Donald Trump
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The inner circle of US President Donald Trump has recently become vocal on Romanian politics, now showing interest in the case of the Tate brothers. First it was US Vice President JD Vance who unexpectedly called out Romania at the Munich Security Conference last weekend for allegedly undermining its democracy by annulling its presidential elections.…
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US National Security Adviser Mike Waltz announced the two key European leaders will have a seat at the negotiating table after EU leaders raised the alarm over Donald Trump’s handling of the war in Ukraine. Is French President Emmanuel Macron’s gamble starting to pay off? After organising two emergency meetings this week in Paris with…
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Donald Trump called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy a “dictator,” escalating tensions in the aftermath of US-Russia talks over Ukraine. The exchange of criticism between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his US counterpart Donald Trump further escalated on Wednesday after Trump labelled the Ukrainian leader a “dictator”. “I love Ukraine, but Zelenskyy has done a terrible…
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By Ivor Bennett, Moscow-based journalist Russia has a lot to gain from sitting down in Saudi Arabia with the Americans. Firstly, the optics. After three years of being frozen out by the West, they’re being brought back in from the cold. It’s powerful visual currency – pariahs no longer. Secondly, the chance to expand Russian-US cooperation.…
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Ukraine’s president has revealed he believes more than 46,000 of the country’s soldiers have now died during its war with Russia. Volodymyr Zelenskyy also estimated that “tens of thousands” of Ukrainian civilians had been killed, but said it was difficult to know the exact number. He made the comments during an interview with NBC. When asked…
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Ukraine ‘launches drone attack on southern Russia’ Ukraine launched a drone attack on Russia’s southern Krasnodar region last night, leaving one person injured, the governor of the region reports this morning. In a post on Telegram, governor Veniamin Kondratyev called the attack “massive”, but did not provide further detail. He also reported that at least 12…
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By Adam Parsons, Sky News Europe correspondent There is no disguising this now. Plenty of Europe’s most prominent politicians are deeply rattled by what they’ve heard from those at the top of the Trump White House and worried about the consequences. Emmanuel Macron, inevitably, has come to the fore, once again positioning himself as the continent’s…
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President Donald Trump asked the US Supreme Court to let him fire the head of an independent US agency that protects government whistleblowers, seeking high-court intervention for the first time in his campaign to oust federal officials who don’t embrace his views. The filing, submitted Sunday but not yet formally docketed, asks the court to…
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To mark Valentine’s Day, the White House posted a meme across its X, Instagram, and Facebook social media accounts. The post included a new take on the popular “roses are red, violets are blue” refrain. But in lieu of a traditional love poem, the White House instead came up with a rhyme that targeted illegal immigration. “Roses are red,…
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Valerie Laveus filled out forms, submitted financial records and spent six months waiting for permission to bring family members from Haiti to live with her in Florida. “They had to be vetted. I had to be vetted. There were a lot of steps,” she recalls. For Janvier Ndagijimana and his family, the process of coming…
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President Lai Ching-te pledged on Friday (Feb 14) to talk with the United States about President Donald Trump’s concerns over the chip industry and to invest more in and buy more from the country, while ramping up defence spending. Trump spoke critically about Taiwan on Thursday, saying he aimed to restore US manufacturing of semiconductor chips and…
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President Donald Trump on Thursday (Feb 13) offered to sell state-of-the-art fighter jets to India as he and Prime Minister Narendra Modi vowed to ramp up trade, rekindling a bond that defies the new US administration’s punitive approach to much of the world. Modi, only the fourth world leader to visit the White House since…
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Tens of thousands of U.S. civil servants were cleared to take a buyout from Donald Trump’s administration on Wednesday after a federal judge ruled the unprecedented downsizing effort could proceed. About 75,000 workers have signed up for the buyout, said a spokesperson for the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, equal to 3% of the civilian…
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The White House said Wednesday that news organizations that refuse to use President Donald Trump’s new name for the Gulf of Mexico were telling “lies” and insisted it would continue to bar Associated Press journalists from presidential events. Trump has decreed that the international body of water — which borders Mexico, the United States and…
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President Donald Trump’s top adviser, Elon Musk, on Wednesday called for “an immediate wave of judicial impeachments” after multiple judges blocked some of the administration’s recent moves. A judge this week issued a temporary order requiring the government to restore online data removed from the websites of U.S. health agencies in response to a lawsuit…
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In the weeks since Donald Trump returned to office, Democrats and legal scholars have warned that he’s provoking a constitutional crisis by trying to expand his power and ignore laws that stand in his way. On Wednesday, the White House had a new response to that. It’s not the president who is causing the problem,…
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