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Trump on a high after ‘tremendous’ wins at home and abroad
BBC News, at the White House
Getty ImagesDonald Trump’s week began with an on-air expletive as he lost his cool over his mounting frustrations with Iran and Israel’s shaky ceasefire.
It ended with a beaming US president holding court at the White House – not once, but twice – as he celebrated a series of significant political victories at home and abroad.
Trump was in a triumphant mood, answering questions for more than an hour at a news conference that turned into a meandering boast of his accomplishments.
Here’s a look at four big wins from this week, as well as a reminder of some things that didn’t go entirely the president’s way.
1. An ‘unbelievable’ strike and a ceasefire
The successful US strike on Iranian nuclear facilities on 21 June was followed just three days later by Trump’s announcement of a “complete and total” ceasefire in what he termed the “12-day war” between Israel and Iran.
It had a rocky start. Not long before the announcement, Iran fired off ballistic missiles at a US airbase in Qatar, sparking fears of a wider war across the Persian Gulf.
Even after the ceasefire, things seemed tenuous. Both sides were quickly accused of breaking it, prompting an angry, expletive-laden tirade to reporters on the White House lawn.
By his own admission, Trump only narrowly managed to convince Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to call off further attacks on Iran.
But ultimately the ceasefire held, allowing the president to proudly claim that his military gamble of an “unbelievable” strike on Iran worked, and point to evidence that he is a “peacemaker” – a sorely needed win as peace continues to elude him in both Gaza and Ukraine.
2. Nato’s commitment to ‘Daddy’
Trump was on his way to the Netherlands for the Nato summit when he got a text from Nato Secretary General Mark Rutte, lavishing praise on him for the strikes on Iran – texts the president was more than happy to make public.
During his whirlwind visit to the summit, US allies committed to 5% defence spending, something the president had repeatedly and vocally called for.
Then during a joint press conference, Rutte referred to Trump as “Daddy”, a reference to the president being able to broker a ceasefire between Israel and Iran.
Trump has seemed to embrace the moniker.
“I think he likes me. If he doesn’t…I’ll come back and hit him hard,” Trump said at a news conference, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio laughing beside him. “He did it very affectionately.”
Soon after, the White House posted various videos of a victorious-looking Trump with the caption “daddy’s home”.
3. A ‘giant win’ at the Supreme Court
Trump’s week ended on a high note with the news that the Supreme Court issued a ruling that will curb judges’ power to block his orders nationwide.
While the ruling stems from a case regarding Trump’s ability to end birthright citizenship for children of some immigrants, it has sweeping implications. It will be harder for lower courts to challenge Trump’s domestic agenda through what Attorney General Pam Bondi described as an “endless barrage” of injunctions.
At an impromptu news conference, the president hailed the ruling as a “monumental victory for the constitution, the separation of powers, and the rule of law”.
The decision allows him to pursue a number of other policy items that had been thwarted by injunctions, including freezing funds to so-called “sanctuary cities” that stand in the way of his mass deportation drive, suspending refugee resettlement, and preventing tax money being used to fund gender surgeries.
The president smiled and cracked jokes, inviting reporters to ask more and more questions, as his aides – including Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt – sat smiling beside him.
“This was a tremendous win, and we’ve had tremendous wins,” he said at the end. “But this was a tremendous win today.”
4. A peace deal in Africa
On Friday afternoon, Trump met with the foreign ministers of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, who earlier in the day signed a peace deal aimed at ending decades of fighting between the two neighbours.
Further details are scant and previous peace deals in the region have failed – yet that has not deterred the US and Congolese presidents from framing this as a generational victory.
“Today, the violence and destruction comes to an end, and the entire region begins a new chapter of hope and opportunity,” Trump said.
The deal also helps the US government and American companies gain access to critical minerals in the region.
“I was able to get them together and sell it,” Trump said. “And not only that, we’re getting for the United States a lot of the mineral rights from the Congo.”
At his earlier news conference Trump had admitted he knew few details about the conflict, which is far from the minds of most Americans.
“I’m a little bit out of my league… because I don’t know too much about it,” he said. “I know one thing. They were going at it for many years, and with machetes.”
Some potential worries for the White House
The week hasn’t been all victories and roses for Trump.
The president’s biggest legislative priority – a massive tax bill he’s dubbed the “One, Big, Beautiful Bill” – has hit some roadblocks.
Trump has repeatedly urged lawmakers to get it on to his desk to sign into law by 4 July, Independence Day in the US.
