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Apr 2, 2026 - World

Congo on Thursday declared the end of a two-year outbreak of the mpox disease that's believed to have caused more than 2,200 deaths in the country.

Apr 2, 2026 - World

Donald Trump has no idea how to end the war with Iran, according to a defense and security expert urging the world to take note.Christopher Bucktin says the president has delivered a speech that highlighted the United States' failures in Iran, and that backing out is effectively the only option Trump's administration has. Whether that moment comes, The Mirror's US editor argues, is yet to be seen. He wrote, "If you were waiting for clarity last night, you got confusion. If you were waiting for honesty, you got lies. And if you were waiting for leadership, you got something closer to a greatest-hits compilation of his favourite talking points - none of them remotely resembling the truth."The most extraordinary part? He didn’t have to do this. Trump had an opportunity just hours earlier to end the Iran war or at least to claim he had. He could have stepped up, declared victory, and walked away."Given his talent for rewriting reality, plenty would have believed him. The killing could have paused. Markets might have steadied. Even his own fracturing MAGA base might have rallied behind the illusion of success. Instead, he chose the opposite."What Trump does next will worry the world, Bucktin believes, as the president must now figure out a way of leaving the Iran war behind. But the president's speech noted both conclusive success and an ongoing war, with Bucktin arguing this blur does not sit well with the public or the world. Bucktin wrote, "Iran has not folded. It has adapted, and in doing so, it has outplayed a man who thought force alone would be enough. By tightening its grip on the Strait, it has strengthened its position while Trump weakens his."At one moment, he says the job is done. Next, he threatens escalation. One moment, no regime change. The next, hints the regime may not survive. It is incoherent."The truth is brutally simple. Trump started a war he did not understand, against an opponent he underestimated, with no serious plan for what came next. He had a chance to step back and pretend it was over. Instead, he stepped forward and showed the world he hasn’t got a clue how to end it."

Apr 2, 2026 - World

The embattled chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court can potentially resume his duties, a three-judge panel said, after rejecting a United Nations investigation of alleged sexual misconduct with a female aide, according to conclusions viewed by The Associated Press.

Apr 2, 2026 - World

Chile's new president, Jose Antonio Kast, has joined a growing list of right-leaning Latin American leaders. Not only is he conservative - he's openly religious as well.

Apr 2, 2026 - World

As part of a discussion on Donald Trump’s address to the nation on Wednesday night, where he once again restated his stance on waging war on Iran, MS NOW’s Jonathan Lemire and “Morning Joe” regular John Heilemann agreed that two of his closest allies backing away from him is a sign that he is in the twilight of his political career.As Heilemann, a political strategist, noted, no one in the White House could be happy about the headlines that followed the address, because it did little to convince skeptical voters that things are going well as they watch the price of fuel skyrocket.“You know, John Lemire is someone who's pointed this out as much as almost anybody I know, Donald Trump is just not out among the people, very much the people of his party, the people of his coalition,” Heilemann told co-host Joe Scarborough. “And it feels as though he's not maybe even listening very much to MAGA media, which has turned against Laura Ingraham on Fox News, now suggesting that Donald Trump may not have the mental capacity to understand the foreign policy advice he's getting.”“That is a sign of a rupture that has something to do with the fact that Trump is looking more and more like a lame duck,” he suggested.“You have JD Vance now announcing that he's he's leaking to the press like crazy, that he was never for [war in] Iran,” he elaborated. “And now he's got a memoir coming out about his Catholic faith; we are into the 2028 presidential cycle now. ““And I think you're right that Donald Trump, on some level, the combination of detachment and the sense of kind of fatalism about what's going to happen and if he's going to save himself in the midterms, save the party in the midterms, he's going to have to do it through things like the SAVE Act. And maybe with all this increasing talk, deploying ICE to polling places, those are the only –– he's not going to be able to turn this around in a conventional political way. That's the one thing I think he still knows.” - YouTube youtu.be