US POLITICS
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said people in Scotland had “voted for change” after his party’s surprise by-election victory. Mr Starmer congratulated Labour’s Davie Russell on being elected as the new Member of Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Hamilton and looked…
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said his meeting with President Donald Trump had convinced him that the US administration was open to discussing key issues. Mr. Merz described his Oval Office meeting and extended lunch with Mr. Trump on Thursday as…
A federal judge has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s order banning foreign students from entering the United States to study at Harvard University. Mr. Trump’s announcement on Wednesday was the latest attempt by his administration to block the nation’s oldest…
The European Central Bank cut interest rates as expected on Thursday and kept all options on the agenda for its next meeting, even as pressure grows for a summer pause in its annual easing cycle. Since June last year, the…
The National Museum of the Netherlands has a new exhibit that combines art with Amsterdam’s infamous Red Light District: a nearly 200-year-old condom decorated with erotic art. The Rijksmuseum said in a statement that the playful prophylactic, believed to have…
Search teams have been spotted draining a well and clearing areas of thick vegetation near abandoned buildings as the search for Madeleine McCann in Portugal continues. German investigators, along with Portuguese police and firefighters, are working in an undeveloped area…
Harvey Weinstein’s lawyer said Sunday he does not plan to testify at his sex crimes retrial in New York. This means that a jury will soon get a case against a former film studio executive who initiated the #MeToo movement…
Exit polls in the second round of Poland’s presidential election show the two candidates statistically tied, but the race is still too tight to draw conclusions from a deeply divided country. The results could determine the course of the country’s…
Police say a boy rescued from the River Thames is in a stable condition as the search continues for a missing girl. A search was launched after two children got into trouble in the water near Royal Terrace Pier in…
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Saturday assured allies in the Indo-Pacific that they will not stand alone in the face of growing military and economic pressure from China, while insisting that they also contribute more to their own defense.…
President Donald Trump said he was doubling tariffs on steel to 50%, a sharp increase that could further boost prices for the metal used to make homes, cars and other goods. Mr. Trump spoke at U.S. Steel’s Mon Valley Works–Irvin…
Rapper Kid Cudi is set to testify at Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex trafficking trial in New York after one of the music mogul’s former assistants finished telling jurors about the threatening world he recalled encountering while working for Combs. Kadi’s…