North Korea’s defense ministry said on Tuesday the United States is again posing a grave security threat by sending a nuclear submarine to a South Korean port and its military forces are ready to take any action necessary, KCNA news agency reported. The emergence of a US nuclear submarine in the Korean peninsula is a…
At least 55 people were killed in Guatemala on Monday when a bus crashed through a guard rail and plunged into a ravine, authorities said, one of the worst road accidents in Latin America in years. The bus was carrying around 70 people when it fell into a river contaminated with sewage in Guatemala City, creating…
President Donald Trump will host Jordan’s King Abdullah II at the White House on Tuesday as he escalates pressure on the Arab nation to take in refugees from Gaza — perhaps permanently — as part of his audacious plan to remake the Middle East. The visit is happening at a perilous moment for the ongoing ceasefire…
US President Donald Trump signed executive orders to impose 25 percent tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from March 12, ramping up a long-promised trade war despite warnings from Europe and China. “Today I’m simplifying our tariffs on steel and aluminum,” Trump said Monday in the Oval Office. “It’s 25 percent without exceptions or exemptions.”…
US President Donald Trump floated the idea that Ukraine ‘may be Russian someday,’ as his Vice President JD Vance gears up to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy later this week. Pushing for an end to the nearly three‐year war with Russia, Trump discussed the conflict in an interview with broadcaster Fox News that aired Monday. “They may…
A deluge of disinformation about a flu-like virus called HMPV is stoking anti-China sentiment across Asia and spurring unfounded concerns of renewed lockdowns, despite experts dismissing comparisons with the COVID-19 pandemic five years ago. AFP’s fact-checkers have debunked a slew of social media posts about the usually non-fatal respiratory disease human metapneumovirus after cases rose…
A Ukrainian drone attack damaged an “industrial facility” in Russia’s Saratov region, the regional governor said early on Tuesday. “According to preliminary information, there are no casualties,” the governor of Saratov, Roman Busargin, said in a post on the Telegram messaging app. Several unofficial Russian Telegram news channels, including the Shot news telegram channel, reported explosions…
Google on Monday changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico to “Gulf of America” for those using its Maps platform inside the United States, complying with an executive order by President Donald Trump. The tech giant wrote in a blog post that users outside the United States will continue to see both the original and new…
Saudi Arabia’s NEOM, a Red Sea urban and industrial development, signed on Monday an agreement with DataVolt to develop a 1.5 GW net zero artificial intelligence project in the Saudi development’s Oxagon industrial zone, the Saudi state news agency reported. The project would see investment worth $5 billion.
President Donald Trump said Palestinians would have no right of return to Gaza under his US takeover plan, describing his proposal in excerpts of an interview released Monday as a “real estate development for the future.” Trump told Fox News Channel’s Bret Baier that “I would own it” and that there could be as many as…
The following week, the Secret Service used an electromagnetic gun to disable a drone above Trump’s motorcade in Pennsylvania US President Donald Trump had to fly on a decoy plane at least once while on the campaign trail last year after law enforcement officials suggested that Iran had placed operatives with access to surface-to-air missiles inside of…
A group representing Israeli military veterans has accused the Israeli government of intentionally sabotaging the Gaza ceasefire agreement Hamas on Monday announced it would stop releasing Israeli hostages until further notice over what the Palestinian militant group said were Israeli violations of the ceasefire agreement. The unexpected announcement comes amid growing doubts over an already…
Reports surfaced Monday that embattled Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu was seeking an additional deadline extension The US-brokered ceasefire between Lebanese Hezbollah and Israel is expected to be fully implemented by the deadline set for later this month, according to sources and officials familiar with the matter. The original agreement, mediated by the Biden administration, required Israel to…
US President Donald Trump said on Monday that Hamas should release all hostages held by the militant group in Gaza by midday Saturday or he would propose canceling the Israel-Hamas ceasefire and “let hell break out.” Trump cautioned that Israel might want to override him on the issue and said he might speak to Israeli Prime Minister…
Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty told US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday that Arab states support Palestinians in rejecting US President Donald Trump’s plan to displace Palestinians in Gaza and take control of the enclave. Egypt’s foreign ministry said Abdelatty, in a meeting in Washington, stressed the importance of expediting Gaza’s reconstruction while…
