1m ago Trump says he could try to pull U.S. out of NATO as allies “weren’t there for us” in Iran war President Trump has told Britain’s Telegraph newspaper he could attempt to terminate American membership in the NATO defense alliance that the U.S. helped create more than seven decades ago as a bulwark against …
BEIJING, April 1 (Reuters) – Kou Wei, a former senior executive at a major Chinese state-owned power-generating company, was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve over crimes including taking bribes, state news agency Xinhua reported on Wednesday. The former general manager and deputy Communist Party chief of Datang Group was also guilty of embezzlement …
LONDON, April 1 (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he would act in the country’s interest, whatever the “noise”, when asked about U.S. President Donald Trump saying he was strongly considering pulling the United States out of NATO. “Whatever the pressure on me and others, whatever the noise, I’m going to act in …
COPENHAGEN, April 1 (Reuters) – Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said on Wednesday that his Moderates party wants to form a majority government that includes the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats after a parliamentary election in Sweden in September. “After the election, we will form a four-party majority government,” Kristersson told a press conference. “I will form …
By Ramadan Abed, Mahmoud Issa and Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA/CAIRO, April 1 (Reuters) – They’ve never known their parents, and they’ve never known Gaza, born prematurely two years ago and evacuated to Egypt as Israeli forces drew dangerously close to their neonatal care unit. That changed on Monday, when the 11 children, now toddlers, reunited with …
PARIS, April 1 (Reuters) – France suspects a pro-Iranian group known as HAYI to be behind a foiled attack on Bank of America’s Paris offices, its anti-terrorism prosecutor said on Wednesday, although it stressed the link has not yet been formally established. HAYI, which stands for Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiyya, or Movement of the Companions …
A Russian military plane crash in annexed Crimea has killed six crew and 23 passengers, Russian news agencies reported in the early hours of Wednesday, citing the Defense Ministry. The An-26 military transport plane was carrying out a scheduled flight over the Crimean Peninsula, the reports said. The military lost contact with the plane around …
NEW YORK (AP) — Global leaders have been scrambling to contain the rising cost of oil and gasoline since the start of the Iran war, which took a record amount of oil off the market when tankers full of crude were stranded in the Persian Gulf and military strikes damaged refineries, pipelines and export terminals. …
LONDON, April 1 (Reuters) – Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Wednesday that the global instability caused by the war in Iran means Britain should align more closely with the European Union on security and economy, following criticism from U.S. President Donald Trump. At a press conference aimed at easing public concern over rising energy …
Washington — The Supreme Court will convene for arguments Wednesday to consider the legality of President Trump’s executive order that seeks to end birthright citizenship. The question in the case, known as Trump v. Barbara, is whether the president’s directive complies with the 14th Amendment’s Citizenship Clause and federal immigration law enacted in 1952. Mr. …