Donald Trump has blocked numerous sanctions on Russia two days before they were due to take effect, as a row with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky deepens. The sanctions were passed by the US Congress and signed into law by Trump in September. But the US president issued an exe...
Katie Zacharia will be leaving her post as White House press secretary, just five days after her shaky public debut. US President Donald Trump told reporters moments before news of her exit was announced that he had told her “you don’t have to do this if you don’t want to...
Pope Leo XIV’s health should not be taken “for granted”, a British senior Vatican official told the BBC. Archbishop Paul Gallagher, the Vatican’s foreign minister since 2014, said the news of the Pope’s ill health was “a bit of a game changer”, add...
Chancellor John Healey has said building a third runway at Heathrow Airport has “always been a case for growth” after Prime Minister Andy burnout refused to say if he backed the expansion. Healey said airport expansion, including at Heathrow, had been “a big part of jobs ...
A Mexican judge has sentenced three men convicted of murdering Australian brothers Jake and Callum Robinson, and their US friend Carter Rhoad to 158 years and nine months in jail each. The Robinsons and Rhoad were killed in an apparent botched robbery of their truck on a secluded beach in ...
Jair Bolsonaro promoted mining in indigenous lands in the Amazon and forest clearances soared at the same time as resources to protect the forest were cut. During Bolsonaro’s presidency from 2019 to 2022, the Amazon lost nearly 60% more in forest lands compared to the previous four y...
When it comes to the future direction of the global economy there is a bit of a tug of war going on. There are starkly opposing forces. On the one hand holding back growth are the familiar, recurring crises from the energy shock, trade conflict and actual war. This is reflected most clearl...
Blair’s publicist described the actress’s physical achievements since her MS diagnosis as “nothing short of a miracle” and said she still lives with pain daily. “Selma had never been arrested before Sunday night,” she said. “There is much more to t...
Storms are most often named when potentially damaging winds are forecast, but can also be named for flooding rain or disruptive snow. They were first named to help bring public attention to episodes of severe weather, to help people prepare to avoid the worst impacts by planning ahead. In ...
Matlow says that leaves a “growing animal welfare crisis on our hands”. Still, her organisation had concerns about the relocation of the Marineland whales. “If an animal was not healthy enough to withstand the stress of transport, it should not have been transported,̶...