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Mar 11, 2026 - World

President Donald Trump claimed not to know that the U.S. military determined that it was responsible for killing about 150 people in the accidental bombing of an Iranian girls' school."Day 11, and as you know, we're doing something that nobody ever thought was possible to do," Trump announced to reporters outside the White House on Wednesday. "Our military is the best, it's the most powerful in the world, and they're hitting them very hard.""A new report says that the military investigation has found that the United States struck the school in Iran," one reporter noted. "As Commander and Chief, do you take responsibility for that?""That is what?" Trump asked."The school in Iran. A new report says the military investigation has found it was the United States that struck the school," the reporter repeated. "I don't know about it," Trump replied dismissively.The president has previously blamed Iran for striking the school.

Mar 11, 2026 - World

Company also launches tools to spot scammers as Thai police arrest 21 peopleMeta disabled more than 150,000 accounts and Thai police arrested 21 people in a sweeping international crackdown on south-east Asian criminal scam centers that targeted people around the world, the social media company said on Wednesday.The operation was led by Thailand’s Royal Thai police anti-cyber scam center, alongside the FBI and the US justice department’s scam center strike force, with Meta investigators acting on intelligence shared in real time by law enforcement. Continue reading...

Mar 11, 2026 - World

The new U.S. ambassador to South Africa has been summoned to explain his criticism, the country's foreign minister said Wednesday, as a diplomatic rift continues over foreign policy that the Trump administration describes as anti-American and domestic policies it calls anti-white.

Mar 11, 2026 - World

One of President Donald Trump's stated objectives for the war in Iran hasn't historically been considered a priority.The 79-year-old president told Axios in a brief phone interview Wednesday that there is "practically nothing left to target," so he believes the war with Iran would end "soon," but one of the accomplishments he cited might come as a surprise to military officials."Little this and that ... any time I want it to end, it will end," Trump told Axios.Trump laid out four objectives Feb. 28 in a speech announcing the first strikes on Iran, which included destroying their missile stockpile and their capacity to build more, ensuring their terrorist proxies could no longer destabilize the region, preventing them from obtaining nuclear weapons and annihilating their navy.But a New York Times report that broke around the same time as the Axios report stated that last goal was not considered particularly important to the Defense Intelligence Agency."While Mr. Trump has made targeting Iran’s navy a top priority of the war to prevent it from interfering with global commerce in the region," the Times reported, "historically it is not been a top priority of the Defense Intelligence Agency, which has focused more on Iran’s missiles and other priorities like China and North Korea."The Times reported Wednesday morning that the Defense Intelligence Agency provided outdated data to U.S. Central Command that officers used to create target coordinates that resulted in a deadly Feb. 28 airstrike on the Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school building, which killed at least 175 people, mostly children."The school, in the town of Minab, is on the same block as buildings used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Navy, a top target of the U.S. military strikes," the Times reported. "The site of the school was originally part of the base. Officials briefed on the inquiry said the building was not always used as a school, though it is not clear precisely when the school opened on the site.""A visual investigation by The Times showed the building housing the school had been fenced off from the military base between 2013 and 2016," the report added.

Mar 11, 2026 - World

An old NASA science satellite plunged uncontrolled from orbit and reentered over the Pacific on Wednesday.