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November 20, 2025 9:06 AM

Trump signs bill to release Epstein files

U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed the bill to release the files from the Justice Department investigation into the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The material could shed more light on the activities of Epstein, who socialized with Trump and other notable figures before his 2008 conviction on charges of soliciting a minor for prostitution. The scandal has been a thorn in Trump's side for months, partly because he amplified conspiracy theories about Epstein to his own supporter...

November 19, 2025 3:55 PM

Elon Musk attends Trump’s dinner with Saudi crown prince

Elon Musk joined a dinner with U.S President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the White House on Tuesday, the second joint public appearance since a bitter public feud earlier this year. Musk's attendance could be a sign of reconciliation in a turbulent relationship between the Tesla CEO and the U.S. president. Musk supported and funded Trump's election last year and became a close adviser to his administration early this year, leading the Department of Government Eff...

November 17, 2025 10:48 AM

Saudi crown prince visits US with defence, AI and nuclear on the agenda

A visit by Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler to the White House for talks on Tuesday with U.S. President Donald Trump aims to deepen decades-old cooperation on oil and security while broadening ties in commerce, technology and potentially even nuclear energy. It will be the first trip by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to the U.S. since the 2018 killing of Saudi critic Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi agents in Istanbul, which caused a global uproar. U.S. intelligence concluded that MBS approved the captu...

November 17, 2025 9:19 AM

Trump says US may open talks with Venezuela’s Maduro

President Donald Trump said on Sunday that the United States may open talks with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, who faces escalating pressure from Washington amid a massive U.S. military buildup in the Caribbean. It was one of the first signs of a possible path toward defusing an increasingly tense situation in the region as the U.S. wages a campaign of deadly strikes against suspected drug trafficking boats off the Venezuelan coast and in the eastern Pacific Ocean. "We may be having som...

November 16, 2025 10:13 AM

Trump snubs South Africa, boycotts G20 summit: Principled outrage or payback for feud with Ramaphosa?

In a move that's sent shockwaves through global diplomacy, U.S. President Donald Trump has ordered a full American boycott of the G-20 Summit at Johannesburg in South Africa on 22nd and 23rd November. No U.S. official will attend. Not even Vice-President J.D. Vance. President Trump offered an explanation for the boycott on his Truth Social account. In it, he accused South Africa of human rights abuses against White Afrikaners, claiming that they're being killed and slaughtered in a so-called Whi...

November 16, 2025 10:07 AM

Syria, Saudi Arabia reluctant to make peace with Israel as Trump pushes to expand Abraham Accords

On 10 November, Syria's President Ahmed al-Sharaa strides into the Oval Office. He becomes the first Syrian leader ever to do so since the country's independence in 1946. Al-Sharaa, the 43-year-old former Al-Qaeda commander who toppled Bashar al-Assad in December 2024, meets President Trump for the third time this year. Al-Sharaa enters the White House through West Executive Avenue, a less visible and non-ceremonial route, rather than the traditional front driveway where foreign dignitaries are...

November 16, 2025 9:02 AM

Trump buys at least $82 million in bonds since late August, disclosures show

U.S. President Donald Trump bought at least $82 million in corporate and municipal bonds from late August to early October including new investments in sectors benefiting from his policies, financial disclosures made public on Saturday showed. According to the forms released by the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, Trump carried out more than 175 financial purchases from August 28 through October 2. The disclosures, made under a 1978 transparency law called the Ethics in Government Act, do not ...

November 14, 2025 9:02 AM

BBC apologises to Trump over speech edit but rejects defamation claim

The British Broadcasting Corporation sent a personal apology to U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday but said there was no legal basis for him to sue the public broadcaster over a documentary his lawyers called defamatory. The documentary, which aired on the BBC's "Panorama" news programme just before the U.S. presidential election in 2024, spliced together three parts of Trump's speech on January 6, 2021, when his supporters stormed the Capitol. The edit created the impression he had called...

November 12, 2025 11:59 AM

US Supreme Court extends pause on order requiring Trump to fully fund food aid

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday extended a pause on a judge's order that required President Donald Trump's administration to fully fund food aid for 42 million low-income Americans this month amid the federal government shutdown, even as lawmakers took steps toward ending the stalemate. The court's action allows the administration for now to continue withholding about $4 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP or food stamps. Lawyers for the administration t...

November 12, 2025 10:43 AM

Trump appointee to UN labour agency ‘frozen’ over funding and influence concerns

The appointment of a Trump nominee as the deputy head of the International Labour Organisation has been "frozen" following concerns from staff and member states it would give Washington too much sway over the body, multiple sources told Reuters. By unwritten rules, the deputy director general role is held by the biggest donor, the U.S., which pays 22% of the budget Vacant since mid-September, the post was set to be filled by top Trump economic aide, Nels Nordquist. However, U.S. President Don...