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In a sport known for its decorum and quiet intensity, the on-court clash between Jelena Ostapenko and Taylor Townsend at the 2025 US Open served as a fiery reminder that competitive tension can boil over at any moment. The heated exchange quickly unfolded at the net after their second-round match. It became a focal point […]
CNN — Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has hit back at Donald Trump’s tariff threats, saying that his American counterpart was elected as the leader of the United States and “not to be the emperor of the world.” Last week, Trump threatened Brazil with crippling tariffs of 50% starting August 1, according to […]
President Trump’s rapidly escalating trade war with China has resulted in eye-watering tariffs on products exchanged between the countries and scrambled prospects for many global businesses that depend on the trade. And there is no end in sight. The Trump administration has been waiting for the Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, to call Mr. Trump personally, […]
The digital billboards began popping up recently on busy thoroughfares in Pittsburgh and more than a dozen other American cities and towns. The simple white letters on a stark black background carried a pointed message. Tariffs are a tax on groceries. Tariffs are a tax at the gas pump. Tariffs are a tax on hardworking […]
U.S. Vice President JD Vance and his wife are due to visit an American military base in Greenland on Friday in a trip that was scaled back after an uproar by Greenlanders and Danes who were irked that the original itinerary was planned without consulting them. The couple’s revised trip to the semi-autonomous Danish territory […]
Donald Tusk, Poland’s prime minister, has called on “friends” to respect their allies and not be arrogant in a post on X that mentioned nobody by name but was published a day after an extraordinary social media spat between top officials in the US and Poland over Starlink satellites. Marco Rubio, the US secretary of […]
Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema has thrown down the gauntlet to US billionaire Elon Musk who, in a heated exchange, has said the fiery politician should be declared an international criminal. Mr Musk took to X to retweet old clips of the EFF president saying, “These people …feel terrible pain because you have touched a white man. We’re cutting the throat of whiteness.” Musk called for […]
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian migrants returning home Tuesday on Colombian military flights described being shackled during earlier U.S. flights that were blocked by their country’s leader in a dispute with President Donald Trump that nearly sparked a trade war. Deportation flights between the U.S. and Colombia resumed Tuesday after the diplomatic drama over the […]
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The US had asked Italy to arrest and extradite the Iranian national for allegedly transferring drone technology. Tehran, Iran – Iran’s Foreign Ministry and judiciary have confirmed that Iranian national Mohammad Abedini, who was arrested in Italy at the behest of the United States, has been released. Abedini was returned to Tehran after being arrested […]