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Machete-wielding man attacks Ugandan nursery school, killing 4 children

A man killed four children in a machete attack inside a nursery school in the Ugandan capital of Kampala on Thursday, police said.

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Company backed by Trump sons looks to sell drone interceptors to Gulf states being attacked by Iran

A drone maker backed by President Trump's two oldest sons is trying to sell to Gulf countries while they are under attack by Iran and dependent on the U.S. military led by their father.

Nearly 50 senior Iranian officials have been killed in the war. Just who are they?

Exact casualty figures are murky, but the joint U.S.-Israeli operation has succeeded in decapitating Iran's military and political leadership structure.

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Trump's big TV address underwhelms MAGA host: 'I was like, that's it?'

Pro-MAGA Real America's Voice host Gina Loudon revealed that she was underwhelmed by President Donald Trump's Wednesday night address to the nation about the war in Iran.During a Thursday morning segment, Loudon reflected on the speech with co-hosts David Brody and Terrence Bates."He basically said that everything is on track and that completion of military objectives," Bates noted. "Soon, kind of in parentheses, two to three weeks is the number he floated.""But I don't know," he remarked. "I still have questions, Dr. Gina. Did you get all the questions last night that you wanted answered?""Well, since, as David Brody pointed out this morning, I believe in our production call, he never said the word ground troops at all," Loudon replied. "Didn't address. No comment. So that meant that a lot of America went, oh, okay, well, we're not going to, we're not going to insert any ground troops. That's great. But is that what that meant? I don't know the answer to that.""And I was my whole time, this whole time, like, I literally was like, that's it?" she complained. "I don't know about anybody else. That's what I was thinking. I was like, that's what, wait, huh? I didn't understand."For his part, Brody called on the "forever war crowd" to calm down."And I get it. Don't get me wrong," he said. "I understand the concerns. But we're talking 32 days as opposed to 19 years in Vietnam. So let's just settle it down here and let's see where we go."Loudon fired back: "Yeah, well, some of us are, you know, thinking historically, and we're a little older and wiser, and we just want to have we want to have — we want to be the accountability partner for the president that we love."

Trump showed his hand in latest speech — and the world should be worried: expert

Donald Trump has no idea how to end the war with Iran, according to a defense and security expert urging the world to take note.Christopher Bucktin says the president has delivered a speech that highlighted the United States' failures in Iran, and that backing out is effectively the only option Trump's administration has. Whether that moment comes, The Mirror's US editor argues, is yet to be seen. He wrote, "If you were waiting for clarity last night, you got confusion. If you were waiting for honesty, you got lies. And if you were waiting for leadership, you got something closer to a greatest-hits compilation of his favourite talking points - none of them remotely resembling the truth."The most extraordinary part? He didn’t have to do this. Trump had an opportunity just hours earlier to end the Iran war or at least to claim he had. He could have stepped up, declared victory, and walked away."Given his talent for rewriting reality, plenty would have believed him. The killing could have paused. Markets might have steadied. Even his own fracturing MAGA base might have rallied behind the illusion of success. Instead, he chose the opposite."What Trump does next will worry the world, Bucktin believes, as the president must now figure out a way of leaving the Iran war behind. But the president's speech noted both conclusive success and an ongoing war, with Bucktin arguing this blur does not sit well with the public or the world. Bucktin wrote, "Iran has not folded. It has adapted, and in doing so, it has outplayed a man who thought force alone would be enough. By tightening its grip on the Strait, it has strengthened its position while Trump weakens his."At one moment, he says the job is done. Next, he threatens escalation. One moment, no regime change. The next, hints the regime may not survive. It is incoherent."The truth is brutally simple. Trump started a war he did not understand, against an opponent he underestimated, with no serious plan for what came next. He had a chance to step back and pretend it was over. Instead, he stepped forward and showed the world he hasn’t got a clue how to end it."