Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo have signed an agreement to respect each other’s sovereignty and come up with a draft peace deal by 2 May. The deal was signed by the two countries’ foreign ministers in Washington, with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio also present at Friday’s ceremony. Hundreds of thousands of...
Reuters US President Donald Trump’s advisers defended sweeping tariffs on imports and vowed to stay the course, despite market turmoil and calls to avoid a trade war. In a series of television interviews, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent played down recent stock market falls and Howard Lutnick, the commerce secretary, insisted “tariffs are coming”. Bessent said...
Jordan Pettitt/PA Wire Livia Tossici-Bolt was found guilty of two charges of breaching the Public Spaces Protection Order on two days in March 2023 A woman convicted of breaching an abortion clinic protection zone has said she will continue her “fight for free speech”. Livia Tossici-Bolt, 64, was given a two-year conditional discharge and ordered...
