Trump news at a glance: Starmer rebukes Trump for ‘diminishing’ British soldiers who fought and died in Afghanistan

Key Highlights

• Four-hundred and fifty-seven British troops died.
• Canada recorded 165 deaths, including civilians. The PM’s remarks represented an escalation of tensions with Trump’s administration after the president had earlier in the week criticised the UK for giving up the Chagos Islands to Mauritius.
• On Friday night, the government was forced to delay its bill on the Chagos Islands in the House of Lords. Starmer accuses Trump of diminishing sacrifice of Nato troops in AfghanistanStarmer’s decision to call the president’s Afghanistan remarks “appalling” risks a further diplomatic rupture with the White House, but No 10 made the decision to speak out amid fury among veterans’ groups and the families of soldiers who lost their lives. Read the full storyTrump supporters back bid to annex Greenland: ‘Our president is a negotiator’Trump’s call to annex Greenland has roiled markets and flabbergasted half the world.
• But the president’s supporters in conservative communities – to the degree that this issue has their attention at all – are apt to accept his political argument as genuine. Read the full storyTrump says US ‘armada’ heading to Middle East as Iran death toll put above 5,000Trump has said an American “armada” is heading towards the Middle East and that the US is monitoring Iran closely, as activists put the death toll from Tehran’s crackdown on protesters at 5,002. Read the full storyUS immigration agents detain two-year-old Minnesota girlFederal immigration agents detained a two-year-old girl and her father in Minneapolis on Thursday afternoon.
• By the evening, a federal judge had ordered the girl be released by 9.30pm.