Elon Musk, standing beside President Trump in the Oval Office on Wednesday, defended the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE’s) efforts to drastically cut spending and dismiss workers across the federal government, insisting that Americans voted for major change and the Trump administration is delivering. Musk, the world’s wealthiest man, took questions for the first time since the president gave him broad authority to overhaul the executive branch. “The people voted…

U.S. President Donald Trump said he spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday about starting negotiations immediately to end the war in Ukraine. “We have also agreed to have our respective teams start negotiations immediately, and we will begin by calling President Zelenskiy, of Ukraine, to inform him of the conversation, something which I will be doing right now,” Trump said in a post on his social media platform.…

Russia on Wednesday rejected swapping occupied territory with Kyiv in any peace deal, after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy floated the idea. “This is impossible. Russia has never and will never discuss the topic of exchanging its territory,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters, ruling out Zelenskyy’s idea of a swap involving Ukrainian-held parts of Russia’s western Kursk region. Peskov spoke not long after Russia hit Ukraine’s capital Kyiv with a…

Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu has warned Hamas it will end the ceasefire in Gaza and resume intense fighting if the Palestinian group “does not return our hostages by Saturday noon [10:00 GMT]”. Netanyahu said he had ordered Israeli forces to mass inside and around Gaza in response to Hamas’s announcement that it was postponing freeing more hostages until further notice. He did not specify whether he was demanding the…

“A person who applies for citizenship from 10 February 2025, who has previously arrived without a required valid entry clearance or electronic travel authorisation, having made a dangerous journey, will normally be refused citizenship.” – UK Home Office The Home Office has been accused of quietly implementing policies that prevent thousands of refugees from applying for British citizenship if they arrived in the UK via small boats or concealed in…

President Trump hosted Jordan’s King Abdullah II at the White House on Tuesday and renewed his suggestions that Gaza could be emptied of residents, controlled by the U.S. and redeveloped as a tourist area — a plan that could likely only work if the Arab nation agrees to accept more refugees. The pair met in the Oval Office, where President Trump suggested he wouldn’t withhold U.S. aid to Jordan, Egypt…

President of the United States (POTUS), Donald Trump has lifted restrictions that previously penalized American companies for bribing foreign officials, including those in Nigeria. Trump signed the Executive Order directing the country’s Justice Department to pause prosecutions under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), the US law prohibiting American citizens and businesses from bribing foreign government officials to gain or retain business on Monday. The president asked the US attorney…

Elements of long-awaited blueprint to end war will be revealed this weekend as European nations are promised seats at the negotiating table Donald Trump’s administration has paused its peace plan for Ukraine to give Europe a seat at the negotiating table, The Telegraph can disclose. The US president’s envoy for Ukraine has promised to hold individual talks with Nato allies before finalising the long-awaited blueprint to end the war. Gen Keith Kellogg said…

Pope Francis has strongly condemned the deportation policies of US President Donald Trump, describing them as a “major crisis” that “damages the dignity of men and women.” In a letter to US bishops on Tuesday, the Pope urged the faithful of the Catholic Church and all people of good will to resist narratives that discriminate against migrants and refugees, causing unnecessary suffering to these vulnerable groups. The Pope’s remarks continue…

U.S. President Donald Trump warned Monday that “all hell” would break loose if every Israeli hostage is not released from Gaza within days after Hamas threatened to postpone further exchanges under a fragile ceasefire deal it said Israel was violating. The truce that went into effect on January 19 largely halted more than 15 months of fighting in the Gaza Strip and saw five groups of Israeli hostages freed in…

Many feel forced to hide their status through shame or fear of being taken into care When three homeless people died of cold in the ice-gripped US Midwest during last month’s freeze, it captured headlines — in a few local news outlets. But for most Americans, most of the time, the spectacular social failure that is US homelessness remains well below the radar. Even the news that it hit a…

Albanian criminal escaped deportation because his lawyer argued that his son would not be able to get British chicken nuggets in his home country An Albanian criminal facing deportation has successfully delayed his removal from the UK after his legal team argued that his 10-year-old son’s limited diet would make relocation unduly harsh. Court documents revealed that the child’s reluctance to eat foreign chicken nuggets played a role in the…