President Donald Trump has accused Iran of shooting down a United States military helicopter over the Strait of Hormuz, saying that he will respond to the attack.

“I have just been informed by our Great Military that last night the Iranians shot down one of our highly sophisticated Apache Helicopters while patrolling over the Strait of Hormuz,” Trump wrote in a social media post on Tuesday.

“There were two pilots involved, both are safe and uninjured. Nevertheless, the United States must, of necessity, respond to this attack.”

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48508563

April 19, 2026

Hundreds of supporters of the Cuban Revolution arrived in Cuba in March, as part of the Nuestra America Convoy, whose goal was to show solidarity with Cuba’s right to self-determination amidst a complete oil blockade and 67-year general blockade sponsored by the US government, operating with US taxpayers’ money.

Because Cuba refuses to bow to the Monroe Doctrine, aka the US government’s imperial project, US sanctions have sentenced the island to a slow genocide, which is playing out in real time currently with Cubans encountering on a daily basis: food shortages, blackouts that last for days and that have led to patients dependent on ventilators dying in hospitals, epidemics of diseases spread by mosquitos and more.

Longtime organizer Brenda Lopez of US Hands Off Cuba Committee recently returned, and is reporting back on how critical it is for people in the US to fight to end the blockades against Cuba, since our taxes are fueling this genocide.

A trust fund set up to help a South Pacific nation gravely threatened by climate change has invested in coal mining, gas exploration and the world's largest crude oil refinery, an AFP investigation has revealed.

Low-lying Pacific island nation Tuvalu said it was reviewing the "fossil fuel exposure" of the $200 million fund after it was presented with AFP's findings.

Few countries are more exposed to climate change than Tuvalu, a chain of coral atolls reckoning with acidifying oceans, tropical disease and rising seas.

Land is already so scarce across the archipelago halfway between Australia and Hawaii that the international airport runway doubles as a makeshift sports field.

With a fragile economy and few natural resources, Tuvalu relies on a government trust fund to help foot the spiralling costs of the climate crisis.

Tuvalu has entrusted management of its single-largest financial asset to advisory firm Mercer, which has invested in funds holding stakes in major fossil fuel companies, according to financial records and government reports reviewed by AFP.

Tuvalu climate activist Richard Gokrun said it was "really shocking" to see the nation tied up with fossil fuel companies.

The world’s largest banks committed $906bn in financing to the fossil fuel industry last year, an “unfathomable” increase in investment locking in years more of coal, oil and gas production as the world continues to overheat, a new report has found.

The surge in new fossil fuel lending, up $64bn or nearly 8% on 2024, shows that the world’s largest 65 banks are making decisions incompatible with international agreements to restrain rising global temperatures, according to the coalition of environmental groups behind the new analysis.

JPMorgan Chase is again the world’s leading financier of fossil fuels, according to the annual Banking on Climate Chaos report, after pushing $58bn to the sector last year – up 13% from 2024.

Bank of America committed the second largest amount to fossil fuels last year, followed by Japanese banks MUFG and Mizuho Financial. Citigroup, another US bank, rounds out the top five, with Barclays, at number eight, the highest placed British bank.

The executive body of the International Criminal Court decided on Monday to suspend Karim Khan, the ICC chief prosecutor, disregarding a judicial panel's opinion that found no evidence of misconduct against him.

According to an official press release published late on Monday, a qualified majority of the 21-member bureau of the Assembly of States Parties (ASP) decided to suspend the prosecutor “with immediate effect” pending the final decision of the ASP as the competent decision-maker on the matter.

The decision was made under rule 28 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence, which indicates that a two-thirds majority of bureau members present and voting recommended a finding of “serious misconduct”, paving the way for a vote at the larger ASP which first needs to uphold the decision, then vote on whether to remove the prosecutor.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48488873

ROME, June 8 (Reuters) - Italian prosecutors put Israel's far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir under investigation over the ​treatment of activists who were part of a Gaza flotilla last ‌month, a judicial source said on Monday.

The source, who asked not to be named, confirmed earlier reports by Italian news agencies and said Ben-Gvir was being investigated ​on suspicion of torture and kidnapping of Italian citizens who were ​among the activists.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48485646

June 8, 2026

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48484624

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For decades, the Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM) in Cuba has trained tens of thousands of students from more than 100 countries, including hundreds from the United States and across the Global South.

Rooted in the idea that healthcare is a human right, Cuba’s medical education system seeks to train doctors who are both scientifically skilled and socially committed. Many ELAM students do not wait until graduation to put those values into practice.

In this video, we hear from two doctors from the United States who studied at ELAM and last year led a brigade of mostly African medical students to Guinea-Bissau to provide health education and medical consultations.

Their journey offers a glimpse into ELAM’s broader mission: preparing healthcare professionals to serve communities often left behind and to see medicine as a tool for social justice.

Editor: Jihan Hafiz

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The magnitude of what just happened may take some time to sink in. This is the first time Iran has struck Israel after Israel struck another country’s territory (that is, not Iran).

This means that the battle lines have been moved.

Iran’s deterrence had already been restored in the sense that Israel knew that any strike on it would be responded to.

But now, Iran has proven that it will also respond to Israeli strikes on Lebanon.

This is the first time in decades that a regional power has the means, capacity, and willingness to put hard power against Israeli military maneuvers or aggression against a third party.

Whether this would extend to Palestine is uncertain, but if it does, it may prove a game-changer.

The Yemeni attack forced the Israeli regime to completely halt all flights at Ben Gurion International Airport while activating air raid sirens across Tel Aviv and central and southern occupied Palestine.

According to the Israeli occupation army, a missile was fired from Yemen toward central parts of the occupied territories.

The regime’s air defense systems claimed to have intercepted the projectile, but the attack triggered widespread panic, with sirens blaring in the Tel Aviv metropolis and surrounding regions.