10 h. ago Iran warns 'all US bases and forces in the entire region' will be 'legitimate targets' after Trump vowed to protect anti

Tehran issued the stark threat after the US President said America was 'locked and loaded and ready to go' if Iranian authorities killed peaceful demonstrators during nationwide protests.

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48 h. ago Ukraine war briefing: 10% away from peace, Zelenskyy tells Ukrainians

US intelligence officials persuade Donald Trump that Ukrainians did not target Putin with drones – reports. What we know on day 1,408Ukraine was “10%” away from a peace deal, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Wednesday, and his country wanted an end to the war but not at “any cost”. The Ukrainian president, in his New Year’s Eve address, said any agreement needed strong security guarantees. “The peace agreement is 90% ready, 10% remains. And that is far more than just numbers.”As the Russian ruler, Vladimir Putin, pushes for full control of Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region as part of any deal, Zelenskyy said he did not believe Russia would stop there. “Pull out from the Donbas, and it will all be over. That is how deception sounds when translated from Russian – into Ukrainian, into English, into German, into French, and, in fact, into any language in the world.”Zelenskyy said he would not sign a “weak” peace agreement that would only prolong the war. “What does Ukraine want? Peace? Yes. At...

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3 d. ago CIA 'carries out drone strike' on Venezuelan port as Trump says boat 'loaded with drugs'

The strike marks the first known US attack on a target inside Venezuela, with no casualties reported - Trump described it as a 'major explosion' in the overseas dock

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4 d. ago Donald Trump confirms first US hits on Venezuelan territory with direct strike

The US has targeted a 'big facility' in Venezuela, President Donald Trump has said. 'Two nights ago, we knocked that out,' Trump said adding the US 'hit them very hard'

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5 d. ago US strikes on IS targets in Nigeria may only fan the flames of insurgent violence | Onyedikachi Madueke

The public is looking for relief from terrorism and violence. But Donald Trump’s words bolster narratives of foreign ‘crusader’ aggressionThe response of Nigerians to the airstrikes against Islamic State (IS) targets in Sokoto state, north-western Nigeria are complicated. The rationale behind them has been widely opposed, but the strikes themselves have been welcomed.The airstrikes were framed as a response to what have been described as genocidal attacks on Christians in the country. But the Nigerian authorities have consistently rejected this narrative, arguing that armed groups in the country do not discriminate based on religion, and that Christians and Muslims largely coexist peacefully. Ironically, it was Trump’s redesignation of Nigeria as a “country of particular concern” in November that deepened Muslim-Christian tensions. Many northerners, who are predominantly Muslim, blamed southern Nigerians for championing a narrative that ultimately resulted in US sanctions and intern...

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7 d. ago Nigerian official refuses to rule out AMERICAN troops on the ground after working with Trump to bomb ISIS

American troops may be deployed to Nigeria following President Trump's bombing of ISIS targets in the nation, a Nigerian official said.

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7 d. ago UK campaigner targeted by Trump accuses tech giants of ‘sociopathic greed’

Exclusive: Imran Ahmed says US companies are ‘corrupting the system’ of politics by seeking to avoid accountabilityA British anti-disinformation campaigner told by the Trump administration that he faces possible removal from the US has said he is being targeted by arrogant and “sociopathic” tech companies for trying to hold them to account.Imran Ahmed, the chief executive of the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), is among five European nationals barred from the US by the state department after being accused of seeking to push tech firms to censor or suppress American viewpoints. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Trump says US struck Isis targets in Nigeria over attacks on Christians

President posts on social media that the defence department ‘executed numerous perfect strikes’

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8 d. ago Trump launches Christmas Day ISIS strikes in Nigeria as he targets 'terrorist scum'

Donald Trump has announced that the US has launched a series of strikes against ISIS in Nigeria, warning that there will be "many more" if they continue to target Christians

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8 d. ago US carries out strikes on Nigeria targeting Islamic State militants, Trump says

President claims strikes targeted militants in country’s north-west, accusing group of attacking Christian communitiesDonald Trump has said the US carried out airstrikes against Islamic State militants in north-west Nigeria on Thursday, after spending weeks decrying the group for targeting Christians.The president said in a post on his Truth Social platform: “Tonight, at my direction as Commander in Chief, the United States launched a powerful and deadly strike against ISIS Terrorist Scum in Northwest Nigeria, who have been targeting and viciously killing, primarily, innocent Christians, at levels not seen for many years, and even Centuries! Continue reading...

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1 week ago Venezuela rushes to criminalize tanker seizures after Trump targets ‘shadow fleet’

Venezuela's political opposition, including Nobel Peace laureate María Corina Machado, has expressed support for Trump's Venezuela policy, including the seizure of tankers

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1 week ago Trump suggests quitting as president and making ‘hosting a full time job’ as he gushes over his Kennedy Center performance

Trump previously accused the Kennedy Center of ‘targeting’ American youth with drag shows

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1 week ago Colorado immigration activist Jeanette Vizguerra released from detention, advocates say

A prominent Colorado immigration and labor activist has been released after spending nine months in immigration detention

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1 week ago Colorado immigration activist Jeanette Vizguerra can be released on bond, advocates say

Supporters of a prominent Colorado immigration and labor activist say an immigration judge has ruled that she can post bond and be released after spending nine months in detention

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1 week ago Donald Trump launches massive air strike on 70 terror targets in Syria: Secretary of War Pete Hegseth brands it 'a declaration of vengeance' as US vows to keep bombing

Among the sites hit were IS fighter compounds, weapon dumps and other infrastructure, with Jordanian fighter jets supporting what was dubbed Operation Hawkeye Strike on Friday.

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1 week ago Donald Trump launches massive air strike on 70 terror targets in Syria: Defence secretary brands it 'a declaration of vengence' as US vows to keep bombing

Among the sites hit were IS fighter compounds, weapon dumps and other infrastructure, with Jordanian fighter jets supporting what was dubbed Operation Hawkeye Strike on Friday.

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2 w. ago Trump launches massive airstrikes in Syria as 'vengeance' for killing three Americans

US forces unleashed a wave of airstrikes against ISIS in Syria on Friday.

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2 w. ago 4 months in, activists say Trump's operation in DC increasingly targets immigrants

Washington, D.C., activists and local leaders say the law enforcement operation President Donald Trump launched four months ago with the goal of fighting crime has led to a crackdown on immigrants

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2 w. ago Sheinbaum urges UN to ‘prevent bloodshed’ after Trump orders Venezuela blockade

Mexican leader warns of conflict as US president targets sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving VenezuelaWhat action is Trump taking against Venezuela’s oil industry?Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, has urged the United Nations to “prevent any bloodshed” in Venezuela, as Donald Trump piled more pressure on the South American country.“The United Nations has been conspicuously absent. It must assume its role to prevent any bloodshed and to always seek the peaceful resolution of conflicts,” the leftwing president told reporters the morning after Washington announced a blockade of “sanctioned oil tankers” entering or leaving Venezuela. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Congresswoman Ilhan Omar says ICE agents pulled over her son in Minnesota

Representative says her son was let go once he showed ID as Trump ramps up operation targeting Somali population in MinneapolisDemocratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar told a Minneapolis broadcaster that her son had been stopped over the weekend by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, after Donald Trump ordered an operation targeting the Minnesota city’s Somali population.“Yesterday, after he made a stop at Target, he did get pulled over by [ICE] agents, and once he was able to produce his passport ID, they did let him go,” Omar said on Sunday in an interview with WCCO. Continue reading...

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