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Japan is the only country in the world to have been hit by a nuclear attack
Outrage as Trump compares Iran strikes to Japan atomic bombing
SINGAPORE — Japan has condemned US President Donald Trump for comparing recent US strikes on Iran to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that ended World War II."That hit ended the war," Trump told reporters on Wednesday. "I don't want to use an example of Hiroshima, I don't want to use an example of Nagasaki, but that was essentially the same thing."About 140,000 people died when the US dropped atomic bombs on the two southern Japanese cities in August 1945. Survivors live with psychological trauma and heightened cancer risk to this day.If Trump's comment "justifies the dropping of the atomic bomb, it is extremely regrettable for us as a city that was bombed," said Nagasaki Mayor Shiro Suzuki.Trump's comments are "unacceptable",...
June 27, 2025

Outrage as Trump compares Iran strikes to Japan atomic bombing

US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr is pictured in Washington, DC, on June 24, 2025
US halts funding to global group that provides vaccines to low-income countries
WASHINGTON — The United States will halt funding for a global organisation that provides vaccines to millions of children in lower-income countries, which comes after the most senior US health official said the group has “ignored the science” on safety issues.US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, a longtime vaccine sceptic and activist, said the country will not deliver on a $1.58 billion (€1.39 billion) pledge made by the previous Biden administration until GAVI – which procures and distributes jabs around the world – changes its approach to vaccine safety research and assessment.“There is much that I admire about GAVI,” Kennedy said in video remarks. “Unfortunately, in its zeal to promote universal vaccination, it has neglected the key issue of vaccine safety”.He...
June 26, 2025

US halts funding to global group that provides vaccines to low-income countries

Adolfo Macías Villamar was taken to a maximum-security jail
Ecuador's most wanted drug lord captured in 'underground bunker'
QUITO — Police in Ecuador have recaptured the country's most wanted fugitive, drug lord Adolfo Macías Villamar.Macías, also known by the alias "Fito", is the leader of Los Choneros, a powerful criminal gang which is blamed for Ecuador's transformation from a tourist haven to a country with one of the highest murder rates in the region.He is also suspected of having ordered the assassination of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio in 2023.Police tracked him down to what they described as an underground bunker below a luxury home in the city of Manta.A police spokesman said no shots were fired in the 10-hour joint operation by police and the military.A large number of officers first monitored and surrounded the three-storey home in the Monterrey neighborhood of...
June 26, 2025

Ecuador's most wanted drug lord captured in 'underground bunker'

Donald Trump
CIA director says Iran's nuclear sites 'severely damaged'
WASHINGTON — The head of the CIA has said US strikes "severely damaged" Iran's nuclear facilities and set them back years, diverging from a leaked intelligence report that angered President Donald Trump by downplaying the raid's impact.John Ratcliffe, the US spy agency's director, said key sites had been destroyed, though he stopped short of declaring that Iran's nuclear programme had been eliminated outright.It comes a day after a leaked preliminary assessment from a Pentagon intelligence agency suggested core components of Iran's nuclear programme remained intact after the US bombings.Trump again maintained the raid had "obliterated" Iran's nuclear facilities.The Republican president took to social media on Wednesday to post that the...
June 26, 2025

CIA director says Iran's nuclear sites 'severely damaged'

Zohran Mamdani reaches out his hand
Left-wing Democrat stuns former governor in NY mayor primary
NEW YORK CITY — Andrew Cuomo has conceded in the New York City mayoral Democratic primary to state assemblyman Zohran Mamdani in a stunning political upset.Cuomo, the state's former governor, was attempting to pull off a political comeback after resigning from office in 2021 amid a sexual harassment scandal.In a speech to supporters, Cuomo said Mamdani - a 33-year-old democratic socialist - had "won" the primary race and that "we are going to take a look and make some decisions"."Tonight is his night," Cuomo, 67, said. If elected, Mamdani would be the first Muslim and Indian American to lead the nation's largest city.The primary in staunchly liberal New York is likely to determine who becomes mayor in November's election.The contest was being...
June 25, 2025

