When Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado handed her Nobel Peace Prize medal to US President Donald Trump this week, the gesture was heavy on symbolism and light on clarity. Was Trump being given a “Nobel”? Can such an award be given? And what does medal ownership actually mean? Here’s how the rules, precedents, and…
The bipartisan bill would ban funding for any move to annex or occupy the territory of a NATO member state. US senators have introduced a bill aimed at preventing President Donald Trump from seizing NATO territory, including the self-ruled Danish island of Greenland. The bipartisan NATO Unity Protection Act introduced Tuesday would block the Defence…
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…
