US will not give security guarantees to Ukraine, Trump says

A week into his second term, United States President Donald Trump has intensified his crackdown on immigration, building on his campaign promise of carrying out “the largest deportation in American history”. Since Trump’s inauguration on January 20, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested more than 3,500 unauthorised immigrants across the US. The Trump administration…

Russia says annexed Ukraine territories ‘non-negotiable’

Robert F Kennedy Jr has faced a barrage of questions about his history of spreading anti-vaccine conspiracy theories during a contentious United States Senate hearing on his nomination to be President Donald Trump’s health secretary. Kennedy, who has been picked to lead the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), spent most of Wednesday’s…

Several of the United States’ main trading partners have condemned President Donald Trump’s decision to hike tariff rates on all steel and aluminium imports starting next month. Leaders from Mexico, Canada and the European Union on Tuesday described the move as reckless and counterproductive, warning that they would respond with their own measures in kind….

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is on his way to the United States to discuss the second phase of the ceasefire agreed with Palestinian group Hamas in Gaza, his office says. Negotiations for the second stage of the ceasefire are due to begin in Washington, DC on Monday, Netanyahu’s office said on Sunday as the…

DeepSeek, a little-known Chinese startup, has sent shockwaves through the global tech sector with the release of an artificial intelligence (AI) model whose capabilities rival the creations of Google and OpenAI. DeepSeek-R1’s creator says its model was developed using less advanced, and fewer, computer chips than employed by tech giants in the United States. Recommended…