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Kubicki in Kampfabstimmung zum neuen Vorsitzenden der FDP gewählt
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Türkei: Justizputsch in Ankara
Der 38. Parteitag der noch auf Staatsgründer Mustafa Kemal Atatürk zurückgehenden Republikanischen Volkspartei (CHP), auf dem 2023 der jetzige Parteichef Özgür Özel den langjährigen Vorsitzenden Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu abgelöst hatte, wurde wegen angeblicher Delegiertenbeeinflussung für »vollständig nichtig« erklärt.
Das Gericht beschloss, dass Kılıçdaroğlu vorerst die Parteigeschäfte führen soll. Er hatte seine Bereitschaft dazu bereits am Tag vor dem Urteil signalisiert.
When Mandelson could bring down Starmer
(March 14, 2026)
As my big piece on Starmer last month revealed, even after Mandelson was appointed, Starmer never quizzed him about how to deal with Trump. All this exposes a Prime Minister with Olympic levels of detachment. It has been known for a while that he has little interest in politics but those who have worked with him have been genuinely surprised at his lack of interest in the detail of governing.
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The book also reveals that the decision to sack Mandelson was taken by McSweeney, not Starmer. On the day the PM defended Mandelson in the Commons, McSweeney was in a secure basement conference room without his phone when two of Starmer’s closest aides – Paul Ovenden and Stuart Ingham – came to find him. Ingham told him: ‘We just can’t answer these questions.’
McSweeney’s response – ‘It’s unsustainable’ – was the moment the decision was effectively made.
No 10 bid for SECOND paedo-linked Labour ally to get ambassador role
He was later pushed on who had ordered him to look into getting Doyle a position, and who had ordered him not to tell the foreign secretary (which at the time was David Lammy).
Robbins said: “I don‘t know what the origin of the suggestion was, and I don‘t know who exactly was behind it or how serious it was.
“It was serious enough for the No 10 private office to ring up the head of the diplomatic service and ask for a forward look of available head of mission jobs, and that‘s the point at which I thought that I needed to lay down some markers.”
Ex-US general explains why reopening Strait of Hormuz is harder than blocking Iran’s ports
Clark also said that Iran is aware of the strategic value of the Strait of Hormuz in negotiations: “More useful than a nuclear weapon. And they’ve used it,” he said. “And they don’t believe we have an answer for it.”
He added, “They know we don’t want to commit ground troops. They know we don’t want to take losses. We don’t want to get our ships close enough to be hit by their missiles … so this is a real tough military problem. That’s unfortunate because that’s driving their stance in the negotiations.”
‚Stop This Madness‘: Former IAEA Chief Urges Gulf, UN To Act Before ‚Madman‘ Trump Turns Region Into ‚Ball Of Fire‘
In his post in Arabic, he implored regional leaders to take immediate diplomatic action. „Please, once again, do everything in your power before this madman turns the region into a ball of fire,“ the former IAEA chief wrote, directing his remarks at the neighbouring Gulf states.
The warning follows a sharp pivot in Washington‘s rhetoric, where Trump threatened the destruction of essential Iranian infrastructure and the forced reopening of the Strait of Hormuz if a peace agreement is not reached within the specified deadline.
ElBaradei also questioned the role of international institutions in preventing an all-out war. In a separate post written in English and addressed to the United Nations, he asked if „nothing can be done to stop this madness?“
Exit of Trump officials including FBI director Patel under discussion, Atlantic reports
(April 2, 2026)
There are discussions about FBI Director Kash Patel, Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll and Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer leaving the Trump administration, the Atlantic reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with White House plans.
The timing is uncertain and President Donald Trump has not yet made up his mind, the Atlantic reported.
UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini attends a press conference on the last day of his mandate at the United Nations in Geneva
UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini attends a press conference on the last day of his mandate at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, March 31, 2026.
UNRWA head seeks investigation into killing of staff in Gaza war
Discussions are under way for a U.N. investigation into the killing of more than 390 employees in the two-year Gaza war, the head of the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency said on Tuesday, making it the deadliest conflict in the global body‘s history.