But earlier this week, Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough said that certain provisions violated Senate rules, throwing billions of dollars of cuts into doubt.
“This is part of the process. This part is part of the workings of the United States Senate,” Karoline Leavitt said earlier this week. “But the president is adamant about seeing this bill on his desk here at the White House by Independence Day.”
And while Trump has hailed the ceasefires in Iran – as well as those in central Africa and last month between Pakistan and India – as victories, he has so far faltered on two of his biggest promises for peace: in Gaza and Ukraine.
“We’re working on that one,” Trump said of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine at Friday’s news conference, where he did not mention Gaza.
Even the end of US military involvement in Iran is not guaranteed.
During the news conference, Trump was asked by the BBC if he would consider bombing Iran again if he believed they were re-starting their nuclear programme.
“Sure, without question, absolutely,” he responded.
Three men in their 20s have been given long jail terms for their part in the fatal shooting of award-winning hip-hop artist C Gambino in Gothenburg last year.
C Gambino, whose real name was Karar Ramadan, had been named hip-hop artist of 2023 in Sweden’s Grammis music awards a month before he was murdered, in what prosecutors described as a ruthless and premeditated shooting.
All three men were convicted of aiding and abetting murder, and two of them were cleared of murder, as the Gothenburg court ruled it could not be established beyond reasonable doubt who had fired the fatal shots.
The gun that killed C Gambino has never been found and a car used in the shooting was later found burned out.
C Gambino’s murder has been linked to a local gangland conflict, although the motive remains a mystery. Prosecutors said there was no evidence to suggest that he was part of any criminal network.
For several years Sweden’s biggest cities have been beset by gang violence that have claimed dozens of lives, often involving children recruited to carry out violent attacks.
The rapper, who was 26, was shot at a multistorey car park in Gothenburg in June 2024 in what the court said was a carefully planned attack and had the character of a “pure execution”.
Investigators were unable to find DNA traces of the attackers but did map their movements from mobile phones around the time of the shooting.
The prosecutor also told Swedish public broadcaster SVT that police had been able to use hours of CCTV footage from the car park and elsewhere.
Videos showed the killers’ vehicle entering the car park more than a week before the shooting, and then waiting for hours before the attack took place as C Gambino returned home from the gym late in the evening.
Although he was able to raise the alarm, emergency services who arrived at the scene were unable to use their communication system and had to shout to each other, SVT reported.
The artist died in hospital about an hour afterwards.
In its verdict, the court gave a 22-year-old man a life sentence in jail, while two others aged 21 and 20 were handed terms of 15 and a half years and 12 and a half years respectively,
A fourth man, aged 19, was convicted of setting fire to their car.
Another gang-related case concluded on Wednesday with a 14-year-old boy found guilty of shooting dead a man in his home on the order of one of Sweden’s most notorious gangs, Foxtrot.
Two other boys were convicted: one for conspiracy and another for preparing the murder in Skurup in southern Sweden. None of the three will face punishment because they are below the age of criminal responsibility, which is 15 in Sweden.
The victim of the Skurup murder was targeted because his son had refused to carry out an attack for the Foxtrot gang.
Police in Iraqi Kurdistan have meanwhile arrested a key figure in the Foxtrot gang, according to Swedish radio.
The suspect is described as close to gang leader Rawa Majid and has been linked to a number of killings in Sweden, including the Skurup shooting.
Getty ImagesA total of 14 people have been arrested and extra police have been deployed after an attack on a pensioner sparked anti-migrant unrest in a small town in southern Spain.
Three people of North African origin have been detained on suspicion of attacking the 68-year-old man in Torre Pacheco last Wednesday.
The unrest began after a video circulated on social media, inflaming the town of 40,000 people which is home to a large immigrant population.
The pensioner and police later said the video was unrelated to the incident but social media calls to find and attack the perpetrators multiplied quickly.
By Friday groups armed with batons could be seen roaming the streets of Torre Pacheco.
One far-right group called “Deport Them Now” called for attacks on people of North African origin. Further messages on social media have called for renewed attacks on immigrants over three days this week.
A leading member of the extremist group was detained in the north-eastern town of Mataró on suspicion of spreading hate speech.
The 68-year-old victim of last Wednesday’s attack, named locally as Domingo Tomás Domínguez, told Spanish media he was thrown to the ground and hit while taking his morning walk.
A photo circulating on social media showed his face bearing extensive bruising.
