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Apr 6, 2026 - World

General Randy George's ouster carries echoes of Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld sidelining General Eric Shinseki after disagreements over troop requirements for the Iraq war.

Apr 6, 2026 - World

Key producers led by Saudi Arabia and Russia agreed to increase targets for May by about 206,000 barrels a day during a video conference.

Apr 6, 2026 - World

The war in Iran has worn down President Donald Trump's spirit and sidetracked his "culture war obsessions," an analyst explained on Monday. Salon's Amanda Marcotte discussed how Trump has tried to convince the American public to support the ongoing war in the Middle East. Despite his attempts during his address to the nation last week, he "sounded like a whipped dog, barely able to summon the energy to make false promises about ending the war 'very shortly.'"Trump has also attempted to redirect attention from Iran back to his "culture war fixations." "There is no telling how bad the war and the economy will get, but one thing is starting to become certain: The war in Iran and the escalating economic damage from it is getting in the way of Trump’s true love, which is waging culture wars that stir up the ugliest impulses within the MAGA base," Marcotte wrote. "The president desperately wants everyone to stop talking about oil prices, bombed schools and the Strait of Hormuz, and get back to stoking racist hysteria and leading revenge campaigns against his perceived enemies."As the president has tried to convince his base to care about the SAVE Act, his Supreme Court birthright citizenship case and continued election fraud claims, he still can't quite convince Americans to shift their focus away from the Iran war and the economic fallout. "Because of this Trump has a reason, however awful it may be, to keep his culture war obsessions front and center," Marcotte added. "The unbending loyalty of the MAGA base has always been his shield, protecting him from political collapse even when everyone outside of 65% of Americans disapprove of his performance as president. As the Covid-19 pandemic showed, these people will go to great lengths, including refusing to protect themselves against a deadly virus, if they feel it serves their larger cause of winning the culture war.""But if it seems Trump’s attention is fully pulled away from their paranoias and hatreds, he risks demoralizing them — especially since he’s a rapidly-aging lame duck. But by foolishly starting a war that is spiraling out of control, his ability to redirect public attention to issues that better serve his political ambitions seems to have been crushed."

Apr 6, 2026 - World

Police say 26-year-old man died at scene outside nightclub in Peckham and two others remain in hospitalFour men have been arrested on suspicion of murder after a man was stabbed to death and two other men were injured outside a nightclub in south-east London.The Metropolitan police said officers were called at 3.54am on Monday to reports of a disturbance involving a group of people outside a nightclub in Ruby Street, Peckham. Continue reading...

Apr 6, 2026 - World

Man had to be airlifted out of mountain in north Phoenix by rescue teams and was transported to hospitalSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxA hiker was taken to a hospital in critical condition after bees stung him more than 100 times on an Arizona mountain trail over the Easter weekend – an emergency which required the help of a helicopter crew.The man reported “over 100 stings” had left him “unable to continue his descent” from the summit of Lookout Mountain Preserve in north Phoenix at about 10am on Saturday, the local fire department said in a statement. Continue reading...