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Mar 10, 2026 - World

A billionaire is funding a sustainable development project on the west African island that makes the local population stewards of its futureAt the crumbling colonial farm buildings in Porto Real, agricultural worker Kimilson Lima, 43, has signed the agreement and he’s happy. “With this money we can have a proper floor in the house,” he said. “And an inside toilet.”Lima is part of a ground-breaking experiment on the West African island of Príncipe, where villagers who agree to follow an environmental protection code will reap a quarterly dividend. To date nearly 3,000 have joined the Faya Foundation’s project, more than 60% of the adult population. The first payment of €816 (£708) has just been delivered, a large amount of money on the island. “This will be truly transformative, both for nature and for the people,” said the president of the self-governing region, Felipe Nascimento. Continue reading...

Mar 10, 2026 - World

A conversation between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin saw the former brag about a chat the two world leaders had Monday— but the Kremlin had a very different version of the conversation.While Trump may view the chat as a win which left the Russian president impressed, the Kremlin decreed it was a much more balanced conversation. Speaking from Doral, Florida, on Monday, Trump claimed the pair had spoken of bringing peace between Russia and Ukraine. The president said, "We were talking about Ukraine, which is just a never-ending fight, and when his tremendous hatred between President Putin and President Zelensky, they can’t seem to get it together. But I think it was a positive call on that subject." Trump went on to say the pair spoke of a "number of highly important issues" and that their chat was "frank and constructive". He also said he'd pushed Putin to get "the Ukraine-Russia war over with.”But that was not the line given by the Kremlin, though, with The Daily Beast reporting a much more muted response from Russian officials. Putin aide Yuri Ushakov stressed the phone call between Putin and Trump was made by the US president, and that it was the first time the pair had spoken on the phone this year. Ushakov said, "They had not spoken by telephone for quite some time–their previous conversation took place at the end of December 2025."Today’s call, incidentally, lasted about an hour. The U.S. president noted that, as previously agreed, such communication should, of course, take place on a regular basis, and both leaders expressed their readiness for this."Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov undermined Trump further and said the US president made no mention of a ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia. Peskov said, "Trump didn’t ask about a ceasefire in Ukraine during his conversation with Putin." Trump had previously been denounced by the Governor of California, Gavin Newsom, for caving to Putin and instigating a trade deal. A post from the Gavin Newsom Press Office on X reads, "Trump waives the Russia oil ban! Putin’s good little boy." Attached is an image of Putin patting the heads of two children, with Trump and Bessent's faces edited on.

Mar 10, 2026 - World

The Pentagon said Tuesday that about 140 U.S. service members have been wounded since the war with Iran began 10 days ago.

Mar 10, 2026 - World

Two Florida Donald Trump voters expressed their dismay at exploding gas prices on MS NOW on Tuesday morning, with one grudgingly admitting he misses President Joe Biden — and that he is now broke.As part of a report with host Anna Cabrera on the economic impact of Trump’s war on Iran, with oil prices going through the roof, MS NOW’s Alex Tabet spoke with the two men at a filling station in Lantana, Florida.“At this gas station just behind me, a gallon goes for about $3.79, diesel $5.19,” he reported. “Now, we've been chatting to two South Floridians who tell two very different stories of two very different Americas. One is Eric Silverman, he's a real estate investor. We chatted with him after he was filling up his luxury car with premium gas. And the other is Richard Stanley, he's a construction worker who we talked to right after he filled up his pickup truck with diesel. I want you to hear from both of these men about how they're processing this moment.” “Oil prices go up and down, stock market goes up and down. Interest rates go up and down,” Silverman conceded. "The short run, it sucks, but I think that it's going to be short run.”But construction worker Stanley said, “He [Trump] was bragging the other day on news, $1.90 or $2.90 somewhere — it's $5.50 a gallon.”“I miss my Uncle Joe,” he said with a grimace. “I was ballin' then, now I couldn't even tell you. I couldn't even show you $5 in my pocket.”MS NOW’s Tabet added, “Eric and Richard come from two very different walks of life. But what these two men have in common is they both voted for President Trump in 2024. You heard from Richard there, the construction worker, that he misses his Uncle Joe.” - YouTube youtu.be

Mar 10, 2026 - World

Rising gas prices have put President Donald Trump and his administration in a panic, a lawmaker said Tuesday. Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) told CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer that, as the U.S.-Israel war in Iran moves into its second week and Americans are paying more at the gas pump, Trump was looking for a way out. Blitzer asked Warner, who was briefed on military operations, what Trump's potential exit strategy might be. "I don't have a clear timeline," Warner said. "If the timeline was going to be actually to meet the four goals that the administration has laid out, that will take an indeterminate amount of time."It appeared yesterday, because the president was spooked about the rising gas prices — you know, about $125 million a day — Americans are paying additional gas prices and that he was looking for an exit ramp that seemed to last a little while. "It seems we're back today to Hegseth saying you know, 'we're going to have the biggest attack of all of the war so far today.' And clearly, if they're going to meet the goals, we've got a great deal of time to come."