- Trump tells CNN reporter 'nobody watches' her network because it has 'no credibility' Yahoo
- Trump brutally slams CNN's Kaitlan Collins, says ‘nobody watches’ her network Hindustan Times
- Donald Trump schools Kaitlan Collins and reminds viewers why Americans don't trust the media anymore New York Post
- Trump slaps down CNN darling Kaitlan Collins in Oval Office showdown Daily Mail
- Trump Blasts CNN, Biden Again During Press Conference iHeartRadio
Ukraine war briefing: Stray Russian drones ‘hit Moldova and Romania’ – The Guardian
- Ukraine war briefing: Stray Russian drones ‘hit Moldova and Romania’ The Guardian
- Moldovans to Russia: Say, Are These Drone Parts Yours, Comrade? National Review
- Two Russian drones crash in Moldova after violating its airspace, authorities say Euronews
- Moldova's Sandu says two Russian drones exploded on Moldovan soil Reuters
- Moldova Summons Russian Ambassador After Drones Explode on Its Territory The Moscow Times
2,000-year-old Roman basilica found in London office basement – The Washington Post
- 2,000-year-old Roman basilica found in London office basement The Washington Post
- Archaeologists unearth ruins of nearly 2,000-year-old Roman basilica in London Fox News
- London’s first Roman basilica found under office block The Guardian
- Archaeologists Unearth London’s First Roman Basilica in ‘Amazing’ Discovery artnet News
- Archaeologists unearth the remains of a Roman basilica on the site of a new London skyscraper The Associated Press
Trump announces India energy deal after Modi talks
The US president says India will be buying "a lot of our oil and gas" after meeting India's PM.
Zelensky says no peace deal without Ukraine involvement
Ukraine's president says he will not be shut out of peace negotiations after Trump says he agreed to start talks with Putin.
Australia news live: ‘we have got your back’, Albanese tells steel workers amid speculation over Trump tariffs
Australia prime minister says Trump giving ‘great consideration’ for an exemption. Follow the latest news headlines live
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Dutton calls for more details on interaction between Australia and China in South China Sea
The opposition leader, Peter Dutton, has also weighed in on that interaction between Australian and Chinese aircraft in the South China Sea on Tuesday.
And then Richard Marles did a press conference to provide details. So we haven’t had a briefing on it as yet, but on what the deputy prime minister says it is deeply concerning because it puts that safety at risk, the safety of our personnel. And that is not something that Australia can tolerate.
[It] needs to be transparent in terms of what’s happened, and I just don’t think we’ve seen all of the detail yet from Richard Marles.
Continue reading...Hundreds of Sydney trains cancelled as negotiation between NSW government and rail workers come to a halt
Unions chief says ‘no one can predict the level of disruption that this is going to cause’
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Sydney commuters have been warned to avoid non-urgent rail travel on Friday amid delays and hundreds of service cancellations, as a pay negotiations between the train unions and state government grinds to a halt.
The state transport minister, John Graham, said the network was in the midst of a major disruption. “We’ve had more than 350 services cancelled this morning and that is having a big impact across the network,” he told Sydney radio 2GB on Friday.
Continue reading...Car ramming comes as migration at forefront of German elections
The incident is likely to have an impact on Germany's election in ten days.
The heartlessness of the deal: how Trump’s ‘America first’ stance sold out Ukraine
The US president does not care who controls east Ukraine, so long as he can access the rare earth minerals underneath
In Donald Trump’s world, everything has its price.
There is no place for sentiment in his politics. Common values cannot secure loans for military aid. And the US president does not care who controls the blood-soaked soils of east Ukraine, so long as he can access the rare earth minerals that lie beneath.
Continue reading...Mexican president blasts US for harboring drug cartels
Claudia Sheinbaum gives riposte to Trump’s accusation of ‘intolerable alliance’ between Mexican government and gangs
Mexico’s president has accused the US of harboring drug cartels and American citizens of working with organized crime groups in Mexico, in a riposte to Donald Trump’s allegation of an “intolerable alliance” between traffickers and her government.
“There is also organized crime in the United States and there are American people who come to Mexico with these illegal activities,” Claudia Sheinbaum said during her morning press conference on Thursday. “Otherwise who would distribute fentanyl in the cities of the United States?”
Continue reading...UK government to ‘wait and see’ in the face of Trump tariffs announcement
The US president announced what he called ‘reciprocal tariffs’ on all other countries on Thursday
The UK government will “wait and see” whether tariffs announced by Donald Trump “actually come to pass”, a senior minister said.
The US president announced what he called “reciprocal tariffs” on all other countries on Thursday evening, claiming it was “fair to all”.
Continue reading...Stars pull out of shows and positions at Kennedy Center after Trump takeover
Issa Rae, Ben Folds and Shonda Rhimes among those who chose not to associate with the institution and president
Donald Trump’s takeover of the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington has generated outcry from performers and members, with several stars pulling out of engagements or associations.
Trump purged the board of the arts foundation last week, clearing the group of appointees by Joe Biden. Stacked with Trump loyalists, the new board terminated the center’s president, Deborah Rutter, and installed Trump as chair. The board then named Richard Grenell, who served as ambassador to Germany during the first Trump administration, as interim president.
Continue reading...Trump launches reciprocal tariffs amid concerns of economic turmoil
US president says levies will restore a sense of 'fairness' to trade relations with other countries.
Dozens injured in suspected car-ramming attack in Munich
The driver, who was detained at the scene, was a 24-year-old Afghan asylum seeker, police said.
In Panama economic needs threaten to erase a way of life – NPR
US releases Russian cybercriminal as part of exchange for teacher Marc Fogel
Alexander Vinnik, owner and operator of cryptocurrency exchange BTC-e, was arrested in 2017 for money laundering
The Trump administration has released Alexander Vinnik, a cybercriminal who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering, to Russia, as part of an exchange that freed American schoolteacher Marc Fogel on Tuesday.
Vinnik, who arrived in Moscow on a flight from Turkey on Tuesday after having been released from custody in California, is accused of owning and operating one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, BTC-e, which prosecutors allege facilitated the transfer of billions of dollars in transactions for criminals worldwide.
Continue reading...RFK Jr sworn in as US Health and Human Services chief
Kennedy will oversee the US health industry including food safety, pharmaceuticals and vaccinations.
Elon Musk says he’ll drop his $97bn bid for OpenAI if it remains a non-profit
Billionaire’s lawyers say offer will be withdrawn if firm he helped found a decade ago ‘preserves the charity’s mission’
Elon Musk says he will abandon his $97.4bn offer to buy the non-profit behind OpenAI if the ChatGPT maker drops its plan to convert into a for-profit company.
“If OpenAI, Inc’s Board is prepared to preserve the charity’s mission and stipulate to take the ‘for sale’ sign off its assets by halting its conversion, Musk will withdraw the bid,” lawyers for the billionaire said in a filing to a California court on Wednesday. “Otherwise, the charity must be compensated by what an arms-length buyer will pay for its assets.”
Continue reading...Trump proposes nuclear deal with Russia and China to halve defense budgets
‘We’re all spending a lot of money that we could be spending on other things,’ the US president said
Donald Trump said that he wants to restart nuclear arms control talks with Russia and China and that eventually he hopes all three countries could agree to cut their massive defense budgets in half.
Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Thursday, Trump lamented the hundreds of billions of dollars being invested in rebuilding the nation’s nuclear deterrent and said he hopes to gain commitments from the US adversaries to cut their own spending.
Continue reading...Watch moment man is swallowed by humpback whale
Dell Simancas captures the moment his son, Adrián, is swallowed and spat out by a humpback whale.