2 h. ago Putin warns of ‘new escalation’ if US supplies weapons to Kyiv

Vladimir Putin has warned the US that supplying Ukraine with long-range missiles will damage relations between Washington and Moscow.

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20 h. ago Democrats call for Trump to be removed under the 25th Amendment after military threats to US cities. But can he be?

It’s not the first time Trump has faced calls to step down since he returned to the White House in January

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21 h. ago Can Trump be removed under the 25th Amendment? Democrats join call to oust president after military threats to US cities

It’s not the first time Trump has faced calls to step down since he returned to the White House in January

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34 h. ago American democracy might not survive another year – is Europe ready for that? | Alexander Hurst

Trapped between Putin and Trump, EU citizens understand the grave dangers facing the continent. Their leaders urgently need to face reality, tooFascism is supposed to look a certain way: black-clad, uniformed, synchronised and menacing. It is not supposed to look like an overweight president who can’t pronounce acetaminophen and who bumbles, for a full minute, about how he would have renovated the UN’s New York headquarters with marble floors, rather than a terrazzo. But as Umberto Eco remarked in his timeless essay on identifying the eternal nature of fascism: “Life is not that simple. Ur-Fascism can come back under the most innocent of disguises.”Historians, scholars and even some insiders from the first Trump administration have seen through the comedic quality of the disguise. They appear to have seen in Donald Trump himself and those around him, Eco’s core criteria: the call to tradition and the rejection of reason, the fear of difference, the hostility towards disagreement, th...

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44 h. ago Democrats liken Trump to Putin after call to use US cities for military training

Illinois governor JB Pritzker and others condemn the US president for suggesting cities be used as military training groundsA leading Democrat has compared Donald Trump to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin after the US president told military leaders on Tuesday that the armed forces should use US cities as “training grounds”.JB Pritzker, the governor of Illinois, which is bracing for Trump to deploy national guard troops to his state, questioned the president’s mental health and accused him of behaving like an autocrat. Continue reading...

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48 h. ago Russia stages nationwide nuclear war alarm test amid mounting WW3 fears a day after Trump warned Putin he has more nukes than anyone else

Sirens blared with loudspeaker announcements as part of a system designed to warn the population in the event of war or a chemical or biological attack.

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67 h. ago ‘President is an idiot’: Democrat tees off after Trump vows ‘dangerous’ US cities could be ‘training grounds’ for military

The Marine Corps veteran didn’t hold back when asked to weigh in on Trump’s remarks to military leaders

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67 h. ago Trump's nuclear warning to Moscow: President tells Kremlin America has more nukes than anyone else and confirms he sent 'lethal' submarine to the coast of Russia after Putin ally's WW3 threat

Donald Trump has threateningly reminded Russia that the US has the most nuclear weapons in the world. 

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2 d. ago Trump says US cities should be used as military ‘training grounds’

Defence secretary Pete Hegseth also tells admirals and generals they must restore ‘warrior ethos’

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2 d. ago Trump announces deal with Pfizer to lower drug prices; Hegseth and president outline military changes in rare gathering – live

US won’t pay more than other countries for Pfizer drugs; Trump tells hundreds of military leaders they will ‘straighten out’ US cities after Hegseth rails against ‘fat troops’Trump says US cities should be ‘training grounds for our military’ in incendiary speechThe US government is hurtling towards its first shutdown in six years, with no signs congressional leaders are near agreement on legislation to continue funding beyond the Tuesday night deadline to prevent workers from being furloughed and agencies from shutting their doors.Congress’s Republican majority is pushing legislation to fund the government through 21 November, but Democrats have refused to vote for it unless it includes a series of concessions centered on healthcare. Continue reading...