Left-wing Democrat stuns former governor in NY mayor primary

The US Supreme Court
US Supreme Court allows Trump to resume deportations to third countries
WASHINGTON — The US Supreme Court has cleared the way for President Donald Trump's administration to resume deportations of migrants to countries other than their homeland.By 6-3, the justices reversed a lower court order requiring the government to give migrants a "meaningful opportunity" to tell officials what risks they might face being deported to a third country.The court's three liberal justices dissented from the majority ruling, saying it was "rewarding lawlessness".The case involves eight migrants from Myanmar, South Sudan, Cuba, Mexico, Laos and Vietnam, who were deported in May on a plane said to be heading for South Sudan. The Trump administration said they were "the worst of the worst".Boston-based US District Judge Brian Murphy ruled...
June 24, 2025

US Supreme Court allows Trump to resume deportations to third countries

Coca crops in Colombia's Micay Canyon
Dozens of soldiers seized in Colombian mountains
BOGOTA — Colombia's military says 57 soldiers have been kidnapped by civilians in the country's south-western Micay Canyon area.It says 31 soldiers were seized on Saturday while the rest were abducted on Sunday by a group of more than 200 people.The military says the civilians are acting under pressure from dissidents of the Farc rebel group which agreed a peace deal with the government in 2016.The mountainous region is a key zone for cocaine production and remains one of the most tense in the country's ongoing conflict with rebel groups.In a video statement on social media, Brig Gen Federico Alberto Mejia said four non-commissioned officers and 53 soldiers had been seized over the weekend."This is called kidnapping," he said.Reports in local media suggest that the...
June 23, 2025

Dozens of soldiers seized in Colombian mountains

The US Coast Guard released an image of the capsized boat
Six dead and two missing after boat flips in Lake Tahoe
SAN FRANCISCO — Six people were killed when a boat capsized in Lake Tahoe, a popular tourist destination on the border of California and Nevada.Two others are still missing following the accident on Saturday, which occurred as fierce winds battered the lake, kicking up 8ft-tall (2.5m) waves.The El Dorado County Sheriff's Office said two survivors were pulled from the water and are being treated in hospital for hypothermia and other injuries.According to the US Coast Guard, the 27-ft-long gold Chris-craft boat was caught in a large swell when winds gusted to 35mph (56km/h).On Sunday, the sheriff's Dive Team and Search and Rescue was continuing the search for victims near the shores of the DL Bliss State Park, where the accident occurred.None of the victims have yet been identified...
June 23, 2025

Six dead and two missing after boat flips in Lake Tahoe

Palestinian activist and former Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil.
Palestinian Columbia protester Mahmoud Khalil released from U.S. immigration detention
NEW YORK — Palestinian activist and former Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil was released Friday after 104 days in federal immigration detention, becoming one of the most high-profile figures caught up in President Donald Trump’s clampdown on campus protests over Israel’s war in Gaza.Khalil walked out of a detention facility in Jena, Louisiana, following a ruling by U.S. District Judge Michael Farbiarz, who said the government had failed to prove he was a flight risk or a danger to the community.“Petitioner is not a flight risk, and the evidence presented is that he is not a danger to the community,” Farbiarz said. “Period, full stop.”The 26-year-old activist was arrested on March 8 at his Manhattan apartment and held as part of a broader Trump...
June 21, 2025

Palestinian Columbia protester Mahmoud Khalil released from U.S. immigration detention

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks during the American Compass New World Gala at the National Building Museum on June 3, 2025, in Washington, DC.
US embassies must vet students for ‘hostile attitudes’ but can resume visa appointments, State Department says
WASHINGTON — The US State Department told embassies and consulates they must vet student visa applicants for “hostile attitudes towards our citizens, culture, government, institutions, or founding principles” but said they should resume appointments that were paused in late May.The new guidance was sent to US diplomatic posts worldwide in a cable seen by CNN Wednesday. It says the vetting will look at student and exchange visa applicants’ “entire online presence.” Applicants will be asked to set their social media profiles to public as part of the new vetting, and the cable notes that “limited access to, or visibility of, online presence could be construed as an effort to evade or hide certain activity.”It comes as the Trump administration has taken significant actions that...
June 19, 2025

US embassies must vet students for ‘hostile attitudes’ but can resume visa appointments, State Department says

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