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Hezbollah fires about 250 rockets and other projectiles into Israel in heaviest barrage in weeks
Hezbollah fires about 250 rockets and other projectiles into Israel in heaviest barrage in weeks
Sir Keir Starmer has refused to meet a Second World War veteran who had £60,000 wiped off her state pension.
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.
The Watergate figure said the president could "take the wind" out of Trump's plans for revenge and retribution with a stroke of his pen.
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 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.
His approval ratings have dropped by 51 points since Labour was elected in July.
The war in Ukraine was simply not mentioned.
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.
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.
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.
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."
At least 314 Ukrainian children taken to Russia in early months of war, report says
"If it continues like this, we will lose."
“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.”
Russian forces are attacking “behind established Ukrainian defences”, the UK Ministry of Defence has said.
The late night host said a single word stands out.
The former MSNBC host put the right on blast for their silence over two questionable moves by the president-elect.