4 d. ago Talks for UK to join EU defence fund collapse in blow to Starmer’s bid to reset relations

UK had been pushing to join €150bn Safe fund, a loan scheme that is part of bloc’s drive to rearm EuropeKeir Starmer’s attempt to reset relations with the EU have suffered a major blow, after negotiations for the UK to join the EU’s flagship €150bn (£131bn) defence fund collapsed.The UK had been pushing to join the EU’s Security Action for Europe (Safe) fund, a low-interest loan scheme that is part of the EU’s drive to boost defence spending by €800bn and rearm the continent, in response to the growing threat from Russia and cooling relations between Donald Trump’s US and the EU. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Donald Trump makes chilling threat to migrants in bizarre late

The US President also trolled Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar and the state's Governor Tim Walz as he made wild claims about the country's immigrant population

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1 week ago Nigeria reels after 215 children taken in second mass school abduction in a week

Twelve teachers also kidnapped from Catholic school amid threats from Trump to intervene over ‘Christian genocide’Unknown gunmen have abducted 215 schoolchildren and 12 teachers from a Catholic school in central Nigeria, the second mass abduction in the country in a week.The latest kidnapping, in Papiri community in Niger state, came against the backdrop of Donald Trump’s threat to intervene militarily to end a “Christian genocide”, which the Nigerian government has denied is happening. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Key ally abandons Venezuela’s Maduro while he pleads for talks as US has ‘new options’ to topple tyrant if he won’t quit

A KEY ally of Venezuela has suddenly abandoned Nicolas Maduro - with the dictator pleading for peace talks in the face of US-led regime change. Colombia said it would prefer the Venezuelan despot to hand over his power - recognising the looming threat of an American invasion. With Donald Trump amassing a menacing military build-up...

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1 week ago MIKEY SMITH: 8 unhinged Donald Trump moments as he makes sinister threat against political enemies

There's a risk with Donald Trump that his frequent breaching of the barriers of taste, decency and the law could be put down to "Trump being Trump" - but this one might finally cross the line

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2 w. ago Keir Starmer STILL hasn't spoken to Donald Trump over his threat to sue the BBC for $1bn

No10 said the Prime Minister was yet to hold talks with Mr Trump more than a week on from his threat to leave TV licence fee-payers with a huge bill.

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2 w. ago Pressure is on PM to talk Donald Trump out of his $5billion legal threat to the BBC as looming bill 'will hit taxpayers'

Keir Starmer was due to hold a crunch phone call with the US President as the fallout intensifies over the corporation twice broadcasting doctored footage of his speech before the Capitol riots.

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2 w. ago BBC apologises to Trump over Panorama edit but rejects demand for $1bn compensation

Corporation’s chair sends personal apology to president - but ‘strongly disagrees’ he has basis for defamation claim

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2 w. ago ‘My TV licence fee shouldn’t be used to compensate Donald Trump’

A petition urging the BBC not to compensate Donald Trump following his $1 billon legal threat has now passed over 45,000 signatures.

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2 w. ago BBC right to take Trump legal threat ‘seriously’ says media lawyer

The BBC is right in taking Donald Trump’s threat to sue “seriously,” a media lawyer has warned.

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2 w. ago Keir Starmer breaks silence on Donald Trump’s threat to sue BBC for $1bn

Sir Keir Starmer urged the BBC to “get its house in order” following Donald Trump’s threat to sue the corporation for $1billion lawsuit.

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2 w. ago Trump doubles down on billion dollar BBC threat and claims it 'defrauds public'

US President Donald Trump reiterated his threat of legal action against the BBC over the editing of a speech just days after Tim Davie resigned over the chaotic situation

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3 w. ago We must fight for our journalism, defiant BBC boss says after Trump legal threat

Outgoing boss rallies staff after Donald Trump’s court threat and demand for $1bn compensation

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3 w. ago MPs warned against 'sustained attack' on BBC after Donald Trump legal threat

US President Donald Trump threatened to sue the BBC for $1billion if it fails to retract 'false' and 'defamatory' statements after his speech was edited in a Panorama documentary

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3 w. ago BBC stars MOCK Donald Trump's threat to sue corporation for $1billion as defiant director

As outgoing director-general Tim Davie called for staff to 'stand up for our journalism' in the face of a billion-dollar lawsuit, the lifelong BBC employee ridiculed the threat.

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3 w. ago BBC stars MOCK Donald Trump's threat to sue corporation for $1billion as defiant director

As outgoing director-general Tim Davie called for staff to 'stand up for our journalism' in the face of a billion-dollar lawsuit, the lifelong BBC employee ridiculed the threat.

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3 w. ago John Simpson leads BBC stars mocking Donald Trump for threatening to sue the corporation for $1billion over 'doctored' Panorama clip

The world affairs editor for BBC News ridiculed the threat sent by lawyers on behalf of the US President for describing the editing of a clip on Panorama as 'salacious'.

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3 w. ago Tim Davie to address BBC staff after Donald Trump’s legal threat

Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy is also expected to make a statement in the Commons on the issues facing the BBC.

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3 w. ago Zohran Mamdani's biggest threat is not Donald Trump, it's the Democratic old guard | Emma Brockes

The New York mayor-elect sells a political message further to the left than any American politician has dared to in recent memoryThe morning after Zohran Mamdani’s startling mayoral victory in New York, the most arresting visual image was not of the mayor-elect celebrating in an applause-filled room, but the breakdown of voting patterns across the city. Street by street, practically building by building, you could index New Yorkers’ support for Mamdani or Andrew Cuomo to the probable amount of rent they were paying. A middle-income precinct on the Upper West Side, for example, showed up as a small island of Mamdani voters in a sea of Cuomo-voting wealthier neighbourhoods. Solid lower-income support for Mamdani in modest midtown gave way to the incredible banking wealth of Tribeca and its majority support of Cuomo.Allowing for large anomalies – Staten Island, a middle- to lower-income part of the city, voted heavily for Cuomo, as did lower-income Hassidic neighbourhoods in Brooklyn a...

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4 w. ago Dick Cheney warns about the dangers of Donald Trump in resurfaced clip following former vice president’s death

Dick Cheney warned there had never been an individual who was “a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump” in a 2022 video which has resurfaced with the news that the former vice president has died.

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