Author: Fatimah Idera

U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday announced a 100% tariff on movies produced outside the country, claiming the American movie industry was dying a very fast death due to the incentives that other countries were offering to lure filmmakers. Trump said on Truth Social, “This is a concerted effort by other Nations and, therefore, a National Security threat. It is, in addition to everything else, messaging and propaganda,” Trump said he was authorizing the relevant government agencies, such as the Department of Commerce, to immediately begin the process of imposing a 100% tariff on all films produced abroad that are…

U.S. President Donald Trump said he will not remove Jerome Powell as Federal Reserve Board chairman before his term ends in May 2026. He revealed this while describing the central banker as a total stiff repeating calls for the Fed to lower interest rates. Trump insisted that his moves to upend the global trading system with higher tariffs would eventually make Americans rich, and insisted that a first-quarter contraction in the U.S. economy was the result of former President Joe Biden’s policies. In an interview with “Meet the Press with Kristen Welker” on NBC News that aired on Sunday, Trump…

The Brazilian police said on Sunday that they had thwarted a bomb attack planned for Lady Gaga’s historic concert that drew over 2 million people to Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro. The Civil Police of Rio de Janeiro state, working in coordination with the Justice Ministry, said the plot was orchestrated by a group promoting hate speech and the radicalization of teenagers, including self-harm and violent content as a form of social belonging. According to the Rio City Hall, 2.1 million people attended the concert of the American pop icon. The police said in a statement that, “The suspects…

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…

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…