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The US abstained from the proposal, which also called for the immediate release of hostages and the expansion of aid into Gaza. The United Nations Security Council has passed a resolution that demands a ceasefire in Gaza for the rest of Ramadan. The Muslim holy month began on 10 March and is set to finish on 9…

It comes as a separate court agreed to hold off collection of his $454m civil fraud judgement if he puts up $175m within 10 days. Donald Trump is set to stand trial in his hush-money case on 15 April – marking the first of four criminal cases against the former president to reach trial. A New York…

Beijing has lashed out at the United States and the United Kingdom for imposing sanctions over alleged Chinese government-backed cyberattacks, calling the Western allies’ move an act of “political manipulation.” The US and the UK announced Monday a set of criminal charges and sanctions against seven Chinese hackers for allegedly conducting sweeping attacks on behalf of China’s…

Win or lose, the Justice Department’s antitrust suit against Apple could force the company to do something it hates: It will have to share detailed info about its inner workings. Why it matters: The famously tight-lipped company likes to carefully craft every narrative, releasing only information that makes its products and business practices look good. But business…

France’s government increased its security alert posture to the highest level Sunday after the deadly attack at a Russian concert hall and the Islamic State’s claim of responsibility. French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal announced the decision in a post on X, saying authorities were “taking into account the Islamic State’s claim of responsibility for the (Moscow) attack…

The news comes after many weeks of speculation about the health of the 42-year-old future queen, who has not been seen on official duties since Christmas. Kate, Princess of Wales, has revealed she has been diagnosed with cancer and is undergoing preventative chemotherapy. In a personal message, the 42-year-old said planned abdominal surgery in January was successful…

The newly-released photograph of the Princess of Wales came amid online speculation about her health. Kate has not been seen at an official event since Christmas Day. Major photo agencies have pulled a new image of the Princess of Wales from circulation over concerns it was “manipulated” by “the source”. The image was circulated by a number…

With Russia gaining momentum on the battlefield, Pope Francis has said Kyiv should not be ashamed to talk to Moscow. Volodymyr Zelenskyy has dismissed the Pope’s call for Ukraine to enter peace talks with Russia as “virtual mediation”. In his nightly video address, Ukraine’s president did not refer directly to Pope Francis or his suggestion, but said…

Pope Francis has said in an interview that Ukraine should have what he called the courage of the “white flag” and negotiate an end to the war with Russia that followed Moscow’s full-scale invasion two years ago and that has killed tens of thousands. Francis made his comments in an interview recorded last month with Swiss broadcaster…

A US military ship is sailing towards the Middle East, carrying equipment to build a temporary pier off the coast of Gaza, the army says. The support ship, General Frank S Besson, set sail from a military base in the state of Virginia on Saturday. It comes after President Joe Biden said the US would build the…

The F-35A Joint Strike Fighter has been certified to carry thermonuclear weapons as tensions between Russia and NATO hit a breaking point. A NATO stealth fighter has been certified to carry nukes including the terrifying B61-12 thermonuclear gravity bomb as tensions between NATO and Russia hit a boiling point. The F-35A Joint Strike Fighter has become the…

President Joe Biden ‘s growing frustration with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continues to mount, with the Democrat captured on a hot mic saying that he and the Israeli leader will need to have a “come to Jesus meeting.” The comments by Biden came as he spoke with Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., on the floor of the…

President Joe Biden took on Donald Trump in a fiery speech to Congress on Thursday, accusing his election rival of threatening U.S. democracy and kowtowing to Russia, as he laid out his case for four more years in the White House. In his last State of the Union address before the election, Biden, a Democrat, charged Trump,…

Sweden joined NATO in Washington on Thursday, two years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine forced it to rethink its national security policy and conclude that support for the alliance was the Scandinavian nation’s best guarantee of safety. Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson handed over the final documentation to the U.S. government on Thursday, the last step in…

The Ukrainian prime minister was meeting with Kyriakos Mitsotakis. A Russian missile exploded in the Ukrainian port city of Odesa early Wednesday, just hundreds of feet from where President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was meeting with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, according to sources and officials. “It hit in a couple of hundred of meters (about 300 feet) from…

Nikki Haley suspended her presidential campaign on Wednesday after being soundly defeated across the country on Super Tuesday, leaving Donald Trump as the last remaining major candidate for the 2024 Republican nomination. Haley didn’t endorse the former president in a speech in Charleston, South Carolina. Instead, she challenged him to win the support of the moderate Republicans…

Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu stepped up his anti-India rhetoric and told a gathering in Baa atoll that no Indian military personnel, not even those in civilian clothing, would be present inside his country after May 10. According to a report by Edition.mv, the comments were made by pro-China Muizzu while addressing the Baa atoll Eydhafushi residential community…

