Biden speaks with Israel’s Netanyahu, urges ‘immediate ceasefire’ in Gaza

Inside Story Can simplifying AI rules in Europe create competition for US and China? Europe to cut red tape to make artificial intelligence advancements easier. Read more The Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris has drawn nearly 100 world leaders and tech firms, and the consensus is that 2025 is not the year for new…

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced the country will increase defence spending by cutting its foreign aid budget, a move he says is necessary as the United Kingdom faces a “dangerous new era”. Starmer said on Tuesday that as the UK faces a “period of profound change” amid overseas conflicts, including a war in…

NewsFeed UFC star Khabib Nurmagomedov escorted off plane after exit row seat dispute A video of UFC champion Khabib Nurmagomedov being escorted off an American airline has gone viral. It appears air stewards reported feeling ‘uncomfortable’ with his apparent grasp of English as he sat in an exit row seat where he would need to…

Firefighters watch as the Palisades Fire burns at the Mandeville Canyon, a neighbourhood of Los Angeles, California. [Ringo Chiu/Reuters]

United States President Donald Trump has reiterated baseless claims that outgoing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is seeking to use US tariffs against Canada to extend his time in office, as a rift widens between the two countries. In a social media post on Thursday, Trump said he believed Trudeau “is using the Tariff problem, which…

United States President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Thursday, announcing that documents related to the assassinations of former US President John F Kennedy (JFK), his younger brother, Senator Robert F Kennedy (RFK) and civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr (MLK) are to be declassified. According to the National Archives and Records Administration,…