10 h. ago Donald Trump's top advisor insists Vladimir Putin wants 'permanent peace' in Ukraine

Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff has said that "we might be on the verge of something that would be very, very important" after trying to negotiate an end to war in Ukraine with Vladimir Putin

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41 h. ago Donald Trump insists there will be NO tariff exemptions in dramatic policy reversal

President Donald Trump took to Truth Social to clarify that China - which is embroiled in an escalating trade war with the US - will not be exempt from tariffs on electronics and semiconductors

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46 h. ago Donald Trump insists on NO exemptions in tariff policy for electronics

The US President declared that there would be no exemptions from the tariffs on Sunday evening, after an initial notice on Friday raised hopes that electronic gadgets from China would be spared

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48 h. ago Donald Trump insists there will be NO tariff exemptions in dramatic u

Just days after economic experts saw a glimmer of hope among Donald Trump's raft of tariffs with a potential exemption on electronic goods, the US President has now clarified this is not the case

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3 d. ago ‘It never happened – but the picture says it did’: 28 fake images that fooled the world

From the pope in a puffer to the Princess of Wales and family, baby Hitler to Mussolini on horseback, people have always manipulated photographs, whether for political power, image control – or just for fun “Pictures or it didn’t happen.” So runs the immediate social media retort to any claim deemed too extraordinary to be true. Carried within it is an assumption shared across the globe which has held firm almost since the invention of the camera: that the ultimate form of proof is the photograph. The idea is so strongly fixed in the human mind, it has acquired the status of a law of nature, one obvious even to a child: the camera never lies.Except it does, as the images collected here vividly attest. We may think of AI deepfakes, and their Photoshop predecessors, as thoroughly modern menaces, corrupting a previously innocent, reliable medium, but we would be wrong. It turns out people have been doctoring photos, manipulating and meddling, from the start. “Honest” Abe Lincoln was no...

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4 d. ago China’s exporters defy US ‘paper tiger’ as Beijing invokes Mao

Stoic defiance in ‘trinket town’ echoes Beijing’s insistence that nation can prevail against Donald Trump’s tariff blitz

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6 d. ago Donald Trump insists 'China wants deal badly and it will happen' in social media rant

Donald Trump has posted about China after Beijing threatened to fight the president's recent Liberation Day tariffs of 34% against the nation with reciprocal measures

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8 d. ago Donald Trump warns 'don't be weak and stupid' as tariffs send stock markets into freefall

Donald Trump remained defiant on Monday despite plunging markets as he insisted his tariffs are necessary to rebalance global trade and rebuild domestic manufacturing

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1 week ago Donald Trump insists US 'going to boom' from tariffs despite stock market plunge

US President Donald Trump revealed a raft of tariffs on Wednesday causing stock markets to plunge but he remains confident saying: "I think it's going very well"

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1 week ago Trump tariffs latest: Starmer insists UK ‘ruling nothing out’ as president prepares to spark global trade war

Prime minister insists US trade war in ‘nobody’s interest’ as Donald Trump prepares to unveil sweeping tariffs later today

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1 week ago Trump tariffs latest: Starmer insists UK ‘prepared for all eventualities’ as fears over trade war grow

Prime minister insists US trade war in ‘nobody’s interest’ as Donald Trump prepares to unveil sweeping tariffs later today

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2 w. ago ‘We weren’t stuck’: Nasa astronauts tell of space odyssey and reject claims of neglect

Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams’ story markedly at odds with abandonment narrative painted by Trump and MuskIn the end, whatever Elon Musk and Donald Trump liked to insist, astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita Williams were never stuck, nor stranded in space, and definitely not abandoned or marooned.The world heard on Monday, for the first time since their return to Earth two weeks ago, from the two Nasa astronauts whose 10-day flight to the international space station (ISS) last summer turned into a nine-month odyssey. And their story was markedly at odds with the narrative painted from the White House. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Trump insists US ‘needs’ Greenland for international security

Donald Trump insisted the United States “needs” Greenland for international security.

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2 w. ago Furious Donald Trump 'on the rampage' following leaked war plan texts fiasco

Donald Trump insisted he "didn't know anything" about the messages - leaked after Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief for The Atlantic, was added to his security team's group chat

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