President Donald Trump has announced that the United States has begun direct negotiations with Iran over its nuclear programme, after Tehran had earlier dismissed Washington’s calls for the talks. “We’re having direct talks with Iran, and they’ve started. It’ll go on Saturday. We have a very big meeting, and we’ll see what can happen,” Trump […]
Steve Brodie, Celia Watson, Emily Buchanan and Mitchell Labiak BBC News Getty Images Lloyds Bank business customers and whistleblowers have accused it of failing small firms as it tried to reduce lending after the financial crash of 2008. Business owners who borrowed from Lloyds around that time have told the BBC their firms collapsed after […]
Fergus Walsh Medical editor Watch: New mum Grace (left) and her sister Amy (right) talk about the “miracle” of baby Amy A “miracle” baby girl has become the first child in the UK to be born to a mother using a donated womb. The baby’s mum, Grace Davidson, 36, was born without a functioning uterus, […]
Peter Navarro, a senior White House trade adviser, on Monday defended the sweeping tariffs President Trump has imposed on foreign nations and indicated that other countries’ offers to drop their own tariffs on American products would be insufficient to convince the president to retreat. Mr. Navarro, who has been the architect of many of President […]
Emma Haslett Business Reporter Getty Images Donald Trump has threatened China with an extra tariff of 50% on goods imported into the US if it does not withdraw a countermeasure it announced on Friday. In a post on his social media platform, Truth Social, the US president said he will introduce the extra tariff unless […]
EPA Markets are reeling from US President Donald Trump’s tariff announcements, but the American leader is standing by his decisions, defending his policies and saying “sometimes you have to take medicine to fix something”. Experts answered some of the questions you sent us as the world tries to make sense of the turmoil and wonders […]
The Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Wellness Center is an Indian Health Service facility in Eagle Butte, South Dakota. This picture was taken in 2021 when the area was hard hit by the pandemic. Dawnee Lebeau/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Dawnee Lebeau/Bloomberg via Getty Images The emails started arriving late on a Monday […]
Manchester United will rival Chelsea in the race to sign Liam Delap this summer after identifying the Ipswich Town forward ahead of Viktor Gyökeres, Benjamin Sesko and Victor Osimhen as the solution to their goalscoring problems, sources have told ESPN. Despite financial constraints that have led to the club’s hierarchy, led by minority owner Sir […]
In December, Frank Parker upgraded to a bigger shrimp boat. For the Mississippi shrimper, it was a good trade with an older fisherman who was looking to scale back. But the driving force behind acquiring a boat that would allow Mr. Parker to stay in deeper waters for two weeks at a time was President […]
President Trump’s global tariffs have sent stock markets worldwide into a tailspin, and the S&P 500 on Monday briefly entered bear market territory for the first time since 2022. Mr. Trump has seemed unmoved by the decline. He signaled on Monday that he had no plans to back off on tariffs, insisting that they would […]