„I believe that we need to have a panel – a high-level panel of experts to look into the killing of our staff,“ said Philippe Lazzarini, UNRWA Commissioner-General at a press conference in Geneva on the last day of his term.
“Stop Us From Getting Into A War”: Joe Kent Reveals Charlie Kirk’s Final Warning In Bombshell Tucker Carlson Interview
The most striking moment of the interview came when Kent recounted his final meeting with Charlie Kirk, the Turning Point USA founder who was instrumental in the current administration’s rise and the selection of JD Vance as Vice President.
“The last time I saw Charlie Kirk on this Earth was in June, in the West Wing,” Kent told Carlson. “He looked me in the eye and he said… ‘Joe, stop us from getting into a war with Iran.’”
According to Kent, Kirk—who was assassinated on September 10, 2025—was one of the few top-tier advisors vocally urging the President to avoid a Middle Eastern conflagration and to “rethink” the unconditional nature of the U.S.-Israeli partnership.
Former counterterrorism chief says he was blocked from investigating Charlie Kirk’s killing
Joe Kent publicly announced his resignation as the director of the National Counterterrorism Center on March 17, stating that he “cannot in good conscience” support the U.S.’s war with Iran.
Kirk was shot dead during a public appearance in Utah on September 10, 2025. A day after his resignation, Kent appeared on The Tucker Carlson Show, where he claimed that his investigation into the killing was blocked.
Joe Kent Reveals All in First Interview Since Resigning as Trump’s Counterterrorism Director
Joe Kent is a former Director of the National Counterterrorism Center and the President’s principal counterterrorism advisor, who served 20 years in the U.S. Army with 11 combat deployments fighting terrorist networks with the 75th Ranger Regiment, Army Special Forces, and U.S. Army Special Operations Command, earning six Bronze Stars. Joe is also a Gold Star husband whose first wife, Navy Senior Chief Petty Officer Shannon Kent, also served and was killed while fighting ISIS in Syria in 2019.
Exclusive: FBI investigates intelligence aide who resigned over war
Trump aides and allies denounced Kent as a leaker immediately after his resignation became public.
Kent wrote in his resignation letter that Iran poses “no imminent threat to our nation” and accused Trump of initiating the war “due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.”
The FBI and the White House declined to comment.
Joe Kent: Trump Is LYING To You
Joe Kent, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, talks to Tucker Carlson about Iran and his resignation letter. Ana Kasparian discusses on The Young Turks.
Takeaways from former Trump administration counterterrorism chief Joe Kent’s extensive interview
“There was no intelligence that said, hey, on whatever day it was, March 1st, the Iranians are going to launch this big sneak attack, they’re going to do some kind of a 9/11, Pearl Harbor, etc. They’re going to attack one of our bases. There was none of that intelligence,” Kent said.
Trump and the the White House have repeatedly cited an imminent threat posed by Iran as an impetus for launching strikes against the country.
Kent further argued that the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who died last month in joint US and Israeli strikes, had been moderating the country’s nuclear program.
On Iran, Gabbard Turned Intelligence Duties Over to Trump
Ms. Gabbard does not quickly turn on her allies, and she showed little desire to throw Mr. Kent under the bus or attack him. But she has remained in her position by being a careful student of Mr. Trump, and knows how to stay on his good side. And critiquing the president’s view of the threat from Iran was clearly not the way to keep your job.
So she came up with her line that it is Mr. Trump, not the intelligence community, that determines what constitutes a threat.
After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today. I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran.
Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.
It has been an honor serving under @POTUS and @DNIGabbard and leading the professionals at NCTC.
May God bless America.
Joe Kent, a Top U.S. Counterterrorism Official, Resigns Over the Iran War
Mr. Kent is the first Trump administration official to quit in opposition to the conflict. He said pressure from Israel had pushed the president into war against Iran.
Epstein-Skandal: Chef des Weltwirtschaftsforums tritt zurück
(February 26, 2026)
Zuvor hatte das US-Justizministerium zahlreiche weitere Dokumente zum Fall Epstein veröffentlicht. Die Veröffentlichung hatte drei Geschäftsessen Brendes mit Epstein offenbart. Der Norweger kommunizierte demnach auch per E-Mail und SMS mit dem US-Millionär.
