US, EU move apart as Trump eyes Ukraine’s minerals and a deal with Russia
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Donald Trump accepts Prime Minister Starmer’s invite to visit King Charles
Donald Trump accepts Prime Minister Starmer’s invite to visit King Charles
Private moon mission blasts off to search for water
NewsFeed Private moon mission blasts off to search for water A private moon mission has launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida, carrying the Athena lunar lander. Athena will search for water in a permanently shadowed lunar crater. Published On 27 Feb 202527 Feb 2025
What’s in Trump’s $1bn plan to bring egg prices down?
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has unveiled a new plan to combat bird flu, the spread of which has created a severe egg shortage and caused egg prices to spike in the US. The $1bn plan includes financial aid for poultry farmers as well as funding for new research for treatment and vaccines. In…
How Project 2025, which Trump disavowed, is shaping his health policies
Few voters likely expected President Donald Trump in the first weeks of his administration to slash billions of dollars from the nation’s premier federal cancer research agency. But funding cuts to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) were presaged in Project 2025’s “Mandate for Leadership”, a conservative plan for governance that Trump said he knew…
Trump meets Starmer: Is the UK’s increase in defence spending enough?
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…
Russia says annexed Ukraine territories ‘non-negotiable’
Russia says annexed Ukraine territories ‘non-negotiable’
It’s regular old racism, not ‘Hinduphobia’
It’s been an awkward few months for Hindu nationalists who have been eagerly awaiting Trump’s return to the White House. There have been a few wins. Strategic and defence ties between India and the US seem stable for now, following Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the White House. Modi claimed that like Trump’s quest…
US reports first measles death since 2015
The United States has reported its first measles death in a decade after an unvaccinated child fell ill amid an outbreak of the highly contagious disease in Texas. The school-aged child died overnight after being hospitalised in Lubbock, northwest Texas, the state’s health department said in a statement on Wednesday. Recommended Stories list of 4…
US cutting foreign aid budgets by more than 90%, Trump administration says
The United States has dramatically cut the budgets of overseas development and aid programmes, with multiyear contracts pared down by 92 percent, or $54bn, the State Department has said. After his inauguration on January 20, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order demanding a freeze on all US foreign aid for 90 days, during…