USA: Trump says he could give 20% of DOGE savings back to Americans

United States President Donald Trump has proposed using some of the savings from tech billionaire Elon Musk’s cost-cutting drive to give Americans cash and pay down government debt. Speaking at an investment…

USA: Trump echoes Russia as he upends US position on Ukraine

If there were any lingering doubts about Donald Trump’s view of the Ukraine war and America’s support of Kyiv’s fight against Russia, he put them to rest in stark terms…

UK: PM Keir Starmer backs Zelensky after Trump ‘dictator’ claim

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has expressed support for Volodymyr Zelensky as a “democratically elected leader” after Donald Trump described the Ukrainian president as a “dictator”. Sir Keir spoke to…

USA: JD Vance warns Zelensky to stop ‘badmouthing’ Trump as war of words escalates

Vice President JD Vance scolded Volodymyr Zelensky to stop “badmouthing” President Trump on Wednesday after the Ukrainian leader accused his US counterpart of spreading disinformation — heightening an escalating spat following…

France: Europe’s leaders divided over their tactics with Trump

French President Emmanuel Macron got straight on the phone to Donald Trump and, separately, to Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday night, after fellow leaders of Europe’s biggest military powers left…

USA: New York governor weighs Eric Adams’ fate after scandals

New York Governor Kathy Hochul has called a crisis meeting on Tuesday to weigh whether to remove Mayor Eric Adams from office following a series of overlapping scandals. A top…

USA: Hundreds fired at aviation safety agency

The Trump administration has begun firing hundreds of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) employees, according to the Professional Aviation Safety Specialists (PASS) union, weeks after a fatal mid-air plane collision in…

Ukraine: ‘We will last six months’ if Trump pulls US military aid from Kyiv

Ahead of the emergency summit in Paris on Europe’s response to being excluded from US-Russia peace talks, Ukraine’s president warned of his country’s bleak future if US military aid is…

USA: Trump appeals to Supreme Court over firing of US agency boss

President Donald Trump has asked the US Supreme Court to allow him to fire the head of an independent ethics agency that protects whistleblower federal employees. He has filed an…

USA: Trump’s ‘drill, baby, drill’ pledge is affecting other countries

The UN climate summit in the United Arab Emirates in 2023 ended with a call to “transition away from fossil fuels”. It was applauded as a historic milestone in global…