Brende stammt aus Norwegen und war dort lange Abgeordneter der konservativen Partei sowie Umwelt-, Handels- und Außenminister. Seit 2017 ist er Präsident des WEF, das jedes Jahr im Januar das berühmte Treffen in Davos in den Schweizer Bergen ausrichtet.
World Economic Forum Chief Resigns Over Epstein Ties
(February 26, 2026)
Borge Brende, the chief executive and president of the World Economic Forum, said on Thursday that he would resign, after an independent investigation by the group into his ties to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
His resignation came less than a month after the release of the latest batch of files related to Mr. Epstein appeared to show that Mr. Brende, a former foreign minister of Norway, had stayed in contact with the disgraced American financier long after Mr. Epstein had been convicted of soliciting a minor for prostitution.
Davos forum chief Brende steps down after WEF probes Epstein links
(February 28, 2026)
Børge Brende, the WEF’s president and chief executive, announced he was stepping down after more than eight years in the role, saying the decision followed “careful consideration”.
ICE arrests Columbia student, Shipman says agents lied to enter University-owned residence
(February 26, 2026)
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested Elmina “Ellie” Aghayeva, GS ’26, in a Columbia Residential building Thursday morning, after acting University President Claire Shipman, CC ’86, SIPA ’94, announced that agents had lied in order to enter a residential building and detain an affiliate.
A person with knowledge of the situation told Spectator that ICE agents impersonated New York Police Department officers in order to enter Aghayeva’s dorm.
Aghayeva’s arrest marks the fourth of a Columbia affiliate amid the federal government’s immigration crackdown, which has continued to target international students at the University.
Larry Summers will resign from teaching at Harvard during review of Epstein ties, university says
Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers will resign from teaching at Harvard University amid a campus review of his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, the university announced Wednesday.
Summers, who has been on leave since November and whose name appeared hundreds of times in newly released Epstein files, will leave at the end of the school year, according to a statement from Harvard spokesperson Jason Newton.
Dozens of FBI records apparently missing from Epstein files, including Trump accuser interviews
Several Epstein victims have said that they’ve scoured the DOJ’s website in recent weeks for files documenting their own interviews with the FBI – only to come up empty handed.
“All of us have been looking for our victim statements,” Jess Michaels, who was assaulted by Epstein when she was 22 years old, told CNN after the file release. Heavily redacted and missing interview reports suggest that “this Department of Justice is actually gaslighting the entire country,” Michaels argued.
From: Terje Rod-Larsen (…) To: Jeffrey Epstein (…) Subject: Fwd: Strictly Confi: Covert Pak deal with Saudis on Yemen
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2015 12:09:44 +0000
Further to my email of 1 April, herewith update:
Pakistan Covert Deal with Saudi on Yemen:
Status:
For Yemen war, Saudi King basically asked Pak PM for ground troops to gain control of & hold a swathe of land inside Yemen on very sensitive part of Saudi border. Pak Army refused, national consensus remains against entering the war, offering however, defence of Saudi soverignty & territorial integrity & support for a negotiated solution. Pak has not yet decided if it will officially enter the regional alliance.
Next: Saudis asked Pak for military aircraft & warships to control Yemen ports, esp. Aden — Pak Army again refused physical presence on Yemen soil.
Epstein briefed on ‚covert‘ plan to deploy Pakistani special forces to Saudi-Yemen border
(February 19, 2026)
Convicted child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein was briefed on a “covert deal” for Pakistan to send commandos, known as the „Black Storks“, to Saudi Arabia’s border with Yemen to support the kingdom’s war against the Houthis, according to an email released by the US Justice Department.
The email, dated 7 April 2015 and titled “Pakistan Covert Deal with Saudi on Yemen”, was written by Nasra Hassan, a Pakistani who worked as an official for the United Nations for 27 years, and also for the Arab League. At the time the email was written, Hassan was advising the International Peace Institute.
The email was sent to the organisation‘s former president, Terje Rod-Larsen, a man who the Financial Times described as one of Norway’s most famous diplomats, for his role brokering the 1990s Oslo Peace Accords between Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organisation.