US President Donald Trump has threatened to attack Nigeria if the government doesn’t stop the killing of Christians. It’s the latest escalation from the US over the issue, which the Nigerian government says is based on misinformation. So, who’s right? Soraya Lennie explains.
A 15-year-old Palestinian boy has been killed by Israeli forces during a raid in the occupied West Bank, where more than 2,300 attacks by Israeli troops and settlers have been recorded in the last month alone.
Fault Lines investigates the killings of Palestinians seeking aid at GHF sites in Gaza.
After months of blockade and starvation in Gaza, Israel allowed a new United States venture – the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) – to distribute food. Branded as a lifeline, its sites quickly became known by Palestinians and dozens of human rights groups as “death traps”.
Fault Lines investigates how civilians seeking aid were funnelled through militarised zones, where thousands were killed or injured under fire.
Attackers firing machineguns and rocket-propelled grenades have boarded a ship off the coast of Somalia, United Kingdom officials say of the latest assault, likely by resurgent Somali pirates, in the region.
“The Master of a vessel has reported being approached by 1 small craft on its stern. The small craft fired small arms and RPG’s towards the vessel,” the British military’s UK Maritime Trade Operations centre said in an alert issued on Thursday. It warned ships in the area to “transit with caution”.
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The private security firm Ambrey also said an attack was under way, saying it targeted a Malta-flagged tanker heading from Sikka, India, to Durban, South Africa.
Ambrey added that it appeared to be an assault by Somali pirates, who are reported to be operating in the area in recent days and who seized an Iranian fishing boat to use as a base of operations. Iran has not acknowledged the seizure of the fishing boat, called the Issamohamadi.
Details of the vessel attacked on Thursday correspond to the Hellas Aphrodite, which changed its track and slowed down at the time of the attack. The ship’s owners and managers could not immediately be reached for comment.
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Another maritime security firm, the Diaplous Group, said the attacked tanker had a crew of 24 mariners, all of whom reportedly locked themselves into the ship’s citadel for safety during the attack. The vessel did not have an armed security team on board it, the firm added.
The European Union’s Operation Atalanta, a counterpiracy mission around the Horn of Africa, has responded to other recent pirate attacks in the area and issued a recent alert to shippers that a pirate group was operating off Somalia and assaults were “almost certain” to happen.
Thursday’s attack came after another vessel, the Cayman Islands-flagged Stolt Sagaland, found itself targeted in a suspected pirate attack that involved both its armed security force and the attackers shooting at each other, the EU force said.
Piracy off Somalia peaked in 2011 when 237 attacks were reported. Somali piracy in the region in 2011 cost the world’s economy about $7bn with $160m paid out in ransoms, according to the Oceans Beyond Piracy monitoring group.
The threat was diminished by increased international naval patrols, a strengthened central government in Somalia and other efforts.
However, Somali piracy has surged again since late 2023. According to Solace Global Risk, a travel risk management company, the decline in antipiracy patrols and the relocation of funds to counter Houthi rebels activities contributed to the rise in attacks.
“I will continue his legacy”. The wife of a murdered Mexican mayor has been sworn into the same role just days after his killing, vowing to continue her husband’s fight against organised crime in the state of Michoacan.
As Californians voted on Tuesday for a new congressional map, United States President Donald Trump falsely said the process was rigged.
“The Unconstitutional Redistricting Vote in California is a GIANT SCAM in that the entire process, in particular the Voting itself, is RIGGED,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.
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“All ‘Mail-In’ Ballots, where the Republicans in that State are ‘Shut Out,’ is under very serious legal and criminal review. STAY TUNED!”
A reporter asked White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt for Trump’s evidence that the election was rigged.
“It is just a fact,” Leavitt said. “They have a universal mail-in voting system, which we know is ripe for fraud, … fraudulent ballots that are being mailed in, in the names of other people and the names of illegal aliens who shouldn’t be voting in American elections.”
Democratic state officials in California, including Governor Gavin Newsom and Secretary of State Shirley Weber, challenged Trump’s assertion. “Where exactly is this fraud? Ramblings don’t equate with fact,” Weber said.
