BALLYMENA, Northern Ireland, June 10 (Reuters) – Rioters threw petrol bombs and other missiles at police in the Northern Irish town of Ballymena in the second successive night of disorder that followed a protest over an alleged sexual assault in the town, police and local media said on Tuesday. Police said they were dealing with…
Forget tech bans and rare earth shipments – trade talks in London to decide who writes the rules for 21st century global economy A high-stakes showdown is unfolding this week in London—far from the manufacturing plants of Shenzhen or the trading floors of Wall Street, yet central to the global economic order. Senior US and…
Ten people have been killed in a school shooting in the Austrian city of Graz, in what is the deadliest gun attack in the country’s recent history. Police said the 21-year-old gunman, a former student, took his own life in a school bathroom shortly after. The incident took place at Dreierschützengasse secondary school in the…
June 7 (UPI) — China has agreed to fast-track approvals for the shipment of rare earth minerals to the United States and some European Union nations. U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping spoke Thursday about easing trade tensions. On Saturday, China’s Minister Seceary Wang Wentao said his nation is “willing to establish…
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said latest prisoner exchange will take several days Russia hit Ukraine overnight with its largest drone attack since the start of the war, causing some damage at a military airfield in the west of the country, the Ukrainian air force said on Monday. It was the latest Russian onslaught since Ukraine destroyed…
Greta Thunberg and her crew of activists sailing to Gaza will be forced to watch a video of Hamas‘s October 7 atrocities after being intercepted by the IDF, Israel‘s defence minister said. Israel Katz congratulated the military on its ‘quick and safe takeover’ of the Madleen after Israeli commandos seized the vessel in international waters…
A US Marine battalion is being sent to Los Angeles to help maintain order as anti-ICE riots continued to rage across Southern California. On Sunday, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth told Marines to prepare for deployment to LA “if violence continues.” On Monday, he made good on the promise, ordering 700 Marines from Twentynine Palms,…
Greetings from Tyler, Donald Trump and Elon Musk have been at each other’s throats for about two days. If you’d have told us last week that we’d be in the middle of a terrible fight this week, I wonder who’d have believed it. Suddenly there are all kinds of questions. Personally, I think they ought to bury the…
President Donald Trump issued a travel ban that will bar or partially restrict foreign nationals from nearly 20 countries from entering the United States, citing national security concerns. In videotaped remarks from the Oval Office released Wednesday, June 4, Trump pointed to last weekend’s attack on a group of demonstrators supporting Israeli hostages in Boulder, Colorado. The FBI has said it…
The European Central Bank’s easing cycle reached the one-year mark Thursday when policymakers delivered another interest rate cut as concerns mount about the struggling eurozone economy and global trade tensions. The ECB cut its key deposit rate a quarter point to two percent, as widely expected, its seventh consecutive reduction and eighth since June last…