INTERNACIONAL
Iranian general responds to Trump threats against Houthi rebels
An Iranian general vowed to respond «decisively and destructively» to any threats after President Donald Trump said he ordered American forces to launch military action against Houthis in Yemen.
«We warn our enemies that Iran will respond decisively and destructively if they carry out their threats,» Gen. Hossein Salami, the leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, told state media following U.S. strikes over the weekend against the Tehran-backed terrorist group, according to Reuters.
«We are not a nation to live in hiding. We are a valid and legitimate system in the world. We announce it if we attack anywhere,» Salami was quoted as saying by ABC News.
U.S. Central Command said Saturday it had «initiated a series of operations consisting of precision strikes against Iran-backed Houthi targets across Yemen to defend American interests, deter enemies, and restore freedom of navigation.»
US MILITARY SHOOTS DOWN HOUTHI DRONES AS TRUMP’S STRIKES AGAINST TERRORIST GROUP CONTINUE
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Commander-in-Chief Gen. Hossein Salami attends a ceremony to mark the third anniversary of the killing of senior Iranian military commander General Qassem Soleimani in a U.S. attack, in Tehran, Iran, on Jan. 3, 2023. (Majid Asgaripour/WANA/Reuters)
Trump wrote on Truth Social Saturday that he «ordered the United States Military to launch decisive and powerful Military action against the Houthi terrorists in Yemen.»
«It has been over a year since a U.S.-flagged commercial ship safely sailed through the Suez Canal, the Red Sea, or the Gulf of Aden,» Trump continued. «The last American Warship to go through the Red Sea, four months ago, was attacked by the Houthis over a dozen times.»
Trump wrote that the «relentless assaults have cost the U.S. and World Economy many BILLIONS of Dollars while, at the same time, putting innocent lives at risk.»
«To all Houthi terrorists, YOUR TIME IS UP, AND YOUR ATTACKS MUST STOP, STARTING TODAY. IF THEY DON’T, HELL WILL RAIN DOWN UPON YOU LIKE NOTHING YOU HAVE EVER SEEN BEFORE!» his post concluded.
The large-scale campaign against Houthi targets in Yemen will be «unrelenting» until the Iran-backed proxies pledge to back off U.S. assets, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told Fox News on Sunday.
HEGSETH DECLARES ‘PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH IS BACK’ WHILE VOWING ‘UNRELENTING’ CAMPAIGN AGAINST HOUTHI TARGETS
This image taken from video provided by the U.S. Navy shows an aircraft launching from the USS Harry S. Truman in the Red Sea before airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen, on Saturday, March 15. (U.S. Navy via AP)
«The minute the Houthis say ‘we’ll stop shooting at your ships, we’ll stop shooting at your drones,’ this campaign will end, but until then, it will be unrelenting,» he told «Sunday Morning Futures» host Maria Bartiromo.
The Houthis are claiming the recent U.S. strikes have killed at least 53 people and injured around 100, according to the Associated Press.
«We will confront escalation with escalation,» the leader of the Houthis, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, reportedly said Sunday.
«We will respond to the American enemy in its raids, in its attacks, with missile strikes, by targeting its aircraft carrier, its warships, its ships,» al-Houthi added. «However, we also still have escalation options. If it continues its aggression, we will move to additional escalation options.»
U.S. warships have shot down roughly a dozen Houthi drones since Saturday, Fox News has learned.
This image taken from video provided by the U.S. Navy shows an aircraft launching from the USS Harry S. Truman in the Red Sea before airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen, on Saturday, March 15. (U.S. Navy via AP)
CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP
A senior defense official told Fox News of the developments on Sunday. The drones were aimed at the U.S. Navy’s Truman Carrier Strike Group and were shot down «well before» they posed a serious threat, the official said.
Fox News’ Taylor Penley, Andrea Margolis and Lucas Y. Tomlinson contributed to this report.
INTERNACIONAL
Mensaje a Trump: el nuevo premier de Canadá elige Europa y no Estados Unidos como primer viaje al exterior
Aliados fiables
La batalla contra Trump
Canadá y Francia
INTERNACIONAL
Mass anti-corruption protests put strain on close European ally of Russia
Student-led protests pose the gravest threat to Serbian strongman Aleksandar Vucic’s 14 years in power, with over 100,000 taking to the streets of Belgrade and cities across Serbia, calling out systemic corruption throughout the government.
March 15 saw what many believe to be the largest crowds in Serbia’s recent history, with an estimated 300,000 people marching in the center of Belgrade.
