17 h. ago JD Vance lashes back at Zelensky after Ukraine's president claimed VP is siding with Putin

Vice President JD Vance said it was 'absurd' for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to claim that the US government has sided with Russia in its war against Ukraine.

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29 h. ago Trump has a deep grudge against Zelensky – but he’s now taken it further than ever before

Trump’s victim-shaming of Ukraine is ugly and symptomatic of something more dangerous, writes world affairs editor Sam Kiley

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32 h. ago Afghan children will die because of US funding cuts, aid official says

An aid agency official says Afghan children will die because of US funding cuts

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35 h. ago Trump claims 'if Zelensky was competent' the war in Ukraine would not have happened and says 'I'm not saying anyone's an angel, but it wasn't a question for Putin' during his presidency

Donald Trump has blamed Volodymyr Zelensky, Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden for the war in Ukraine, before implying the Russian leader never would have invaded if he had been in power.

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39 h. ago JD Vance in new clash with Zelensky as Russia raises objections to Ukraine peace deal

The US vice-president dismissed as ‘absurd’ the suggestion from Ukraine’s president that he had somehow sought to ‘justify’ Putin’s invasion of Ukraine

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40 h. ago Ukraine pounds Kursk with drones as Trump again blames Zelensky for Putin's invasion

Russia’s defence ministry claimed to have shot down over 100 drones above its Kursk region

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41 h. ago Donald Trump's 'golden age of fraud' will lead to 'another 2008 crash'

EXCLUSIVE: Trump's actions his first days back in the Whitehouse have seen him erode fraud protection for consumers and drop a number of charges and convictions for white collar criminals

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53 h. ago White House fires back at Volodymyr Zelensky for 'counterproductive' shot at JD Vance

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky took another shot at President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance.

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55 h. ago Donald Trump peddles false Putin claim Ukraine hero Zelensky started Russia war AGAIN

US President Donald Trump furiously claimed Volodymyr Zelensky is "always looking to purchase missiles" in a television appearance hours after a long-winded rant about his CBS interview

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56 h. ago UK pays second part of £2 billion loan to Ukraine amid ‘critical moment’

The defence secretary said the first £752 million payment will help to buy air defence, artillery and parts to get Ukraine ‘back into the fight’.

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57 h. ago Trump blames Zelensky for Ukrainian war saying he and 'crooked Joe Biden did an absolutely horrible job in allowing this travesty to begin'

Taking to his Truth Social platform, the US President claimed he prevented the war from happening during his four year term, pinning the chaos on the former president Joe Biden .

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59 h. ago Ukraine's Zelensky tears into JD Vance for 'justifying' Putin's actions as Trump makes excuses for new strikes

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky took another shot at President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance.

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65 h. ago Trump condemns 'terrible' Russian missile attack on Sumy as Zelensky invites US President to Ukraine

US President joins world leaders on condemning the ‘terrible’ Palm Sunday attack on Sumy

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4 d. ago Trump’s tariff mess raises the danger of a US default | Lloyd Green

The US could breach the debt ceiling even sooner than predicted without action from Republicans“Trump backs down on tariffs, again. And it doesn’t look strategic,” a headline blared on Wednesday afternoon.At the end of trading, equities had recovered a portion of their losses. But plenty of damage had been done. Markets were thrown into turmoil, interest rates jumped and business activity took a hit. Beyond that, the possibility of a recession grew – and the possibility of a default by the US inched up to 6%, according to prediction markets. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago From classifying immigrants as dead to deportation: A guide to actions on Trump immigration policies

President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda is playing out in hearings in key cases

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5 d. ago The power and pitfalls of protest: how to speak out without falling victim to Trump’s playbook | Jonathan Smucker

As mass protest surges against Trump and Musk, how can we show up as effectively as possible?On Saturday I was heartened to be one of millions of Americans who took to the streets in cities and towns across the United States to stand against “the most brazen power grab in modern history”. While no official total tally of “Hands Off!” participants is yet available, the anti-Donald Trump, anti-Elon Musk actions on Saturday were certainly among the largest single day protests in US history, with rallies in all 50 states.As we seem to be entering a new stage of popular protest movements, it’s worth assessing the strategic value of protest, as well as the limits and potential liabilities. History is full of powerful examples of consequential bottom-up protest movements. The women’s suffrage movement secured voting rights after decades of struggle. The civil rights movement dismantled Jim Crow segregation. The labor movement won the eight-hour workday, the weekend and much more. Protest w...

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5 d. ago Will global climate action be a casualty of Trump’s tariffs?

Clean energy investors likely to pull back from US, but other countries may seize opportunity to speed transitionDonald Trump’s upending of the global economy has raised fears that climate action could emerge as a casualty of the trade war.In the week that has followed “liberation day”, economic experts have warned that the swathe of tariffs could trigger a global economic recession, with far-reaching consequences for investors – including those behind the green energy projects needed to meet climate goals. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago UK to send hundreds of thousands of military drones to bolster Ukraine war effort

Boost comes as defence secretary John Healey hosts ‘coalition of the willing’ at Nato in Brussels

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6 d. ago US stocks fall again after rally following Trump’s shock retreat on tariffs

Sell-off comes amid anger from Democrats over retreat that rattled markets, while Republicans praise Trump’s ‘art of the deal’ in actionUS politics live – latest updatesUS stocks fell again on Thursday after a historic rally following Donald Trump’s shock retreat on Wednesday on the hefty tariffs he had just imposed on dozens of countries.The falls came as the president blamed “transition problems” for the market reaction and the sell-off deepened after a White House clarification noted that total tariffs on China had been raised by 145% since Trump took office. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Zelensky accuses Putin’s forces of systematically recruiting Chinese citizens to fight in Ukraine war

Two Chinese citizens were caught among Russia’s ranks in Ukraine’s war-torn eastern Donetsk region

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