Nadine Yousif BBC News, Toronto Watch: A trade deal, a family photo and conflict in the Middle East – Trump’s short G7 US President Donald Trump has cut short his visit to the Group of Seven summit in Canada, with the White House saying he must return to Washington to deal with the escalating conflict...
Alex de Waal Africa analyst AFP/Getty Images More than half of Sudan’s 45 million people have been wrenched from their homes Sudan’s war is in strategic stalemate. Each side stakes its hopes on a new offensive, a new delivery of weapons, a new political alliance, but neither can gain a decisive advantage. The losers are...
Tom Bennett BBC News Reporting fromBat Yam, central Israel BBC Veronica Osipchik, 33, had her home damaged by the blast Bat Yam, just south of Tel Aviv, has long been a stronghold of support for Israel’s right-wing governing coalition. In the early hours of Sunday morning, an Iranian missile struck a 10-storey block of flats...
James Landale Diplomatic correspondent in Banff, Alberta Getty Images Donald Trump greets Mark Carney in May 2025. This week’s G7 summit in Canada will be dominated by war – only not one of those that the world leaders had expected. High on the agenda had been Russia’s war against Ukraine and Donald Trump’s tariff war...
Lucy Hooker Business reporter, BBC News Getty Images Israel’s strikes on Iran, and Iran’s response, caused a shudder on global financial markets on Friday. The price of oil surged in particular, up 7% by mid-afternoon on Friday. That has prompted worries that we could be facing another period of sharply higher energy prices, leading to...
When I wrote about the clashes between ICE and people on the street Saturday there were two stories circulating about how all this got started. The LA Times was reporting that there were “reports” that ICE was targeting day laborers at a Home Depot in Paramount. In Paramount, a city that is 82% Latino, protesters...
Zelensky was asked to leave the White House in February after a public exchange with Trump in the Oval Office, in which the American told the Ukrainian to show more gratitude for the United States’ help in peace talks. Asked whether Trump would change his opinion on the war in his homeland, Usyk said: “I...
India and Pakistan last met in the Champions Trophy in February. That match was played in Dubai because the India refused to travel to Pakistan for the tournament. Fixtures at world tournaments, such as World Cups and the Champions Trophy, are dictated by the International Cricket Council and the event’s schedule. India-Pakistan fixtures generate significant...
US vice-president JD Vance said the US is looking forward to welcoming fans from across the globe for the tournament but says supporters must “go home” afterwards. The US will host 78 of the 104 matches, including the final. The World Tourism Forum Institute has warned that strict immigration policies in the US and global...
Getty Images Cross-border and aerial strikes by India have become the new norm Last week’s deadly militant attack in Pahalgam in Indian-administered Kashmir, which claimed 26 civilian lives, has reignited a grim sense of déjà vu for India’s security forces and diplomats. This is familiar ground. In 2016, after 19 Indian soldiers were killed in...
Nichola Mandil BBC News, Juba South Sudan Presidency Office/Handout Pope Francis went on a historic visit to South Sudan in 2023 South Sudanese leaders should “honour” Pope Francis’ legacy by ending the country’s conflict, the Vatican’s diplomatic representative to the nation has said. “We must try to make concrete in the daily life of South...
“The reality is that in this world everything is questioned,” he went on. “Questioning a club that has won almost 30 titles in the last decade seems misleading to me. “The only thing I want to do is thank all these players because I’ve had a great time so far and I want to continue...
Nothing symbolises the re-emergence of capitalism’s general crisis more clearly than president-elect Donald Trump’s refusal to rule out the use of force to retake the Panama Canal, to annex Greenland from fellow NATO member Denmark, and his willingness to use ‘economic force’ to make Canada the USA’s 51st state, Alex Gordon told the Communist Party’s...