Ben Chu & Tom Edgington BBC Verify Getty Images US President Donald Trump has imposed a 10% tariff on goods from most countries being imported into the US, with even higher rates for what he calls the “worst offenders”. But how exactly were these tariffs – essentially taxes on imports – worked out? BBC Verify…
Donald Trump has said he is “very angry” and “pissed off” with Russian President Vladimir Putin after weeks of attempting to negotiate a ceasefire in Ukraine. In an NBC News interview, the US president said he was angry with Putin for attacking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s credibility, and threatened to impose a 50% tariff on…
Work is underway to make all men in Poland undergo military training, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said. In a speech to the Polish parliament, Tusk said the government aimed to give full details in the coming months. Efforts are being made to “prepare large-scale military training for every adult male in Poland,” he told the…
BARCELONA — Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak criticized the “sledgehammer” approach Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has taken to cut administrative costs and implement mass firings at federal government agencies. The Department of Government Efficiency — or “DOGE,” for short — is an initiative President Donald Trump set up to optimize the federal government and…
Basillioh Rukanga BBC News AFP People from Lesotho are called Basotho US President Donald Trump has said that “nobody has ever heard of” the African country of Lesotho – a comment that has “shocked” its government. It is a small country in southern Africa that almost entirely consists of mountains and is completely surrounded by…
Lesotho’s government says it is shocked by US President Donald Trump saying that “nobody has ever heard of” the southern African nation. Trump, addressing the US Congress in his first speech since his return to the Oval Office, made the reference as he listed cuts made to what he said was wasteful expenditure. “Eight million…
A furious Donald Trump has clashed with Volodymyr Zelensky, with the US president telling his Ukrainian counterpart to make a deal with Russia “or we are out”. The pair interrupted each other repeatedly during heated exchange in a manner rarely seen in the White House. At one point, an angry looking Trump said Zelensky was…
A furious Donald Trump has clashed with Volodymyr Zelensky, with the US president telling his Ukrainian counterpart to make a deal with Russia “or we are out”. The pair interrupted each other repeatedly during heated exchange in a manner rarely seen in the White House. At one point, an angry looking Trump said Zelensky was…
Jacqueline Howard BBC News EPA Trump and Macron shared a handshake when they met for December’s reopening of Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris French President Emmanuel Macron is due to meet Donald Trump in Washington later, the first one-on-one meeting between the pair since the US president re-entered the White House. Macron said in a social…
When he penned his eyewitness account of the 1917 Russian Revolution, American journalist John Reed famously titled it Ten Days That Shook The World. But 10 days is too long for Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. They’ve shaken things up in a week. It began with the Putin-Trump telephone conversation on 12 February and their…
