Mazie Hirono wins Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Hawaii primary election
WASHINGTON (AP) — Mazie Hirono wins Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Hawaii primary election.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Mazie Hirono wins Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Hawaii primary election.
Sir Keir Starmer has refused to meet a Second World War veteran who had £60,000 wiped off her state pension.
Watch live as Keir Starmer faces Kemi Badenoch at PMQs on Wednesday (4 December) as his reset Brexit plans suffer another blow. The prime minister looks set to lose another key ally in a blow to his plans to reset the UK’s post-Brexit relationship with the European Union. Michel Barnier looks likely to be ousted as French prime minister on Wednesday in a no-confidence motion after he pushed through a controversial budget without a vote.
Advisers to Donald Trump publicly and privately are floating proposals to end the Ukraine war that would cede large parts of the country to Russia for the foreseeable future, according to a Reuters analysis of their statements and interviews with several people close to the U.S. president-elect. The proposals by three key advisers, including Trump's incoming Russia-Ukraine envoy, retired Army Lieutenant-General Keith Kellogg, share some elements, including taking NATO membership for Ukraine off the table. Trump's advisers would try forcing Moscow and Kyiv into negotiations with carrots and sticks, including halting military aid to Kyiv unless it agrees to talk but boosting assistance if Russian President Vladimir Putin refuses.
President-elect Donald Trump is demanding the immediate release of Israeli hostages still being held in Gaza, saying that if they are not freed before he is sworn into office for a second term there will be “HELL TO PAY." “Please let this TRUTH serve to represent that if the hostages are not released prior to January 20, 2025, the date that I proudly assume Office as President of the United States, there will be ALL HELL TO PAY in the Middle East, and for those in charge who perpetrated these atrocities against Humanity," Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social site. It was not immediately clear whether Trump was threatening to directly involve the U.S. military in Israel’s ongoing campaign against Hamas in Gaza.
The House of Commons backed using proportional representation (PR) at general elections in a surprise symbolic vote on Tuesday.
The former Fox News host and one-time Trump pal pointed out a double standard.
The shadow chancellor blamed Labour for scrapping the policy after the election.
The president-elect dismissed the Canadian prime minister’s tariff concerns with a confrontational joke.
Donald Trump appeared to troll Justin Trudeau with a picture of himself posing with the Canadian flag after reportedly suggesting Canada could become a US state.
China announced Tuesday it is banning exports to the United States of gallium, germanium, antimony and other key high-tech materials with potential military applications, as a general principle, lashing back at U.S. limits on semiconductor-related exports. The Chinese Commerce Ministry announced the move after the Washington expanded its list of Chinese companies subject to export controls on computer chip-making equipment, software and high-bandwidth memory chips.
The war in Ukraine was simply not mentioned.
The former chief executive of Barclays has blamed what he called Britain’s “get the f—--s” attitude for damaging the economy in the wake of the financial crisis.
Ukraine has a new way of countering Moscow's increased use of Shahed drones in mass attacks — redirecting them back to Russia or into the airspace of Kremlin-friendly Belarus.View on euronews
Chad Chronister, Donald Trump's pick to run the Drug Enforcement Administration, said Tuesday he was withdrawing his name from consideration, becoming the second person selected by the president-elect to bow out quickly after being nominated for a position requiring Senate confirmation. Sheriff Chronister, the top law enforcement officer in Hillsborough County, Florida, said in a post on X that he was backing away from the opportunity, which he called “the honor of a lifetime.” “Over the past several days, as the gravity of this very important responsibility set in, I’ve concluded that I must respectfully withdraw from consideration,” Chronister wrote.
A UK intelligence official said the order to poison Sergei Skripal and his daughter "would have gone to President Putin."
Louise Haigh will receive thousands of pounds in severance pay after her resignation as transport secretary, No 10 has confirmed.
The late night host said a single word stands out.
"If it continues like this, we will lose."
Nigel Farage can already lay claim to the title of most influential and successful politician in Britain today, having forced the biggest political change in a generation in the form of Brexit.
“I have this impression that (the Russians) have unlimited people,” said Oleksandr, a Ukrainian unit commander. “The next Russians, it seems, do not know what happened to the previous Russians. They go there, into the unknown. No one tells them anything about it, and no one comes back.”