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The Treasury Department on Friday officially removed U.S. sanctions against dozens of Israeli groups and individuals accused of violence against Palestinians in the West Bank as part of President Donald Trump’s major reversal of Biden-era policy in the region. The action carries out Trump’s Day One move to rescind former President Joe Biden’s February 2024 […]

A massive trade war looms after U.S. President Donald Trump announced Friday evening he will “absolutely” slap tariffs on goods from the EU. “Am I going to impose tariffs on the European Union? Do you want the truthful answer or should I give you a political answer? Absolutely, absolutely,” he told reporters in the Oval […]

Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday issued new guidance halting spending on most existing foreign aid grants for 90 days. The order, which shocked State Department officials, appears to apply to funding for military assistance to Ukraine. Rubio’s guidance, issued to all diplomatic and consular posts, requires department staffers to issue “stop-work orders” on […]

The Trump administration plans to rejoin an international anti-abortion pact alongside countries such as Uganda, Saudi Arabia and Belarus, taking its first formal step to roll back Biden-era global health policies and previewing an expected strategy of seeking to curtail abortion access for millions of women and girls worldwide. Secretary of State Marco Rubio instructed […]

Ukraine is ready to transit gas from Azerbaijan to Europe, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Saturday. Zelenskyy told reporters in Kyiv he had discussed the arrangement with Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev when the pair met in recent days. Azerbaijan “has a large export capacity. The export capacity is 25 billion cubic meters,” Zelenskyy said. […]

Joe Biden promised Americans a four-year break from thinking about the presidency every day. That hiatus ended at 12:01 p.m. Monday, when Donald J. Trump took the oath of office. It was almost like he’d never left. The former reality TV star followed his inaugural address in the Capitol rotunda with an off-the-cuff speech to […]

Spanish police have arrested a man in connection with the 2023 shooting of two football fans in Brussels. Spanish police and Belgian prosecutors said on Saturday that the suspect was arrested at Malaga Airport the day before. Two Swedish nationals were killed and another injured in the attack, which took place after a qualifying game […]

Elon Musk made a virtual appearance at a rally for the far-right Alternative for Germany party on Saturday, reiterating his support ahead of the country’s Feb. 23 snap election and telling the crowd that it’s time to “move on” from “past guilt.” The Tesla CEO addressed the crowd alongside party leader Alice Weidel, saying that […]

It’s no longer a joke.  After initially provoking disbelief, U.S President Donald Trump’s audacious plan to acquire Greenland — potentially by force — has triggered frantic talks among European leaders aiming to stop him.  Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen dashed between Berlin, Brussels and Paris on Tuesday to shore up support in the face of […]