5 h. ago New Zealand fires top diplomat in London after he questions Trump's grasp of history

New Zealand fires top diplomat in London after he questions Trump's grasp of history  Japan Today

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5 h. ago New Zealand’s high commissioner to the UK loses job after Trump comments

Phil Goff questioned Donald Trump’s grasp of history at a Chatham House event in London, prompting the foreign minister to say his position is ‘untenable’New Zealand’s high commissioner to the United Kingdom has been removed from his role after publicly questioning US President Donald Trump’s grasp of history – remarks that have rendered his position “untenable” in the eyes of New Zealand’s government.At a public Chatham House event in London this week, high commissioner Phil Goff asked a question of Finnish foreign affairs minister Elina Valtonen, who was speaking on how to keep the peace with Russia, with which Finland shares a border. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago New Zealand's most senior diplomat in London loses job over Trump remarks

New Zealand's most senior diplomat in London loses job over Trump remarks  Detroit News

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7 h. ago New Zealand's most senior diplomat in London loses his job over remarks about President Trump

New Zealand's most senior diplomat in London loses his job over remarks about President Trump  ABC News

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29 h. ago Democrat Al Green forced out of chamber after protesting Trump speech to Congress

Multiple Democrats staged protests inside the chamber as the president delivered his remarks, holding signs that bore slogans including ‘That’s a lie!’

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41 h. ago Gabby Allen 'relieved' as Casey O'Gorman loses major TV job after Love Island

Casey O'Gorman has reportedly turned his back on Made in Chelsea after winning Love Island, and Gabby Allen is happy for one major reason

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3 d. ago Bernie Sanders dismisses Republicans’ ‘horrific’ calls for Zelenskyy to resign

Senator responds to Republicans’ pro-resignation remarks after Ukrainian president’s heated meeting with TrumpIndependent US senator Bernie Sanders has dismissed as “horrific” claims that Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy may have to resign after a diplomatic meltdown in the Oval Office with Donald Trump.Sanders’ comments, in an interview with NBC’s Meet The Press on Sunday morning, served as a retort to pro-resignation remarks from his fellow US senator Lindsey Graham, which in turn had been affirmed by the Republican House speaker Mike Johnson. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago All the unhinged things Donald Trump said in Zelensky meeting as talks implode

A meeting between Trump and Zelensky in the White House on Friday descended into a farce as the US president picked on his Ukrainian counterpart with a number of odd remarks

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7 d. ago Florida congressman threatened with physical removal from chamber after calling Trump a ‘grifter’

Maxwell Frost invited to ‘revise’ his remarks but instead doubles down, also rebuking ‘President’ Elon Musk before being warned he could be expelled

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7 d. ago New Zealand's foreign minister holds talks in China as concern grows over military drills

New Zealand’s foreign minister is meeting senior officials in China just days after New Zealand and Australia said that Chinese warships should have given more warning before live-fire exercises in waters between their countries

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1 week ago FBI, Pentagon refuse to reply to Musk’s ‘what did you achieve last week?’ email

Musk said anyone who didn’t respond within 48 hours would lose their job

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1 week ago Zelensky says he is not offended by Trump calling him a dictator

Zelensky told a forum on Sunday (23 February), that he wasn’t offended by President Trump’s remark calling him a “dictator.”

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1 week ago Keir Starmer lays down Ukraine peace demand ahead of Trump talks

Kyiv ‘must be at the heart of negotiations’ says PM as US threat to block Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites fuels wave of alarmKeir Starmer has raised the stakes before a crucial meeting in Washington with the US president, Donald Trump this week, by insisting that Ukraine must be “at the heart of any negotiations” on a peace deal with Russia.The prime minister made the remarks – which run directly contrary to comments by the US president last week – in a phone call on Saturdaywith Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in which he also said that “safeguarding Ukraine’s sovereignty was essential to deter future aggression from Russia”. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Donald Trump attacks ‘nice guy’ Keir Starmer for ‘not doing anything’ about Ukraine war

Donald Trump has accused UK prime minister Sir Keir Starmer of "not doing anything" to resolve the war in Ukraine triggered by Russia, as the US president continues to defend his controversial remarks about the country's leader Volodymyr Zelensky.

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1 week ago Trump says he ‘had very good talks with Putin’ and again criticizes Ukraine – live

US president also accuses Kyiv of talking ‘tough’ but having few bargaining chips in latest remarks in feud with Ukrainian president ZelenskyyNational security adviser Mike Waltz told a crowd of Donald Trump loyalists that he believes the president will receive the Nobel peace prize.“This is the presidency of peace. He’s going to end the war in Europe. He is going to end the wars in the Middle East. He is going to reinvest the United States and our leadership in our own hemisphere, from the Arctic to the border to Panama all the way down to our good friends in Argentina,” Waltz told the Conservative Political Action Conference.The pause comes after CNN reported on Wednesday that the mass terminations, which could affect over 50,000 civilian employees across the Pentagon, could run afoul of Title 10 section 129a of the US code. Following that report, Pentagon lawyers began reviewing the legality of the planned terminations more closely, the officials said.That law says that the secre...

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2 w. ago Zelenskyy accuses Trump of living in a ‘disinformation bubble’

Ukrainian president’s remarks come as US counterpart appeared to blame Kyiv for war with Russia

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2 w. ago Trump calls Zelenskyy a dictator amid fears of irreconcilable rift

Remark follows Ukrainian leader’s claim US president living in a Russian ‘disinformation bubble’Europe live – latest updatesThe US and Ukraine appear to be heading towards an irreconcilable rift after Donald Trump escalated his attacks on Volodymyr Zelenskyy, calling the Ukrainian president “a dictator” and warning that he “better move fast” or he “won’t have a country left”.The US leader’s comments on Wednesday, which were rife with falsehoods, came after Zelenskyy said Trump was “trapped” in a Russian “disinformation bubble,” following Trump’s claims that Ukraine was to blame for Russia’s 2022 invasion, remarks that echoed the Kremlin’s narratives. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Donald Trump's most questionable quotes since becoming US president for the second time

The president is well-known for his contentious remarks, but what has he said recently that sparked outrage?

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2 w. ago Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor review – an SF master moves into the mainstream

This book within a book weaves a writer’s struggles with scenes from their Africanfuturist tale of post-apocalyptic robotsIn Death of the Author, Nnedi Okorafor, one of the most acclaimed science fiction writers of our time, moves into mainstream literary fiction. Her protagonist is Zelu, a prickly, mercurial, iconoclastic writer who gets high in inappropriate situations, hooks up promiscuously, and ends up quarrelling with everyone, especially her large, overprotective Nigerian American family. She is also paraplegic, and has PTSD from the accident that left her disabled at the age of 12.As the book begins, she loses her job as a writing professor for giving an entitled student a brutal critique, on the same day that her novel is rejected by a 10th publisher, and while she is at her sister’s wedding, under an onslaught of uncensored judgment from all her most conservative family members. It’s at this moment, when “[her] face was crusty and itchy with dried tears  her mind...

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