Police said the motive for the attack was unclear. Mr Domínguez said he was not asked to hand over money or his belongings and did not understand the language his attackers were speaking.
Police presence has been beefed up, with more than 130 officers from both the local police in the province of Murcia and Guardia Civil.
The three people arrested on suspicion of attacking the pensioner are all of Moroccan origin and in their early 20s, according to Spanish media, and none are residents of Torre Pacheco.
One of the suspects was arrested on Monday as he prepared to take a train from the Basque region to cross the border to France.
ReutersThe worst of the unrest occurred at the weekend, when groups of youths – some hooded – attacked vehicles and businesses. Clashes were also reported between far-right groups and people of North African origin.
On Sunday night journalists witnessed several dozen youths hurling glass bottles and other objects at riot police.
In a CCTV video shared by several Spanish outlets, a group of men, some armed with bats and sticks, could be seen vandalising a kebab shop on the same night.
Torre Pacheco mayor Pedro Ángel Roca called on the “migrant community not to leave their homes and not to confront rioters”.
Many of the town’s residents of migrant origin work in the area’s booming agricultural sector, and some have complained of no longer feeling safe in the town. The mayor said they had been living in Torre Pachecho for more than 20 years.
Users of an extreme-right Telegram group reportedly called on people to flock in from other parts of Spain and take part in “hunts” of North Africans over three days this week. Their channel has since been shut down.
Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska attributed the violence to anti-immigration rhetoric from far-right groups and parties such as Vox – Spain’s third largest political force.
ReutersVox leader Santiago Abascal denied responsibility for the riots and blamed “mass immigration” policies for allowing the alleged perpetrators of last week’s attack to enter the country.
Talking about migration, Abascal said: “It has stolen our borders, it has stolen our peace, and it has stolen our prosperity.”
Murcia prosecutors have opened an investigstion for hate crimes into the regional president of Vox, José Ángel Antelo, who last week said the violence was the “fault” of Spain’s two main parties – the Popular Party (PP) and Socialist Party (PSOE).
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said on X: “What we are seeing in Torre-Pacheco challenges us all. We must speak out, act firmly, and defend the values that unite us. Spain is a country of rights, not hate.”
The body of Nigeria’s former President Muhammadu Buhari, who died aged 82 in a London clinic on Sunday, is due to be flown home later to be buried in his hometown in Katsina state.
Katsina state governor Dikko Radda, who returned to Nigeria on Monday morning after being with Buhari’s family in London, said Buhari would be buried in Daura town, 50 miles (80km) from Katsina city on Tuesday.
Nigeria’s Vice-President Kashim Shettima is in London and will accompany Buhari’s remains back to Nigeria.
“Based on my discussions with the family and close people that are with the corpse, preparations are ongoing in order to bring the body back to Nigeria,” said Radda.
”What I have gathered so far is that the corpse will arrive 12pm tomorrow [Tuesday] and the burial will happen by 2pm,” he added.
He said the burial, initially expected on Monday, had been delayed to allow more people to attend.
Buhari’s home in Daura is already filled with mourners as friends, family and well-wishers await the arrival of his corpse.
The vice-president also confirmed Daura to be Buhari’s final resting place in a post on social media after arriving in London on Monday morning.
He said that Buhari had died after a brief illness without revealing any further details, however the former president had suffered from ill-health for many years.
Even though he’s a former president, there will not be a state funeral. In line with Islamic teachings, Buhari will be buried as quickly as possible in a simple ceremony, Islamic cleric Abdullahi Garangamawa told the BBC.
Tributes have continued to pour in for the late army general who led Nigeria twice – first as military leader and an elected president after becoming the first opposition leader to defeat an incumbent, in 2015.
Former President Goodluck Jonathan, defeated by Buhari in 2015, described the late leader as someone who “was selfless in his commitment to his duty and served the country with character and a deep sense of patriotism”.
Former military ruler, General Ibrahim Babangida, who overthrew Buhari in a 1985 coup, also showered praises on the octogenarian.
“He is a man who, even in retirement, remained a moral compass to many, and an example of modesty in public life,” Babangida noted.
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who is expected to attend the funeral prayer in Daura, has declared a seven-day national mourning period in honour of his predecessor.
In an official condolence statement released on Sunday evening, Tinubu said the nation would pay its final respects to the former leader with dignity and honour, starting with the lowering of all national flags to half-mast across the country from Sunday.
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