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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 […]
Trump says he believes Ukraine can regain all land lost to Russia since 2022 invasion | Donald Trump
Donald Trump has said he believes Ukraine can regain all the land that it has lost since the 2022 Russian invasion in one of the strongest statements of support he has given Kyiv. The US president delivered his upbeat assessment by claiming Russia was in big economic trouble in a post on Truth Social after […]
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 […]
Colorado lightning strikes kill two elk hunters caught in ‘horrific act of nature’ | Colorado
Lightning strikes in Colorado earlier this month killed two elk hunters who were caught in a storm, authorities concluded this week. Andrew Porter and Ian Stasko, both 25, had been hunting in the Rio Grande national forest in southern Colorado the week of 11 September when they stopped making contact. After extensive search and rescue […]
Jeffrey Epstein ‘threatened to destroy’ Sarah Ferguson before her apology | Jeffrey Epstein
The Duchess of York allegedly sent an email apologising to disgraced late financier Jeffrey Epstein after he threatened to “destroy her” in a “Hannibal Lecter-style” phone call, according to reports. Sarah Ferguson sent the message in April 2011, describing Epstein as a “supreme friend”, after she had publicly disowned him in the media. James Henderson, […]
Elon Musk’s father accused of sexually abusing his children and stepchildren | US news
Errol Musk, the 79-year-old father of tech billionaire Elon Musk, has been accused of sexually abusing five of his children and stepchildren since 1993, the New York Times reported on Tuesday. The outlet said those allegations could be why the entrepreneur, who temporarily served as an adviser to the second Trump administration, rarely mentions his […]
Trump cancels meeting with top Democrats as federal shutdown looms | US Congress
Donald Trump on Tuesday said he would not meet with top congressional Democrats to discuss their demands for keeping the federal government open, prompting Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer to accuse the president of “running away from the negotiating table before he even gets there”. Congress is up against a 30 September deadline to authorize […]
UK to suffer highest inflation in G7 this year, says OECD | Global economy
The UK is expected to suffer the highest inflation among G7 nations this year, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has said. Amid resurgent food prices, with some retailers blaming the UK government’s £25bn-a-year increase in employer national insurance contributions (NICs) for pushing up costs, the OECD predicts that inflation in the UK will […]
Medical and autism experts decry Trump’s Tylenol claims – US politics live | US news
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Opening summary Good morning, and welcome to our coverage of US politics on a busy day for Donald Trump as he is due to address the UN general assembly at 9.50am EST with several meetings scheduled for later. We’ll be bringing […]
Hungary refuses to stop buying Russian oil despite Trump’s Nato demand | Hungary
Hungary will not wean itself off Russian energy supplies, the country’s foreign minister has told the Guardian, despite the White House’s demand for Nato allies to stop buying Russian oil. Donald Trump has demanded that Europe halt Russian oil imports, but in an interview on the sidelines of the 80th annual session of the UN […]