"Airlines Taking Financial Hit": Boeing Global's Chief On Escalating Iran War

03/05/26 8:55 PM

A lot of planes are stranded and the airlines are taking a financial hit, Boeing Global's president Brendan Nelson told NDTV on Thursday as many of the leading airlines have announced schedule changes, suspensions, cancellations with the Iran war esc

"Wild Speculation, Inconsistent With Facts": Boeing Chief On AI-171 Theories

03/05/26 8:55 PM

Boeing Global chief Dr Brendan Nelson on Thursday played down continuing speculation over the Air India 171 crash in Ahmedabad in June last year, in which 261 people were killed, stating, "I'm not going to comment on, or add to, wild speculation."

'Dangerous precedent' for religious freedom: Critics assail Tokyo court's Unification Church ruling

03/04/26 5:30 PM

Prominent U.S. political figures and global religious-freedom advocates assailed an extraordinary ruling from a Tokyo court Wednesday that upheld the dissolution of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, warning that the decision will erode Japan's standing as a champion of religious liberty.

'Dude, I'm not MAGA': Alex Jones distances from 'sellout' Trump over  Iran war

03/04/26 7:03 PM

Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones sought to distance himself from President Donald Trump and the MAGA movement over the ongoing military operation against Iran.During his Wednesday broadcast, Jones criticized Trump for suggesting ground troops could be deployed in Operation Epic Fury."I have no doubt the Marines and the Army are going to kick their ass, but we're going to have a lot of dead people. And I mean a lot," he warned. "And their answer is continue to kill whoever the new leader is, just keep killing the generals, killing the leadership, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill.""You can say what you want about the Iranian cult, Islamic cult, but at least they stand for something," he continued, noting that Trump was "starting to give in and bend and do things that aren't what he said he would do, that aren't America first."Jones claimed that he had been offered millions to "sell out" his principles."I won't sell out against America First. And if I start seeing Trump sell out to whatever, I'm not going along with it. But I love the idiot, neocon, Johnny-Come-Lately Trump supporters that, like, if you don't support whatever [White House Chief of Staff] Susie Wiles wants or whatever the new war is, you're not a patriot. You're the fake MAGA," he remarked. "Dude, I'm not MAGA!" Jones exclaimed. "I'm 1776 worldwide. I'm a populist American. Make America great again; how about make America free again? So, MAGA's great, but I'm not MAGA, and I've told you that for, you know, seven, eight, nine years. I am 1776."The right-wing conspiracy theorist went on to compare Trump to a used lawnmower."I'm proud I supported Trump for 10 years and got persecuted," he said. "If Trump at the end starts going sideways, it's like you got a lawnmower, you mow the yard with it for 10 years, and then one day the engine blows, and it's cheaper just to get a new one than to replace the motor.""You're like sad about the lawnmower that the engine blew up, but you just put it out at the curb, you know, when they do the trash pickup once a year for, you know, appliances and stuff, and you put the old refrigerator out there and the old lawnmower, and oh, you were a good lawnmower, bye, bye," he added. "It's like I'm not mad that I had the lawnmower and cut the grass and did all this, and now the lawnmower's broken. Right now, black smoke's coming out of the lawnmower, and it's sputtering, and it's on fire. So I think this lawnmower is probably done.""We can't kick illegal alien Somalis out of the country, but we can go fight a million-man army. It's insane."

'How dare you?' MAGA civil war erupts as Megyn Kelly attacks 'weak' host of 'The View'

03/03/26 10:29 PM

A MAGA feud broke out between podcaster Megyn Kelly and conservative guest host of "The View" Elisabeth Hasselbeck on Tuesday. Hasselbeck, who returned to the daytime talk show to fill in for host Alyssa Farah Griffin, delivered criticism of Kelly, The Daily Beast reported. Kelly commented on the war in Iran during her Monday podcast, "The Megyn Kelly Show," about how American troops "should not die for a foreign country." "I don't think those four service members died for the United States. I think they died for Iran or Israel," Kelly said."If I can just say this, number one: Megyn Kelly’s clip that we ran before saying who those troops died for. How dare you, Megyn Kelly?" Hasselbeck said. "When they are sacrificing their lives in our uniform, how dare you tell them, or their families, or our nation, what they died for?"Kelly had a scathing response for Hasselbeck. "Elisabeth was too weak to handle the ladies of 'The View' and even the morning set on Fox and Friends," Kelly told the Daily Mail in response to Hasselbeck's comments on Tuesday. "She ran from the public square into exile so she could avoid mean people saying unflattering things about her — and there are many to say," Kelly said. But that wasn't her only clap back at her fellow conservative."Now she thinks she’s going to come back for a day and be the arbiter of appropriate conversation around the war we just launched in Iran? Please. No one gives a d--- what this know-nothing has to say," Kelly added.

'I'm going to lose my mind': Iraq war vet Dems sound off over Mar-a-Lago 'chicken hawks'

03/05/26 11:27 AM

A Democratic Party representative who served in the Iraq war has issued a statement denouncing the rhetoric around the ongoing strikes on Iran. Donald Trump approved a bombing campaign against Iran earlier this week, with veterans now serving in government airing their concerns. New York Democrat Rep. Pat Ryan, a veteran who twice served in Iraq, issued a statement to CNN expressing his concern over the current Iran situation. He said, "If I hear one more chicken hawk who’s never served a single day in uniform sitting in a gold-plated office in DC or Mar-a-Lago or anywhere else, try to talk tough having never seen what war is about, I’m going to lose my mind."Fellow representatives backed Ryan's comments, with Rep. Eugene Vindman calling the conflict with Iran an unnecessary use of US resources. He said, "I will not be shedding a tear for the Iranian regime and the Ayatollah. I understand the threat but I also understand that wars are easy to start and hard to finish. "This is a commitment of American blood and treasure to a conflict that we didn’t need to be engaged in." Donald Trump has said the U.S. will stay in the fight for as long as it takes to achieve the country's objectives, although his administration has not yet laid out a compelling case for the operation, according to some lawmakers on Capitol Hill.John Bolton, the president's national security advisor during his first administration, told Joanna Coles on a new episode of "The Daily Beast Podcast" on Wednesday that he is concerned that Trump hasn't thought through the implications of the strikes. He added that the president's lack of a decision-making process "magnifies the risk" that something could go wrong.“As long as things are going successfully, he’ll stick with it," Bolton said. "If we run into real difficulty, and I hope we don’t, and we shouldn’t at this point, but if we do, because anything is possible, that would be the testing time to see whether he was able to stick it out."

'Pretty depleted': Iran conflict drains U.S. munitions as Congress sounds alarm

03/04/26 4:43 PM

The Trump administration is expected to meet with defense industry leaders Friday to pressure them to speed production of key munitions amid growing concern from lawmakers about shrinking U.S. missile and rocket stockpiles, sources told The Washington Times.

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2 men on trial on charges they spied on Hong Kong diaspora in the UK

03/04/26 12:38 PM

Prosecutors in London say a former Hong Kong police officer and a U.K. border official acted on behalf of the Chinese government as secret law enforcement or intelligence agents in Britain