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Mar 17, 2026 - World

Peru's prime minister resigned Tuesday ahead of a mandatory vote in the nation's Congress, where she needed a majority of legislators to confirm her recent appointment.

Mar 17, 2026 - World

Family of then PM, Patrice Lumumba, welcome decision to charge Étienne Davignon as ‘beginning of a reckoning’ A former Belgian diplomat, 93, should stand trial over alleged complicity in the 1961 murder of Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of what was then the newly independent Congolese state, a Brussels court has ruled.Étienne Davignon, the only person still alive among 10 Belgians the Lumumba family accuses of involvement in the killing, is charged with participation in war crimes.The illegal transfer of Lumumba and his associates from Léopoldville (now Kinshasa) to Katanga.The “humiliating and degrading treatment” of the men.Depriving them of a fair trial. Continue reading...

Mar 17, 2026 - World

Republicans who will be out of power and, in some cases, out of a job will look back on how they let President Donald Trump use his bully pulpit to pursue his own interests while leaving them “holding the bag” with furious voters.That was the lesson delivered by Politico’s Jonathan Martin on MS NOW Tuesday, where he vociferously asserted that GOP lawmakers are headed for a disaster in November.Speaking with “Morning Joe” co-host Jonathan Lemire, Martin said, “It goes to the heart of priorities. What are your priorities? Because, you know, trying to get a legacy is clearly the president's top priority, along with, you know, the physical plant of the White House and the rehab of the Kennedy Center. “So he goes for these big, you know, big moves and places like Venezuela and Iran because he wants to have a big legacy of his own; he wants to be a consequential figure,” he elaborated. “Well, that's for him. That's not for his party — his party is the one holding the bag, now, when gas is going to be five bucks a gallon.”“And it's the same with the retribution campaigns,” he lectured. “That's about his own grievances and vanity. It's not about his party's fate in the midterms. Why is he targeting a sitting senator, [Republican] Bill Cassidy, in Louisiana? That's not for the good of the party, that's for his vengeance. Why is he going after nine Indiana state senators? Not exactly top of the priority list for [Republican House Speaker] Mike Johnson and [Senate Majority Leader] John Thune, the fate of the Indiana state senate because they defied him on redrawing their congressional lines.”“The through-line on all of this is a president more focused on himself, his impulses, than the good of the party,” he accused. “And at some point, the Republicans are going to wake up and realize that ... probably the day after the midterms.” - YouTube youtu.be

Mar 17, 2026 - World

Prime minister Jonas Gahr Støre says files show sex offender’s connection to those in ‘trusted and central positions’The Norwegian parliament has voted unanimously to appoint an independent investigative commission to look into connections between its foreign office and the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.Speaking before the vote on Tuesday, the prime minister, Jonas Gahr Støre, paid tribute to Epstein’s victims and said that the files released by the US Department of Justice had clearly shown “it is possible to buy and abuse influence if you are rich enough”. Continue reading...

Mar 17, 2026 - World

Donald Trump’s attack on the president of Ireland in front of Irish Taoiseach Micheal Martin in the Oval Office hit a rough patch on Tuesday afternoon.As the president jumped from topic to topic, he was pressed about comments made by the Irish president who stated, “The normalization of war can never be accepted. Now, more than ever, we must renew our commitment to peace and diplomacy in line with the principles of international law as set out in the United Nations charter.”On Tuesday, Trump was asked, “Mr. President, the Irish president has said that the war against Iran is illegal. It's an attack on international law.”‘"Who said that?” the 79-year-old Trump asked.“The Irish president,” was the reply. After a pause, he sneered, “Okay, he's lucky I exist" — seemingly unaware that the Irish President is a woman, Catherine Connolly, who has served since her inauguration in November 2025."That's all I can say, because if you're going to allow countries that are sick and demented and they are demented to have nuclear weapons, everybody in the whole world should be very thankful and I'm disappointed in NATO, very disappointed,” the president griped.Continuing to complain, he added, “I'm disappointed in a couple of other countries too, but they should be very thankful that this group of people feels the way we do, because if a country like Iran was allowed to have the power of a nuclear weapon, if we didn't stop them, I stopped them twice.”“I stopped them my first term, when I terminated the Iran nuclear deal, which was Barack Obama's deal, it was one of maybe the worst deals I've ever seen. It gave everything to Iran, including billions of dollars in green cash,” he insisted. - YouTube youtu.be