Earlier this week, President Donald Trump’s administration announced the imposition of 25-percent tariffs on imports from Mexico only to roll some of them back again. On March 6, the US president announced that he was exempting all products that are part of the US-Mexico-Canada trade agreement (USMCA) for a month. Meanwhile, the Department of Defense…
Spanish prosecutors have requested that the trial of the country’s former football federation chief Luis Rubiales for his forced kiss on Jenni Hermoso be annulled and re-run, notably questioning the judge’s impartiality. The request, on Thursday, comes after Spain’s top criminal court last month found Rubiales guilty of sexual assault for the kiss, which occurred…
Raphinha scored the only goal of the game to give Barcelona a 1-0 Champions League last-16 first-leg win at Benfica, despite the Catalan giants playing most the game with 10 men. Eighteen-year-old defender Pau Cubarsi was sent off midway through the first half of the tight clash in Lisbon on Wednesday with the score goalless….
Iran says it has yet to receive a letter from President Donald Trump after the US leader said he had sent one seeking talks with the country’s leadership about its nuclear programme. “We have not received such a letter so far,” a spokesman for Iran’s embassy said on Friday. Recommended Stories list of 3 items…
Trump says Russia’s Putin wants Ukraine war ‘stopped and settled’
“To the People of Gaza: A beautiful Future awaits, but not if you hold Hostages. If you do, you are DEAD! Make a SMART decision. RELEASE THE HOSTAGES NOW OR THERE WILL BE HELL TO PAY LATER!” These were not the words of some far-right provocateur lurking in a dark corner of the internet. They…
The Bottom Line What’s the future of Europe-US relations? Financial Times US Editor Ed Luce argues that President Donald Trump is declaring a ‘global power vacuum’. Read more United States President Donald Trump sees many European countries as extensions of the Democratic Party abroad, and thus his “adversaries”, argues Ed Luce, the US national editor…
NewsFeed Video: SpaceX Starship rocket explodes minutes after launch Flaming debris streaked across the skies over the Bahamas after the world’s biggest spacecraft spiraled out of control and exploded, minutes after being launched from Texas. Airports in Florida were closed as a precaution as the wreckage of Space x’s Starship plunged back to Earth. Published…
By Al Jazeera Staff Published On 7 Mar 20257 Mar 2025
Just before midnight on March 7, 1928, the St Francis Dam, located roughly 80km (50 miles) inland of Los Angeles, collapsed. There were no witnesses to the disaster – or none who survived – but investigators later determined that the 56-metre-tall (184ft-) barrier fell all at once, sending 12.4 billion gallons of water surging down…
