US President Donald Trump accused the United Kingdom on Tuesday of “great stupidity” for a deal to hand the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean to Mauritius. “The UK giving away extremely important land is an act of GREAT STUPIDITY,…
US President Donald Trump’s government has asked countries to pay $1.0 billion for a permanent spot on his “Board of Peace” aimed at resolving conflicts, according to its charter, seen Monday by AFP. The White House has asked various world…
Countries including France and Britain are considering following Australia’s lead by banning children and some teenagers from using social media, but experts are still locked in a debate over the effectiveness of the move. Supporters of a ban warn that…
Uganda said Sunday it would maintain a ban on social media platforms while lifting a nationwide internet block hours after longtime ruler Yoweri Museveni was declared the winner of national elections. The internet was blocked two days before polls opened…
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni won a seventh term in office on Saturday after an election marred by violence and an internet shutdown, with African observers saying arrests and abductions had “instilled fear”. Museveni, 81, won 71.65 percent of the vote in…
US President Donald Trump said Friday he may impose trade tariffs on countries that don’t support his plans to take over Greenland, part of the territory of NATO ally Denmark. “I may put a tariff on countries if they don’t…
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado said Thursday she “presented” her Nobel Peace Prize medal to Donald Trump, in a bid to win over the US president who had sidelined her since overthrowing Nicolas Maduro. Her “wonderful gesture of mutual…
Libyan authorities have uncovered a mass grave containing the bodies of 21 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa, local media reported Thursday. News outlets cited government sources as saying a Libyan national has been arrested on suspicion of killing the migrants and…
Russia has announced the expulsion of a British diplomat, accusing him of secretly working for the United Kingdom’s intelligence services. In a statement issued on Thursday, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs disclosed that it had summoned the UK’s chargé…
The planet logged its third hottest year on record in 2025, extending a run of unprecedented heat, with no relief expected in 2026, US researchers and EU climate monitors said Wednesday. The last 11 years have now been the warmest…
