The meeting comes as talks on second phase of truce are due, with US president saying there are no guarantees that peace will hold. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to meet United States President Donald Trump with the agenda to focus on the paused war in Gaza, as well as Iran. The two […]
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk at President Trump’s inauguration ceremony on Jan. 20. Trump has tasked Musk with leading a team focused on cutting costs in the government. Chip Somodevilla/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Chip Somodevilla/AFP via Getty Images Elon Musk has launched a campaign from inside the federal government to […]
After a dramatic day of telephone diplomacy, United States President Donald Trump has agreed to pause 25 percent tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada that were to come into effect on Tuesday. But the pause is only for a month, and a 10 percent tariff that Trump announced on Chinese imports, on top of […]
The Theodore Roosevelt Federal Building headquarters of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management is seen on Monday in Washington, D.C. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images The White House is pushing back against what it is calling “misinformation” by the federal employees union, which has urged government workers not to accept […]
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has appealed for calm as hundreds of rolling earthquakes have left the residents of Santorini island, and its neighbours in the Aegean Sea, rattled. Records from the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) showed the quakes were continuing to occur a few minutes apart as of 7am on Tuesday (05:00 GMT), with […]
A woman walks by the Chinese and U.S. national flags on display outside a souvenir shop in Beijing on Jan. 31, 2025. Andy Wong/AP hide caption toggle caption Andy Wong/AP BEIJING — China is not taking the Trump administration’s tariffs sitting down. On Tuesday, shortly after the 10% tariffs took effect just past midnight on […]
Nico Gonzalez’s acquisition by Man City takes their total spend on new players to $223m during the transfer window. Manchester City signed midfielder Nico Gonzalez from Porto in the biggest move from Premier League clubs on Monday’s transfer deadline day, while Bayern Munich’s Mathys Tel headed to Tottenham on loan. City’s midfield frailties without Ballon […]
Venezuelan community leaders speak to the media as they protest against the suspension of Temporary Protected Status in Doral, Florida, on Monday. The Trump administration is terminating an immigration program that currently protects hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan migrants in the U.S. from deportation. Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Chandan Khanna/AFP […]
The study comes amid an outbreak of the Sudan Ebola virus, which has already killed a nurse and infected others. Uganda has kicked off a clinical trial of a vaccine against Ebola that killed one person in the outbreak declared last week. Health workers and other people exposed to the strain are being targeted in […]
Reform UK overtakes Labour for first time in national opinion poll Good morning. A good rule of thumb in political reporting is that any news story about voter intention polling is wrong. That is because news stories, by definition, are about what new and what’s different, and polls that show anything unusual (or at least […]