Gold has jumped to a fresh record high as investors fret over the impact of the trade war between the US and China. Spot gold rose above $3,500 (£2,645) per ounce on Wednesday, before dipping from its peak. It has risen by around 30% since the start of the year. The latest move comes after...
AFP Residents said there were fresh Israeli strikes in the south-west of Jabalia overnight Israel’s defence minister has said troops will remain in the so-called security zones they have established by seizing large areas of Gaza even after an end to the war. Israel Katz said the zones would provide a “buffer” to protect Israeli...
A former veteran who travels the country restoring war graves and memorials has inspired cadets to work on a project in Dartmouth. Cadets from the Britannia Royal Naval College (BRNC) have been renovating graves, some of which date to the 1800s, in the town’s Long Cross Cemetery with restoration expert Steve Davies. Mr Davies, who...
Donald Trump has said Volodymyr Zelensky shares the blame with Russian President Vladimir Putin for “millions of people dead” in the Ukraine war. The US president was responding to reporters’ questions during a meeting with El Salvador’s leader at the White House. “When you start a war you got to know you can win,” he...
On March 17, 2025, DefenseScoop reported that Congress approved $141 billion for Pentagon research and development — an amount larger than the budgets of most federal agencies, and close to the size of the seven next largest military budgets around the world. Yet, as usual, there was little debate. Instead, military leaders and lawmakers lamented...
Well, well, well. In a US customs messaging note quietly slipped out in the early hours of Saturday, a series of numbers were listed as exempt from the 125% tariff on goods entering the country from China. The code “8517.13.00.00” means very little to most of the world, but in the US customs list it...
Part of the Series Struggle and Solidarity: Writing Toward Palestinian Liberation The fragile Gaza ceasefire, which served as a lifeline for Gaza’s health care sector, lasted less than two months before it collapsed under a barrage of Israeli airstrikes. In March, Israel resumed its war on hospitals, with its first strikes targeting the intensive care...
“He was in the headlines before the game and now he is going to be all over the headlines again,” said former England winger Aaron Lennon on BBC Radio 5 Live following Onana’s errors against Lyon. “I think he looks a bit silly tonight and Matic is probably the one who is going to sleep...
Carine Torbey BBC News, Beirut BBC It was a typical Friday lunchtime in Beirut’s southern suburb. Then, a single warning, posted in Arabic on X by a spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), triggered panic and chaos in the densely populated area known as Dahieh. “Urgent warning to those in the southern suburb of...
Superhumans Centre Prince Harry visits victims of war at the Superhuman Centre The Duke of Sussex met war victims in Ukraine on Thursday when he visited a rehabilitation clinic, a spokesperson has said. Prince Harry visited the Superhumans Center, in the western city of Lviv, which rehabilitates wounded military personnel and civilians. He was accompanied...
A year ago Congress passed a law giving TikTok’s Chinese owner a deadline to divest itself from the company or face it being shut down in the US. After a court battle which TikTok lost, that deadline for a sale was set to be Joe Biden’s last day in office. But Biden decided to drop...
Anthony Zurcher North America correspondent in Washington•@awzurcher Watch: Why US markets shot up like a rocket after tariffs pause For days, Donald Trump and his White House team had insisted they were fully committed to their decision to impose sweeping “reciprocal” tariffs on dozens of countries. They even derided a report on Tuesday that said...
It’s no secret that the propaganda war over Trump’s cuts of government programs, particularly foreign aid, grossly distorts what Trump and Marco Rubio have actually done while eliminating USAID. If you follow the “news” put out by Pravda, you would be led to believe that people are dying in droves, children are left starving, and...
James Waterhouse BBC Ukraine Correspondent BBC “The best salesman in history.” This was what Donald Trump once called Volodymyr Zelensky because of the amount of aid the US has given Ukraine. Whether or not a fair comparison, Zelensky’s role in keeping his country in the spotlight and convincing allies to invest has certainly been crucial...
President Donald Trump has announced a 90-day pause for countries hit by higher US tariffs, but escalated a spiralling trade war with China. In a dramatic change of policy, just hours after levies against roughly 60 of America’s trading partners came into effect, Trump said he was authorising a universal “lowered reciprocal tariff of 10%”...