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By: Kevin Freking, Associated Press ,    Mary Clare Jalonick, Associated Press – July 18, 2025 Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks during a news conference amid threats that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., a staunch ally of former President Donald Trump, is threatening to oust Johnson from his leadership post, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, May […]

Read Time:3 mins Images show extent of damage at Fordow and Isfahan nuclear site Tehran: US President Donald Trump on Wednesday claimed the American military has caused ‘total obliteration’ at three Iranian nuclear sites, including Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan, setting the country’s atomic programme back by “decades”. Speaking at the NATO summit in the Hague, […]

Washington: US President Donald Trump has played down the chances of successful peace talks in the Russia-Ukraine war after a phone call with Vladimir Putin, and foreshadowed Russian retaliation to the weekend’s surprise Ukrainian attacks on Russian air bases. In a social media post on Wednesday (Thursday AEST), Trump said he spoke with the Russian president […]

Trump says Putin phone call was ‘good,’ though won’t lead to immediate peace between Russia and Ukraine President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he spoke over the phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who said that Russia would have to respond to a recent Ukrainian attack on Russian warplanes. Trump said the phone call […]

President Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attend a bilateral meeting at the Saudi Royal Court on May 13 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Win McNamee/Getty Images President Trump was greeted like royalty during his four-day trip to the Middle East. There were opulent palaces, fighter jet escorts, a parade of camels and much […]

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speaks after winning a second term as Prime Minister in Sydney, on Saturday, May 3, 2025.Rick Rycroft/AP CNN  —  Australians delivered a surprise election result on Saturday; not because of who won but by the scale of the victory. It marks a strong recovery for Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and […]

US President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney have faced off in the Oval Office, showing no signs of retreating from their gaping differences in an ongoing trade war that has shattered decades of trust between the two countries. The two kept it civil, but as for Trump’s calls to make Canada the […]

Reuters FILE PHOTO: European Union flags are seen outside the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels, prior to a meeting between Britain’s Secretary of State for Exiting the EU Dominic Raab and EU’s chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier, Belgium October 14, 2018. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir PARIS (Reuters) -The European Commission said in a statement it had decided […]

Watch live as cardinals choose the new pope. Candidates need a two-thirds majority, or 89 votes. If no one secures that Wednesday, the cardinals will retire for the day and return on Thursday. They will have two ballots in the morning and then two in the afternoon, until a winner is found. By  NICOLE WINFIELD […]