It’s finally time for longer sunlight hours in the spring and summer months. Here’s what you need to know as the clocks skip ahead early Sunday. After a long winter of short days, it’s finally time to spring forward. Clocks across the U.S. will jump from 1:59 a.m. to 3 a.m. Sunday. Here’s what you […]
Trump says Ukraine ‘more difficult’ to deal with than Russia
US President Donald Trump has said he is finding it “more difficult, frankly, to deal with Ukraine” than Russia in attempts to broker peace between the two nations. The US is “doing very well with Russia”, and “it may be easier dealing with” Moscow than Kyiv, Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Friday. […]
Twelve injured in shooting at Toronto pub
Three suspects are still at large after 12 people were injured in a shooting at a pub in Toronto, police in the Canadian city say. The shooting took place at 22:39 on Friday local time (03:39 GMT Saturday) near Scarborough city centre in eastern Toronto. Authorities said six people suffered bullet wounds and others were […]
Body found in floodwaters and troops injured in Australia storm
Australian authorities say a body has been found in floodwaters and 13 military workers injured in a vehicle crash as wild weather from a tropical storm lashes the country’s eastern coast. Cyclone Alfred was downgraded to a tropical low on Saturday but is due to make landfall near the Queensland capital city of Brisbane soon. […]
SpaceX again loses its Starship rocket on test flight after explosion during previous attempt
A little over 8 minutes into the flight, live video showed the upper-stage vehicle spinning in space before all communication was lost. After SpaceX’s Starship megarocket exploded during a test flight in January, the company had hoped for a better outcome when it attempted a launch on Thursday. But once more, the mission was cut […]
Ukraine and U.S. to give diplomacy another try after White House debacle
In Europe, Washington’s NATO allies announced hundreds of billions of dollars in new military spending Thursday as they try to plug the gap left by the Trump administration. Senior Trump administration figures are planning to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Saudi Arabia next week, officials on both sides said Thursday, as Ukraine scrambles to […]
Trump puts new limits on Elon Musk’s authority amid backlash to DOGE cuts
President Donald Trump said he told his Cabinet secretaries during a meeting Thursday that staffing decisions will be left up to them, not Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency. Trump said he instructed Cabinet members to work alongside DOGE on spending and workforce reductions while clarifying that final job cuts will be at […]
Fifteen hurt after SK fighter jets drop bombs by accident
Fifteenpeople in South Korea were injured, twoof them seriously, after a pair of fighter jetsaccidentally dropped eight bombs in a civilian district during a live-fire military exercise, local media reported. Photo By Reuters The incident involving the Air Force KF-16 aircraft took place at around 10:04 local time (01:04 GMT) in the city of Pocheon, […]
Trump issues ‘last warning’ to Hamas as US confirms direct hostage talks
US President Donald Trump has issued what he called a “last warning” to Hamas to release the hostages being held in Gaza. “I am sending Israel everything it needs to finish the job, not a single Hamas member will be safe if you don’t do as I say,” Trump said in a lengthy post on […]
Trump says he is ‘just getting started’ in speech to US Congress
Six weeks into his presidency, Donald Trump came to a US Capitol controlled by his Republican Party to take a lengthy victory lap. “We have accomplished more in 43 days than most administrations accomplished in four years or eight years, and we are just getting started,” he told the joint session of Congress. In typical […]