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Donald Trump praised incoming Prime Minister Andy Burnham for plans to fast track North Sea oil drilling, claiming Aberdeen residents were celebrating the move, though Burnham is expected to limit the plan to existing licences rather than issue new ones. Donald Trump has publicly praised incoming Prime Minister Andy Burnham for plans to speed up oil and…

Vasyl Krupych knows what it is to fight for Ukraine. He describes terrifying scenes from battles in the eastern Donbas region where, sometimes praying, sometimes crying, the machine gunner somehow survived the onslaught by Russian troops. But last December, by then serving in the rear, Krupych was attacked by his own countrymen whilst out searching for draft…

Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei on Saturday warned the US of “unforgettable lessons” and said that the ceasefire violation proves the ‘worthlessness’ of President Donald Trump’s signature. Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has sharply criticised the United States, saying a recent violation of an agreement underscores the “worthlessness” of the American president’s signature. In his recent message,…

The attack came after Ukraine’s intensified drone strikes on Russian logistics and energy sites resulted in the deaths of nine people and injured over 80 Russia launched one of its largest ballistic missile attacks on Kyiv since the start of the war overnight, firing dozens of missiles at the Ukrainian capital as Ukraine intensified its long-range drone…

The $65-billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor links Gwadar Port in Balochistan to China’s Xinjiang through highways, railways and pipelines. Balochistan has declared independence from Pakistan. Although it remains unrecognised internationally, it has raised fresh questions over the future of China’s China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), one of the flagship projects under Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The China-Pakistan…

Pakistan has been negotiating an expanded defence pact with Kuwait in exchange for energy cooperation and investment, according ​to five sources with knowledge of the talks. The talks remain at an early stage, all the sources said, and could still be complicated by ‌heightened tensions between the United States and Iran, said one source. Reuters reported on…

The US will impose a 25% tariff on most imports from Brazil starting later this month. It’s the first action in the Trump administration’s new tariff strategy, after the Supreme Court struck down its prior impositions. The US Trade Representative’s office (USTR) has said it will impose a 25% tariff on most imports from Brazil. The charges…

A fire at an orphanage in the province of Algiers has killed 11 people and injured 19 more, authorities said. President Abdelmadjid Tebboune expressed his condolences amid his trip to Berlin. Locals and emergency crews rushed to an orphanage in the Mohammadia district of the province of Algiers on Thursday, responding to a fire at the building.…

SpaceX’s mega Starship rocket came within a second or so from blasting off on a test flight Thursday, but some of the engines failed to ignite, triggering a launch abort amid billowing clouds of smoke and vapor. Elon Musk, the company’s founder and CEO, said two engines will be replaced “to be confident of a good flight”…

US strikes overnight hit an airport and two bridges in southern Iran near the Strait of Hormuz, Iranian state media said Friday. The United States launched fresh strikes Thursday on Iran with bridges and transport infrastructure among the apparent targets, as Tehran responded with attacks on US allies in the Gulf. The rekindled fighting over the vital…

U.S. President Donald Trump declassified intelligence on Thursday that he maintained showed Chinese interference in U.S. elections, reviving his long-running attacks on election security despite a U.S. intelligence assessment that found no evidence Beijing affected the 2020 vote that he lost. The ​25-minute prime-time address underscored Trump’s effort to make election security a central political issue ahead…

Iran said it no longer considers itself bound by June 17 memorandum aimed at halting hostilities, as US strikes on Iranian military facilities near the Strait of Hormuz continued. Iran on Wednesday dismissed United States President Donald Trump’s repeated claims that Tehran was seeking talks with Washington. Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said it has “currently…

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett has described Bill Gates’ relationship with late sex offender Jeffery Epstein as “distasteful”, but said he himself had made mistakes in life by being friends with people “who weren’t great”. On Tuesday, Buffett’s firm Berkshire Hathaway stopped giving donations to the Microsoft co-founder’s charity for the first time in 20 years and instead…

President Trump on Tuesday warned the US will pummel Iran until “I say it’s enough” and that “energy targets” are next in his ramped-up war effort. “I’ll save the energy targets for last, but ultimately we’ll hit energy targets,” Trump told Fox News reporter Trey Yingst in an interview on the stepped-up military operation. “We’re going to…

“The days are over when someone strikes us and we don’t hit back with a decisive blow,” said Israeli Prime Minsiter Benjamin Netanyahu. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Tuesday (Jul 14) to strike powerfully against Iran if it staged a new attack on his country. “I will say it to the leaders of Iran: Do not…

The updated version also allows an exception for countries that import less than 15 per cent of Russia’s natural gas exports and are taking significant steps to reduce those imports, which could exempt Japan, France, Hungary, and Belgium. US lawmakers have unveiled a revised version of the Russia sanctions bill, the bipartisan bill first introduced by late…

Yemen’s Houthi movement fired missiles at Saudi ​Arabia after accusing the kingdom of bombing an airport under their control on Monday, breaking a four-year truce in the conflict between ‌the kingdom and the Iran-aligned group. Saudi Arabia intercepted missiles “launched by the terrorist Houthi militia toward the southern region,” the spokesperson for a Saudi-led military coalition in…