Serbian President Vucic, who remains close to Russia, has remained defiant, ignoring calls to step down and accusing the protest movement of planning violent attacks and stoking a civil war.
HISTORIC RUSSIAN ALLY SNUBS PUTIN IN GROWING SHIFT TO EUROPEAN UNION
Student-led protests pose the gravest threat to Serbian strongman Aleksandar Vucic’s 14 years in power, with over 100,000 taking to the streets of Belgrade and cities across Serbia, calling out systemic corruption throughout the government. (Darko Vojinovic/AP Photo)
«Moscow and Belgrade pledged to combat color revolutions together in 2021. This is dangerous as Russia can provide Serbia with intelligence support,» Ivana Stradner, research fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, told Fox News Digital.
«Vucic is hoping that protests in Serbia will stop, but they are growing increasingly,» Stradner added.
Vucic accused the students of orchestrating a Western-backed «colored revolution» and compared the movement to the 2014 Euromaidan Revolution in Ukraine, when the pro-Russian president of Ukraine was ousted from power for seeking closer ties with Vladimir Putin over Europe.
Nongovernmental and civil society organizations accuse the government of using illegal weapons, including long-range acoustic devices (LRAD), a common crowd control device that can cause severe hearing damage, during a commemorative silence for the victims of the Novi Sad railway collapse in November.
«The Belgrade Center for Security Policy strongly condemns the unlawful and inhumane deployment of prohibited weapons, such as acoustic devices, against peaceful protesters during a public gathering of hundreds of thousands of citizens paying tribute to victims of the collapsed roof in Novi Sad,» the group said in a statement.
Tens of thousands of college students have been marching since December, demanding justice and accountability after the deaths of 15 people in the collapse of a railway station in the Serbian town of Novi Sad. (Igor Pavicevic/Reuters)
Serbia’s foreign minister, Marko Djuric, denied the allegations in a post on X.
«Serbia categorically denies the baseless accusations that any illegal weapons, including so-called ‘sound cannons,’ were used against demonstrators in Belgrade,» Djuric said.
President Vucic also denied the claims, calling it «a vile lie» in an address to the nation and promised to investigate the matter.
The protests consuming Serbia didn’t just happen overnight and have been sustained for months.
ZELENSKYY WARNS RUSSIA WANTS TO CAUSE ‘EXPLOSION’ IN THE BALKANS
Tens of thousands of college students have been marching since December, demanding justice and accountability after the deaths of 15 people in the collapse of a railway station in the Serbian town of Novi Sad. The canopy at the railway station collapsed Nov. 1 after renovations led by two Chinese companies.
What originally started as spontaneous protests voicing dissatisfaction with the government’s failed response to the railway catastrophe transformed into a movement opposing widespread corruption and the erosion of the rule of law under Vucic.
What originally started as spontaneous protests voicing dissatisfaction with the government’s failed response to the railway catastrophe transformed into a movement opposing widespread corruption and the erosion of the rule of law under Vucic. (Mitar Mitrovic/Reuters)
«It’s also important to recognize that the cause of the protests runs deeper — many people perceive the state as corrupt and are broadly dissatisfied with Vučić’s government. They are calling for greater press freedom and accountability,» Helena Ivanov, senior fellow at the Henry Jackson Institute, told Fox News Digital.
Ivanov said that the government’s attempts to mitigate the situation, such as arresting individuals involved in corrupt deals from years ago or the resignation of the prime minister in January, have been seen as too little, too late by the protesters and opposition politicians.
SERBIA, CAUGHT BETWEEN EUROPE AND RUSSIA, COULD MOVE ONE STEP CLOSER TO NORMALIZING RELATIONS WITH KOSOVO
Many experts and observers of the Balkans were disappointed in the Biden administration’s regional policy, claiming that the administration appeased the Vucic regime and refused to call out his antidemocratic practices. The efforts to sway Vucic and maintain close ties to Belgrade were seen as integral to the Serbia-Kosovo normalization process and their path toward European Union ascension.
Serbian President Vucic, who remains close to Russia, has remained defiant, ignoring calls to step down and accusing the protest movement of planning violent attacks and stoking a civil war. (Milos Miskov/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
A former high-ranking diplomat with expert knowledge of the Balkans told Fox News Digital that Vucic wrongly portrays the protesters as inspired and led by the «globalist elite,» hoping to gain the attention and support of President Trump.
CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP
If President Trump wants a quick, cheap win for him and the U.S. in the Balkans, the diplomat said Trump should shift the U.S. regional posture from appeasing Vucic to containing him. Such a posture in Serbia will show that the U.S. is not kidding in the Balkans and wants a peaceful solution to simmering conflicts while utilizing the «peace through strength» doctrine.
INTERNACIONAL
En Francia, quieren que Trump les devuelva la Estatua de la Libertad
Eran otros tiempos, cuando Francia regaló a Estados Unidos uno de sus monumentos más emblemáticos: la Estatua de la Libertad en el centenario de su independencia. La estatua monumental que domina Nueva York, convertida en símbolo de Estados Unidos, fue creada por el francés Auguste Bartholdi en el siglo XIX. Fue regalada por el pueblo francés a los estadounidenses en conmemoración de su alianza durante la Guerra de la Independencia.
Con la llegada del presidente Donald Trump, sus nuevas políticas y sus medidas, el filósofo y eurodiputado francés, Raphaël Glucksmann, uno de los probables candidatos socialistas a presidente en las elecciones francesas del 2027, gritó: «¡Devuélvanos la Estatua de la Libertad!».
El líder de Place Publique, Raphaël Glucksmann, se dirigió a «los estadounidenses que han elegido ponerse del lado de los tiranos» durante su discurso de clausura del congreso de su partido, en la noche del domingo.
«Les diremos a los estadounidenses, que despidieron a los investigadores por demostrar la libertad científica: ‘Devuélvannos la Estatua de la Libertad’. Te lo dieron como regalo, pero aparentemente lo desprecias. Así que ella estará muy feliz aquí con nosotros», dijo entre los vítores de unos 1.500 activistas.
La famosa estatua se encuentra en la Isla de la Libertad, al sur de la isla de Manhattan, junto al río Hudson y cerca de la isla Ellis.
La Estatua de la Libertad fue un regalo del pueblo francés al pueblo de los Estados Unidos en 1886 para conmemorar el centenario de la Declaración de Independencia de los Estados Unidos y como muestra de amistad entre ambas naciones.
Fue inaugurada el 28 de octubre de 1886, en presencia del entonces presidente de Estados Unidos, Grover Cleveland.
Es obra del escultor francés Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi y la estructura interna fue diseñada por el ingeniero Alexandre Gustave Eiffel. El arquitecto francés Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, que construyó la flecha de Notre Dame, fue el responsable de la selección de los cobres, utilizados para la construcción de la estatua.
El 15 de octubre de 1924, la estatua fue declarada monumento nacional de los Estados Unidos y el 15 de octubre de 1965, se le añadió Ellis Island. Desde 1984 está considerado Patrimonio de la Humanidad por la UNESCO.
La Estatua de la Libertad representó la libertad y la emancipación respecto a la opresión. Desde su inauguración en 1886, la estatua ha sido la primera visión que tuvieron los inmigrantes europeos al llegar a Estados Unidos, a través del Océano Atlántico. En términos arquitectónicos, la estatua conmemora el famoso Coloso de Rodas, una de las siete maravillas del mundo antiguo.
Glucksmann, ferviente defensor de Ucrania, deploró la retirada de Donald Trump del conflicto.
«Lo segundo que vamos a decirles a los estadounidenses es: ‘Si quieren despedir a sus mejores investigadores, si quieren despedir a todas las personas que, con su libertad y su sentido de la innovación, su gusto por la duda y la investigación, han hecho de su país la primera potencia mundial, bueno, les daremos la bienvenida’», continuó Glucksmann.
El eurodiputado también lanzó un llamamiento a la «resistencia democrática» para contrarrestar «el club de fans de Trump y Musk en nuestro país», que considera “la extrema derecha”.
En un folleto, llamó a crear «una fuerza que tenga peso, que actúe y que preserve nuestro lema ‘¡Libertad, igualdad, fraternidad!’» frente a la «internacional de extrema derecha», que identifica a los presidentes estadounidense y ruso Donald Trump y Vladimir Putin, así como a Marine Le Pen.
Este movimiento de «resistencia democrática» implicará acciones concretas sobre el terreno y entrenamientos para contrarrestar a la extrema derecha, precisó el entorno de Raphaël Glucksmann.
-
CHIMENTOS2 días ago
Polémica tras el romance de la China Suárez y Maxi López
-
POLITICA12 horas ago
Patricia Bullrich cargo contra la jueza que liberó a más de 100 detenidos: “Debe estar leyendo la Constitución de Venezuela”
-
ECONOMIA3 días ago
Javier Milei: «Le vamos a sacar el pie de la cabeza al campo»