...

• Post #36315

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