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Oct 3, 2025 - World

Hamas has responded to the demands outlined by President Donald Trump in an effort to establish peace. According to Reuters, Hamas said on Friday it will release all Israeli hostages, alive or dead, under the terms outlined in the Gaza proposal. They have not signed onto the plan, but it's a significant first step in the direction of ending the war.

Oct 3, 2025 - World

An executive order signed by Donald Trump stating that any armed attack against Qatar would be considered "a threat to the peace and security of the United States" received fierce pushback from the editors of the conservative National Review.The EO, dated Sept. 29, explicitly states: “In the event of such an attack, the United States shall take all lawful and appropriate measures — including diplomatic, economic, and, if necessary, military — to defend the interests of the United States and of the State of Qatar and to restore peace and stability.”As explained in the scathing National Review editorial published on Friday, that mirrors the NATO Article 5 guarantee which states that an attack on one member of NATO is an attack on all members, which the editors called, in this case, “ridiculous."As they noted, despite allowing a U.S. military presence in the Persian Gulf country, Qatar was called by Trump in 2017 “a funder of terrorism at a very high level.”The editors asked “what reasonable basis should the president ask Americans” to defend Qatar when the country is obviously attempting to “cozy up to both the United States and Islamist jihadis of all stripes.”“Qatar materially supports Hamas (and the Taliban, which harbored al-Qaeda and made war on America for 20 years), and it is a principal proponent of the Muslim Brotherhood and its loathsome Sunni Islamist ideology. What’s more, it is an ally of the Shiite jihadist regime across the Persian Gulf in Iran,” the editors wrote.Based upon that alone, they asked, “...can Americans at least ask that those countries to whom we would send our sons and daughters to defend be genuine friends of the United States?”“A president of the United States has no unilateral authority to give another country a security guarantee — at least one that the U.S. must honor. Presidential executive orders can be reversed or ignored by the next president,” they noted.You can read more here.

Oct 3, 2025 - World

President Donald Trump issued an apocalyptic threat against Hamas to accept a "last chance" agreement or face annihilation.The U.S. president posted a 329-word statement Friday morning on his Truth Social platform demanding Hamas accept the terms of a ceasefire proposal, three days after setting a deadline of “three or four days" to respond to a 20-point plan to end the two-year war in Gaza, and Trump said that Israel was waiting for him to approve another massive strike."Hamas has been a ruthless and violent threat, for many years, in the Middle East!" Trump posted. "They have killed (and made lives unbearably miserable), culminating with the October 7th MASSACRE, in Israel, babies, woman, children, old people, and many young men and women, boys and girls, getting ready to celebrate their future lives together.""As retribution for the October 7th attack on civilization, more than 25,000 Hamas 'soldiers' have already been killed," he added. "Most of the rest are surrounded and MILITARILY TRAPPED, just waiting for me to give the word, 'GO,' for their lives to be quickly extinguished. As for the rest, we know where and who you are, and you will be hunted down, and killed."Trump's statement echoed demands by Israel's defense minister ordering all remaining Palestinians to leave the famine-stricken Gaza City for the south or face the "full force" of its military."I am asking that all innocent Palestinians immediately leave this area of potentially great future death for safer parts of Gaza," Trump posted. "Everyone will be well cared for by those that are waiting to help. Fortunately for Hamas, however, they will be given one last chance! Great, powerful, and very rich Nations of the Middle East, and the surrounding areas beyond, together with the United States of America, have agreed, with Israel signing on, to PEACE, after 3000 years, in the Middle East.""THIS DEAL ALSO SPARES THE LIVES OF ALL REMAINING HAMAS FIGHTERS!" Trump added. "The details of the document are known to the WORLD, and it is a great one for ALL! We will have PEACE in the Middle East one way or the other. The violence and bloodshed will stop. RELEASES THE HOSTAGES, ALL OF THEM, INCLUDING THE BODIES OF THOSE THAT ARE DEAD, NOW!"Trump set another deadline for Hamas to accept the terms of the ceasefire before he gives Israel the green light to attack."An Agreement must be reached with Hamas by Sunday Evening at SIX (6) P.M., Washington, D.C. time," Trump posted. "Every Country has signed on! If this LAST CHANCE agreement is not reached, all HELL, like no one has ever seen before, will break out against Hamas. THERE WILL BE PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST ONE WAY OR THE OTHER. Thank you for your attention to this matter! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP"

Oct 2, 2025 - World

A decision by First Lady Melania Trump on a gift for King Charles III contributed to the resignation of the director of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum and Boyhood Home, reports CBS News.For their visit to the U.K. weeks ago, the first lady was handed a list of possible gifts by aides to bestow upon the monarch and her choice of a sword from the museum's collection caused a furor with Todd Arrington, a career historian, who balked at giving away the artifact from the collection.According to the report, “Arrington's departure came after he resisted taking an original Eisenhower sword out of the library's collection,” adding, “Eisenhower possessed several swords, including a Sword of Honor given to him in 1947 by the city of London for his role as allied supreme commander during World War II, an honor saber gifted to him by the Netherlands in 1947, and his West Point officer saber.”Despite Arrington’s suggestion that a replica could be found to use as a gift, the president’s wife held firm, which reportedly led to his departure.The report notes, “Ultimately, West Point provided a faux version of Eisenhower's sword from the military academy,” but there was already tension between Arrington and the administration with CBS reporting, “One administration official said Arrington was believed to have spoken critically about the president and the administration.”You can read more here.

Oct 2, 2025 - World

Several world leaders made fun of President Donald Trump's boasts about ending a war between their countries.Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama was caught on video mocking the U.S. president Thursday with French President Emmanuel Macron and Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev at a European Political Community summit in Denmark, reported Politico.“You should make an apology … to us because you didn’t congratulate us on the peace deal that President Trump made between Albania and Azerbaijan,” Rama told Macron in the video, and Aliyev burst out laughing."I'm sorry for that," Macron replied, drawing more laughter from bystanders."He worked very hard," Rama added.Trump has repeatedly mixed up Armenia and Albania when claiming to have resolved long-standing tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan – the latter of which he has been unable to properly pronounce – to angle for a Nobel Peace Prize.“I solved wars that was unsolvable. Azerbaijan and Albania," Trump told Fox News last month. "It was going on for many, many years, I had the prime ministers and presidents in my office."The president did broker a deal at the White House in August between the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan to end decades of fighting, and he frequently – and falsely – boasts to have ended at least six other conflicts. — (@)