NATO’s Rutte backs Bosnia after separatist moves by Serbian region
Visit to Sarajevo comes after Bosnian Serb leaders bar federal judicial authorities and police from Republika Srpska.
Stocks slide as Trump warns of US economy ‘transition’
Investors are nervous about the possibility of a US recession, say experts.
Trump confirms detention of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil: ‘the first arrest of many to come’ – live
Trump says Ice took the Palestinian student protester into custody after his executive order
Secretary of state Marco Rubio has announced that USAid will cancel the majority of its programs, while the rest will be folded into the state department.
Writing on X, Rubio said:
After a 6 week review we are officially cancelling 83% of the programs at USAID.
The 5200 contracts that are now cancelled spent tens of billions of dollars in ways that did not serve, (and in some cases even harmed), the core national interests of the United States.
Continue reading...Violent protests after Romania bans far-right presidential candidate
Protests broke out in front of Romania’s Central Election Bureau after it rejected the candidacy of Calin Georgescu.
One person in hospital but all crew accounted for after North Sea ships collide, says local MP – live
Graham Stuart says other 36 mariners across both crews are ‘safe and accounted for’
Transport secretary Heidi Alexander has expressed concern about the collision and thanked emergency workers who are dealing with the situation.
The Labour MP for Swindon South said “I’m concerned to hear of the collision between two vessels in the North Sea this morning and am liaising with officials and HM Coastguard as the situation develops. I want to thank all emergency service workers involved for their continued efforts in responding to the incident.”
Continue reading...‘Dog-whistle v fog horn’: why Rupert Lowe’s reach on X may not cut through
Lowe’s online presence, helped by Elon Musk, dwarfs that of Nigel Farage, but may not bring him new Reform voters
If you were to looking for answers as to why Rupert Lowe, a relatively little-known Reform UK MP, thinks he can lecture Nigel Farage about running a party and winning an election, there is one place you should probably start: X.
For all that in person Lowe can sometimes resemble a slightly embarrassing uncle at a wedding, on the social media site formerly known as Twitter, the Great Yarmouth MP is a big name – and by some metrics, a notably bigger one even than his party leader.
Continue reading...Dozens killed and missing after flash floods in Argentina
At least 16 people have died in flash floods that swept through Argentina’s port city of Bahia Blanca.
Israel cuts off electricity supply to Gaza, affecting a desalination plant producing drinking water – ABC News
- Israel cuts off electricity supply to Gaza, affecting a desalination plant producing drinking water ABC News
- UN warns of ‘dire consequences’ for civilians after Israel cuts power to Gaza The Times of Israel
- Israeli Energy Minister Cuts Off Electricity to Gaza The New York Times
- Live briefing: Israel cuts electricity to Gaza, as Trump envoy heads to ceasefire talks The Washington Post
- What does Israel cutting off Gaza’s electricity mean? Al Jazeera English
‘Reeks of McCarthyism’: outrage after Ice detains Palestinian student activist
Arrest of Mahmoud Khalil a ‘targeted, retaliatory’ attack on his first amendment rights, say civil rights groups
Free speech organizations and advocates are expressing outrage after a prominent Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia University’s pro-Palestinian protests last year, was arrested and detained over the weekend.
Mahmoud Khalil, a permanent US resident with a green card, was taken into custody by federal immigration authorities on Saturday night, who reportedly said that they were acting on a state department order to revoke his green card.
Continue reading...Risk of ‘Trumpcession’ rising, economists say, as global markets fall
Donald Trump’s brinkmanship and stop-start approach to tariffs rattle investors
The risk that the US economy will enter recession this year is rising, according to economists, as Donald Trump’s chaotic approach to tariffs continued to hit markets.
Shares on Wall Street fell sharply on Monday as investors bet the president’s unpredictable tariff trade war and handling of the economy would hit growth, amid a recent plunge in business and consumer confidence.
Continue reading...Top Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus resigns after piece critical of Jeff Bezos is scrapped
The column was disapproving of paper’s new opinion policy of supporting only ‘personal liberties and free markets’
Washington Post associate editor and top political columnist Ruth Marcus is reportedly resigning following CEO Will Lewis’ decision to kill her opinion column critical of owner Jeff Bezos’ latest changes to the paper.
