United States Senator Mark Kelly has sued the Department of Defence and its Secretary, Pete Hegseth, alleging that they have trampled his rights to free speech by launching a campaign of “punitive retaliation”. The complaint was filed on Monday in US District Court in Washington DC. It also names the Navy Department and its Secretary,…
Financial markets have been spooked by the resumption of a dispute between its chairman and the Trump administration over the independence of the US central bank. It emerged overnight that the White House was threatening to indict Jerome Powell over comments he made in Congress regarding rising renovation costs at the Federal Reserve buildings in…
Greenland’s prime minister has told Donald Trump, “We don’t want to be American,” after the US president warned he could take the island “the easy way or the hard way”. In a joint statement with Greenland’s top politicians, Jens-Frederik Nielsen said, “We don’t want to be Americans, we don’t want to be Danes, we want…
Videos of protests in Iran were reportedly shown online on Friday night, despite threats from the country’s authorities to crack down on demonstrators after shutting down the internet and cutting telephone lines to the outside world. The protesters appear to be encouraged by repeated declarations of support from the Trump administration and the country’s exiled crown…
Oil is at the heart of Donald Trump’s Venezuela gamble. Within a day of the US operation that ousted President Nicolas Maduro, Trump made clear his top priority: reviving the country’s oil industry. “We’re going to join our very large American oil companies—the biggest in the world—to spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken…
Trump has said that America will run Venezuela for years and will give its oil wealth to the people. It comes after the US vowed to detain Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro and deport his oil companies back to the Latin American country. Trump said that America will run Venezuela for years and will give its…
President Trump is not ruling out the possibility of a further U.S. expansion, intervention, or occupation efforts in the Western Hemisphere. The army’s success in looting Former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro from Caracas over the weekend Face drug trafficking charges in US, He has already received threats of capture Greenland. And Canada predicted that the governments…
