US President Joe Biden signed into law on Wednesday a 95 billion dollar (£76.4 billion) war aid measure that includes assistance for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, and that also has a provision that would force social media site TikTok to be sold or be banned in the US.
“Shipping – it’s one damned thing after another,” the editor of Lloyds’ List wrote last week.
KEVIN Bridges had fans in stitches with his take on the chaos caused by Humza Yousaf booting the Greens out of government.
Trump may be trying to wriggle his way out of testifying, which he'd previously pledged to do.
As nights go, the local elections heralded a great one for Labour. Think after-work drinks, kissing the colleague you’ve flirted with for months and ending up back at theirs. That was Labour in the early hours of Friday morning while the Tories were left looking like the halitosis-ridden bloke who’s worked at the office for years that no one wants to talk to, let alone snog.
Fighting has intensified in the Donetsk region in recent months as Russia pushes to take more ground around Avdiivka.
In the context of a sprawling global leviathan that has just posted profits of $7.7bn (£6.1bn) in the last three months alone, Shell’s decision to close a small power generation unit in China amounts to little more than a rounding error on its books.
A couple of years ago, I noted in passing on Twitter (as it then was) that there was an international border between the UK and Ireland on the island of Ireland. To my surprise, Irish nationalists piled in to deny this objective legal reality. I couldn’t help recalling George Orwell’s comment that, for nationalists, “a known fact may be so unbearable that it is habitually pushed aside … or on the other hand it may enter into every calculation and yet never be admitted as a fact.”
Mark Peterson-Pool/Getty ImagesDonald Trump can dish it out, but he has shown, once again, that he simply cannot take it.As proceedings began Thursday morning in the disgraced ex-president’s criminal hush-money trial, defense attorney Todd Blanche complained to New York State Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan that the gag order put in place to prevent Trump from intimidating witnesses, jurors, and court staff was unfair to his client.“Everybody can say anything they want, except for President Tru
Andrea Leadsom raged at the broadcasters sat next to her, saying she was "indignant".
Londoners will now have to wait until Saturday when they are due to find out who their new mayor is
The Conservatives won council by-elections in Hillingdon, Sutton and Wandsworth
The Queens-born former president made a notable error while honoring "New York's Bravest."
The Conservative defeat this week could have been worse, but that’s not saying much. The re-election of Tory mayor Ben Houchen in Tees Valley, winning the smallest majority in the hotly contested Harlow council election – these are the saving graces for a party that lost hundreds of councillors and another MP this week. There were many signs that the 2019 coalition that propelled the Tories to victory has come fully undone.
Doug Mills/GettyDonald Trump tried—and failed—to lure the judge overseeing his New York criminal trial into the position of greenlighting his angry screeds to ensure they don’t violate a gag order that seeks to stop him from continuing to intimidate witnesses and jurors.The move came after Trump got slapped with $9,000 in fines and a warning of a potential stay in the slammer on Tuesday, then had to fend off the risk of an additional $4,000 in penalties Thursday morning.After a trial lunch break
Joseph Stiglitz was applauded for calling out Bim Afolami on BBC Question Time.
Elite dinner co-hosted by entrepreneur David Sacks at his home in the Hollywood Hills
Described as an Apache gunship that fits in the back of your car, the British-made Hydra drone has the potential to be a game-changer on the battlefield.
The French far right is to win the European elections in France. Will the historical result affect the current EU political balance?View on euronews
Germany on Friday accused Russian military agents of hacking the top echelons of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s party and other sensitive government and industrial targets, and was joined by NATO and fellow European countries in warning that Russia’s cyberespionage would have consequences. Relations between Russia and Germany were already tense, with Germany providing military support to Ukraine in its ongoing war with Russia. German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said Russian military cyber operators were behind the hacking of emails of the Social Democrats, the leading party in the governing coalition.
Labour has suffered a shock defeat in Oldham in a warning sign that the war in Gaza could haunt Sir Keir Starmer at the next general election.
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