Apple and Google have not reinstated TikTok to their app stores since a U.S. law took effect on January 19 requiring its Chinese owner ByteDance either to sell it on national security grounds or face a ban. President Donald Trump, who took office the day after the law went into effect, signed an executive order […]
Alaska’s Republican-dominated senate voted overwhelmingly against his plan to ditch the Indigenous name Denali for the huge peak, which Trump has rechristened Mount McKinley. The president has unleashed a flood of executive orders in his first few days in the White House as he attempts to remake the US government. Orders have included mass pardons […]
Although a waiver was placed on HIV/AIDS programmes in last month’s U.S. foreign aid funding freeze, many concerns remained about the future of treatment programmes, the deputy executive director of UNAIDS told reporters in Geneva. “There is a lot of confusion, especially on the community level, about how the waiver will be implemented. We’re seeing […]
“I can confirm that the process to disconnect began at 06:00 (local time),” Litgrid spokesman Matas Noreika told AFP after Lithuania switched off its power connection with Belarus and Russia. Lithuania was the first among the three Baltic countries to decouple from the Moscow-controlled electricity network, and Estonia and Latvia are due to follow suit […]
Two U.S. Coast Guard rescue swimmers who reached the wreckage could see three bodies inside, and the other seven were presumed to be inside the wreckage, Coast Guard spokesperson Mike Salerno told a press conference. “Unfortunately, it does not appear to be a survivable crash,” Salerno said. Clint Johnson, chief of the National Transportation Safety […]
The U.S. president, whose administration is pressing for a rapid end to Ukraine’s war with Russia, said on Monday he wanted Ukraine to supply the U.S. with rare earths and other minerals in return for financially supporting its war effort. “If we are talking about a deal, then let’s do a deal, we are only […]
U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols in Washington scheduled a 3 p.m. Eastern time (2000 GMT) hearing in a lawsuit filed on Thursday by the largest U.S. government workers’ union and an association of foreign service workers. The lawsuit opens a new tab by the American Federation of Government Employees and the American Foreign Service Association […]
Ireland warmly welcomed the hostage release and ceasefire agreement in Gaza and has echoed calls for the return of all hostages to their families. The hostage release and ceasefire deal must be fully implemented in all its phases. Announcing the funding, the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade said: “The ceasefire and hostage […]
The move coincides with a visit to Washington by Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who – along with his former defense minister and a leader of the Palestinian militant group Hamas – is wanted by the ICC over the war in the Gaza Strip. It was unclear how quickly the U.S. would announce the names […]
Washington’s primary humanitarian aid agency has been a target of a government reorganization program spearheaded by businessman Elon Musk, a close Trump ally, since the Republican president took office on January 20. The four sources familiar with the plan said only 294 staff at the agency would be allowed to keep their jobs, including only […]
