Watch: ‘We’re filled with grief’ – President Trump visits Texas after deadly floods US President Donald Trump has reassured Kerrville, Texas, residents that the government would help rebuild after floods hit the central part of the state last week, killing at least 121 people. The president and First Lady Melania Trump met on Friday with…
I am obsessed with sharks. Fifty years on from Jaws, and for me no film can touch it. I trawl YouTube for unspeakable footage. On a recent holiday to France, I made my nonplussed household watch every shark documentary on National Geographic. I’ll even make time for guff like Jaws 4 or Sharknado 5: Global…
In one of his most bellicose and provocative remarks as Russia’s war against Ukraine rages on, President Vladimir Putin said late last month that “where the foot of a Russian soldier steps — that is ours.” Moscow’s claims in fact go well beyond the land that its soldiers actually control in Ukraine more than 40…
Amna Nawaz: Welcome to the “News Hour.” President Trump and the first lady visited Central Texas today, surveying the catastrophic damage and offering comfort to families who lost loved ones in last week’s flash floods. More than 120 people were killed in the disaster. At least 160 are still missing. The president praised the response…
A farmworker has died from injuries he sustained in immigration raids on two California cannabis farms, as United States authorities confirmed they arrested 200 workers after a tense standoff with protesters. The United Farm Workers advocacy group confirmed the death of Jaime Alanis, who was injured after a 30-foot (nine-metre) fall during one of the…
A decade ago, in the remote highlands of Kashmir, I experienced a minor cultural revelation: a parcel from Amazon, bearing books unavailable in Srinagar’s bustling city markets, arrived at my doorstep. This moment crystallised my early reverence for Jeff Bezos – then a mere name to me – whose venture had begun, as a friend…
Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers a keynote speech during the second China-Central Asia Summit in Astana, Kazakhstan, on June 17. (Xinhua) Chinese President Xi Jinping plans to visit South Korea to attend the upcoming Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, while US President Donald Trump remains undecided, a journalist said Saturday, citing his conversation with President Lee…
Craig Williams BBC Scotland News Getty Images A bagpiper welcomed Trump on a previous visit to Scotland The Donald Trump who came to Scotland in 2006 to say he was building the world’s greatest golf course was in many ways a different Donald Trump to the one now enjoying his second term in the White…
Mass layoff came days after the Supreme Court cleared the way for US president to gut entire government positions. More than 1,350 US State Department employees have been fired in a major diplomatic shake-up ordered by President Donald Trump, in a move critics predict would curb the United States’ influence around the world. Friday’s mass…
Jeff Bezos may be priming for a new look. After all, the Amazon founder—who started shaving his head in 2013—stepped out with noticeably more hair on July 10. While walking around the Allen & Co. Media and Technology Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, Jeff sported fuller gray hairs around the sides of his scalp. He…