Toxic smoke billows from a burning mound of plastic bags and leaves on Le Thi Huyen’s farm in Hanoi, a city battling an alarming air pollution surge that the communist government appears in no hurry to fix.In the last three months the Vietnamese capital has regularly topped a list of the world’s most polluted major …
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The fiery altercation between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House on Friday was shocking but not entirely unexpected, analysts say, with the way forward for Kyiv looking increasingly uncertain.US President Trump has long been a critic of the United States’s billions in aid for Ukraine after Russia invaded it in February 2022, …
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In lighting the match that set off an extraordinary public clash with Ukraine’s leader Volodymyr Zelensky, US Vice President JD Vance has again shown his steely determination in pushing his “America First” worldview.The Oval Office meeting between Donald Trump and Zelensky was bound to be awkward due to the two presidents’ tense history and opposing …
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Reactions to an extraordinary Oval Office clash between US President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and visiting Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday laid bare America’s political divisions on the grinding three-year conflict between Ukraine and Russia.Democrats accused Trump and Vance of doing Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s “dirty work” after they berated Zelensky in …
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Hollywood legend Gene Hackman had likely been dead for over a week when he and his wife were found lifeless in their New Mexico home, the local sheriff said Friday.Authorities launched a probe into what they said were the “suspicious” deaths of Hackman, 95, and his classical pianist wife Betsy Arakawa, 63, as questions swirl …
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Even by his standards, President Donald Trump generated a pile of eye-popping news items this week. Here are some of the highlights:- Oval Office bust-up -A photo-op in the White House with President Volodymyr Zelensky degenerated into a shocking public quarrel that could prolong Ukraine’s war with invading Russian forces.”What you’re doing is very disrespectful …
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It all seemed to be going so well. Then things between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky went jaw-droppingly wrong, jaw-droppingly fast.In a few astonishing minutes, a diplomatic photo opportunity in the Oval Office that was meant to be a step on the path to peace between Ukraine and Russia descended into a blazing row that …
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Donald Trump’s aid freeze was announced as a review that would last 90 days. Instead, the US president has unleashed sweeping cuts that relief groups say have already hurt millions around the world. With the world’s richest person, Elon Musk, leading Trump’s drive to slash spending to make way for tax cuts, the State Department announced …
Deep in the Saudi Arabian desert, a group of robed men are peering into the sky, trying to spot the crescent moon that signifies the start of Ramadan.Their work is significant: an official sighting of the moon begins a month of fasting and prayer for millions of Muslims in Saudi Arabia, the home of Islam’s …
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US President Donald Trump’s abrupt pivot to Russia will remould Moscow’s ties with China but is unlikely to prise apart its flourishing partnership with Beijing, analysts say.Since taking office last month, the US president has sought to unravel three years of Western opposition to the invasion of Ukraine, sidelining Kyiv and European allies while pushing …
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