Foreign minister Mélanie Joly holds meetings in Washington in attempt to avert trade war. Mélanie Joly told the Financial Times the US president’s threat to impose levies of 25 per cent on Canadian imports would hit “real people” if relations between the two countries descended into a trade war. “We ship oil at a discount which is, ultimately, refined in Texas. If it’s not us, it is Venezuela,” Joly said,…

US President Donald Trump has threatened BRICS nations with 100% tariffs if they replace the US dollar as reserve currency. He has also threatened Canada and Mexico with tariffs. Trump threatened BRICS member states with 100% tariffs on Thursday to dissuade them from replacing the US dollar as reserve currency. Trump had made a similar statement right after winning the November 2024 elections. “We are going to require a commitment…

President Donald Trump has linked the fatal mid-air collision between a military helicopter and a passenger jet in Washington, D.C., to what he called a diversity hiring spree in the aviation industry. The crash, which occurred near Ronald Reagan National Airport on Wednesday evening, resulted in 67 deaths, with no survivors. During a press briefing, Trump criticized the Biden administration, alleging that FAA diversity hiring policies had compromised safety standards.…

About 30 bodies have been removed from the wreckage caused by a mid-air crash between a passenger plane and a helicopter in Washington. The American Airlines regional jetliner was carrying 60 passengers and four crew when it collided with a US Army Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan Washington National Airport, plunging the aircraft into the Potomac River, Press TV reported. Washington, DC Fire and EMS Chief, John Donnelly said at…

A porn star has plunged to her death from a Brazilian hotel balcony after she invited two men to take part in a filmed threesome. Brazilian adult content creator, Anna Beatriz Pereira Alves, known online as Anna Polly, was found lifeless in a courtyard at an aparthotel in Nova Iguacu, roughly 25 miles northwest of Rio de Janeiro. The OnlyFans model, whom local media reports was 23, is believed to…

Mark Zuckerberg, the owner of Meta, formerly called Facebook and X has agreed to pay $25 million in settlement of a lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump challenging the suspension of his (Trump) Facebook and X accounts. Meta and X (then called Twitter) both banned Trump from both platforms following the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot. Protesters had turned out in support of Trump at the US Capitol, to overturn…

A man has killed his teenage daughter after she uploaded what he considered to be inappropriate videos on the social media app, TikTok in Pakistan. Local police chief, Babar Baloch, said on Thursday that the man, said to be in his 50s, recently brought his family back from the U.S. to settle in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta, Baloch said the now-detained man confessed to having shot his daughter…

A tragic and unexpected mid-air collision occurred Wednesday over Washington, D.C., involving an American Airlines commercial jet and a U.S. military Black Hawk helicopter. The crash has triggered an immediate response from aviation and defense authorities, as emergency crews work to assess the damage, search for survivors, and determine what led to this devastating incident. What is Known So Far According to early reports, the American Airlines aircraft was operating…

The Trump Donald administration has put a freeze on federal funding, including $50 million originally earmarked for condom distribution in Gaza. White House Press Secretary, Karoline Leavitt said the expenditure was discovered in Trump’s first week, including by the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) led by tech billionaire, Elon Musk. Musk’s initiative and the budget office “found that there was about to be 50 million taxpayer dollars that went…

A tragic mid-air collision between an American Airlines regional passenger jet and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter sent both aircraft crashing into the Potomac River near Reagan Washington National Airport late Wednesday night, officials confirmed. According to The Washington Post, multiple bodies have been recovered from the river. Reuter reported that Senator Ted Cruz of Texas stated on social media that “we know there are fatalities,” but the exact…

The president suggested 30,000 migrants could be housed on the base. It is unclear how the plan will take shape. President Trump on Wednesday ordered his administration to prepare to house tens of thousands of “criminal aliens” at the Navy base at Guantánamo Bay, the latest prong in his widening crackdown on immigration. Mr. Trump did not offer details on how the plan would take shape, but he instructed the…

President Donald Trump’s administration pulled back a proposed spending freeze that threatened to disrupt hundreds of billions of dollars in aid to U.S. programmes, a White House official said on Wednesday. The first major domestic policy reversal of the Republican president’s new term came after one federal judge had temporarily blocked the freeze and before another judge was due to hear a separate legal challenge. The proposal had thrown the…