WATCH: Trump promises ‘very strong action’ if Iran executes protesters. President Donald Trump has said the US will take “forceful action” against Iran if it executes protesters, as rights groups say more than 2,400 anti-government protesters have been killed in a violent crackdown by Iranian authorities. Relatives of Irfan Soltani, 26, who was detained last…
At first glance, the announcement of 25% tariffs against any country that trades with Iran seems tantamount to Donald Trump escalating a global trade war. But China, India’s largest trading partner, has kept its response quite brief and quite mild. “There is no winner in the tariff war,” said Foreign Ministry spokesman Mao Ning, adding that…
The BBC has requested the court effectively prevent the parties from collecting most of the evidence until the motion is decided. Court documents reveal that the BBC plans to dismiss Donald Trump’s lawsuit over the January 6 Panorama edit. us The president filed a defamation case Over the broadcaster’s editing of a speech he gave…
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…
