Author: Daily Sabah With Reuters

President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order discouraging criminal enforcement of regulatory offenses, in a bid to combat the overcriminalization of federal regulations, a White House official told Reuters on Friday. Trump’s order is meant to ease the burden on small businesses that do not have the same compliance resources as large corporations, according to a draft the official shared. The executive order would have agencies publicly post a list of regulatory violations that can trigger criminal charges, and guidance on the circumstances under which they would refer violators for prosecution. The order would discourage prosecutors from filing…

U.S President Donald Trump’s administration has fired the Librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden, a source briefed on the matter said on Friday. Hayden, who was the first woman and first African American in the role, headed an office that has overall management responsibility for the library and sets out policy on its programs and activities. Democratic President Barack Obama appointed her in 2016 to a 10-year term in the role that needed Senate confirmation. Neither the Library of Congress nor the White House immediately responded to a request for comment from Reuters. The New York Times first reported the firing.…

Iran has agreed to hold a fourth round of indirect nuclear talks with the United States on Sunday in Oman, Tasnim news reported on Friday, citing a member of the Iranian team. The fourth round of negotiations, initially scheduled for May 3 in Rome, was postponed, with mediator Oman citing “logistical reasons”.

President Donald Trump remains firm that the United States is not going to unilaterally reduce tariffs on Chinese goods without concessions from China, the White House said on Friday, hours after Trump floated the idea of reducing the current rate of 145% down to 80% as the two sides prepare for talks between in Switzerland. “That was a number the president threw out there, and we’ll see what happens this weekend,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters.

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Friday slammed U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade policies and sweeping tariffs, saying they harm multilateralism as he met with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Moscow. Lula is in Russia to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two, which Russia marked on Friday with a major military parade also attended by Chinese President Xi Jinping. “The latest decisions by the U.S. president to unilaterally put tariffs on trade with all countries in the world undermine the great idea of free trade and strengthening…

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has proposed that alliance members meet higher targets for defence spending by 2032, Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof said on Friday. Reuters reported last week that Rutte had proposed NATO members raise defence spending to 3.5% of their GDP, and a further 1.5% on broader security-related items to meet U.S. President Donald Trump’s demand for a 5% target. Speaking to reporters after a cabinet meeting, Schoof confirmed those figures, which would represent a major increase from the current NATO goal of spending 2% of GDP on defence. NATO aims to agree the new targets at…

Chelsea’s players and fans erupted in jubilation at the final whistle after a rousing 3-1 win over Premier League champion Liverpool on Sunday – but manager Enzo Maresca knows the road back to Europe’s elite is far from over. Stamford Bridge shook to the sound of “One Step Beyond” by Madness, as blue shirts danced, hugged and high-fived on and off the pitch. Maresca sprinted across the turf in celebration, swept up in the emotion of a performance that brought belief roaring back to west London. “Probably the best atmosphere of the season,” Maresca said post-match. “This is what we…

Chelsea’s players and fans erupted in jubilation at the final whistle after a rousing 3-1 win over Premier League champion Liverpool on Sunday – but manager Enzo Maresca knows the road back to Europe’s elite is far from over. Stamford Bridge shook to the sound of “One Step Beyond” by Madness, as blue shirts danced, hugged and high-fived on and off the pitch. Maresca sprinted across the turf in celebration, swept up in the emotion of a performance that brought belief roaring back to west London. “Probably the best atmosphere of the season,” Maresca said post-match. “This is what we…

Saudi Pro League side Al-Ahli clinched their first Asian Champions League Elite title Saturday with a 2-0 victory over Japan’s Kawasaki Frontale at a packed King Abdullah Sports City Stadium. Brazil winger Galeno broke Kawasaki’s resistance in the 35th minute when he bent an unstoppable strike into the top corner to send the home side on the way to their first Asian title, with Franck Kessie heading in the second seven minutes later. The victory makes Al-Ahli the third Saudi club to win the competition in its various guises, joining city rivals and twice winners Al-Ittihad and Riyadh’s four-time champions…

U.S. President Donald Trump said he will not remove Jerome Powell as Federal Reserve Board chairman before his term ends in May 2026 while describing the central banker as “a total stiff” and repeating calls for the Fed to lower interest rates. Trump insisted that his moves to upend the global trading system with higher tariffs would eventually make Americans rich, and insisted that a first-quarter contraction in the U.S. economy was the result of former President Joe Biden’s policies. In an interview with “Meet the Press with Kristen Welker” on NBC News that aired on Sunday, Trump said he…