The United States on Tuesday revised language in a draft United Nations Security Council resolution to back “an immediate ceasefire of roughly six-weeks in Gaza together with the release of all hostages,” according to the text seen by Reuters. The third revision of the text – first proposed by the U.S. two weeks ago – now reflects…

For the first time in more than nine months, Tesla chief executive Elon Musk is no longer the world’s richest person. Mr Musk lost his position at the top of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index to Mr Jeff Bezos after shares in Tesla tumbled 7.2 per cent on March 4. He now has a net worth of US$197.7…

Donald Trump is the frontrunner for the Republican nomination to challenge Democratic president Joe Biden in November’s US election. The US Supreme Court has given a boost to Donald Trump’s presidential election campaign after ruling that states cannot kick him off the ballot for his actions over the January 6 attack on the Capitol. America’s highest court…

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov recalled how External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar countered the West over New Delhi’s decision to purchase crude oil from Moscow amid the Ukraine war. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has recalled how External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar gave a strong response to European leaders “to mind their own business” when they asked…

The expected decision comes ahead of “Super Tuesday” this week, when voters in 15 states will pick their party candidates for November’s presidential election. The US Supreme Court is expected to issue a ruling on Monday on Colorado’s bid to ban Donald Trump from running for president. It comes after the Colorado Supreme Court said in December…

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley won her first GOP presidential nominating contest Sunday, notching a victory in the Washington, D.C., primary, NBC News projects — a win her campaign hopes will spark some momentum ahead of next week’s Super Tuesday contests. Haley, who won the primary over former President Donald Trump, has for weeks pledged to…

Donald Trump on Saturday easily won the Republican caucuses in Michigan, where the party has been riven by infighting that some Republicans fear could hurt his campaign in the key battleground state as he gears up for the general election in November. The former U.S. president also won the Missouri and Idaho Republican caucuses on Saturday, according…

U.S. military C-130 cargo planes dropped food in pallets over Gaza on Saturday in the opening stage of an emergency humanitarian assistance authorized by President Joe Biden after more than 100 Palestinians who had surged to pull goods off an aid convoy were killed during a chaotic encounter with Israeli troops. Three planes from Air Forces Central…

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin believes a war between NATO and Russia will become inevitable if Ukraine falls and Vladimir Putin is not stopped. NATO could be dragged into a war with Russia if Vladimir Putin’s forces are not stopped in Ukraine, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin warned. Speaking at a Republican-led House Armed Services Committee hearing yesterday (Thursday,…

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has sued ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, saying they abandoned the startup’s original mission to develop artificial intelligence for the benefit of humanity and not for profit. The lawsuit filed late on Thursday in California Superior Court in San Francisco is a culmination of Musk’s long-simmering opposition to the startup he…

U.S. President Joe Biden announced on Friday plans to carry out a first military airdrop of food and supplies into Gaza, a day after the deaths of Palestinians queuing for aid threw a spotlight on an unfolding humanitarian catastrophe in the crowded coastal enclave. Biden said the U.S. airdrop would take place in the coming days but…

At long last, first son Hunter Biden affirmed during his Wednesday impeachment inquiry deposition that his father, Joe, was “the big guy” referenced in an email about a business deal with a Chinese state-linked energy firm that yielded millions for Biden family members and other associates, more than three years after The Post broke the story —…

President Joe Biden on Thursday called on Donald Trump to help unblock a plan languishing in Congress to cut migrant crossings as the pair took part in dueling visits to the border over a top issue ahead of November’s election. Biden was in the town of Brownsville, Texas, across the Rio Grande river from Mexico, where he…

President Vladimir Putin told Western countries on Thursday they risked provoking a nuclear war if they sent troops to fight in Ukraine, warning that Moscow had the weapons to strike targets in the West. The war in Ukraine has triggered the worst crisis in Moscow’s relations with the West since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Putin has…

An Illinois state judge on Wednesday barred Donald Trump from appearing on the Illinois’ Republican presidential primary ballot because of his role in the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, but she delayed her ruling from taking effect in light of an expected appeal by the former U.S. president. Cook County Circuit Judge Tracie…

Donald Trump won South Carolina’s Republican primary on Saturday, easily beating former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley in her home state and further consolidating his path to a third straight GOP nomination. Trump has now swept every contest that counted for Republican delegates, adding to previous wins in Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Haley…

US military warns of environmental disaster from cargo spill in Red Sea An attack by Yemeni Houthi rebels on a Belize-flagged ship earlier this month caused an 18-mile (29-km) oil slick, the US military said Saturday. It also warned of the danger of a spill from the vessel’s cargo of fertilizer. The Rubymar, a British-registered, Lebanese-operated cargo…

U.S. military tracking ANOTHER balloon: Pentagon scrambles jets to investigate high-altitude object of ‘unknown origin’ over Colorado • The military dispatched jets to investigate • It was not deemed to be a threat • Chinese spy balloon last year sparked a diplomatic incident with China The U.S. military is tracking yet another balloon over the western United…