When PolitiFact contacted the White House, a spokesperson responded with several points, many of which had also been shared in an X post. These points criticised California’s voting system but included only one case of a person charged with voter fraud. The White House also misrepresented the numbers on voter registration and voter removal to support its claims.
Trump has repeatedly spread falsehoods about “rigged” elections, including in California. Rigging a state election would require election officials across the state to work together to commit felonies. There is no evidence that happened.
What did happen: The largely Democratic-voting state overwhelmingly approved a proposition to redistrict its congressional map to increase the chance of adding five Democratic seats to the US House of Representatives to negate a similar redistricting in Texas aimed at adding Republican seats.
Vote by mail system: Much of the White House’s evidence criticises California’s system of mailing ballots to all active registered voters. It is one of eight states that conduct elections by such a system. Millions of ballots are sent to Californians and not returned, as the White House noted, but that doesn’t prove fraud. Election workers verify voter identities by matching signatures on the mail ballot envelopes with registration records.
Although voters are mailed ballots, they can choose to cast a ballot in person instead. Voters generally don’t have to provide an ID. Election workers can ask for an ID if the person is voting for the first time and didn’t provide an ID when registering to vote.
The White House cherry-picked one sentence from a 2005 bipartisan report that said: “Absentee ballots remain the largest source of potential voter fraud.” Although the report generally communicated a dim view of absentee voting, it didn’t call for its elimination. It recommended ways to improve security and further study.
Noncitizen voters: The White House said, “San Francisco allows noncitizens to vote in local elections, which creates a high risk of fraud in federal elections,” and acknowledged noncitizens aren’t allowed to vote in federal elections. The city allows noncitizens to vote only in school board elections.
The US Department of Justice sued Orange County, California, in June after it redacted personal identifying information when it provided records to the department about 17 noncitizens on the voter rolls.
Bob Page, the county registrar of voters, said the 17 people self-reported that they wanted to cancel their voter registrations, including eight who voted before they cancelled their voter registration.
Duplicate registrations: “California reported 2,178,551 duplicate registrations in the 2024 election cycle – 15.6 percent of total registered voters,” the White House said.
The statement misleadingly gives the impression that those people appear on the voter rolls more than once. “Duplicate registrations” refer to the number of registration applications that California election officials received but didn’t process because they were identical to existing registrations. Duplicate registration can happen by accident; some people register and forget they did so or submit registrations both through the mail and online.
The number the White House cited represents the number of times California election officials caught the mistake, not made one.
The number comes from a 2024 national survey on voting activity and election administration from 2022 to 2024 by the bipartisan US Election Assistance Commission.
The national average for duplicate applications is 12.7 percent.
Removing voters after death: The White House said, “California only removed 378,349 registered voters for death (11.9 percent), which was well below the national average,” between the 2022 and 2024 elections.
This figure is cherry-picked. The White House cited voters removed because of death, which is just one reason for striking a voter from the rolls.
From 2022 to 2024, California removed more than 3.177 million voters from its rolls for all reasons, including death, according to the same election survey. That’s a 12.4 percent removal rate of all registered voters, compared with the national average of 9.1 percent.
California removed a larger proportion of voters for reasons other than death, such as moving or failure to return a confirmation notice.
Voter fraud: The White House pointed to one woman charged with voter fraud.
In September, authorities charged a woman from Costa Mesa, California, with five felonies for illegally registering her dog to vote. The dog’s vote was counted in the 2021 gubernatorial recall election but rejected in the 2022 primary. The Orange County District Attorney’s office said the woman “self-reported that she had registered her dog to vote”.
Laura Lee Yourex, 62, said she wanted to prove a point about flaws in the state voting system, according to her lawyer.
The conservative Heritage Foundation’s voter fraud database shows 69 cases in California from 1982 to 2025. The database shows dozens of cases in states that vote primarily Republican, such as Florida, which does not send a mail ballot to all voters.
Trump said voting in California is “rigged”.
The White House’s explanation misrepresented data about duplicate registrations, cherry-picked data about dead voter removals from registration rolls, pointed to one woman charged with voter fraud among about 23 million registered voters and baselessly blamed San Francisco’s allowance for noncitizen voting in school board elections.
The White House did not prove California voting is “rigged”. We rate Trump’s statement false.