7 h. ago Europe’s powerful tool against Russia? Seizing its frozen assets

If European leaders want to truly support Ukraine they must seize the moment by seizing $220bn in assetsIt is now clear that Donald Trump’s administration will betray Ukraine in its fight to resist Russian aggression. Trump himself is either a victim of disinformation or he is a willing participant in an effort to deceive Americans about the causes and consequences of the war.Trump’s lies include claiming that Ukraine is equally to blame for the war; that Volodymyr Zelenskyy doesn’t “have the cards” to end the conflict on favourable terms; and that Ukraine could not have defended itself without US help. Yet the whole world knows that Russia launched an unprovoked invasion, and we all remember the initial weeks, when Ukrainians valiantly defended an 1,800-mile frontline against a supposedly superior army, long before deliveries of western artillery, armoured vehicles and air defence systems arrived. Continue reading...

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20 h. ago Stephen Colbert on Trump’s speech: ‘Filled with useful lies and applauded by useless idiots’

Late-night hosts discuss Donald Trump’s hate-filled State of the Union speech to Congress and the feckless Democratic responseLate-night hosts recap Donald Trump’s State of the Union address to Congress. Continue reading...

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21 h. ago Panama president says ‘Trump is lying’ about reclaiming canal

José Raúl Mulino calls Panama canal rhetoric ‘new affront’ to sovereignty amid tensions over Chinese involvementUS politics live – latest updatesPanama’s President José Raúl Mulino has accused his US counterpart Donald Trump of “lying” about Washington taking back the Panama canal.“Once again, President Trump is lying. The Panama Canal is not in the process of recovery,” Mulino wrote on X. Continue reading...

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27 h. ago Hong Kong firm strikes deal to bring ports on both sides of Panama Canal under US control

Marco Rubio told President José Raúl Mulino that Panama had to reduce Chinese influence over the canal or face potential retaliation from the United States

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31 h. ago Trump declares administration ‘just getting started’ in address to Congress

President boasted about efforts to slash federal workforce and reorient foreign policy as Democrats protested from chamberDonald Trump on Tuesday declared that his administration was “just getting started”, boasting in an extended address to Congress and the American public about his administration’s efforts to slash the size of the federal workforce, reorient US foreign policy and escalate a risky trade war as Democrats protested from the chamber with placards that read “lies” and “false”.“America is back,” Trump declared, opening the his primetime speech to a joint session of Congress, the first of his second term and the longest in American history. Republicans broke into a boisterous chant of “USA”. Continue reading...

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47 h. ago Donald Trump's lies about Volodymyr Zelensky being peddled by Kremlin spin doctors

US President Donald Trump's Ukraine war lies are being turned into pro-Kremlin propaganda - branding Ukraine and Europe war-mongers and claiming the States wants to topple Zelensky

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68 h. ago Voices: What really lies behind Trump’s fury with Zelensky – and what it means for Ukraine

‘The Donald’s’ anger with the Ukrainian president in the White House goes beyond the personal, writes world affairs editor Sam Kiley – it shows a global shift in strategy from the US away from Ukraine and towards the Kremlin

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6 d. ago Donald Trump's lies interrupted and shut down by Keir Starmer in incredible 'actually' moment

PM Keir Starmer echoed the moves made by French president Emmanuel Macron when he visited the White House just a few days ago, as the UK and US meet for bilateral crunch talks

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7 d. ago It’s the liberal German dilemma: Merz is anathema, but he might stand up to Trump | John Kampfner

Amid the gloom, the truth is dawning: the country faces hard political choices, and needs a more muscular approach to defence Donald Trump and his lieutenants have done Germans an enormous favour. Perilously late in the day, the US president and special envoy to the Kremlin has alerted Germany and the rest of Europe that there is one fault line, and one alone, between democracy and autocracy. All other political issues facing the country pale into insignificance.It seems that Friedrich Merz gets it, even if many in his country still don’t. Since winning Sunday’s election, the Christian Democrat (CDU) chancellor-elect has used every opportunity to warn of the dangers of the Trumpian new world order. He has not sought to provide reassurance, something that Germans tend to crave from their politicians. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Trump spectacularly vows to 'throw out' any members of his Cabinet who don't respect Elon Musk

Donald Trump revealed where his true allegiance lies as he jokes that any Cabinet secretaries critical of Elon Musk will be 'thrown out.'

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8 d. ago Donald Trump told 'absolute flat out lies' about Ukraine says Boris Johnson

Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, whose own relationship with the truth has been questioned over the years, said there had been “appalling misrepresentations” about it.

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9 d. ago Boris Johnson hits out at Donald Trump's 'flat out lies' with attacks on Ukraine's Zelensky

In recent weeks the US President Donald Trump has blamed Ukraine for Moscow's invasion and branded war time leader President Zelensky a 'dictator' in comments causing fury

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1 week ago Dan ‘Razin’ Caine: Trump’s favorite general now lined up for top military job

‘He’s a real general, not a television general’

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1 week ago Starmer urged to stand up to Trump’s ‘torrent of lies’ as he accuses UK of doing nothing to end Ukraine war

Starmer urged to challenge Trump over Ukraine lies as US president accuses Britain of ‘doing nothing to end the war’

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1 week ago 'Trump's lies make him as dangerous as the Nazis, we are living George Orwell's 1984'

In George Orwell's classic, the proles swallowed up all the newspeak ­propaganda from Big Brother, and Brian Reade fears too many people today are falling for the US president's blatant reality twisting

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1 week ago Starmer urged to stand up to Trump’s ‘torrent of lies’ as he accuses Britain of doing nothing to end Ukraine war

Starmer urged to challenge Trump over Ukraine lies as president accuses Britain of ‘doing nothing to end the war’

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1 week ago I'm the one who really killed JFK and Trump's vow to declassify CIA files will bring nothing but lies

James Files, 83, (pictured) claims he fired the bullet that killed John F Kennedy on November 22, 1963 from behind a fence on the grassy knoll overlooking Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas.

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2 w. ago ‘Does everyone know what a condom is?’ Trump asks baffled audience as he repeats contraception aid lie

Even the originator of the fib, Elon Musk, has since denied the whopper. Trump called the issue ‘incenjuary,’ possibly intending to say ‘incendiary’

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2 w. ago Inside Donald Trump's vile row with Ukraine as he parrots Putin's propaganda

Putin apologist Donald Trump has doubled down on his barrage of lies about Ukraine to the delight of the Kremlin, which can barely hide its delight at his cowardly words

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