Watch: Three things to know about Trump’s tariffs announcement US President Donald Trump announced a sweeping new set of tariffs on Wednesday, arguing that they would allow the United States to economically flourish. These new import taxes, which Trump imposed via executive order, are expected to send economic shockwaves around the world. But the US…
Plans to overhaul England, Wales and Scotland’s electricity market risk piling an extra £3bn on to household energy bills every year until the 2040s, according to the government’s own clean power adviser. New research has found that moving ahead with a plan to divide the national electricity market into different pricing zones could drive up…
New York City Mayor Eric Adams holds a press briefing after former Governor Andrew Cuomo enters the mayoral race on March 03, 2025 in New York United States. Selcuk Acar | Anadolu | Getty Images Fresh off the dissolution of his criminal corruption case, New York City Mayor Eric Adams says he’s back to focusing…
Hungary’s government has announced it is withdrawing from the International Criminal Court (ICC). The move was announced by a senior official in Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s government hours after Israel’s leader Benjamin Netanyahu, who is sought under an ICC arrest warrant, arrived in Hungary for a state visit. Orban had invited Netanyahu as soon as…
A Victorian man has been charged for allegedly sending an email to a federal politician in which he threatened to kill them. The Australian federal police (AFP) charged the 51-year-old from Ballarat on Thursday as part of an investigation into two emails he allegedly sent to a commonwealth politician on 27 March. Police executed a…
Mark Savage Music Correspondent Getty Images Drake, pictured holding two Billboard music awards, is the most-successful rapper of his generation Drake has been given the green light to access sensitive record company documents in his ongoing defamation case over Kendrick Lamar’s song Not Like Us. The star had asked for copies of Kendrick Lamar’s recording…
BERLIN, GERMANY – FEBRUARY 24: Robert Habeck, chancellor candidate of the German Greens Party, speaks to the media the day after German parliamentary elections on February 24, 2025 in Berlin, Germany. The Greens came in fourth place with 11.6% of the vote, down 2.9% from the previous election. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images) Sean Gallup…
Myanmar’s junta chief Min Aung Hlaing will travel to Thailand for a regional summit as his country reels from an earthquake that killed thousands and left cities in ruins. The earthquake in central Myanmar last Friday killed 3,085 people and injured 4,715, the junta has said. Hundreds more are missing and the toll is expected…
Keir Starmer has told heads of business in Downing Street that “clearly there will be an economic impact” from US tariffs but that ministers would respond with “cool and calm heads”. The prime minister gathered senior business figures in No 10 after Donald Trump announced he would introduce 10% blanket tariffs on imports from the…
US President Donald Trump inspects a Guard of Honour at Buckingham Palace on June 3, 2019 in London, England. Toby Melville | Getty Images U.K. Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds said the country faces a “threat” to its open economy from any global fallout from Trump’s new tariffs regime, which included a baseline 10% “reciprocal” tariff…