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2 d. ago Trump defends troops in US cities after Hegseth decries military DEI efforts

President and defense chief delivered pair of incendiary speeches to a crowd of hundreds of generals and admiralsUS politics – latest updatesAt an address of assembled generals and admirals, Pete Hegseth, the US defense secretary, outlined changes to military policy and philosophy in a set of 10 directives meant to change organizational culture around fitness, race and gender, describing the previous state of military affairs as the “woke department.”Donald Trump followed Hegseth’s call to embrace the virtues of lethality as a doctrine with a suggestion buried in an hour-long campaign-style speech that the gathering of officers and senior enlisted advisers should consider targeting US cities and civilian populations as a training exercise. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Russian TV exposes Putin and Trump's Alaska chat on need of 'Trumpist Europe'

Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump met in Alaska in August in a bid to end the war in Ukraine, but as it turns out, the two world leaders spoke about a lot of other things as well

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4 d. ago UK defence chief gives verdict on Donald Trump's brutal 'paper tiger' jab at Putin

Defence Secretary John Healey told The Mirror Russia is 'not as tough as Putin likes to pretend' and said he welcomed Donald Trump's jibe

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5 d. ago Trump and Putin are threatening to carve up Europe between them. Suddenly, it all feels a bit 1939 | Simon Tisdall

Forget the US president’s seeming volte-face on Ukraine this week: he and Putin fundamentally agree that European liberal democracy is the problemFor many people in eastern Europe, August 1939 may not feel that long ago. That was the moment Hitler’s Germany and Stalin’s Soviet Union secretly agreed to partition Poland and forcibly subsume the sovereign Baltic republics and Finland into their totalitarian “spheres of influence”. The world knows what came next.Now the question arises: is it happening again? This time around, it’s Donald Trump’s United States and Vladimir Putin’s Russia making the big geopolitical power-play – and, once again, all of Europe is potential prey. Notwithstanding last week’s sparring over Ukraine, the two leaders’ core aims appear closely aligned.Simon Tisdall is a Guardian foreign affairs commentator Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Trump, Putin, Kim Jong Un and Xi Jinping depicted in ‘Mount Rushmore’ at Thai shopping mall

A shopping mall in Thailand has installed a Mount Rushmore display using the faces of Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un and Xi Jinping.

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6 d. ago Putin mouthpiece tells Trump to look in mirror as Russian leader 'disappointed and upset with him'

Naughty Donald Trump has upset 'disappointed and upset' Vladimir Putin with his comments about Ukraine's chances of regaining its territory, a daft Kremlin mouthpiece has said

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7 d. ago Trump doubles down on Putin 'disappointment' as he says Russia has 'gained almost no land'

Trump slammed the Russian President during a White House press conference in which he said it was "time to stop" the war, which has raged since Putin's forces invaded Ukraine in 2022

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8 d. ago Trump changed position on Putin after ‘briefing on planned Ukrainian offensive’

In the lead up to his meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky, the US president met with officials advocating a tougher stance on Moscow

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8 d. ago Officials reportedly identify Dallas Ice facility shooter; DHS corrects death toll down to one person killed – live

Joshua Jahn killed one detainee and severely injured two other before taking his own life, NBC News reports, as JD Vance blames Democrats for surge in political violenceFull report – Three people shot at Texas Ice buildingTexas Ice facility shooting: what we know so far about deadly attackThe Kremlin on Wednesday brushed off a comment by US president Donald Trump describing Russia as a “paper tiger”, and said president Vladimir Putin valued his efforts to resolve the Ukraine conflict.Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said that Russia was a bear, not a tiger, and “there is no such thing as a paper bear”. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago The Guardian view on Trump’s support for Ukraine: a welcome but not reliable vote of confidence | Editorial

Having exhausted a failed policy of appeasement, the US president may at last be ready to put pressure on Moscow The judgment of a man who fails to distinguish between aggressor and victim when describing the Russia-Ukraine war is not worthy of respect. Unfortunately, when that man is the US president, his opinion cannot be ignored.Earlier this year, Donald Trump asserted that Vladimir Putin had “all the cards” and urged Volodymyr Zelenskyy to make peace in terms that resembled surrender. This week, Mr Trump declared that Kyiv might achieve total victory, liberating all territory currently under Russian occupation.Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here. Continue reading...

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