2 h. ago Trump backs Hegseth amid report of repeated strike on boat – US politics live

Calls from Congress for an immediate investigation into reports that war secretary ordered a second strike on alleged drug-smuggling boat Senator Mark Kelly: “We’re going to have a public hearing. We’re going to put these folks under oath. And we’re going to find out what happened. And then, there needs to be accountability.”He also told CNN: “If what has been reported is accurate, I have got serious concerns about anybody in that chain of command stepping over a line that they should never step over.” Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Trump ‘wouldn’t have wanted’ second strike on Caribbean boat survivors

US president says he will look into reports US military was told to conduct follow-up attack on suspected drug vesselDonald Trump said on Sunday he would look into reports that the US military conducted a follow-up strike on a boat in the Caribbean that it believed to be ferrying drugs, killing survivors of an initial missile attack.The US president also said he “wouldn’t have wanted” a second strike on the vessel during the incident on 2 September – the first publicised operation in a series of attacks in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific that Washington says are aimed at combatting the drug trade. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Trump defends Hegseth as secretary faces questions over Venezuela boat strike ‘war crime’: Live

The House and the Senate have opened inquiries into the reported ‘double tap strike’ on the alleged drug vessel in the Caribbean

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20 h. ago Description of Navy SEALs’ second strike on alleged drug boat constitutes a war crime, Sen. Mark Kelly believes

Former Navy captain, Democratic senator who urged military members to refuse illegal orders says ‘double-tap’ strike ‘seems to’ be a war crime, if reports are accurate

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5 d. ago US justice department memo about boat strikes diverges from Trump narrative

Exclusive: Officials frame strikes as self-defense against violence, without naming aggressor, while Trump claims they’re to stop US overdose deathsThe Trump administration is framing its boat strikes against drug cartels in the Caribbean in part as a collective self-defense effort on behalf of US allies in the region, according to three people directly familiar with the administration’s internal legal argument.The legal analysis rests on a premise – for which there is no immediate public evidence – that the cartels are waging armed violence against the security forces of allies like Mexico, and that the violence is financed by cocaine shipments. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Starmer to strike deals on trip to G20 summit shunned by Trump

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday said discussions were taking place on a change of mind in the US.

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1 week ago FACT FOCUS: There's no proof each strike on alleged drug boats saves 25,000 lives, as Trump claims

President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that strikes on suspected drug boats his administration began carrying out in September in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean are saving hundreds of thousands of people in the U.S. from fatal drug overdoses

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2 w. ago US military attacks another alleged drug boat in eastern Pacific, killing three

This is 21st known strike since early September as Trump officials justify efforts to stop narcotics from entering USThe United States conducted another attack on an alleged drug trafficking boat in the eastern Pacific on Saturday, killing three people aboard, the Pentagon said on Sunday.“Intelligence confirmed that the vessel was involved in illicit narcotics smuggling, transiting along a known narco-trafficking route, and carrying narcotics,” the US Southern Command announced in a post on social media. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Trump declares Operation Southern Spear & ‘could strike Venezuela in days with Don offered war plans by war chiefs’

DONALD Trump has stepped squarely onto a war footing, declaring Operation Southern Spear as senior military officials warn he could order strikes on Venezuela “in the coming days”. Washington is now giving clear signs that the window for tyrant Nicolás Maduro is closing fast, and the US is now openly preparing for confrontation. CBS News...

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2 w. ago Donald Trump 'could strike Venezuela to destroy cartels' after 'unusual' US Navy move

Thousands of US Marines and multiple US warships have arrived in the Caribbean amid a growing view Donald Trump could order strikes against cartels operating in Venezuela

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2 w. ago UK pauses some intelligence sharing with US over Caribbean boat strikes

Royal Navy maintains permanent presence in the region supporting British Overseas Territories

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2 w. ago UK stops sharing some intel with US over Trump’s ‘drug boat’ strikes in Caribbean: report

Chaos continues off the coast of Venezuela as U.S. administration refuses to name suspects killed in attacks

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2 w. ago TUI breaks silence after Caribbean cruise ship horror as 55 boat passengers leap overboard

TUI said an investigation has been launched after 55 cruise ship passengers were forced to leap overboard from a catamaran when it sank during an excursion in the Carribbean

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2 w. ago Caribbean cruise ship terror as dozens overboard after trip boat sinks

Holidaymakers including elderly people and children were plunged into the sea after the shock incident off the coast of the Dominican Republic

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3 w. ago Trump admin blows up another boat it claims was carrying narcotics and kills two men without providing any evidence

Latest strike in Pacific is 16th carried out in two months, bringing death toll to 66, amid outcry over legality

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3 w. ago Trump administration announces 16th deadly strike on an alleged drug boat

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced yet another deadly strike on a boat accused of ferrying drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean

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4 w. ago Businesses press Supreme Court to strike down Trump’s emergency tariff power

About 40 briefs have been filed challenging signature policy ahead of showpiece hearing

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4 w. ago Dramatic moment Trump bombs yet another drug smuggling boat in Caribbean as strike kills three ‘narcoterrorists’

THIS is the moment a US military drone obliterates a suspected drug smuggling boat in the dead of night. The fiery explosion lit up the Caribbean Sea as three alleged “narcoterrorists” were killed instantly. Unclassified infrared footage, posted by US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on X, shows the vessel locked in a missile’s crosshairs...

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