“It is with great sadness that I submit my resignation as columnist and associate editor of the Washington Post,” Marcus wrote in a letter addressed to publisher Will Lewis and billionaire Jeff Bezos and posted on X by a New York Times media reporter.
Continue reading...Oil Tanker and Container Ship Collide in the North Sea – The New York Times
- Oil Tanker and Container Ship Collide in the North Sea The New York Times
- U.S. tanker is leaking fuel in the North Sea after a collision with a container ship NPR
- Cargo vessel collides with US-flagged tanker carrying jet fuel off UK coast, causing huge fire CNN
- One person in hospital but all crew accounted for after North Sea ships collide, says local MP – live The Guardian
- 'Incompetence' caused tanker collision off UK coast, expert says Yahoo
Rubio announces 83 percent of USAID contracts cancelled under Trump
Trump administration has targeted USAID as part of president's efforts to trim government spending and reduce 'waste'.
Romania’s pro-Russia presidential candidate to fight election ban
Cǎlin Georgescu to contest decision to bar him from election rerun in May after claims of Russian meddling
Romania’s far-right presidential frontrunner, Cǎlin Georgescu, has said he will appeal against a decision to bar him from standing in a rerun of the presidential election, calling it “a direct blow to the heart of democracy worldwide”.
Georgescu, a Moscow-friendly populist, surged from almost nowhere to win the first round of the country’s presidential election last year, but the result was annulled by Romania’s top court because of evidence of suspected Russian interference.
Continue reading...Syria says operation against Assad loyalists over after deadly violence
A monitoring group says 973 civilians have been killed in revenge attacks against the Alawite sect since Thursday.
There’s only one thing in Mark Carney’s in-tray: Trump
Canada’s incoming prime minister warns the US president’s tariffs threaten the ‘greatest crisis of our generation’
When Mark Carney becomes Canada’s prime minister later this week, a list of simmering crises across the country will demand his attention: housing is unaffordable, healthcare is breaking, living costs keep rising and the climate crisis is ransacking livelihoods.
But most – if not all – of those concerns will be pushed aside, supplanted by a far greater threat to the country: the US president, Donald Trump.
Continue reading...British tourist detained by US authorities for 10 days over visa issue
Backpacker Rebecca Burke was handcuffed and taken to a detention facility in Washington state
A British tourist on a four-month backpacking trip around North America has been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the US for 10 days after trying to enter the country via the Canadian border.
Rebecca Burke, 28, a graphic artist from Monmouthshire, was trying to cross into the state of Washington when she was refused entry.
Continue reading...Lauren Boebert accused of racism and ableism over her criticism of Al Green
Republican faces backlash for saying Democrat shook ‘his pimp cane’ at Trump during congressional address
The extremist Republican US House member Lauren Boebert has been accused of racism, ableism and hypocrisy in one fell swoop after criticizing a Black Democrat for “shaking his pimp cane” at Donald Trump during the president’s recent speech to Congress.
“Al Green was given multiple opportunities to stand down, to sit down, to behave, to show decorum,” Boebert told Real America’s Voice, a far-right outlet, while discussing the Texas Democratic congressman’s ejection from the House chamber for shouting about Trump’s threats to social benefits spending on 6 March.
Continue reading...Germany’s Green Party rejects Merz’s spending proposals
Incoming chancellor Friedrich Merz's proposal comes as the German economy experiences prolonged stagnation.
What the world needs now is more fossil fuels, says Trump’s energy secretary
Chris Wright signals abandonment of Biden’s ‘irrational, quasi-religious’ climate policies at industry conference
The world needs more planet-heating fossil fuel, not less, Donald Trump’s newly appointed energy secretary, Chris Wright, told oil and gas bigwigs on Monday.
“We are unabashedly pursuing a policy of more American energy production and infrastructure, not less,” he said in the opening plenary talk of CERAWeek, a swanky annual conference in Houston, Texas, led by the financial firm S&P Global.
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