Israel prepares

to cut Gaza aid

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The Israeli Prime Minister’s Office has confirmed that authorities received the remains of four more dead hostages. It said late Tuesday that the Red Cross handed the bodies over to Israeli forces inside Gaza.

The transfer comes a day after the bodies of four other dead hostages were returned to Israel.

Earlier on Tuesday, an Israeli military agency said it would halve the number of trucks allowed to bring humanitarian aid into devastated Gaza, over concerns that the militant group was returning the remains of dead hostages more slowly than agreed.

Aid to Argentina

tied to elections

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has threatened to withdraw assistance from Argentina if its internal politics don’t align with U.S. interests in upcoming elections. The comments were made during a meeting with Argentine President Javier Milei, who faces midterm elections later this month.

Trump criticized an opponent as “extremely far-left” and warned that U.S. support would not continue if Milei doesn’t succeed. The U.S. has provided $20 billion in aid to Argentina, which Trump described as helping a “great philosophy” take over.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent expressed confidence in Milei’s coalition continuing its reform agenda.

US boat strike

kills 6 — Trump

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says the U.S. has struck another boat accused of carrying drugs in the waters off Venezuela.

The Republican president said Tuesday in a social media post six people aboard the vessel were killed. It’s the fifth deadly strike in the Caribbean as the Trump administration asserts it’s treating alleged drug traffickers as unlawful combatants who must be met with military force.

Frustration with the administration has grown on Capitol Hill. Some Republicans want more information from the White House on the legal justification and details of the strikes.

Democrats contend the strikes violate U.S. and international law. Venezuela says the U.S. government knows the drug-trafficking accusations are false.

Madagascar’s

president ousted

ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar (AP) — Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina has been toppled in a military coup that capped weeks of youth-led protests over poverty, power outages and a lack of opportunity in the Indian Ocean island country.

Right after parliament voted Tuesday to impeach Rajoelina, who fled the country fearing for his safety, the leader of Madagascar’s elite CAPSAT military unit said the armed forces would form a council made up of armed forces and gendarmerie officers and would appoint a prime minister to “quickly” form a civilian government.

“We are taking power,” Col. Michael Randrianirina told reporters in the capital, Antananarivo, as protesters celebrated the news with soldiers. Rajoelina’s office condemned the military announcement as “a serious breach of the rule of law.”