U.S. President Donald Trump signs documents as he issues executive orders in the Oval Office at the White House on Inauguration Day in Washington, U.S., Jan. 20, 2025. Carlos Barria | Reuters U.S. crude oil fell more than 2% on Tuesday, as President Donald Trump weighs imposing tariffs on key trade partners while vowing to…
The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, has called for a new era of EU integration to sustain growth in the face of a global economy “fracturing along new lines” as Donald Trump enters the White House. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos while the US president prepares to press…
At least six Palestinians have been killed and 35 injured by Israeli security forces after they launched a major operation in Jenin in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry says. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel’s military, police and Shin Bet security service had launched an “extensive and significant” operation to “defeat terrorism”…
Donald Trump celebrated becoming the 47th president deep into the night Monday — and that meant dancing to “YMCA” — only this time he put a different spin on his routine. The newly crowned commander in chief stood onstage — brandishing a sword — along with wife Melania and VP JD Vance and his better…
AFP Australia’s federal police have said they are investigating whether “overseas actors or individuals” are paying criminals to carry out antisemitic crimes in the country. There has been a spate of such incidents in recent months, the latest of which saw a childcare centre in Sydney set alight and sprayed with anti-Jewish graffiti. No-one was…
A fire at a hotel at a ski resort in north-western Turkey on Tuesday killed at least at least 10 people and left 32 others in hospital, officials have said. The fire broke out at around 3.30am in the restaurant of the 12-storey Grand Kartal hotel in the resort of Kartalkaya in Bolu province, officials…
Anna Corbett Ryan Corbett pictured with his wife Anna in an undated photo Two Americans held by the Taliban authorities in Afghanistan have been exchanged for an Afghan imprisoned in the US on drug trafficking and terrorism charges. The news emerged after Ryan Corbett and William Wallace McKenty were freed. The Afghan, Khan Mohmmad, had…
EPA Yoon Suk Yeol made his first appearance at the trial after missing the first few hearings South Korea’s suspended president Yoon Suk Yeol has made his first appearance at his impeachment trial, where he denied ordering the arrest of lawmakers during his attempt to impose martial law. Parliament voted to impeach Yoon last month,…
The mother of a Thai man held in Gaza has pleaded for her son to be freed, saying the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas that will allow for the gradual release of hostages had given her greater hope. Wiwwaeo Sriaoun’s son Watchara was one of dozens of Thai workers kidnapped from the farms on…
Inflation driven by tariffs is among the biggest market risks in 2025, Nicolai Tangen, head of the world’s biggest sovereign wealth fund, said Tuesday. “I don’t think I should give any advice to the U.S., but if you look at the risk to financial markets, I think inflation is for sure one, all driven by…
