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Trump on Iran: Their leaders are all gone—very sad, very fine people…
Trump on Iran: I did something that was, I don’t know, foolish, brave, but it was smart; I would do it again.
Trump: I was seething; I seethe a lot.
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Trump: Somalia is filthy, disgusting, dirty; it’s a horrible place.
Trump has expanded U.S. sanctions on Cuba through a new executive order aimed at increasing pressure on its government. The measures target individuals and organizations linked to the country’s security apparatus, corruption, or human rights abuses, and also allow penalties on others who do business with them.
Trump: I am the only president to take a cognitive test; I don’t think Obama could pass it.
Trump jokes: I think they are going to register Trump derangement syndrome as a disease next week.
Trump jokes: I don’t happen to be a senior… wouldn’t you like to be my age? It’s young and vibrant.

Cuba's Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez slammed a fresh round of US sanctions against the Caribbean island as "collective punishment" as massive crowds marched in the annual May 1 procession outside the US embassy in Havana. Cuba has been plunged deeper into economic crisis following a severe fuel blockade imposed by US President Donald Trump in January.

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The US military-run center's closing would mark the latest blow to US President Donald Trump's Gaza plan, already undermined by Hamas's refusal to disarm.

Hundreds of drones struck across Ukraine, with impacts reported in Ternopil, Rivne, Vinnytsia, Cherkasy, and Odesa oblasts.

Iran is using the fragile truce to recover by blending redeployment and reverse engineering into broader preparedness for renewed conflict.
The U.S. military-run body tasked with monitoring the Israel-Hamas ceasefire and boosting aid to Gaza is set to be shut down, seven diplomats told Reuters.
The U.S. military-run body tasked with monitoring the Israel-Hamas ceasefire and boosting aid to Gaza is set to be shut down, seven diplomats told Reuters.
Speaking to the media outside the White House, Trump said that Iran wants to make a deal "because they have no military left."

"Longshot" bets on military operations won 52% of the time on the Polymarket prediction market, researchers found. Non-military bets hit 14% of the time. The post Military insiders may be betting frequently on troops, researchers find appeared first on Task & Purpose.

The president writes that hostilities "have terminated" because of the ceasefire, arguing he does not need congressional authorisation.

US President Donald Trump on Friday signed an executive order expanding sanctions on Cuba, authorising penalties not only against Cuban officials but also on foreign companies and financial institutions that do business with the island. The order significantly broadens Washington’s ability to exert economic pressure, allowing US authorities to target third-country actors deemed to support the Cuban government, in a move that could have implications for global firms, including those in China and.

Russian troops advanced near Synkivka, Pryvillia and Andriivka-Klevtsove in Ukraine's east.
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The move comes after the US imposed new sanctions on Tuesday on 35 groups and individuals involved in operating Iran's covert "shadow banking" financial network.

The United States on Friday sanctioned multiple entities and individuals it said were involved in trading Iranian petroleum and petroleum products, including a China-based oil terminal operator and a Chinese national. The State Department said the operator, Qingdao Haiye Oil Terminal Co., Ltd, “imported tens of millions of barrels of sanctioned Iranian crude oil”. Also on the sanctions list is Li Xinchun, a Chinese national who is president of the China-based oil terminal, as well as a Hong...

The UN refugee agency on Friday said the Middle East war had sent its freight rates soaring, hitting the delivery of aid to refugees in the wider region and Africa. Shipping rates from UNHCR's three main source countries for emergency supplies -- India, Pakistan and China -- have shot up by nearly 18 percent, the agency said, while delivery delays and port congestion are also having an impact. Every extra dollar spent on fuel and higher war-risk shipping insurance premiums is a dollar less that

The Iran war is choking supply of the world’s most expensive spice.

But that’s the option, the US president said

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The closing of the Civil-Military Coordination Centre (CMCC) in Israel would mark the latest blow to President Donald Trump's Gaza plan

RAWALPINDI/LAHORE/KARACHI: Pakistan is confronting a stark weather dichotomy this week, as extreme heat scorches southern parts of the country while central and northern regions brace for widespread dust storms, rain, and potential landslides triggered by an incoming weather system. The Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) said that a fresh westerly wave is expected to approach the northwestern parts of the country on Saturday evening and would persist in the upper regions until May 5. In sh
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said after another massive Russian drone attack that Ukraine is reinforcing its air defense and intensifying work with partners. In particular, decisions have already been made for Dnipro and Odesa.

Tehran has proposed fees or tolls on vessels passing through the Strait of Hormuz as part of its proposals to end the war with US and Israel.

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It appeared to be the first time the missile defense system was sent to an Arab country. The Emirates bore the brunt of Iran’s retaliatory attacks on Gulf countries during the war.

Trump's Iranian state media reported that Tehran had delivered the text of a talks proposal to mediator Pakistan on Thursday evening.

Gavin Lee is pleased to welcome Adrian Blomfield, Senior Foreign Correspondent at The Telegraph. His reporting from the Strait of Hormuz offers a rare glimpse and more intimate view, beyond the satellite imagery and policy abstraction. “One of the things you get a sense of when you're out on the water,” he reflects, “is just how much more complicated the picture is.” That complexity is not theoretical. It is kinetic, obscured by haze, and embodied in “about 300 small speedboats… bouncing along t

Poll finds that Americans are concerned about impact of the war on the cost of living and sceptical of success thus far.

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