[ad_1] President Donald Trump’s recent move to fire several senior White House National Security Council officials has raised eyebrows, particularly given the timing and circumstances surrounding the decision. The firings come on the heels of a meeting between Trump and far-right activist Laura Loomer, who presented her research to the President, making a case for…
[ad_1] London: The High Court in London on Thursday ordered US President Donald Trump to pay £625,000 ($741,000) in legal costs after he unsuccessfully sued a former British spy over a salacious dossier. Trump had sought to bring a suit against former MI6 officer Christopher Steele who authored the so-called Steele dossier which alleged the…
[ad_1] Trump declared a national economic emergency and announced tariffs of at least 10% across all countries. Washington: IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva on Thursday said new US tariffs “clearly represent a significant risk to the global outlook” and urged Washington to work with its trade partners. The statement was the first from the IMF chief…
[ad_1] Miami, US: President Donald Trump said his administration was “very close” to a deal to find a buyer for TikTok, which faces a US ban if not sold by its Chinese owner by the weekend. “We’re very close to a deal with a very good group of people,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force…
[ad_1] Washington: The Acting Inspector General (IG) of the US Department of Defence (Pentagon) will investigate Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth’s use of Signal in a group chat with other national security officials to discuss military actions against the Houthis in Yemen last month, according to a letter from the IG’s office on Thursday, CNN…
[ad_1] Washington: President Donald Trump on Thursday said he would consider a deal for TikTok where China approves the sale of the short video app in exchange for relief from U.S. tariffs on Chinese imports. Trump said that a deal is close on Tiktok, with multiple investors involved. TikTok faces an April 5 deadline to…
[ad_1] Washington: President Donald Trump insisted on Thursday that stocks and the US economy would “boom” despite a rout on global markets sparked by his worldwide tariffs. “The markets are going to boom,” Trump told reporters as he left the White House for Florida, when asked about the chaos on Wall Street and other markets….
[ad_1] Washington: The Pentagon inspector general’s office will investigate Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth’s use of commercial messaging app Signal to discuss air strikes on Yemen, a memo released Thursday said. President Donald Trump’s administration is facing a scandal over the accidental leak of a group chat by senior security officials on the strikes, which targeted…
[ad_1] US President Donald Trump’s worldwide tariff salvo could lead to an overall contraction of around 1 percent in global merchandise trade volumes this year, the WTO chief warned Thursday. After Trump on Wednesday unveiled a blitz of harsher-than-expected levies aimed at countries around the globe, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala warned the measures would “have substantial implications…
[ad_1] Hungary has announced its withdrawal from the International Criminal Court (ICC). This decision comes shortly after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is currently under an ICC arrest warrant, arrived in Hungary for a state visit. Netanyahu has been accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity during the conflict between Israel and Hamas,…
