4 h. ago Trump live: President asks drugmakers to voluntarily lower prices but offers no plan to enforce it

It comes as Trump has defended reports the Qatari royal family will gift a $400 million Boeing jet to the president to use as the new Air Force One

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5 h. ago Setback for Europe after Trump insists Ukraine has ‘immediate’ peace talks with Russia

Zelenskyy had no choice but to accept Putin’s invitation to talks, diplomats sayEurope live – latest updatesDonald Trump’s social media post insisting Ukraine must immediately start peace talks with Russia has set back, and possibly jeopardised, Europe’s carefully laid plans to persuade the US to impose sanctions on Moscow for refusing the US president’s proposal for a 30-day ceasefire, European diplomats have said.Volodymyr Zelenskyy had no choice but to accept Vladimir Putin’s invitation to talks in Istanbul on Thursday for fear of offending Trump, diplomats said. Putin made the offer in a bid not to alienate the US president, and avoid the growing European pressure on Trump to impose harsher sanctions. Western diplomats say they have no reason to believe that Trump acted in collusion with the Russian leader. Continue reading...

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12 h. ago First group of white South Africans leave for US after Trump offers refugee status

The South African government said it is ‘completely false’ that Afrikaners are being persecuted

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20 h. ago Trump administration offers refugee status to 49 white South Africans

Group, including families and small children, departed for US after Trump order created relocation programA group of 49 white South Africans departed their homeland on Sunday for the United States on a private charter plane having been offered refugee status by the Trump administration under a new program announced in February.The group, which included families and small children, was due to arrive at Dulles international airport outside Washington DC on Monday morning local time, according to Collen Mbisi, a spokesperson for South Africa’s transport ministry. Continue reading...

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22 h. ago First group of 49 white South Africans leaves for the US after Trump offered them refugee status

A group of 49 white South Africans has departed their homeland for the United States on a private charter plane having been offered refugee status by the Trump administration under a new program

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25 h. ago President Zelensky offers to meet Putin in Turkey after Trump demands they negotiate an end to war

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he is ready to meet Vladimir Putin “personally” in Turkey on Thursday, after Trump insisted Ukraine agree to talks with Russia.

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26 h. ago Zelenskyy challenges Putin to meet in person for peace talks

Ukrainian president proposes face-to-face meeting after Russian leader suggests he is open to talks in TurkeyUkraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy has challenged Vladimir Putin to meet in person for peace talks in Istanbul on Thursday and urged Russia to accept a 30-day truce, in a dramatic turn after a weekend of diplomatic flurry.His comments came after the US president, Donald Trump, pressured him to agree “immediately” to Putin’s offer of negotiations this week with Russia, but upped the stakes by suggesting the enemies meet “personally”. Continue reading...

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67 h. ago Donald Trump offers free flights to 'anywhere you want' to illegal aliens' self deporting from the USA

Mr Trump said he had signed an executive order authorising the move

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4 d. ago US celebrates Leo XIV as first American pontiff: ‘Everything dope, including the pope’

Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson hails hometown cardinal as Donald Trump and others offer congratulationsNew pope chosen: latest updatesAmericans are celebrating and speaking out after the US cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, who will be known as Pope Leo XIV, was announced as the next pope.“Congratulations to Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, who was just named Pope. It is such an honor to realize that he is the first American Pope. What excitement, and what a Great Honor for our Country. I look forward to meeting Pope Leo XIV. It will be a very meaningful moment!” Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social shortly after the pope, who was born in Chicago, appeared on the Vatican balcony in Rome on Thursday. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Americans celebrate Leo XIV as first US pontiff: ‘Everything dope, including the pope’

Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson hails hometown cardinal as Donald Trump and others offer congratulationsNew pope chosen: latest updatesShare your views on Pope Leo XIVAmericans are celebrating and speaking out after the US cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, who will be known as Pope Leo XIV, was announced as the next pope.“Congratulations to Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, who was just named Pope. It is such an honor to realize that he is the first American Pope. What excitement, and what a Great Honor for our Country. I look forward to meeting Pope Leo XIV. It will be a very meaningful moment!” Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social shortly after the pope, who was born in Chicago, appeared on the Vatican balcony in Rome on Thursday. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago ‘Hopefully they can stop now’: Trump offers help the day after India’s airstrikes against Pakistan

The two nuclear-armed states have an uneasy relationship and have fought multiple wars over the years

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5 d. ago Donald Trump suggests Russia should be offered return to next year's World Cup as 'incentive' to end Ukraine war

Speaking alongside FIFA president Gianni Infantino at the first meeting of his World Cup taskforce, Trump admitted he was unaware that Russia are banned from the tournament.

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5 d. ago Donald Trump offers 'hope' as India and Pakistan edge toward World War 3

As explosions were heard across the region, Pakistan's military swiftly confirmed the attack, accusing India of a deliberate missile strike and warning of impending retaliation.

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6 d. ago ‘It brings out the evilness inside you’ – the ‘horrible’ drug linked to sexual exploitation in a deprived city

Ben Bryant spent five months exploring the impact of synthetic stimulant ‘dust’ on Stoke-on-Trent, where women report incidents of rape and users trade sexual acts for the drug

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7 d. ago Trump administration offers $1,000 to undocumented immigrants to leave US

DHS claims payment will be issued after individuals leave the US and it has been confirmed through their appUS politics live – latest updatesThe Trump administration has announced a new program offering a $1,000 payment to people in the US without immigration status as an incentive to return to their home country voluntarily.The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) outlined the initiative on Monday, pledging “financial and travel assistance” to undocumented immigrants who agree to leave the country using an app called CBP Home. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Trump offers to send US troops to Mexico to help tackle ‘horrible’ drug cartels

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Saturday she had rejected Trump's offer

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9 d. ago Australia's socialist leader Anthony Albanese cruises to election victory thanks to anti

Anthony Albanese, 62, has become the first Australian prime minister to win a second consecutive three-year term in 21 years. He revived his campaign by offering stability against the backdrop of Trump.

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1 week ago China says it is ‘evaluating’ US offer for talks on Trump tariffs

Beijing warns Washington that any attempt to use talks as pretext to engage in coercion and extortion won’t work

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1 week ago Europe ready to make Trump a €50bn trade offer, says EU negotiator

Maroš Šefčovič tells FT of ‘certain progress’ but warns bloc will not settle for higher US tariff baseline

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1 week ago The white Afrikaners lining up to accept Trump’s offer of asylum

Thousands of South Africans are hoping to move to the US to escape crime –and what they say is discrimination against white peopleKyle believed God was looking out for him when he survived a violent farm robbery in South Africa eight years ago with only a black eye and broken ribs. The robbers failed to get the kettle and iron working, so were unable to burn anyone. Then the gun trigger jammed when they tried to shoot Kyle in the spine.“They specifically said they were coming back for this farm [that] it was their land,” said the 43-year-old, who did not want to use his full name. “Only afterwards, we found out that the guy that stays on the plot was actually killed the farmhand I don’t know what his name was.” Continue reading...

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