Category: World

Despite the superficial conviviality of Donald Trump’s whistle-stop tour through Asia this week, we watched first-hand the dysfunctional reality of the US’ disengagement from the world of multilateralism. Trump delivered … Read More

If Elon Musk’s 2018 battle for a US$56 billion payday seemed surreal to most average people, then the Tesla board’s proposal to offer him US$1 trillion over the coming decade … Read More

Hopes for peace and reconstruction in Gaza have suffered a deadly blow after US envoys unveiled a plan that analysts say will split the territory in two and set the … Read More

Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth announced on Friday that the US military conducted its 10th strike on a vessel suspected of carrying drugs overnight, killing six people and bringing the death … Read More

A diamond brooch owned and abandoned by Napoleon Bonaparte after the Battle of Waterloo will go up for auction for the first time. The brooch, made of nearly 100 diamonds, … Read More

New York Attorney General Letitia James, a long-time critic of US President Donald Trump, pleaded not guilty in federal court on Friday to charges related to allegedly lying on mortgage … Read More

US President Donald Trump dramatically escalated a US military build-up in the Caribbean on Friday by deploying the Gerald Ford aircraft carrier group to Latin America, a show of force … Read More

The Pentagon said it received an anonymous US$130 million donation to pay the military during the US government shutdown, a move the Trump administration might not legally be able to … Read More

Britain’s justice minister on Friday said he was “appalled” after an Ethiopian asylum seeker and convicted sex offender whose crimes sparked protests was released from jail in error. The high-profile … Read More

A Canadian province said on Friday that it would pull an anti-tariff ad featuring former US president Ronald Reagan that prompted current leader Donald Trump to scrap trade talks. Trump … Read More