United States and Russian officials have met in Saudi Arabia for the first high-level talks between the two countries since the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine three years ago. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, along with other senior officials, met on Tuesday morning in Riyadh’s Diriyah Palace. The…

United States President Donald Trump has said he will impose a 25 percent tariff on imports from the European Union, claiming that the bloc was created to “screw” his country. Speaking at the first meeting of his cabinet on Wednesday, Trump said a decision on tariffs had been made and would be announced “very soon”….

Washington, DC – United States President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, has announced he will visit Gaza in the coming days as part of what he called an “inspection team” to monitor the ceasefire agreement reached between Israel and Hamas last week. During an interview with Fox News on Wednesday, Witkoff said he…

Elon Musk and President Donald Trump say they have uncovered huge “fraud” in the US federal government. During Oval Office remarks on February 11, Trump said their efforts to cut spending had turned up “billions and billions of dollars in waste, fraud and abuse”. Trump added: “We found fraud and abuse, I would say those…

Russia’s FSB security service has said a US citizen sentenced to a 15-year jail term this week was found guilty of leaking biotechnology secrets to the United States. In a statement on Friday, FSB accused Eugene Spector, who was born in Russia and then moved to the US, of acting on behalf of the Pentagon….

New York’s Columbia University said it has handed down punishments to pro-Palestine student protesters who occupied a university building last year during a pro-Palestine demonstration. Punishments range from multi-year suspensions to expulsions, and revocation of student degrees, the university said in a statement on Thursday, following a review of the “severity of behaviour at these…