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Escalatorgate: Trump alleges ‘triple sabotage’ after technical mishaps at UN | Donald Trump

Donald Trump alleged “triple sabotage” at the United Nations, after the US president was plagued by a series of unfortunate events surrounding his address to the global body. “A REAL DISGRACE took place at the United Nations yesterday,” Trump wrote in a 357-word post on his social media platform, Truth Social, on Wednesday. “Not one, […]

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Israeli attempt to annex West Bank would be ‘red line’ for US, says Macron | Palestinian territories

Any attempt by Israel to annex parts of the West Bank would be a red line for the US – and would represent the end of Arab-Israeli diplomatic normalisation, Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday, claiming that he had been given that assurance by Donald Trump. Macron also revealed that he had presented the US leader […]

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King Felipe pleads with Israel to ‘stop massacre and abhorrent acts’ in Gaza | Spain

King Felipe of Spain has begged Israel to “stop the massacre” and end its “abhorrent acts” in Gaza during an unusually direct and powerful address to the UN general assembly in which he also defended the UN’s role in an increasingly “frenetic and out of control” world. Although the monarch was careful not to use […]

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Trump’s UN speech makes it clear: the world can no longer look to the US for strong leadership | United Nations

Such is the gravitational pull cast by Donald Trump and the US economy that the politics of the other 192 countries that make up the United Nations are rapidly being reduced to one long discussion about how to relate to, and challenge this ever darker and weirder presidency. Before Trump’s extraordinary 58 minute speech on […]

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Colombia’s Petro urges ‘criminal process’ against Trump for Venezuelan strikes | World news

Colombia’s president Gustavo Petro addressed the UN general assembly Tuesday to call for a “criminal process” to be opened against counterpart Donald Trump for US strikes on alleged drug trafficking boats in the Caribbean. Petro said unarmed “poor young people” died in the strikes that Washington said were part of a US anti-drug operation off […]

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Australia news live: Albanese heads to Trump reception in New York; number of regular gamblers rising | Australia news

Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Mal Lanyon named as NSW new police commissioner Anne Davies Controversial deputy commissioner, Mal Lanyon has been named New South Wales’s new police commissioner, replacing Karen Webb. The 38-year-old veteran of the NSW Police is due to be announced by the […]

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Trump’s address to world leaders at the UN was for a different audience: his base | Donald Trump

Donald Trump may have been speaking to the 192 other world leaders gathered in the United Nations, but the real target of his speech on Tuesday was Europe, which was hauled up repeatedly as the whipping boy for an antiliberal, blood-and-soil polemic that renewed an assault on the transatlantic relationship that has become a theme […]