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Get you up to speed: US Apache helicopter shot down over Strait of Hormuz with Trump promising retaliation on Iran | News World
The US launched self-defence strikes against Iran following the downing of an Apache attack helicopter near the Strait of Hormuz, which President Trump attributed to Iranian aggression. US Central Command confirmed the strikes, highlighting the situation’s potential to threaten the existing ceasefire.
US Central Command has reported that the strikes on Iran are a proportional response aimed at deterring further aggression following the downing of the Apache helicopter. An investigation into the circumstances of the crash is ongoing, with military officials confirming it was struck by an Iranian drone, but the nature of the engagement is yet to be determined.
The US Central Command confirmed that strikes were conducted as a “proportional response to unjustified Iranian aggression,” marking a significant escalation in hostilities. In light of the situation, President Trump stated the US must respond and previously expressed optimism about negotiations, implying this new military action could jeopardise the ongoing ceasefire talks.
What remains unclear — Military officials have not disclosed the specific cause of the Apache helicopter crash.
US strikes Iran following Apache helicopter downing over Strait of Hormuz
The US has launched fresh strikes on Iran after Donald Trump promised revenge for the downing of an Apache attack helicopter.
US Central Command confirmed they had carried out ‘self-defence’ strikes, threatening the fragile ceasefire between the two countries.
Explosions were heard soon after the announcement.
USCC said in a statement: ‘The mission is a proportional response to unjustified Iranian aggression.’
President Trump earlier called for revenge after two pilots had to be rescued when their military helicopter crashed near the Strait of Hormuz.
In a Truth Social post, he said earlier: ‘I have just been informed by our Great Military that last night the Iranians shot down one of our highly sophisticated Apache Helicopters while patrolling over the Strait of Hormuz.
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‘There were two pilots involved, both are safe and uninjured. Nevertheless, the United States must, of necessity, respond to this attack.’
Captain Tim Hawkins, a spokesman for US Central Command said it was the first known drone rescue at sea by the American forces.
Military officials did not say what caused the Apache helicopter to go down, saying the crash was under investigation but Trump said he learned Iran was responsible before posting.
A senior military official told Axios that an investigation determined that an Iranian drone struck the AH-64 Apache but the official stressed they had not yet determined whether that was an intentional Iran attack.
Before he accused Iran of shooting down the helicopter, Trump had expressed renewed optimism over negotiations with Iran.
‘We have a good chance’ of signing a deal in ‘two or three days,’ Trump said. But he didn’t provide any details on why there was reason for new optimism. In the two months since the U.S. and Iran agreed to an initial ceasefire, Trump has repeatedly predicted that a deal is near.
‘We’re very close to having a very, very good, strong, powerful deal,’ the president said.
‘If we go and bomb — which we could do very easily if we want, and we spend another two or three weeks bombing — they’ll have nothing left whatsoever. But you won’t have the Strait open for months.’
The US negotiations centre on demands Iran give up its stockpile of highly enriched uranium, which is believed to be entombed in the aftermath of American airstrikes that happened during the 12-day war in 2025.
But Iran is refusing that and is demanding relief from sanctions. It also wants the release of frozen assets even before a final agreement is in place, something rejected by Trump.
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October 12, 2024
6:18 am
‘Cheer up, you caught the bad guy,’ says killer Virginia McCullough as she is arrested for murdering her parents
A woman who murdered her parents “in cold blood” before hiding them in makeshift tombs for four years told officers to “cheer up, you caught the bad guy” as she was arrested in her home.
Virginia McCullough, 36, poisoned her father John McCullough, 70, with prescription medication and fatally stabbed her mother Lois McCullough, 71, shortly afterwards in 2019.
She ran up large debts on credit cards in her parents’ names and after their deaths, she continued to spend their pensions until she was finally caught in 2023.
In body-worn video footage released by police, a handcuffed – and eerily calm – McCullough told officers: “I did know that this would kind of come eventually.
“It’s proper that I serve my punishment.”
She said she had slipped something into her father’s drink then put his body under a bed on the ground floor, and put her mother’s body in an upstairs wardrobe.
McCullough, having been arrested on suspicion of double murder, told an officer: “Cheer up, at least you’ve caught the bad guy.”
She added: “I know I don’t seem 100% evil.”
At the police station, she told officers where a kitchen knife was, which she described as a “murder weapon”, and a hammer which she said “will still have blood on it”.
McCullough, of Pump Hill, Chelmsford, Essex, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday with a minimum term of 36 years at Chelmsford Crown Court, after she admitted to their murders between 17 and 20 June 2019 at an earlier hearing at the same court.
Chelmsford Crown Court heard how she hid their bodies in makeshift tombs at the family home in Great Baddow in Essex, then told persistent lies to cover her tracks.
The court heard she cancelled family arrangements and frequently told doctors and relatives her parents were unwell, on holiday or away on lengthy trips.
But concerns over Mr and Mrs McCullough’s welfare were raised in September 2023 by a GP at their registered practice, and Essex County Council’s safeguarding team referred these to police.
The GP had not seen the couple for some time and said Mr McCullough had failed to collect medication and attend scheduled appointments. It was found McCullough had frequently cancelled appointments, using a range of excuses to explain her father’s absence.
Police said a missing persons investigation was initially launched and McCullough lied to officers, claiming her parents were travelling and would be returning in October.
It became a murder investigation, and when officers forced entry to the house in Pump Hill on September 15 2023, McCullough confessed that her parents’ bodies were in the house and that she had killed them.
Nicola Rice, a specialist prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, said: “McCullough callously and viciously killed both of her parents before concealing their bodies in makeshift tombs within their home address.
“She spent the next four years manipulating and lying to family members, medical staff, financial institutions, and the police, spending her parents’ money and accruing large debts in their name.”
She added: “This was a truly disturbing case, which has left behind it a trail of devastation, and I can only hope that the sentence passed today will help those who loved and cared for Lois and John begin to heal.”
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November 23, 2024
8:25 am
Defense alliance NATO chief Mark Rutte has met US President-elect Donald Trump to discuss global security issues, according to a NATO spokesperson.
The meeting took place in Palm Beach, Florida.
During his first term as US president, 2017-2020, Trump pushed for European NATO countries to spend more on defense and described the alliance’s cost-sharing as unfair to the US.
Rutte took over as NATO chief from Norwegian Jens Stoltenberg in November.
Before taking office in January, Trump has nominated Pete Hegseth for the post of defense secretary, which has raised eyebrows among many allies.
Hegseth, 44, has served as an infantry captain in Iraq and Afghanistan, but has no senior military or government officer experience.
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Multiple missiles were fired in an airstrike towards a densely populated part of Lebanon’s capital early on Saturday.
The huge airstrike targeted Beirut’s Basta neighbourhood, and no prior warnings were given by the Israeli military. The largely residential area was struck last month.
At least one violent explosion was heard across the city, Reuters witnesses said, and plumes of smoke could be seen. Scenes of massive destruction at the site were shared online, including a massive crater in the ground.
“Beirut, the capital, woke up to a horrific massacre, as the Israeli enemy’s air force completely destroyed an eight-story residential building with five missiles on Al-Mamoun Street in Basta,” the state-run National News Agency reported.
The health ministry put the initial death toll at four, with 23 wounded. The number is expected to climb in the coming hours as search and rescue efforts continue.
It came after a long day of Israeli airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs, which have been non-stop since last week.
The cross-border fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group escalated into a full-blown war in mid-September.
Israel has bombed southern Lebanon, Beirut’s southern suburbs and the eastern Beqaa region, and has sent ground troops across the border. Hezbollah has continued to fire rockets deeper into Israel.
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