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November 18, 2025 9:19 AM

Trump says ‘we’ll be selling’ F-35s to Saudi Arabia

President Donald Trump said on Monday he plans to approve the sale of U.S.-made F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia, speaking a day before he hosts Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for a day of diplomacy. "I will say that we will be doing that,"...

November 14, 2025 10:21 AM

Trump threatens tariffs on Spain over refusal to boost NATO defense spending

President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened trade penalties, including tariffs, against Spain, saying he is unhappy with its refusal to raise defense spending to 5% and calling the move disrespectful to NATO. "I'm very unhappy with Spain. They're t...

November 14, 2025 10:03 AM

UN agency says 13.7 million people face severe hunger due to global aid cuts

Almost 14 million people in Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti, Somalia, South Sudan and Sudan risk severe hunger due to cuts in global humanitarian aid, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Wednesday. The WFP's bigg...

November 13, 2025 11:56 AM

Trump signs deal to end longest US government shutdown in history

President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed legislation ending the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, roughly two hours after the House of Representatives voted to restart disrupted food assistance, pay hundreds of thousands of federal worke...

November 11, 2025 9:41 AM

US Senate passes bill to end government shutdown, sends to House

The U.S. Senate on Monday approved a compromise that would end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, breaking a weeks-long stalemate that has disrupted food benefits for millions, left hundreds of thousands of federal workers unpaid and sn...

October 30, 2025 12:45 PM

What are rare earths and why are they so important?

U.S. President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping have wrapped up a summit in South Korea with a deal to keep Chinese rare earth exports flowing. Here are some basic facts about these obscure elements making headlines around the wor...

October 17, 2025 9:29 AM

John Bolton, former Trump adviser, charged with sharing classified information

John Bolton, President Donald Trump's former national security adviser, was charged on Thursday in a sweeping indictment that accuses him of sharing sensitive government information with two of his relatives for possible use in a book he was writing....

October 12, 2025 10:39 AM

Beijing blames US for raising trade tensions, defends rare earth curbs

China called President Donald Trump'slatest U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods hypocritical on Sunday and defended its curbs on exports of rare earth elements and equipment, but stopped short of imposing new levies on U.S. products. Trump on Friday respo...

October 7, 2025 9:29 AM

Illinois sues to stop National Guard deployment as Trump escalates clash with states

The state of Illinois and the city of Chicago sued President Donald Trump on Monday, seeking to block the deployment of federalized National Guard troops to Chicago, as hundreds of National Guard troops from Texas headed to the nation's third-largest...

October 6, 2025 3:59 PM

UN cultural agency votes for new chief after US withdrawal

UNESCO will choose its next chief on Monday to lead the organisation after President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from it for a second time. While outgoing chief Audrey Azoulay has worked to diversify funding sources, the U.N. culture and...