Israel Breaks the Ceasefire, US Bombs Yemen, DRC Fighting Continues
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Israel Breaks Ceasefire, US Bombs Yemen, DRC Fighting Continues | American Prestige
In this week’s news roundup from American Prestige: Israelis break the Gaza ceasefire (0:33); Trump resumes America’s war on Yemen’s Ansar Allah/Houthis (6:09); clashes break out on the border of Syria and Lebanon (10:15); a presidential candidate is arrested in Turkey (12:27); the South Sudan peace process continues to break down (16:02); calls for a ceasefire go unheeded in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (18:10); the US expels the ambassador from South Africa (21:02); in Russia-Ukraine news, Trump and Putin talk by phone (23:18) while the Kursk operation is effectively over (26:26); Canada welcomes its new prime minister, Mark Carney (28:39); and Donald Trump ignores a court ruling in order to deport hundreds of Venezuelans (31:08).
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Huthi fighters check the damage in an area struck by a US air strike in Sanaa on March 20, 2025.
(Mohammed Huwais / AFP via Getty Images)In this week’s news roundup from American Prestige: Israelis break the Gaza ceasefire (0:33); Trump resumes America’s war on Yemen’s Ansar Allah/Houthis (6:09); clashes break out on the border of Syria and Lebanon (10:15); a presidential candidate is arrested in Turkey (12:27); the South Sudan peace process continues to break down (16:02); calls for a ceasefire go unheeded in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (18:10); the US expels the ambassador from South Africa (21:02); in Russia-Ukraine news, Trump and Putin talk by phone (23:18), while the Kursk operation is effectively over (26:26); Canada welcomes its new prime minister, Mark Carney (28:39); and Donald Trump ignores a court ruling in order to deport hundreds of Venezuelans (31:08).
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