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Apr 8, 2026 - World

Trump administration officials are scrambling to find “positive” media coverage of President Donald Trump regarding his decision to accept a tentative ceasefire agreement with Iran, with one senior official fearing the president’s hatred of “being humiliated” may lead him to reignite the conflict and spark an “Iran-war apocalypse,” Zeteo reported on Wednesday.“A problem is Donald Trump hates being humiliated,” a senior Trump administration official told Zeteo, speaking on the condition of anonymity. “He is going to see coverage that he was beat by the Iranians. I am expecting that to change his thinking.”The senior official said that they and other aides were working to “get a bunch of ‘positive’ media coverage” of Trump “to soothe his ego,” Zeteo reported. The official added that they also planned to engage MAGA influencers and other right-wing media figures to help shape favorable coverage of Trump’s decision to halt plans to destroy Iran’s entire civilization.Portraying Trump’s agreement to a ceasefire as a victory, however, will be “hard to support,” Zeteo argued, given that the conflict has sent prices soaring across the globe, resulted in the deaths of 13 U.S. service members, and failed to topple Iran’s government – a frequently but inconsistently cited objective of the war.“The attack on Iran was based on lies, it was completely unnecessary, and no one wanted it – other than Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who reportedly sold the U.S. president on a rosy and deeply misguided vision of how the war would play out, per a deep dive from the New York Times on Tuesday,” Zeteo’s report reads. “Netanyahu got to brief Trump in the White House Situation Room, and Trump opted not to sit at the head of the table as he did so.”

Apr 8, 2026 - World

New administration reverses expropriation of property founded by ex-Nazi Paul Schäfer, leaving victims in limboWith its Germanic crosses and colourful toy-town facades, the village square of the tiny Chilean settlement of Villa Baviera gives little indication of the horrors of its past.Until 1991, this cattle town of a few hundred people was a compound known as Colonia Dignidad. Its leader, Paul Schäfer, a former Nazi and weapons smuggler, bought a swathe of land in the valley in 1961, eventually holding as many as 300 people in a fenced enclave with minimal contact with the outside world. He sexually abused and even tortured the children in the camp. Continue reading...

Apr 8, 2026 - World

According to the panel on MS NOW’s “Morning Joe,” if Donald Trump’s ceasefire agreement with Iran holds, the US still came out as a loser after the US launched the unprovoked war.According to “Morning Joe” regular Mike Barnicle, there should be no doubt that Iran may have lost militarily, but now holds a stronger hand than before the war began.Before letting former Council on Foreign Relations president Richard Haass expound on the long-term implications of the paused war, Barnicle bluntly stated, “Did not Iran, though, just play rope-a-dope with the United States? They won. Iran won.”“Look, so that's a larger question,” Haass replied, “Are we better off than we were five weeks ago? Absolutely not. Straight question, we'll see what happens with the nuclear, our standing in the world is worse off. Russia's better off. NATO's worse off. We can go around the horn and see who it is — but yeah.”“And Iran, actually, the regime is stronger than it was. It's military, in the immediate sense, weaker; it's ballistic missiles and all that. But it is stronger politically inside. Our attacks on Persian civilization may have actually helped the regime, because they can stand up and say, we have protected Persian-ness. I also think they're stronger in the region. They have now become much more of a force to be reckoned with and around the world.”“So Iran, yes, we hurt them in the classic sense, but in the strategic sense, they are, they are much better off. And I would say we are worse off for all of it,” he added. - YouTube youtu.be

Apr 8, 2026 - World

Two-week ceasefire comes after Trump spoke to Pakistan’s leaders, with China also believed to be exerting influence over TehranMiddle East crisis – live updatesUS and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire with Tehran saying it will reopen strait of HormuzThe US and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire on Tuesday barely an hour before Donald Trump’s deadline to obliterate Iran was set to expire, with Tehran agreeing to temporarily reopen the strait of Hormuz.Israel also agreed to the ceasefire, the White House said. As Trump announced he was suspending his plans to escalate attacks across Iran, the US president said he had received a 10-point proposal from Iran which was a “workable basis on which to negotiate”. Continue reading...

Apr 7, 2026 - World

Man born in El Salvador has been fighting removal to series of ‘third’ countries after mistaken deportation last yearUS government attorneys on Tuesday told a federal judge the Department of Homeland Security still intends to deport Kilmar Ábrego García to Liberia, despite a new agreement with Costa Rica to accept deportees who cannot legally be returned to their home countries.The Salvadorian national’s case has become a focal point in the immigration debate after he was mistakenly deported to El Salvador last year. Since his return, he has been fighting a second deportation to a series of African countries proposed by homeland security officials. Continue reading...