President Donald Trump said Sunday that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is trying to back out of a rare earth deal with the U.S., adding if he does that he is going to have “some problems.” “I think Zelenskyy, by the way, he’s trying to back out of the rare earth deal, and if he does that, he’s […]
China’s National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) said Monday it has discovered a major oilfield in the eastern South China Sea, with proven reserves exceeding 100 million tonnes. The Huizhou 19-6 oilfield lies about 170 kilometres (100 miles) from Shenzhen in south China’s Guangdong Province, Beijing’s Xinhua news agency said. Test drilling has yielded a daily […]
President Donald Trump said Sunday the tariffs he plans to impose in the coming days would include “all countries”, not just those with the largest trade imbalances with the United States. Trump has promised a “Liberation Day” on April 2, when he is set to unveil reciprocal levies to address trade practices that his government […]
Delegates from more than 40 countries gather in the UK on Monday for a summit to be addressed by Prime Minister Keir Starmer seeking to crackdown on the “vile trade” in migrants. The interior ministers from France and Germany will be among those attending the two-day Organised Immigration Crime Summit in London, as the UK […]
A US appeals court denied on Wednesday a bid by the Trump administration to lift a lower court order barring summary deportations of Venezuelan migrants using an obscure wartime law. A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals voted 2-1 to temporarily keep in place the ban on deportations carried out under the 1798 […]
US President Donald Trump has announced steep tariffs on auto imports and parts, provoking threats of retaliation from trading partners ahead of further promised trade levies next week. Wall Street slumped ahead of Trump’s Wednesday afternoon announcement, while the world’s top-selling automaker Toyota plunged more than three percent. Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said Tokyo […]
Almost 1,500 people have been detained — including an AFP photographer — as tens of thousands continued protests in Istanbul Tuesday after the arrest of the main political rival of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The biggest protests in Turkey in over a decade erupted last week following the arrest of Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu on […]
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday ordered tighter controls on federal elections, including requiring proof of citizenship when registering to vote, as the Republican continues to attack a system he insists remains tilted against him. Experts swiftly denounced his executive order as an abuse of presidential power that could ultimately prevent millions of Americans from […]
Ukrainian and US officials were holding another round of talks on Tuesday in Riyadh, a Ukrainian source said, a day after a lengthy meeting between the US and Russian delegations on a partial ceasefire in Ukraine. “We are still working with the Americans,” a member of the Ukrainian delegation told a small group of media, […]
President Donald Trump is moving forward with plans to abolish the Department of Education. Trump is expected to sign an executive order following through on a campaign promise to disband the department, claiming on the campaign trail that the department was full of “radicals, zealots and Marxists.” A White House fact sheet states that the […]