Any move to introduce conscription by Britain and other NATO allies would make a difference to Europe’s defences against Russia, Latvia’s foreign minister has said. Krisjanis Karins said the larger the country, the bigger the difference. Asked whether he was advocating such a step, the top diplomat told Sky News that he is “happily sharing” with colleagues…

KEY POINTS Federal prosecutors in New York said they charged a Japanese Yakuza leader with conspiring to traffic nuclear materials from Burma to other countries. Prosecutors said the accused gangster, Takeshi Ebisawa, “and his confederates showed samples of nuclear materials in Thailand” to an undercover agent from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. “A U.S. nuclear forensic laboratory…

Biden administration fears security threats at hundreds of sites The Biden administration plans to invest billions in the domestic manufacturing of cargo cranes, seeking to counter fears that the prevalent use of China-built cranes with advanced software at many U.S. ports poses a potential national-security risk. The move is part of a set of actions taken by…

Occupants of the White House have grumbled over news coverage practically since the place was built. Now it’s Joe Biden’s turn: With a reelection campaign underway, there are signs that those behind the president are starting to more aggressively and publicly challenge how he is portrayed. Within the past two weeks, an administration aide sent an unusual…

The so-called “Magnificent 7” now wields greater financial might than almost every other major country in the world, according to new Deutsche Bank research. The meteoric rise in the profits and market capitalizations of the Magnificent 7 U.S. tech behemoths — Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidiaand Tesla — outstrip those of all listed companies in almost…

The U.S. will announce a major package of sanctions against Russia on Friday over the death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny and the two-year Ukraine war, President Joe Biden said on Tuesday. Biden, speaking to reporters as he departed on a trip to California, did not give details. The latest sanctions on Russia will target a range…

The US has vetoed a resolution at the UN demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza after proposing its own draft urging a temporary ceasefire. Washington said the Algerian-proposed resolution would “jeopardise” talks to end the war. But the move has been condemned, with US allies expressing regret the original ceasefire motion was blocked by the White House.…

Before the shock death of her husband Alexei in a grim Arctic prison last week, Yulia Navalnaya had always played down the idea she would one day take over as leader of Russia’s opposition. But on Monday, she vowed to continue his fight. In a video released three days after his death and less than a month…

Yemeni rebels attempting to impose a blockade on Israel fired rockets on a British ship and reportedly managed to sink it, the first time it has succeeded since the start of Israel’s war on Hamas in Gaza The United Kingdom’s Maritime Trade Operations Agency (UKMTO) reported Monday that the Houthis sunk a ship traveling in the Red…

A senior administration told Reuters they didn’t believe ‘a rush to a vote is necessary or constructive’ The Biden administration is reportedly taking its goal of a temporary cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war to the U.N. Security Council as early as Tuesday. The administration is said to have proposed a draft U.N. Security Council resolution which in…

Christopher Wray warns that pre-positioned malware could be triggered to disrupt critical systems in the U.S. MUNICH—As intelligence chiefs and policymakers gathered for this city’s annual security conference focused on the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation urged them not to lose sight of another threat: China. Christopher…

Over 300 people were detained in Russia while paying tribute to opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died at a remote Arctic penal colony, a prominent rights group reported Sunday. The sudden death of Navalny, 47, was a crushing blow to many Russians, who had pinned their hopes for the future on President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest foe. Navalny…

Billionaire maintains his companies are doing the most to undermine the Kremlin Absurd. That’s what Elon Musk calls accusations these days that he is an apologist for Russian President Vladimir Putin. But it is easy to see why some are calling him Moscow Musk. Frankly, when Putin is praising Musk, as he did earlier this month, and…

Street protests and activism tolerated by Putin before the war in Ukraine have largely vanished Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny’s death Friday at a Russian prison camp in the Arctic silenced a man who was arguably the most influential remaining critic of President Vladimir Putin and the authoritarian state the former spy has methodically built on the…

Jaishankar defends India’s balanced diplomacy at Munich Security Conference, addresses complexities and advocates for humanitarian approach to Israel-Hamas conflict External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar defended India’s “all-alignment” approach to diplomacy on Saturday, saying that the country should be admired for its ability to foster relationships globally, including with Russia and the United States. However, he advised against…

Yulia Navalnaya was given a standing ovation after urging people to unite to “defeat this terrible regime in Russia”. Alexei Navalny’s wife has said she does not know whether to believe he is dead – but that President Putin and his regime must be held accountable if it is true. Yulia Navalnaya was speaking at the Munich…

The state AG’s office said that when factoring in pre-judgment interest, the amount exceeds $450 million. Trump said on Friday night that he would appeal. The judge who presided over a civil business fraud trial against Donald Trump on Friday ordered the former president, his sons, business associates and company to pay more than $350 million in…