Posts by Amelia Frost
Japan’s ‘Geeky’ PM Ishiba To Navigate Trump Relations
[ad_1] Days after Donald Trump’s 2016 election victory, Japan’s then-prime minister Shinzo Abe rushed to deliver him a gold-plated golf club, becoming the first leader to visit and setting the tone for a relationship both men said was close. Japan’s current, bookish Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is not expected to be able to replicate that…
Read MoreIsrael Orders Army To Plan To Let Palestinians Leave Gaza
[ad_1] Israel’s defence minister ordered the army on Thursday to start making preparations to allow for “voluntary” departures from the Gaza Strip, after US President Donald Trump floated a proposal to move Palestinians out of the territory. The idea sparked uproar from leaders in the Middle East and around the world, and on Wednesday, the…
Read MoreTop South Korean Officer Says Was Asked To Help Yoon Martial Law Bid
[ad_1] The commander of a crack South Korean special forces unit told a court Thursday he had been asked by a superior officer how to cut electricity to parliament during last year’s failed martial law order by impeached president Yook Suk Yeol. Colonel Kim Hyun-tae, who leads the country’s elite 707th Special Mission Group, was…
Read More‘Huge Waste Of Taxpayer Money’: Musk’s DOGE Cancels $8M+ In Politico Subscriptions
[ad_1] KEY POINTS Press Secretary Leavitt said over $8 million in Politico subscriptions will be canceled by DOGE She said the move is part of the White House’s efforts to ensure that American taxpayers’ money is put to good use Screenshots from USAspending.gov are spreading on X, showing the supposed millions in payments on media…
Read MoreUS Claims Free Passage Through Panama Canal
[ad_1] The United States said Wednesday that its government vessels would sail for free through the Panama Canal following heavy pressure from President Donald Trump, but authorities at the waterway swiftly issued a denial. “US government vessels can now transit the Panama Canal without charge fees, saving the US government millions of dollars a year,”…
Read MoreIs Waymo Friend or Foe to Uber?
[ad_1] In 2020, Uber was at a crossroads: The company had made an expensive bet on robot taxis, but the project was laden with legal problems and burning through cash. So Uber gave it away to another start-up. But five years later, Uber’s future seems as tied to autonomous vehicles as ever. The company is…
Read MoreNigeria’s Lithium Mining Eldorado Sparks Concerns
[ad_1] At an open-cast mine, Abdullahi Ibrahim Danjija carefully chisels away at a hunk of whitish rock before stuffing a sack with the pieces which break off the walls. In the course of a day’s work he manages to fill three 50-kilo bags which will net him 150,000 nairas ($100), or around double the monthly…
Read MoreJanuary Sets ‘Surprising’ Heat Record: EU Monitor
[ad_1] Last month was the hottest January on record, Europe’s climate monitor said Thursday, despite expectations that cooler La Nina conditions might quell a streak of record-breaking global temperatures. The Copernicus Climate Change Service said January was 1.75C hotter than pre-industrial times, extending a persistent run of history-making highs over 2023 and 2024, as human-caused…
Read MoreTurkey Marks Second Anniversary Of Quake Disaster
[ad_1] Turkey on Thursday commemorates the second anniversary of the February 6, 2023 earthquake, which claimed nearly 60,000 lives including in neighbouring Syria and turned entire cities into ruins. Thousands of residential buildings in southeastern Turkey collapsed in the wake of the 7.8 magnitude quake that hit at 4:17 am, killing many in their sleep.…
Read MoreAsian Markets Advance After Wall St Gains, US Postal Service U-turn
[ad_1] Asian markets rose Thursday, tracking gains on Wall Street and following the US Postal Service’s U-turn on a ban on parcels from China and Hong Kong, though trade war fears continue to keep sentiment at bay. Global equites and currencies have been hit by volatility this week after US President Donald Trump announced hefty…
Read MoreFive Ways In Which Argentina’s Milei Has Mirrored Trump
[ad_1] Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, as the saying goes, and Argentina’s President Javier Milei has made clear his admiration for Donald Trump by liberally borrowing from the US president’s playbook. On Wednesday, Argentina announced it would follow the United States out of the World Health Organization, echoing Trump’s repeated complaints about what…
Read MoreFox News Adds Lara Trump as a Host
[ad_1] President Trump persuaded several Fox News hosts to leave the network and take up major roles in his administration. Now a Trump is joining the network. Lara Trump, Mr. Trump’s daughter-in-law and a former co-chair of the Republican Party, will begin hosting a new weekend show on Fox News on Feb. 22, the network…
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