0h 26min, mar 25, 2025 y - US Defence Secretary in Air Strike Chat

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The White House confirms that a journalist was inadvertently added to a group chat where senior US officials discussed plans for a strike against the Houthi group in Yemen

In the chat, Vice-President JD Vance seemingly says he hates "bailing Europe out again"

Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth apparently replies to Vance with: "I fully share your loathing of European free-loading. It's PATHETIC"

Hegseth - who is alleged to have shared details of military strikes in the chat - tells reporters "nobody was texting war plans"

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