We need Russia to stop attacks, Zelenskyy says, backing calls for truce in air, at sea Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has responded to overnight attacks by Russia, saying that “the first steps toward real peace must include forcing the sole source of this war, Russia, to stop such attacks against life.” He also reiterated his call for a limited truce in the skies and at sea, as originally proposed by…

The Trump administration is reviving the controversial practice of detaining migrant families with children in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, the latest front in its effort to carry out a deportation effort the president has promised will be the largest in U.S. history. ICE on Thursday was detaining the first group of migrant parents and children in a detention facility in Texas designed to hold families with minors, according to…

The United States and Israel have rejected a Gaza Strip reconstruction plan that sees the devastated enclave being fully rebuilt without displacing Palestinians, as envisioned under President Donald Trump’s proposal to transform the territory into the “Riviera of the Middle East.” Under the $53 billion reconstruction plan proposed by Egypt at an emergency summit in Cairo on Tuesday, Gaza, which has been largely destroyed in Israel’s nearly year-and-a-half military offensive…

The European Union (EU) cannot afford to finance Ukraine’s military efforts as U.S. financial aid is no longer guaranteed, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday after the leaders of 26 EU countries signed a statement voicing support for Ukraine without Hungary. Orban, an ally of U.S. President Donald Trump, who is also cultivating ties with Moscow, told state radio that his government would launch a domestic “public consultation”…

President Donald Trump on Thursday issued exemptions on tariffs for a wide range of goods coming into the U.S. from Mexico and Canada, two days after putting in place sweeping 25% tariffs that rattled stock markets, as businesses warned the move would increase prices for consumers. The exemption would apply to goods compliant with the North American free trade agreement reached during Trump’s first term and will last until April…

Former president Barack Obama sat courtside at a Los Angeles Clippers game Wednesday — but notably without his wife, Michelle. Instead, Obama was spotted third-wheeling with Clippers owner Steve Ballmer and his wife, Connie Snyder, TMZ reported. The 44th president appeared to still have a blast watching the LA squad take down the Detroit Pistons 123-115. Former president Barack Obama sat courtside at a Los Angeles Clippers game Wednesday —…

The state department has ordered an immediate pause on most US foreign assistance to South Africa, according to a cable seen by the Guardian, officially implementing a contentious executive order by Donald Trump. The directive, issued on Thursday, implements Executive Order 14204 targeting what the administration called “egregious actions” by South Africa. It orders all state department entities to immediately suspend aid disbursements, with minimal exceptions. “To effectively implement EO…

Two young children, ages just 7 and 12, were forced to help beat and torture transgender man, Sam Nordquist to death in an upstate New York motel, prosecutors revealed in a disturbing update Wednesday. The 24-year-old victim had been sexually assaulted with a table leg and broomstick, had bleach poured on him and was beaten with sticks dog toys, rope canes and belts in the weeks leading up to his…

SYNOPSIS: ·Moscow opposes European peacekeeping troops in Ukraine ·Macron open to discussing sharing nuclear deterrence ·Russia says Macron should not threaten Russia ·Kremlin agrees “proxy war” should end ·Ex-President Medvedev calls Macron ‘Micron’ Russia warned French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday not to threaten it with nuclear rhetoric and, mocking his height by calling him ‘Micron’, ruled out European proposals to send peacekeeping forces from NATO members to Ukraine. Macron…

President Donald Trump has announced a major reversal on his tariffs on Mexico, saying he is enforcing a one-month pause out of ‘respect’ for President Sheinbaum. The U.S. imposed 25 percent tariffs on all goods imported from Mexico and Canada on Tuesday, rocketing the country into a trade war. But Trump announced Thursday that Mexico will get a one-month exemption because the country has agreed to his conditions to halt…

European leaders on Thursday said they would stand by Ukraine and spend more on defence in a world upended by President Donald Trump’s reversal of U.S. policies. “Europe must take up this challenge, this arms race. And it must win it,” Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said as he arrived at the summit in Brussels. “Europe as a whole is truly capable of winning any military, financial, economic confrontation with…

….As US steps up deportations U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is planning to revoke temporary legal status for some 240,000 Ukrainians who fled the conflict with Russia, a senior Trump official and three sources familiar with the matter said, potentially putting them on a fast-track to deportation. The move, expected as soon as April, would be a stunning reversal of the welcome Ukrainians received under President Joe Biden’s administration. The…