9 h. ago Keir Starmer says Donald Trump’s threat to impose tariffs over Greenland is ‘completely wrong’

US president accuses several countries of playing ‘a dangerous game’

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9 h. ago Keir Starmer brands Donald Trump 'completely wrong' to threaten UK and allies with tariffs over opposition to US plan to takeover Greenland

The PM condemned Donald Trump tonight after the President vowed to implement increasing tariffs on the UK and European allies until the US is allowed to purchase Greenland from Denmark.

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10 h. ago Donald Trump tariffs branded 'completely wrong' as Keir Starmer hits back at US president

The Prime Minister and First Minister have made their positions clear

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10 h. ago Starmer: Trump tariffs over Greenland ‘wrong’ and UK ‘pursuing this’ with US

The US leader plans to apply 10% tariffs from February 1, increasing to 25% from June 1.

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25 h. ago 'Superstitious' Donald Trump wrong about Covid, aspirin and now autism too

A major review of dozens of scientific studies concludes taking paracetamol during pregnancy is not linked with autism

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7 d. ago What unites Greenland, Venezuela and Ukraine? Trump's immoral lies and Europe's chronic weakness | Simon Tisdall

The president’s inability to tell right from wrong fuels his increasingly dictatorial, illegal and erratic behaviour Donald Trump made 30,573 “false or misleading” claims during his first term, according to calculations published in 2021 by the Washington Post. That’s roughly 21 fibs a day. Second time around, he’s still hard at it, lying to Americans and the world on a daily basis. Trump’s disregard for truth and honesty in public life – seen again in his despicable response to the fatal shooting in Minneapolis – is dangerously immoral.Trump declared last week that the only constraint on his power is “my own morality, my own mind”. That explains a lot. His idea of right and wrong is wholly subjective. He is his own ethical and legal adviser, his own priest and confessor. He is a church of one. Trump lies to himself as well as everyone else. And the resulting damage is pernicious. It costs lives, harms democracy and destroys trust between nations.Simon Tisdall is a Guardian foreign ...

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8 d. ago Former CIA director William Burns: ‘Imitating autocrats is not a winning formula’

The ex-spy chief on the risks of Trump’s operation in Venezuela, what the US gets wrong about regime change — and why Putin badly misjudged Ukraine

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1 week ago Why Trump's hair has turned pink: Stylist reveals secret behind Donald's dusky locks

The internet was awash with comments about Donald Trump's hair yesterday, with many suggesting a 'rinse' gone wrong had left his famous blond mop pink.

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1 week ago Europe’s failure to condemn Trump’s illegal aggression in Venezuela isn’t just wrong – it’s stupid | Nathalie Tocci

The more European countries act as colonies, unable and unwilling to stand up to Trump, the more they’ll be treated as suchThere is no two without a three, as we say in Italian. After their complicit silence on Israel’s war crimes in Gaza and their tacit acceptance of the US/Israel attack on Iran, Europeans now hesitate to condemn the US’s audacious military operation to bring about regime change in Venezuela. With few notable exceptions – such as Spain, the Netherlands and Norway – most European leaders have fudged their response. Spain, in fact, has acted without its EU partners, condemning the US attack alongside a group of Latin American countries. European governments seem unable to utter in the same breath that, although Nicolás Maduro was an illegitimate dictator, the US attack to topple him is a gross violation of international law.The French president, Emmanuel Macron, the UK prime minister, Keir Starmer, and the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, at least...

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2 w. ago Marjorie Taylor Greene joins AOC and Democrats in slamming Trump's Venezuela operation: 'Boy were we wrong'

Representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez teamed up to criticize President Donald Trump's decision to raid the President of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro's palace.

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2 w. ago Trump is wrong: ‘woke’ policies aren’t the real threat to Europe | Nouriel Roubini

The continent’s problems are not caused by immigration or cultural politics but by economic and technological declineDonald Trump’s new national security strategy offers a misguided assessment of Europe, long regarded as the US’s most reliable ally. Unrestrained immigration and other policies derided by administration officials as “woke”, it warns, could lead to “civilisational erasure” within a few decades.That argument rests on a fundamental misreading of Europe’s current predicament. While the EU does face an existential threat, it has little to do with immigration or cultural politics. In fact, the share of foreign-born residents in the US is slightly higher than in Europe. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Marla Maples' chilling Epstein warning as she feared his growing sway over Trump

Maples told Mar-a-Lago employees at the time that something about Epstein was 'wrong' and 'off,' adding that she worried about his influence over Trump.

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