President Trump dramatically turned up the heat on Cuba Thursday, openly floating the possibility of U.S. military action against the communist island just one day after his administration slapped explosive criminal charges on former Cuban leader Raúl Castro. Speaking from the Oval Office, Trump hinted he could be the president who finally takes direct action […]
President Donald Trump announced Thursday that the United States will send an additional 5,000 U.S. troops to Poland, explicitly tying the deployment to the European nation’s election last year of nationalist conservative President Karol Nawrocki. “Based on the successful Election of the now President of Poland, Karol Nawrocki, who I was proud to Endorse, and […]
Federal immigration officials have arrested the sister of a sanctioned Cuban executive on the grounds that her presence in the United States poses a threat to the nation and undermines U.S. foreign policy interests. Homeland Security Investigations agents arrested Adys Lastres Morera in Miami on Thursday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement said. Little information about the […]
Ukrainian forces attacked a Russian oil refinery in Yaroslavl, around 700 km (435 miles) from the Ukrainian border, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Friday, the latest in a series of strikes by Kyiv on oil facilities in Russia. “In particular, overnight, the Defence Forces of Ukraine operated against targets associated with the Yaroslavl oil refinery […]
Net migration to the UK has dropped below 200,000 to the lowest point since the Covid pandemic, driven by fewer people coming to Britain for work, new figures show. The latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures show that, in the 12 months to December 2025, the number of people entering a country minus the […]
Iran’s top security body announced on Monday the formation of a new body to manage the Strait of Hormuz, which Tehran has effectively closed and wants to charge ships to traverse. On its official X account, the Supreme National Security Council shared a post for the Persian Gulf Strait Authority (PGSA) saying it would provide […]
President Donald Trump has said he will speak with Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te about a stalled $14 billion arms deal, a call that would be precedent-setting for a sitting U.S. president and likely anger China. “I’ll speak to him,” Trump said Thursday from the tarmac of Joint Base Andrews in Maryland. The president was responding […]
Russia says it is deploying nuclear munitions to storage facilities in Belarus as part of three days of drills between the two allies north of Ukraine. The drills will also involve tests of nuclear-capable missiles as well as the processes for moving them in secret ahead of launch, Russia’s defence ministry said. The exercises will […]
Two Russian jets last month intercepted a Royal Air Force surveillance plane over the Black Sea, in what the Ministry of Defence (MoD) yesterday was a dangerous incident that raised the risk of potential escalation between Nato and Russia. The Rivet Joint aircraft was unarmed and carrying out routine surveillance in international airspace over the […]
Vladimir Putin told his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Wednesday that relations between their countries were at an “unprecedentedly high level”, as the two discussed wider economic cooperation and foreign issues. Speaking on a visit to Beijing, the Russian president called Xi a “dear friend” and noted their longstanding relationship on trade, saying turnover has […]
