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US President Donald Trump fired Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday and named his former personal lawyer to serve as the acting chief of the Justice Department. The move, which the Republican president announced in a social media post, comes amid criticism of Bondi's handling of the Epstein files and her failure to successfully prosecute several perceived Trump political foes. FRANCE 24's Monte Francis reports.
#Bondi #Epstein #Trump
European NATO countries have reduced their reliance on the US for weapons imports while significantly increasing their defense spending in the past year. Speaking with FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney, Guntram Wolff, Senior Fellow at Bruegel, says that "any weapon we buy as Europeans from the United States is a liability both in terms of technology dependence but also in terms of missing growth and domestic ecosystem that would develop".
#NATO #Trump #weapons #Europe #Russia
US President Donald Trump fired Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday after months of strained relations and named his former personal lawyer to serve as the acting chief of the Justice Department. Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth has asked the U.S. Army Chief of Staff Randy George to step down and take immediate retirement, according to CBS News. The Guardian Washington DC bureau chief David Smith reports.
#Bondi #Hegseth #USArmy
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday Donald Trump's mocking comments about his marriage did not merit a response, calling them "neither elegant nor appropriate" for the situation. But after days of tensions over US-Israeli strikes on Iran and over NATO, an apparently irritated Macron launched a broadside of his own, saying "there is too much talk" and "this is not a show".
#Trump #Macron #NATO
Speaking with FRANCE 24's Mark Owen, Ivo Daalder, Former US Ambassador to NATO and Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center at Harvard University, says that US President Donald Trump's address to the nation failed to convince, stressing that communication about the war "is almost a repeat of Vietnam. We're now hearing not body counts but how many targets have been hit [...] it seems like we're bombing for bombing's sake".
#Iran #war #Trump
Reporting from Tehran for FRANCE 24, Reza Sayah says that "today again US and Israeli forces bombed what were clearly non-military sites in broad daylight and later in the day US president Donald Trump seemed to boast about it"
#Iran #US #war #Israel #MiddleEast
Reporting from Tehran for FRANCE 24, Reza Sayah says that "today again US and Israeli forces bombed what were clearly non-military sites in broad daylight an...
Speaking with FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney, Dr David Brown, Senior Research Fellow in the Astronomy and Astrophysics Group at Warwick University, hopes that the Artemis II mission "is the start of a new era of human spaceflight", adding that "it is incredibly exciting and inspiring to see that this is still something that wa can do and something that people can aspire to do".
#ArtemisII #NASA #moon #space
NASA is set to launch four astronauts as soon as Wednesday evening on a 10-day flight around the moon, marking the most ambitious U.S. space mission in decades. FRANCE 24's Mark Owen speaks with astronaut Jean-François Clervoy, Founder of Air Zero G, about what life is going to be like for astronauts on board the Artemis II. He says the mission capsule is a very confined space and the four astronauts "better get along with each other".
#ArtemisII #NASA #moon #space
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