President Donald Trump said Monday that he has decided to move forward with 25% tariffs on nearly all goods imported from Mexico and Canada, after taking a month for aides to negotiate a potential reprieve. The tariffs go into effect at 12:01 a.m. on Tuesday, hours before Trump’s first joint address to Congress in the evening. On Monday, a reporter asked the president if there is room left for Canada…

Reddit co-founder, Alexis Ohanian announced Monday that he is joining a US bid to buy TikTok, becoming a strategic advisor to the effort. Ohanian said he would join an initiative called “The People’s Bid for TikTok,” launched by real estate and sports tycoon Frank McCourt’s Project Liberty initiative, in a campaign joined by investor Kevin O’Leary, known from the “Shark Tank” television show in which entrepreneurs pitch ideas in bids…

Trump has paused all current military aid to Ukraine until President Volodymyr Zelensky demonstrates a commitment to peace, according to a senior Defence Department official speaking to Bloomberg. The decision affects all U.S. military equipment not yet in Ukraine, including weapons currently in transit or waiting to be shipped from Poland. This marks a significant shift in U.S. policy, raising concerns about the impact on Ukraine’s war effort against Russia.…

Traders had been expecting cartel to postpone its plan to boost output Opec+ said it will proceed with a plan to increase oil production from April, in an unexpected move by the cartel that sent crude prices tumbling. Saudi Arabia and seven other members of the Opec+ group had previously delayed a plan to unwind long-standing output cuts several times and traders had widely expected it to be postponed…

French discuss proposal for Kremlin to lose securities if it breaches a future ceasefire Europe’s biggest powers are swinging behind efforts to seize more than €200bn of frozen Russian assets, as they draw up plans for a ceasefire deal in Ukraine. France and Germany, long opposed to a full-blown seizure of the assets held in the EU, are discussing with the UK and other countries ways in which they could…

Hungary has obstructed the European Union’s draft document that proposed security guarantees for Ukraine and a new military aid package, Politico reports. During a meeting of EU ambassadors on Friday, Hungary opposed the draft text, which outlined potential security assurances from the EU to Kyiv, as well as a new military assistance package. Hungary’s position on the Ukraine-Russia conflict has been notably different from that of its EU counterparts. Prime…

A New Jersey mother serving a pair of life sentences in Arizona for the murder of her two young daughters was found dead in her prison cell last week. Retta Cruse committed suicide Feb. 21 at the Arizona State Prison Complex in Perryville, a suburb of Phoenix, officials from the Arizona Department of Corrections said in a statement. Cruse — who fatally drugged her children — hanged herself and was…

House Speaker, Mike Johnson on Monday admonished Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s behaviour toward President Donald Trump on Friday while also warning that Russian tyrant Vladimir Putin can’t be trusted. Johnson (R-La.) — saying he was aghast at the cringe-worthy public Oval Office spat between Trump, Zelensky and Veep JD Vance — left open the possibility that “someone else needs to lead” Ukraine if its leader doesn’t “come to his senses”…

James Harrison of Australia, whose blood had a rare antibody, donated 1,173 times over six decades, potentially saving millions of lives. He said he hoped someone would break his record. An Australian man credited with saving more than two million babies through decades of regular blood and plasma donations has died at age 88. James Harrison, whose blood contained a rare antibody, died in his sleep February 17 at a…

…After he shared stomach-churning account of Hamas torture President Donald Trump has invited a freed Israeli hostage to the White House after being shocked by his stomach-turning interview following 16 months in Hamas captivity. Eli Sharabi, who was released last month after being held by the Palestinian terror group since October 2023, is expected to meet with Trump on Tuesday, his brother Sharon told Israeli newspaper Haaretz on Sunday. Trump…

…After getting kicked out of White House by Trump Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has met with King Charles following an emergency summit with European leaders in London, where he was urged to repair his relationship with President Trump. The Ukrainian leader, wearing all black, was pictured shaking hands with a beaming king outside of his Sandringham country estate after traveling from the British capital by helicopter. Zelensky was “warmly received”…

President of the United States, Donald Trump on Monday blasted Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy for saying a peace deal is “very far.” “The final deal about ending the war is very, very far. Nobody’s even started all those steps yet,” Zelenskyy said Sunday on his way home from London after a summit with European leaders. Trump called it “the worst statement that could have been made” by the Ukrainian president,…