Category: World
Partial solar eclipse live: watch as moon to block part of sun for people in northern hemisphere
Canada to Siberia. The partial eclipse, which is the first of the year and the 17th this century, will last around four hours from 8.50am [more…]
White House asks supreme court to allow deportations under wartime law
The Trump administration on Friday asked the US supreme court to intervene to allow the government to continue to deport immigrants using the obscure Alien [more…]
Trump describes ‘productive’ call with Mark Carney amid US-Canada trade war
Donald Trump described a long-awaited call with the Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney, as “extremely productive” amid a trade war between the two nations launched [more…]
Canadian company in negotiations with Trump to mine seabed
A Canadian deep-sea mining firm has revealed it has been negotiating with the Trump administration to bypass a UN treaty and potentially gain authorisation from [more…]
US allies worldwide decry Trump’s car tariffs and threaten retaliation
Governments from Tokyo to Berlin and Ottawa to Paris have voiced sharp criticism of Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs on car imports, with several of the [more…]
Human rights groups rebuke Kristi Noem’s visit to El Salvador prison: ‘political theater’
Human rights organizations on Thursday denounced the visit by the US homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, to the notorious prison in El Salvador that is [more…]
Six Russian tourists dead after submarine sinks in Red Sea, Egyptian officials say – as it happened
Egypt has said that that all of the tourists on board the submarine were Russian. It said 45 passengers were on board the vessel, including [more…]
Six Russian tourists die after submarine sinks off Egypt coast
Six Russian tourists have died and 39 people have been rescued after a submarine sank near the resort of Hurghada, the latest in a series [more…]
Fears intensify of return to civil war as South Sudan vice-president arrested
South Sudan’s first vice-president and main opposition leader, Riek Machar, has been placed under house arrest, prompting a warning from the UN that the country [more…]
Trump names pro-Israel media activist as US ambassador to South Africa
Donald Trump has nominated a conservative, pro-Israel media activist as US ambassador to South Africa, at a time when the relationship between the two countries [more…]
