Over the weekend the president Donald Trump said a 10% tariff would apply on all goods shipped to the US from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, the UK, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Finland from 1 February unless they allow him to seize Greenland. Trump said that if a deal was not reached for the “complete and total purchase” of the Arctic island from Denmark, the rate would be increased to 25% on 1 June. In response, EU President Ursula Von Der Leyen condemned his threat to EU Nations after US have agreed to trade deal last year EU President Ursula Von...
Brooklyn Beckham Accuses Parents Of Press Manipulation And Rejects Future Reconciliation.
Brooklyn Peltz Beckham, son of the British celebrity couple David and Victoria Beckham, said he did not want to reconcile with his parents after a family rift he described in a lengthy post on social media on Monday. The 26-year-old said that his parents have been controlling narratives in the press about his family and tried to “ruin” his relationship with his wife Nicola Peltz Beckham. “I do not want to reconcile with my family,” he wrote in a post to his 16.2 million Instagram followers. “I’m not being controlled, I’m standing up for myself for the first time in...
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer On Steps To Take In Raising Healthy Generation Of Children.
Keir Starmer: “Today, we are setting out some of the next steps we will take to help ensure we raise a generation of healthy and happy children.” “Every parent recognises the moment. Your child is sitting right in front of you, but their attention is somewhere else. Head down. Thumb scrolling. A world away behind a screen. “At first, it can feel harmless. A tablet to keep them busy. Social media so they are not left out. But moments like this are quietly ressaping childhood. “Technology has great potential to improve people’s lives and open exciting new opportunities for young...
Kim Jong Un Fire Vice Premier During Industrial Tour On Spot Compares Him To A Goat
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has fired his vice premier and railed against “incompetent” officials in a rare and very public broadside against apparatchiks at the opening of a critical factory, state media said Tuesday. Vice Premier Yang Sung Ho was sacked “on the spot”, the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said, in a speech in which Kim attacked “irresponsible, rude and incompetent leading officials”. “Please, Comrade Vice Premier, resign by yourself when you can do it on your own before it is too late,” Kim reportedly said. Nuclear-armed North Korea, which is under multiple sets of sanctions over its...
Conservative Leader Kemi Badenoch Echoes President Trump’s Sentiment Over Starmer Administration’s Plan To Hand Over The Chagos Islands To Mauritius, Meets With Speaker Johnson.
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has echoed US president Trump’s concern over Keir Starmer’s administration to hand over Chagos Island back to the Mauritius, an act which she described as “self-sabotage,” pointing out that it will weaken the UK security. In a post on Truth Social, Donald Trump has described the UK’s plans to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius as “an act of great stupidity”. He claimed that it had made it all the more important for him to take Greenland from Denmark. Badenoch reveals she met with the US House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson, who has visited...
Colombian Warlord Sentenced To 40 Years In Prison After Serving Time For Drug Trafficking In The US
A Colombian court on Monday sentenced former paramilitary leader Salvatore Mancuso to 40 years in prison for crimes committed against Indigenous communities in the province of La Guajira, including homicides, forced disappearances and the displacement of people from 2002 to 2006. The special tribunal that hears cases from the country’s armed conflict said in its ruling that Mancuso was responsible for 117 crimes committed by fighters under his command in La Guajira. However, it added that Mancuso’s time in prison could be reduced to eight years, if he collaborates with truth and reparation activities that benefit victims of his former...
Pope Leo XIV Receives President of the Czech Republic, Pavel analyses the role of the church in ending
Pope Leo XIV received the President of the Czech Republic, Mr. Petr Pavel, on Monday in the Vatican. Pavel subsequently met with Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Holy See’s Secretary of State, accompanied by Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, the Holy See’s Secretary for Relations with States and International Organizations. Pavel in a statement on X analyzed the role of the church in ending conflicts in the world, he wrote: “It was a great honor for me to meet Pope Leo XIV in the Vatican. “The Church has extraordinary diplomatic reach and plays an important role in finding ways to end conflicts....
UAE Formally Refutes Allegations of Operating Secret Detention Centers in Yemen.
The Yemeni government has accused the United Arab Emirates of running a secret prison at an airbase near the southern Yemeni port city of Mukalla. The allegations were made by Salem al-Khanbashi, the Governor of the eastern Yemeni province of Hadramaut, during a media trip to the Riyan airbase near Mukalla. Khanbashi told a televised press conference that necessary measures would be taken against the UAE and the head of Yemen’s main separatist group, the Southern Transitional Council (STC). “All measures will be taken to hold perpetrators of violations accountable, whether Aidarous al-Zubaidi or the UAE — its elements, officials,...
Photo News Story: UK And US Marks Long Standing Ties, As House Of Commons Speaker Welcomes House Of Representatives Speaker To The Parliament.
UK House of Commons Speaker, Sir Lindsay Harvey Hoyle at the parliament welcomes speaker of the United States House of Representative Mike Johnson in celebration of America’s 250th independence anniversary. According to Sir Lindsay Hoyle in a post on X: “We marked the 250th anniversary of American independence and the long-standing ties between our legislatures.” Photo credit: X/ @CommonsSpeake