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The US will take a “big interest” in the war in Sudan, because “failed countries become a haven of extremist activity”, British Foreign Secretary David Lammy has said. Lammy confirmed he had had “a brief conversation” with incoming US Secretary of State Marco Rubio about the conflict in the region. Sudan plunged into conflict in mid-April 2023, when long-simmering tensions between its military and paramilitary leaders broke out in the capital, Khartoum, and spread to other regions, including the vast western Darfur region. The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has said there are grounds to believe both government forces…
US President Donald Trump has said he has a “very good relationship” with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, adding he has done a “very good job thus far.” Speaking to the BBC onboard Air Force One, Trump told the broadcaster the pair would be having a phone call “over the next 24 hours.” “I get along with him well. I like him a lot,” Trump said. “He’s liberal, which is a bit different from me, but I think he’s a very good person and I think he’s done a very good job thus far. “He’s represented his country in terms…
Tens of thousands of people demonstrated against the growing influence of Germany’s far right at a rally in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin on Saturday evening. The protesters used lamps and their mobile phones to form what organizers described as a “sea of lights” directed against the Alternative for Germany (AfD). The police in the German capital put turnout at around 30,000. The rally was held a month before Germans go to the polls in a general election in which the anti-immigration and eurosceptic AfD is expected to achieve a strong result. Christoph Bautz, founder of the political…
A senior Russian official has said that Moscow will counter any moves by Western military alliance NATO to dominate the Baltic Sea. Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko told the Russian television channel Rossiya-24 on Friday that the Western alliance’s decision to increase patrols around the Baltic was further proof of NATO’s “desire to turn the Baltic Sea into a NATO lake.” “This will not happen for many reasons, and one of the main reasons is, of course, that the Russian Federation will not allow it.” Russia’s position on the Baltic Sea has been weakened by the accession of Finland and…
US President Donald Trump lashed out at the European Union during his first major speech to a global audience since starting his second term in the White House. In a nearly hour-long address to business and political leaders gathered at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Trump said the United States is treated “very unfairly” and “very badly” by the 27-nation bloc owing to its trade and business rules. Trump said he would not tolerate the US trade deficit with the EU. He also baselessly accused the EU of refusing to buy agricultural products and cars from the US.…
US President Donald Trump has repeated his wish to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss an end to the war Moscow launched against Ukraine nearly three years ago. “I really would like to meet with President Putin soon and get that war ended,” he said in remarks by video link to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Thursday. Just a few hours after his inauguration to a second term on Monday, he said that he intended to talk to Putin “very soon.” When asked whether there would be a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine by…
Saudi Arabia will invest $600 billion in the United States in the coming years, President Donald Trump said on Thursday – before quickly adding that he wanted to see an even higher sum. “But I’ll be asking the crown prince, who’s a fantastic guy, to round it out to around 1 trillion. I think they’ll do that because we’ve been very good to them,” Trump said on Thursday in remarks via video link to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Shortly after his inauguration on Monday, Trump had a phone call with the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman,…
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte expects the return of Donald Trump as US president will “turbo-charge” the Western alliance. “With President Trump back in office we will turbo-charge defence spending and production,” Rutte posted on X. Rutte expressed “warm congratulations” to Trump on his inauguration as 47th US president and to JD Vance as vice president. “Together we can achieve peace through strength – through NATO,” Rutte concluded. Trump has called for NATO member states to devote 5% of their gross domestic product (GDP) to defence, up from the 2% NATO target. The new target would mean a doubling or…
Türkiye aims to maintain the good relationship it enjoyed with the United States during Donald Trump’s first presidency into the second, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan told an Ankara press conference on Monday. Erdoğan said he hoped his “friendship” with Trump would continue, speaking alongside Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico shortly before Trump’s inauguration. The Turkish president also offered his support in finding a peaceful solution to the war in Ukraine. Türkiye, a NATO member, maintains relations with both Russia and Ukraine and has acted as a go-between in the past.
The wealth of the world’s super-rich is growing ever faster, a study published on Monday by the development organization Oxfam has shown ahead of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos. According to the report, there were 2,769 billionaires worldwide in 2024, an increase of 204 compared to the previous year. At the same time, the number of people living below the World Bank’s poverty line is stagnating and the number of people going hungry is rising. Oxfam predicted that there would be at least five trillionaires worldwide a decade from now. The Oxfam report is based on data from…