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Apr 1, 2025 - World

When news broke of the leaked Signal group chat detailing an impending strike against Houthi rebels in Yemen, critics called for heads to roll for potentially putting U.S. service members at risk. But instead of expressing concern over soldiers who could have been killed due to the leak, President Donald Trump immediately went on the defensive, standing firmly behind his national security adviser and secretary of defense, with no mention of American soldiers.West Point graduate Lucian K. Truscott IV wrote in a new column for Salon that the Signal chat incident proved just how little the Trump administration cares about the fate of soldiers who have no choice but to follow Trump's commands."Trump's national security team cared so little about the pilots they sent into combat against the Houthis that they used the insecure civilian Signal app to plan the mission," Truscott wrote.ALSO READ: 'Not much I can do': GOP senator gives up fight against Trump's tariffsWhile the Signal leak took up all the attention, Truscott reminded readers that four U.S. soldiers went missing in Lithuania around the same time after their M88 armored recovery vehicle disappeared during a training exercise.When Trump was asked whether he'd been briefed on the disappearance of the soldiers in Lithuania, he replied that he had not."As we learned recently from the exchange of views among Trump's national security team on the Signal app as they planned the attack on Yemen, there is little love among people like Vice President J.D. Vance and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth for our European allies who find themselves on the front lines of what is rapidly becoming a new Cold War between the civilized world and Russia," Truscott wrote.Truscott called it "both a tragedy and a scandal" that neither "Trump nor his vice president nor his secretary of defense care about" the loss of U.S. service members who were following orders to fulfill their national duty.Truscott continued, "The loss of four soldiers from the Third Infantry Division is a tragedy. That the president of the United States had not even heard about it a day after it happened is sadly typical, especially of this president, who has repeatedly expressed his disdain for members of the military under his command.""Sadly, soldiers are learning that not even the loss of their lives has stirred the hollow souls of Donald Trump and his men," Truscott concluded.Read the Salon article here.

Apr 1, 2025 - World

Andry José Hernández Romero sent to an El Salvador prison after claim ‘crown’ tattoos proved he was a gang memberFor as long as anyone can remember Andry José Hernández Romero was enthralled by the annual Three Kings Day celebrations for which his Venezuelan home town is famed, joining thousands of fellow Christians on the streets of Capacho to remember how the trio of wise men visited baby Jesus bearing gold, frankincense and myrrh.At age seven, Andry became a Mini King, as members of the town’s youth drama group Los Mini Reyes were known. Later in life, he tattooed two crowns on his wrists to memorialise those carnival-like Epiphany commemorations and his Catholic roots. Continue reading...

Apr 1, 2025 - World

China, Russia and North Korea are building up their nuclear arsenals at a frightening pace with the goal of intimidating Washington. At the same time, America has little diplomatic leverage to strike new, traditional arms-control deals to limit that nuclear expansion.

Apr 1, 2025 - World

IDF says residents should evacuate Beit Hanoun, Beit Lahiya and the neighbourhoods of Sheikh Zayed, al-Manshiya and Tal al-ZaatarAt least 50,399 Palestinian people have been killed and 114,583 injured in Israeli attacks on Gaza since 7 October 2023, the Gaza health ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.At least 42 bodies and 183 injured people have been received by hospitals in Gaza over the last day, according to the territory’s health ministry, which said that at least 1,042 Palestinian people have been killed by Israeli forces since Israel broke the ceasefire with Hamas on 18 March. Continue reading...

Apr 1, 2025 - World

The annual parade by Assyrian Christians in the Iraqi city of Dohuk to mark their new year was marred Tuesday when an axe-wielding man attacked the procession and wounded three people, witnesses and local officials said.