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Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev on Sunday threatened to go to war against NATO if European countries stick to their plans to deploy peacekeepers to Ukraine. French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer “are playing dumb,” Medvedev, who is the deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, wrote on X. “Time and again they are told that peacekeepers must be from non-NATO states,” he wrote. “You want to give military aid to the neo-Nazis in Kyiv. That means war with NATO. Consult with [US President Donald] Trump, scumbags,” he added. Starmer has suggested establishing a “coalition of the…
US President Donald Trump ordered massive attacks on the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen on Saturday that led to the deaths of nine people, according to reports. The US is carrying out airstrikes against Houthi bases, leaders and missile defence sites in order to protect American shipping and restore freedom of navigation, Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. “They have waged an unrelenting campaign of piracy, violence, and terrorism against American, and other, ships, aircraft, and drones,” Trump wrote in his post. Washington reclassified the Iran-backed Houthis as a foreign terrorist organization in early March. Addressing Iran, Trump wrote that…
Protesters gathered outside a Tesla dealership in London have called for people to boycott the Elon Musk owned electric car maker. Organizers are encouraging Tesla owners to sell their cars and for people to dump stock. The electric car giant has already seen shares plunge since the start of the year as the firm comes under pressure from Chinese rivals amid calls for a boycott over Musk’s close ties with US President Donald Trump and far-right causes. A small group of demonstrators at the Tesla centre in Park Royal, west London, held up banners that read “Honk if you hate…
Protesters gathered outside a Tesla dealership in London have called for people to boycott the Elon Musk owned electric car maker. Organizers are encouraging Tesla owners to sell their cars and for people to dump stock. The electric car giant has already seen shares plunge since the start of the year as the firm comes under pressure from Chinese rivals amid calls for a boycott over Musk’s close ties with US President Donald Trump and far-right causes. A small group of demonstrators at the Tesla centre in Park Royal, west London, held up banners that read “Honk if you hate…
More than 400 Olympic athletes have urged the next president of the International Olympic Committee to prioritize tackling climate change, describing it as a “current and growing harm to the sports we love.” The call, which has the backing of Team GB stars past and present including Hannah Mills, Ben Ainslie, Bryony Page and Georgia Taylor-Brown, follows the devastating wildfires in Olympic 2028 host city Los Angeles earlier this year. It comes with less than a week to go until IOC members elect the organization’s next president, with World Athletics president Sebastian Coe one of seven candidates to succeed Thomas…
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said the UK would keep open the option of retaliatory measures after US President Donald Trump hit steel and aluminium imports with 25% tariffs. Jobs could be at risk in the beleaguered British steel industry after the UK failed to secure an exemption to Trump’s global tariffs on the metal imports. The European Union responded by announcing trade countermeasures, hitting US goods with retaliatory tariffs, but the UK prime minister resisted calls for the UK to immediately hit back. At Prime Minister’s Questions, Starmer said: “I’m disappointed to see global tariffs in relation to…
Philippine police on Tuesday arrested former president Rodrigo Duterte as requested by Interpol after the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a warrant against him for crimes against humanity amid the “war on drugs” during his time in power. The Philippine Presidential Communication Office said in a statement that Interpol Manila received a copy of the arrest warrant on Tuesday morning. “The former president and his entourage are in good health and have been examined by government doctors,” the statement said. “They [government doctors] have assured that he [Duterte] is in good condition.” “He is currently in the custody of the…
US authorities have arrested a Palestinian student who played a leading role in last year’s pro-Gaza protests on the campus of Columbia University in New York. US immigration officials forced their way into Mahmoud Khalil’s flat on Sunday and detained him, according to media reports. He was later taken to a detention centre in the US state of Louisiana, the reports said. US President Donald Trump labelled Khalil “a radical foreign pro-Hamas student” in a post on his online platform Truth Social on Monday. Trump said he would deport him from the United States along with others involved in “pro-terrorist,…
US authorities have arrested a Palestinian student who played a leading role in last year’s pro-Gaza protests on the campus of Columbia University in New York. US immigration officials forced their way into Mahmoud Khalil’s flat on Sunday and detained him, according to media reports. He was later taken to a detention centre in the US state of Louisiana, the reports said. US President Donald Trump labelled Khalil “a radical foreign pro-Hamas student” in a post on his online platform Truth Social on Monday. Trump said he would deport him from the United States along with others involved in “pro-terrorist,…
The Israeli Air Force once again attacked targets in the south of neighbouring Syria, the military said in a statement on Tuesday morning. Fighter jets attacked radar systems, command centres and weapons depots during the night, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said. The IDF said the targets posed a threat to Israel and its military, and the strikes were carried out to eliminate “future threats.” The Israeli army has significantly expanded its military activities on Syrian territory since the fall of ruler Bashar al-Assad in December. The Israeli army moved troops into a demilitarized buffer zone between the Israeli-occupied Golan…