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Sep 3, 2026 - World

President Donald Trump made the unusual move of publicly correcting his own commerce secretary after he claimed no Americans had died in the Iran war, a conflict that has killed 18 U.S. service members.The correction came in a Truth Social post published about 7:30 a.m. Thursday. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick had appeared on CNBC the day before and said the war had resulted in no American deaths, while arguing to investors that the conflict would be good for the bond market."I think the way the president is playing Iran, right, there's not — there haven't been American deaths," Lutnick said. "It's really just an economic choke out, which the administration is now executing more broadly, and I think it'll be very effective."Lutnick used the phrase to describe squeezing Iran's economy rather than defeating it on the battlefield. He told CNBC that the strategy was working, and he tied it to his forecast that borrowing costs would fall."So I'm very optimistic that the bond market will treat us very well," Lutnick said, predicting in the same interview that interest rates would stabilize within a couple of months. The war, which began on Feb. 28, is now in its seventh month.On Thursday, Trump insisted that Lutnick had been thinking about a country that the commerce secretary never named."Sec. Lutnick had Venezuela on his mind when he said nobody was killed. 18 people were killed in Iran!" Trump wrote.Trump's reference to Venezuela pointed to a different operation, in which U.S. forces struck targets across that country on Jan. 3 and captured President Nicolás Maduro with few American casualties, according to the Congressional Research Service.Lutnick had named Iran directly. He also credited the administration's handling of Iran with his optimism about the bond market, according to the interview transcript. The Pentagon's casualty database contradicts the claim, listing 18 service members killed and 757 wounded since the war began, CNN reported last month.The military quietly added 60 injuries to the count in a single week in late August, The Intercept reported.That raised the combined total of dead and wounded to 776. Some 345 of those casualties have come since a second ceasefire collapsed on July 7, according to the outlet. One U.S. government official called the sudden increase "an accounting trick" and accused the Pentagon of slow-walking the number.Mario Nawfal, who runs a large news aggregation account on X, posted the clip roughly half an hour after Trump's message and called it a "SERIOUS flub.""[P]eople in the administration like Lutnick can easily forget, or intentionally ignore, the men and women who've been killed or wounded," a USA Today opinion column argued.Trump's own allies made a nearly identical charge against President Joe Biden during the 2024 campaign. Biden falsely said at a CNN debate that no American troops had died on his watch, Fox News reported."[T]he stumbling, bumbling buffoon that we have in the White House had the audacity to say that under his watch that no military members have died," Darin Hoover, the father of a Marine killed in the 2021 Kabul airport bombing, told Fox News Digital.Two years later, support for the war Trump ordered has fallen to 31 percent, its lowest level since the early weeks of the fighting, Al Jazeera reported, citing a Reuters/Ipsos poll.Pollsters found 83% of those surveyed said they expect the fighting to continue for a long time. Gasoline now costs more than a dollar a gallon above pre-war levels, the outlet reported.Trump's overall approval stands at 32 percent, with 64 percent disapproving, in a national poll released Monday by the University of Massachusetts Amherst."With the midterm elections just two months away, the clock is ticking for President Trump and the Republican Party to offer solutions to the nation's most pressing problems," said Tatishe Nteta, the poll's director and a political science professor at the university.

Sep 3, 2026 - World

Pedro Sánchez continues to defend Rabat after police report claiming border forces helped 70,000 cross borderEurope live – latest updatesSpain has seen no evidence “whatsoever” that Morocco planned or facilitated a mass border breach into its north African territory of Ceuta, the Spanish prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has told parliament.The address on Thursday followed the emergence of a police report, commissioned by a judge and widely quoted in the media, claiming Moroccan border forces had actively aided about 70,000 people to cross the border in late July. Continue reading...

Sep 3, 2026 - World

About 46 people believed to be trapped in ‘room-like’ structure inside hydro plant tunnel on Nepal-Tibet borderAfter the flood: human suffering on an unfathomable scale in Nepal’s worst-hit districtsNepal authorities have said they are “confident” that dozens of workers in Nepal’s Rasuwagadhi hydropower plant are still alive, more than a week after deadly flash floods left them trapped in an underground chamber.Authorities said that at least 639 workers were still missing from hydropower plants built along Nepal’s Bhote Koshi and Triushuli rivers. Continue reading...

Sep 3, 2026 - World

Gloria Steinem — the iconic feminist journalist who revolutionized work for generations of women to come — has died. She was 92.Steinem passed away in her New York City home on Wednesday, surrounded by those who loved her, The Gloria Steinem Foundation announced Thursday morning."Gloria’s greatest gift was her ability to listen to others, to make others feel seen and heard," the foundation stated. "Her words, actions, and example gave people permission to be their truest selves. Gloria lived true to her independent spirit, always with curiosity and a great sense of humor."The cause of death was not revealed.Steinem dedicated her life to causes such as reproductive freedom, domestic violence prevention and workplace gender inequalities.She became a household name in 1963, when she went undercover as a Playboy bunny and exposed the poor conditions workers faced in Hugh Hefner’s clubs.In her later years, Steinem hosted talking circles in her home and wrote a forthcoming book, "???????? ???????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????," according to the foundation."Gloria loved the tradition of lighting signal fires on hills to light the way to the other side of the mountain," they stated. "Lighting your own candle for Gloria makes you part of this global and celestial community circle."Read more about her life and work here.

Sep 3, 2026 - World

Claim relating to 1960 attack on hundreds of protesters part of wave of litigation over apartheid crimes in South AfricaThe day dawned brightly on 21 March 1960, as residents of the South African township of Sharpeville gathered to protest against pass laws, which forced “Black, Indian and Coloured” South Africans to carry documents at all times specifying where they were allowed to be.Abraham Mofokeng joined the march, one of dozens organised nationwide by the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), a breakaway group from the African National Congress (ANC). “The weather was very nice, the sun was out. You could not have suspected that the day would go so horribly,” said Mofokeng, who was then a 20-year-old factory worker. Continue reading...