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September 7, 2026 10:59 PM

UK’s Burnham, Trump discuss working towards Ukraine-Russia ceasefire, Downing Street says

Britain's Prime Minister Andy Burnham spoke with U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday, with the two leaders agreeing on "the need to continue working towards a ceasefire" to end Russia's war in Ukraine, Downing Street said. "The Prime Minister reiterated the UK's support for Ukraine and for recent U.S.-led peace negotiations," a Downing Street spokesperson said. Burnham and Trump also discussed the Middle East, with Burnham "stressing the importance of the two-state solution, the reopening of...

September 7, 2026 10:39 PM

Iran warns US energy assets in Gulf are vulnerable after latest clashes

Iran threatened on Monday to retaliate against any new U.S. attacks on its assets, warning that energy infrastructure across the Gulf, including U.S. oil and gas interests, was vulnerable. "Strike our assets and you get struck," Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf said after U.S. and Iranian strikes on shipping at the weekend that pushed oil prices up near six-week highs on Monday. The latest threat underscores the risks of further escalation after the sides traded blows again at...

September 7, 2026 10:36 PM

EU pledges Greenland investments amid Trump’s push for control

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen unveiled plans on Monday for €200 million ($232 million) of EU investments in Greenland and closer ties with the Danish Arctic territory, which President Donald Trump has insisted should belong to the United States. Von der Leyen arrived in Greenland on Sunday for a two-day visit serving as a show of support for the governments of Greenland and Denmark, which have strongly rebuffed Trump’s campaign to acquire the world’s largest island. ...

September 3, 2026 12:47 AM

Trump says renewed US campaign against Iran won’t last long

President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the renewed U.S. campaign against Iran would not continue for “too long” after the biggest exchange of fire between Tehran and Washington since July. Trump told reporters in the Oval Office that Iran was trying to build a rocket that drops mines and the U.S. had destroyed it. He also said Iran had been working to restore its radar and missile systems, which were also targeted in the U.S. strikes. “We took out all of the new equipment that the...

September 3, 2026 12:38 AM

Trump says he is “happy” Harry and Meghan left US

U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he is “happy” Prince Harry and his family left the United States and relocated back to Britain. “I am happy about it. I was not a fan,” Trump said in the Oval Office when asked about the recent announcement by Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, that they planned to leave California after six years. “I thought they treated the royal family with great disrespect. I didn’t like it,” Trump said. “If I were the royal famil...

September 1, 2026 8:33 AM

Trump says it’s ‘very early’ to talk about a Hegseth 2028 presidential campaign

U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday told reporters it was too soon to discuss his potential successor, sidestepping talk of a 2028 campaign by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Asked about an NBC News report that the Pentagon chief has discussed a potential White House run, Trump said Hegseth is doing a "fantastic job, but it's very early to talk about that." "We have to get through the midterms first," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. The president's Republican Party is fighting to m...

August 29, 2026 12:20 AM

Trump presents Medal of Honor to Artemis II crew

U.S. President Donald Trump presents the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to the Artemis II crew at NASA’s Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston on August 28. After the ceremony, Trump speaks to crew members on the space station and signs a commemorative plaque. -Reuters...

August 28, 2026 7:24 PM

Trump vows legal order to break up food processing ‘nasty monopoly’

U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said he was preparing a legal order to allow farmers and ranchers to be given the right to process their own food, aimed at breaking what he called “a nasty monopoly” among the nation’s top processors. Trump did not name a particular food or industry in his post on Truth Social but said he was “authorizing legal documents to be drawn” quickly. Earlier this week, Trump said he would see whether there are too many beef processing plant regulations. ...

August 27, 2026 11:54 PM

Trump says Putin will not attack NATO territory, downplays Ratcliffe trip

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that Russian President Vladimir Putin will not attack a NATO country, and he played down media reports that CIA Director John Ratcliffe warned Russian officials against such an attack earlier in the week. “He’s not going to attack a NATO territory,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. Earlier in the day, Trump told Axios in a phone interview that there would be no such attack, and that Ratcliffe had not been dispatched to Moscow to delive...

August 26, 2026 12:17 PM

Gulf ship traffic via Strait of Hormuz hovers below 10-day average, data shows

Five commodity vessels transited the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday, little changed from a day earlier but well below the 10-day average of 15, preliminary shipping data showed on Wednesday. Two tankers carrying liquefied petroleum gas and one tanker carrying bitumen exited the Gulf via the strait, while two empty product tankers entered the waterway from the Gulf of Oman, initial data from shiptracker Kpler showed at 0408 GMT. On Monday, four commodity vessels transited the waterway, the data sho...