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Mar 12, 2026 - World

President Donald Trump claims to have lost interest in winning a Nobel Peace Prize following the war he started with Iran.In a Thursday interview with the Washington Examiner, Trump seemed to have cast aside his hopes for the peace prize, saying he had "no idea" if the war in Iran would "get him over the line" with the Nobel Committee."I don't know," the president sulked. "I'm not interested in it.""No, I don't talk about the Nobel Prize," he added. Trump's remarks follow a preliminary assessment finding that the U.S. was responsible for an apparent Tomahawk missile strike on an Iranian school that left around nearly 200 girls dead.

Mar 12, 2026 - World

More than 20 plaster casts of victims who died in the catastrophic volcano eruption in Pompeii went on display for the first time Thursday in a permanent exhibition.

Mar 12, 2026 - World

Israel's military on Thursday said it was dropping charges against five soldiers accused of beating and sexually abusing a Palestinian detainee in an alleged assault partially caught on camera.

Mar 12, 2026 - World

Senegal 's parliament has approved a new bill that toughens punishment for homosexuality in the largely Muslim West African nation, the latest African country to impose harsh penalties against the LGBTQ+ community.

Mar 12, 2026 - World

The White House's "Rapid Response" team quickly went to work attacking CNN after the network broadcast the first public message from new Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei.The White House included a clip from CNN with part of the Iranian message in its attack."Mojtaba Khamenei, the leader of the Islamic Republic, in their first public speech, addressing the great nation of Iran and the brave fighters of Iran, the fatalities, those who were injured and also the address the leaders of some neighboring countries. The Islamic leader said that it has been very difficult to be the successor of Khamenei," an Iranian news reader said in a CNN clip amplified by the White House's social media account.The White House responded by smearing the American network."Fake News CNN just aired four straight minutes of uninterrupted Iranian state TV, run by the same psychotic and murderous regime that has prided itself on brutally slaughtering Americans for 47 years," a post by the "Rapid Response" team on X said.