GAZA
Airstrike kills 10: rescuers
Gaza’s civil defense agency said a pre-dawn Israeli air strike yesterday killed 10 members of a family, including seven children, in the southern city of Khan Yunis. The Israeli military said that it was looking into the attack, adding in a separate statement that it had struck approximately 40 “terror targets” across Gaza over the past day. “Ten people, including seven children, were brought to the hospital as martyrs following an Israeli airstrike that targeted the Farra family home in central Khan Yunis,” agency spokesperson Mahmud Bassal said. Medics and rescuers transported the dead and injured to hospital in multiple ambulances, with several bodies wrapped in white shrouds and blankets, footage of the aftermath showed.
UNITED STATES
Caine nomination approved
The Senate yesterday approved President Donald Trump’s nominee to be the nation’s top military officer after he abruptly fired the previous chairman of the joint chiefs of staff earlier this year. Lawmakers signed off on Dan Caine’s nomination and promotion to four-star general in an early morning vote of 60-to-25 ahead of a two-week recess. Democrats have sharply criticized the firings of a series of senior officers, including of the previous joint chiefs chairman, General Charles “CQ” Brown, accusing Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth of seeking to ensure the military is led by people loyal to the president. Trump fired Brown in February, less than two years into his four-year term as chairman. Caine sought to allay such concerns about his nomination during his confirmation hearing last week, pledging that he would “continue the traditions and standards of my oath of office and my commission as a nonpartisan leader who will always strive to do the right thing.”
DENMARK
Greenland US head fired
The head of the US military base in Greenland, a Danish territory coveted by US President Donald Trump, has been fired for criticizing Washington’s agenda for the Arctic island. Colonel Susannah Meyers, who had served as commander of the Pituffik Space Base since July last year, was removed amid reports she distanced herself and the base from US Vice President J.D. Vance’s criticism of Denmark and its oversight of the territory during his visit to the base two weeks ago. “Commanders are expected to adhere to the highest standards of conduct, especially as it relates to remaining nonpartisan in the performance of their duties,” the US Space Force said in a statement late on Thursday, without elaborating.
UNITED STATES
Return deported man: court
The Supreme Court on Thursday said President Donald Trump’s administration must facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador, rejecting the administration’s emergency appeal. Abrego Garcia is a Salvadoran citizen who had an immigration court order preventing his deportation to his native country over fears he would face persecution from local gangs. The administration claims Abrego Garcia is a member of the MS-13 gang, although his attorneys said there is no evidence he was in the gang, and he has never been charged with or convicted of a crime. The administration has conceded that it made a mistake in sending him to El Salvador, where he is being held in a notorious prison, but also argued that it no longer could do anything about it.
Incumbent Ecuadoran President Daniel Noboa on Sunday claimed a runaway victory in the nation’s presidential election, after voters endorsed the young leader’s “iron fist” approach to rampant cartel violence. With more than 90 percent of the votes counted, the National Election Council said Noboa had an unassailable 12-point lead over his leftist rival Luisa Gonzalez. Official results showed Noboa with 56 percent of the vote, against Gonzalez’s 44 percent — a far bigger winning margin than expected after a virtual tie in the first round. Speaking to jubilant supporters in his hometown of Olon, the 37-year-old president claimed a “historic victory.” “A huge hug
Two Belgian teenagers on Tuesday were charged with wildlife piracy after they were found with thousands of ants packed in test tubes in what Kenyan authorities said was part of a trend in trafficking smaller and lesser-known species. Lornoy David and Seppe Lodewijckx, two 19-year-olds who were arrested on April 5 with 5,000 ants at a guest house, appeared distraught during their appearance before a magistrate in Nairobi and were comforted in the courtroom by relatives. They told the magistrate that they were collecting the ants for fun and did not know that it was illegal. In a separate criminal case, Kenyan Dennis
A judge in Bangladesh issued an arrest warrant for the British member of parliament and former British economic secretary to the treasury Tulip Siddiq, who is a niece of former Bangladeshi prime minister Sheikh Hasina, who was ousted in August last year in a mass uprising that ended her 15-year rule. The Bangladeshi Anti-Corruption Commission has been investigating allegations against Siddiq that she and her family members, including Hasina, illegally received land in a state-owned township project near Dhaka, the capital. Senior Special Judge of Dhaka Metropolitan Zakir Hossain passed the order on Sunday, after considering charges in three separate cases filed
APPORTIONING BLAME: The US president said that there were ‘millions of people dead because of three people’ — Vladimir Putin, Joe Biden and Volodymyr Zelenskiy US President Donald Trump on Monday resumed his attempts to blame Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy for Russia’s invasion, falsely accusing him of responsibility for “millions” of deaths. Trump — who had a blazing public row in the Oval Office with Zelenskiy six weeks ago — said the Ukranian shared the blame with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who ordered the February 2022 invasion, and then-US president Joe Biden. Trump told reporters that there were “millions of people dead because of three people.” “Let’s say Putin No. 1, but let’s say Biden, who had no idea what the hell he was doing, No. 2, and
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