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Flags of Saudi Arabia and Ukraine line a road in Jeddah before a visit by Ukainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

Ukraine To Present US With Russia Partial Truce After Row

Ukraine will present the United States on Tuesday with a plan for a partial ceasefire with Russia, hoping to restore support from its key benefactor, which under President Donald Trump has demanded concessions to end the three-year war.
AFP news Mar 11, 2025
View of the North Sea between the turrets of the entrance to the old pier in Withernsea, on the east coast of England near where a collision between a tanker and a cargo ship caused multiple explosions

What We Know About The North Sea Tanker Collision

Jet fuel caught fire and leaked into the North Sea on Monday after a cargo ship reportedly carrying sodium cyanide hit a tanker chartered by the US military off the British coast.
AFP news Mar 11, 2025
Industry experts are skeptical that oil companies will significantly ramp up drilling in spite of Donald Trump's calls for more production

Trump's Energy Chief Vows Reversal Of Biden Climate Policies

The US energy secretary vowed Monday to reset federal energy policy to favor fossil fuels and deprioritize climate change as industry leaders gathered at their biggest event since President Donald Trump returned to office.
AFP news Mar 11, 2025
The US Agency for International Development, whose logo is seen here in Haiti after a devastating earthquake in 2010, distributes humanitarian aid around the world

83% Of USAID Programs To Be Scrapped: Rubio

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Monday the United States was cancelling 83 percent of programs at USAID, as the Trump administration guts spending not aligned with its "America First" agenda.
AFP news Mar 11, 2025
Canada's Liberal Party looks set to choose former central banker and political novice Mark Carney as its next leader

Canada's Next PM Mark Carney Vows To 'Win' US Trade War

Canada's incoming prime minister Mark Carney struck a defiant note as the former central banker vowed to win US President Donald Trump's trade war, saying his country will "never" be part of the United States.
AFP news Mar 10, 2025
A rally in Israel calling on the government to secure the release of the remaining hostages held in Gaza

Israeli Negotiators Head To Qatar For Gaza Truce Talks

Israel is due to send a delegation to Qatar on Monday for a fresh round of talks on extending a fragile ceasefire in Gaza, after cutting off the electricity supply to ramp up pressure on Hamas.
AFP news Mar 10, 2025
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators march through Columbia University's campus in New York in October 2024

Trump Admin Detains Pro-Palestinian Campus Protest Leader

Immigration officers have arrested a leader of the protests at Columbia University against Israel's war in Gaza, authorities said Sunday, after US President Donald Trump vowed to deport foreign pro-Palestinian student demonstrators.
AFP news Mar 10, 2025
The US trade gap hit a new record in January, government data showed, as imports surged

Trump Backs Off Mexico, Canada Tariffs After Market Blowback

US President Donald Trump on Thursday delayed some tariffs targeting Canada and Mexico, leading Ottawa to halt an upcoming wave of countermeasures -- offering a reprieve to companies and consumers after blowback on financial markets.
AFP news Mar 07, 2025
Health centers and family planning clinics in several provinces have reported shortages of abortion pills and condoms following drastic cuts to the national sexual health program

Abortion Access Under Threat In Milei's Argentina

Four years after Argentina became the first big Latin American country to legalize abortion, women are finding it hard to access terminations due to President Javier Milei's "chainsaw" economics and anti-feminist diatribes, critics say.
AFP news Mar 07, 2025
US President Donald Trump speaks after signing executive orders in the Oval Office

Trump Again Casts Doubt On His Commitment To NATO

President Donald Trump on Thursday renewed doubts over his commitment to the NATO alliance, saying countries that are not spending adequately on their militaries do not deserve defense.
AFP news Mar 07, 2025
Trump takes credit for record-low apprehensions of undocumented immigrants at the US-Mexican border

Drop In US Border Crossings Goes Deeper Than Trump

President Donald Trump boasts he has brought illegal border crossings into the United States to record lows, but experts say the reasons for the drop go beyond his hardline anti-immigration stance.
AFP news Mar 07, 2025
Beijing set an ambitious annual growth target of around five percent on Wednesday, vowing to make domestic demand its main economic driver as an escalating trade war with the United States hit exports

China Vows To Fight US Trade War 'To The End'

China vowed to fight a trade war with the United States "to the end" on Thursday, as tariffs from Washington buffeted the global economy and threatened to hit Beijing's lagging growth.
AFP news Mar 06, 2025
Members of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and their supporters opposed to the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) confront bulldozers working on the new oil pipeline in an effort to make them stop on September 3, 2016, near Cannon Ball, North Dakota

Greenpeace Trial Begins In North Dakota In Key Free Speech Case

A US oil pipeline operator's lawsuit seeking millions of dollars from Greenpeace for allegedly orchestrating a campaign of violence and defamation begins Monday in a North Dakota court, in a case with broad free speech implications.
AFP news Feb 25, 2025
The SPD came out of the election as the 'big loser"

Stunned SPD Turns To Supporting Role In New German Government

After a humbling election defeat for Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his Social Democrats (SPD), the party looked to collect itself on Monday in preparation for a potential new role as the junior partner in a conservative-led government.
AFP news Feb 25, 2025

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