17 h. ago ‘The president is ... unwell’: Mike Johnson doesn’t refute claim as Democrat assails Trump to his face over generals address

Pennsylvania rep Madeleine Dean also took Johnson to task over ‘racist’ AI meme Trump shared of Democratic leaders during shutdown negotiations

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49 h. ago Veterans react to Hegseth’s ‘insulting’ address to generals and admirals

Defense secretary’s speech touching on physical fitness and doctrine of lethality was seen as ‘egotistical’ and ‘dangerous’Naveed Shah, a veteran and activist who served as an enlisted public affairs specialist – an army journalist – uncharacteristically found himself searching for words to describe the address of the newly styled secretary of war to flag officers on Tuesday.“A lot of the words that are coming to me aren’t fit to print,” said Shah, policy director for Common Defense, a veterans advocacy organization. “The people in that room who have served for 20, 30-plus years in uniform do not need Pete Hegseth to tell them about warrior ethos.” Continue reading...

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67 h. ago Trump defends troops in US cities after Hegseth decries military DEI efforts

President and defense chief delivered pair of incendiary speeches to a crowd of hundreds of generals and admiralsUS politics – latest updatesAt an address of assembled generals and admirals, Pete Hegseth, the US defense secretary, outlined changes to military policy and philosophy in a set of 10 directives meant to change organizational culture around fitness, race and gender, describing the previous state of military affairs as the “woke department.”Donald Trump followed Hegseth’s call to embrace the virtues of lethality as a doctrine with a suggestion buried in an hour-long campaign-style speech that the gathering of officers and senior enlisted advisers should consider targeting US cities and civilian populations as a training exercise. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Zelenskyy condemns ‘vile’ and deadly Russian strikes on Ukraine; drones spotted over Danish military sites – Europe live

Twelve-year-old girl among those killed in Kyiv; unidentified drones spotted over Danish military bases on Saturday nightIn an address at the UN general assembly in New York on Saturday, Moscow’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov warned that “any aggression against my country will be met with a decisive response” but insisted Russia has no intention of attacking EU or Nato member states.In a wide-ranging speech, Lavrov said threats against Russia by western countries were becoming “increasingly common”. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Greta Thunberg fires back at Donald Trump’s climate change claims

Greta Thunberg fired back at Donald Trump after the US president decried climate change as “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world” in his address to the United Nations General Assembly this week.

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5 d. ago More than a narcissist’s rant, Trump’s UN address marked a disturbing turn towards a new world order | Julianne Schultz

Behind the US president’s speech lay the long-term logic of neoliberalism: winners and losers, racialism and a crude, exclusionary nationalismEleanor Roosevelt, Doc Evatt, Jessie Street, Dag Hammarskjöld and the other founders of the United Nations must be spinning in their graves.No one who believes that the world could be a better place thinks that the UN is perfect, but the language the US president used in his address to the general assembly offered no hope. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago US military brass brace for firings as Pentagon chief orders top

Pete Hegseth ordered hundreds of generals and admirals to Virginia to meet and receive address on ‘warrior ethos’US military officials are reportedly bracing for possible firings or demotions after the Trump administration’s Pentagon chief, Pete Hegseth, abruptly summoned hundreds of generals and admirals from around the world to attend a gathering in Virginia in the upcoming days.The event, scheduled for Tuesday at Marine Corps University in Quantico, is expected to feature a short address by Hegseth focused on military standards and the “warrior ethos”, according to the Washington Post. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago 'Green scam': At UN, watched by drowning nations' leaders, Trump assails the ethos of climate change

In his address at the United Nations General Assembly, U.S. President Donald Trump excoriated renewable energy, international climate diplomacy, the science of global warming and other environmental issues

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9 d. ago At UN, the president of Mongolia takes a moment to cheer the world's horses

U.N. General Assembly speeches address many facets of human existence

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9 d. ago What Trump said about the UK, Germany, Brazil, Ukraine and Gaza during fiery UN General Assembly address

A combative Trump lashed out at EU immigration and energy policies, delivering remarks that are likely to cause controversy

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9 d. ago The world according to Trump: You’re all ‘going to hell’ — and I’m your only hope

President let the insults fly in blistering UN General Assembly address as he tried to make global leaders accept his truth — that it's Trump’s world and they are just living in it, writes Andrew Feinberg

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9 d. ago Donald Trump’s sharia law attack on Sadiq Khan outrages Labour MPs

Keir Starmer urged to take action over US president’s inflammatory speech to the UNKeir Starmer is facing demands from Labour MPs to reprimand Donald Trump’s administration after the US president falsely claimed London wanted to “go to sharia law” under its “terrible mayor”, Sadiq Khan.In an address to the UN general assembly, Trump said: “I look at London, where you have a terrible mayor, terrible, terrible mayor, and it’s been changed, it’s been so changed. Now they want to go to sharia law. But you are in a different country, you can’t do that.” Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Trump scolds world leaders and says ‘your countries are going to hell’ in blistering UN General Assembly address: Live updates

President addressed 80th UN General Assembly in New York at contentious moment for international relations

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9 d. ago 'Your countries are going to hell': Trump's extraordinary address accuses UN of 'funding an assault' on West, rails against 'uncontrolled immigration' and predicts death of Europe

Donald Trump accused the United Nations of 'funding an assault' on the West through immigration during his address to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday.

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9 d. ago Donald Trump takes aim at 'terrible mayor' Sadiq Khan: US president claims London 'wants Sharia law'

In an address to the United Nations General Assembly, US President Donald Trump claimed the UN was 'funding an assault on Western countries and their borders'.

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9 d. ago Trump tells western leaders 'Your countries are being ruined by uncontrolled immigration' and accuses the UN of funding an 'assault on your borders'

Donald Trump accused the United Nations of 'funding an assault' on the West through immigration during his address to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday.

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9 d. ago Donald and Melania Trump get stuck on broken escalator at UN prompting rant to General Assembly

Donald Trump and first lady Melania were forced to walk up a broken escalator at the United Nations prompting an angry response from the president during his address to the General Assembly.

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9 d. ago Donald Trump claims London wants Sharia law as he takes swipe at 'terrible mayor' Sadiq Khan

In an address to the United Nations General Assembly, US President Donald Trump claimed the UN was 'funding an assault on Western countries and their borders'.

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9 d. ago Trump scolds world leaders and says ‘your countries are going to hell’ in blistering UN General Assembly address: Live

President addressed 80th UN General Assembly in New York at contentious moment for international relations

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9 d. ago Trump scolds UN over escalator, teleprompter and inaction in first General Assembly address since 2020: Live

President speaking in New York at contentious moment for international relations

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