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Trump said that his administration was in negotiations with Palestinian militant group Hamas and urged them to release all hostages held in Gaza.
“We said let them all out, right now let them all out. And much better things will happen for them but if you don’t let them all out, it’s going to be a tough situation, it’s going to be nasty,” Trump said, adding that Hamas was “asking for some things that are fine.”
Palestinians check the debris of the Mushtaha Tower in Gaza City following an Israeli military strike. (Picture: Omar Al-Qatta/AFP)Palestinian militants took over 250 hostages into Gaza after an October 2023 attack in Israel that killed about 1,200 people, according to Israeli tallies.
About 50 Israeli hostages are still being held by Hamas in Gaza, with 20 thought to be still alive.
Trump said India and Russia seem to have been “lost” to China after their leaders met with Chinese President Xi Jinping this week.
But during the later press conference, he backtracked on his comments regarding India.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin(L) and Chinese President Xi jinping at of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Summit. (Picture: Suo Takekuma/ Pool/Getty Images)Xi recently hosted more than 20 leaders of non-Western countries for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in the Chinese port city of Tianjin, including Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
He told reporters on Thursday night at the White House that he planned to talk to Putin soon.
Trump will host the Group of 20 world leaders for a 2026 summit at his Doral golf club near Miami.
Trump and his son Eric driving the links at the Doral Golf Club in Florida. (Picture: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
Trump also announced that he will not attend this year’s G20 event, which is to be held in South Africa, and that Vice President JD Vance will go in his place.
Beyond the golf course, the Doral property includes a clubhouse, pool, restaurants, spa and event space, including the Donald J. Trump Grand Ballroom, according to the official website.
Trump signed an executive order on Friday to rename the US Department of Defence the “Department of War,” reverting to a title it held until after World War Two.
The order would authorise Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth and other officials to use secondary titles such as “Secretary of War” and “Deputy Secretary of War” in official correspondence and public communications.
A new sign that reads “Pete Hegseth – Secretary of War” hangs at the Pentagon. (Picture: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)Hegseth, introduced during the ceremony as the Secretary of War by Trump, cheered the change, which he has long advocated.
The Department of Defence was called the War Department until 1949, when Congress consolidated the Army, Navy and Air Force in the wake of World War Two.
Hegseth has said that changing the name is “not just about words, it’s about the warrior ethos.”
The United States is not talking about changing the government in Venezuela, Trump said on Friday, as the United States ordered an additional ten stealth fighter jets to compliment a growing military buildup in the Caribbean.
He had been asked by reporters about a claim made by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro this week that the United States was “seeking a regime change through military threat.”
A vessel, which Trump said was transporting illegal narcotics and heading to the US., is struck by the military in the southern Caribbean. (Picture: Supplied)On Thursday, the Pentagon accused Venezuela of a “highly provocative” flight by its fighter jets near a US Navy warship.
Trump demonstrated his new approach to fighting the drug war with a US military strike on Tuesday that killed 11 people and sank a boat from Venezuela which Trump said was transporting illegal narcotics.
He compared the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans in drug overdoses to war dead, as he sought to justify the military activity.
VACCINES THAT WORK SHOULD BE USED: TRUMP
“I think you have to be very careful when you say that some people don’t have to be vaccinated. It’s a very … tough position,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.
US Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr and President Donald Trump. (Picture: Jim Watson/AFP)His comments put him at odds with the man he appointed to oversee vaccines, health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, who has long been an anti-vaccine campaigner.
TRUMP SAYS HE HAS DECIDED ON NEXT CITY TO SEND IN US TROOPS
The president has in recent weeks floated sending troops to several Democratic-led cities, including Baltimore, Chicago and New Orleans, as part of a broader law-and-order push.
SHORTLIST FOR NEW FED RESERVE CHAIR REVEALED
He says his shortlist is down to four people and includes Kevin Hassett, director of the National Economic Council, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, although Bessent has publicly said he doesn’t want the job.
Former US Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell. (Picture: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
The president has made clear he intends to install a Fed leader more aligned with his push for rapid interest rate cuts, accusing Powell of being too late to act on borrowing costs and of hurting home buyers with higher mortgage rates.
With Reuters
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