China puts counter tariffs on US after Mexico, Canada reach deal with Trump
China puts counter tariffs on US after Mexico, Canada reach deal with Trump
US President-elect Donald Trump is set to be sentenced by a New York court for covering up hush money payments to a porn actress after the Supreme Court rejected his last-ditch bid to delay the process that would make him the first convicted felon in the White House. The highest United States court cleared Trump’s…
Honduras has threatened to expel United States troops, retaliating against incoming President Donald Trump’s plans to carry out mass deportations of refugees and asylum seekers entering the US from Central America. Trump’s plan could affect hundreds of thousands of people from Honduras, a country which hosts a significant US military base. Here’s what’s at the…
As the Hamas-Israel ceasefire continues, political leaders of the Palestinian group have expressed cautious optimism about the new United States administration’s ability to continue to pressure Israel to the negotiating table, even as President Donald Trump and his team have made widely-condemned claims during his first weeks in office about “cleaning out” Gaza and Israel’s…
United States President Joe Biden demonstrated “a double standard” on human rights, providing “arms without restriction” to Israel despite its war crimes in Gaza while condemning Russia for “similar violations” in Ukraine, according to a new Human Rights Watch (HRW) report. The rights group’s 2025 world report, published on Thursday, noted how the US withheld…
United States President Donald Trump has suggested Ukraine “may be Russian someday” as he seeks to fulfil a boast that he will bring the war to a swift end. Trump made the comment in an interview on Monday, as he discussed the three-year old conflict that has followed Russia’s full-scale invasion. Kyiv, meanwhile, has suggested…
United States President Donald Trump has ordered the Treasury to stop minting new pennies, reviving an old debate about the value of the one cent coin. The penny, Trump argued in a post on his Truth Social platform on February 9, is “wasteful” because the cost to make it far exceeds its currency value. Recommended…