President Vladimir Putin said in remarks published on Sunday that Russia had sufficient strength and resources to take the war in Ukraine to its logical conclusion, although he hoped that there would be no need to use nuclear weapons. Recall, Putin had ordered thousands of Russian troops into Ukraine in February 2022, triggering Europe’s biggest ground conflict since World War Two and the largest confrontation between Moscow and the West since the depths of the Cold War. Read also: US might walk away from Russian peace effort if… Also, hundreds of thousands of soldiers have been killed and injured as…
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Britain’s counter-terrorism police have arrested eight men, including seven Iranian nationals, in a number of raids across the country, the Metropolitan Police said on Sunday. On Saturday, five men, four of whom are Iranian nationals, were detained on suspicion of terrorism offences over a plot to target specific premises, while the nationality of the fifth man remains unknown. The arrests were made in Swindon, west London, Stockport, Rochdale, and Manchester. “The investigation is still in its early stages and we are exploring various lines of enquiry to establish any potential motivation as well as to identify whether there may be…
As tensions rise between the nuclear-armed neighbours in the wake of a deadly attack on tourists in the disputed Kashmir region, India said on Saturday that it had banned the import of goods coming from or transiting via Pakistan and barred Pakistani ships. India’s Directorate General of Foreign Trade said in a notification that the ban would take effect immediately. “This restriction is imposed in the interest of national security and public policy,” it said Suspected militants killed at least 26 people in last week’s attack on a mountain tourist destination in the Pahalgam area of the Kashmir valley. The…
A Federal Appeal Court on Saturday blocked a ruling that had ordered the Trump administration to return more than 1,000 Voice of America employees back to work. The U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth ordered the administration to take all necessary steps to restore employees and contractors to their positions at the U.S. news service and resume radio, television and online news broadcasts, and some grants. The appeals court, in a 2-1 decision, suggested Lamberth lacked jurisdiction to order the employees to return to work and to require the restoration of $15 million in grants for Radio Free Asia and Middle…
In a recent decision to step down from royal duties with his American wife Meghan, Prince Harry had lost his legal challenge to changes to his security arrangements made by the British government. King Charles’ younger son, Harry, had sought to overturn a decision by the Home Office – the ministry responsible for policing – which decided in February 2020 he would not automatically receive personal police security while in Britain. Last year, the High Court in London ruled the decision was lawful and that decision was upheld by three senior Court of Appeal judges who said that, while Harry…
Amid his wider crackdown on elite universities and the U.S. education system, Donald Trump said on Friday that he had planned to strip Harvard University of its tax-exempt status by setting up another potential legal fight with the Ivy League school. In a post on his social media platform, without specifying when he might take action, Trump revealed that “We are going to be taking away Harvard’s Tax Exempt Status. It’s what they deserve!” Representatives for the Internal Revenue Service did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Trump’s post and whether it was revoking the university’s tax-exempt…
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has shared plan to spend $2bn on one of Donald Trump’s cryptocurrencies, as the move has triggered accusations of a conflict of interest. The Emirati investment firm MGX, which is backed by Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund, said it planned to do a deal using a so-called stablecoin called USD1. The coin, which is meant to track the value of the US dollar, was developed by World Liberty Financial, a cryptocurrency venture that launched last autumn and is majority-owned by the Trump family. President Trump is listed as the venture’s “chief crypto advocate”, while his…
Following Rachel Reeves’s raid on North Sea oil and gas companies, the FTSE 100 giant has revealed that Shell faces an extra £380m in tax. The oil giant said it expected the Chancellor’s expansion of the so-called energy profits levy – also known as the windfall tax – to cost an additional $509m (£382m) up to 2030. It comes after Ms Reeves extended the levy’s duration by a year while increasing the headline rate of tax paid by North Sea producers from 75pc to 78pc. She also scrapped rules that let companies reduce their exposure by making investments in new…
Ukraine and the U.S. on Wednesday signed a deal heavily promoted by U.S. President Donald Trump that will give the United States preferential access to new Ukrainian minerals deals and fund investment in Ukraine’s reconstruction. The two countries signed the accord in Washington after months of sometimes fraught negotiations, with uncertainty persisting until the last moment with word of an eleventh-hour snag. The accord establishes a joint investment fund for Ukraine’s reconstruction as Trump tries to secure a peace settlement in Russia’s three-year-old war in Ukraine. The agreement is central to Kyiv’s efforts to mend ties with Trump and the…
Google hopes to enter an agreement with Apple by the middle of this year to include its Gemini AI technology on new phones, CEO Sundar Pichai said in testimony at an antitrust trial in Washington. Pichai testified in the Alphabet unit’s defense against proposals by the U.S. Department of Justice which include ending lucrative deals with Apple, Samsung, AT&T and Verizon to be the default search engine on new mobile devices. During questioning by DOJ attorney Veronica Onyema, Pichai said that while Google does not yet have an agreement with Apple to include its Gemini AI on iPhones, Pichai spoke…
