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September 24, 2025 4:26 PM

Trump’s H-1B visa fee increase raises US doctor shortage concerns

The Trump administration's plan to dramatically raise fees for H-1B visas is drawing concern from U.S. healthcare groups who say the move could worsen staffing shortages as more than half of healthcare workers consider changing jobs within the next year. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is reviewing policy changes that would increase the cost of applying for H-1B visas to as much as $100,000 from the current top of $4,500. The H-1B program allows U.S. employers to hire foreign workers i...

September 24, 2025 2:47 PM

Europe must step up after Trump’s shift on Ukraine, Berlin says

Europe must "grow up" and step up its support for Ukraine after comments by U.S. President Donald Trump backing Kyiv to take back all of its territory from Russia, Germany's Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said on Wednesday. Speaking to Germany's Deutschlandfunk radio, Wadephul said Trump had realised that his own efforts had failed to persuade Russia's Vladimir Putin to end the war in Ukraine. Trump's remarks on Truth Social marked an abrupt and major rhetorical shift for the U.S. leader who...

September 23, 2025 10:22 PM

Trump tells UN that climate change is ‘greatest con job’ globally

President Donald Trump dismissed climate change as “the greatest con job” in the world during his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, doubling down on his skepticism of global environmental initiatives and multilateral institutions. Scientists say climate change is real, mostly caused by humans, and getting worse. They point to rising temperatures, stronger storms, and melting ice as clear signs. Groups like the UN have warned that waiting too long to act could cause ...

September 23, 2025 9:25 PM

Trump administration proposes new H-1B visa process favoring higher-skilled, better-paid workers

The Trump administration released a proposal on Tuesday that would rework the H-1B visa selection process to favor higher-skilled and better-paid workers, according to a related Federal Register notice, a move that follows a White House proclamation on Friday introducing a $100,000 fee for the visas. The new process, if finalized, would give heavier weight to applications by employers who pay high wages if annual requests for the visas exceed the statutory limit of 85,000, the notice said. The ...

September 23, 2025 9:16 PM

Trump condemns moves to recognise Palestinian state, wants hostages freed

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday condemned moves by Western powers to recognise a Palestinian state, saying such steps would reward "horrible atrocities" by the Palestinian militant group Hamas. In a speech to the United Nations General Assembly, Trump said world powers should focus instead on securing the release of hostages held in Gaza, nearly two years after Hamas seized them in the deadly attack on Israel that triggered the Gaza war. France, Britain, Canada, Australia and Portugal h...

September 21, 2025 5:02 PM

Trump says ‘bad things’ will happen if Afghanistan does not return Bagram air base

U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened "bad things" would happen to Afghanistan if it does not give back control of the Bagram air base to the United States, and declined to rule out sending in troops to retake it. "If Afghanistan doesn’t give Bagram Airbase back to those that built it, the United States of America, BAD THINGS ARE GOING TO HAPPEN," Trump said in a Truth Social post. Trump said on Thursday that the United States had sought to regain control of the base used by Ame...

September 19, 2025 11:56 AM

Trump says US seeks control of Afghanistan’s Bagram air base given up in withdrawal

The United States seeks to regain control of Bagram air base in Afghanistan, President Donald Trump said on Thursday during a press conference with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, but an Afghan official dismissed the need for any U.S. presence. The historic Soviet-built airstrip was the main base for American forces in the mountainous South Asian nation following the attacks of September 11, 2001, until their 2021 withdrawal led to a takeover by the Islamist Taliban movement. "We're tryin...

September 18, 2025 9:54 PM

Trump says he disagrees with UK on recognising Palestinian state

U.S. President Donald Trump said he disagreed with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer over recognising a Palestinian state, speaking following a bilateral meeting on Thursday during his state visit. Asked at a press conference about recognising a Palestinian state, Trump said: "I have a disagreement with the prime minister on that score, one of our few disagreements, actually." Starmer said he and Trump agreed on the ultimate aim of peace in the region. "We absolutely agree on the need for p...

September 18, 2025 3:22 PM

Starmer and Trump to discuss foreign affairs, investment after pomp-filled royal welcome

Donald Trump meets British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Thursday for talks designed to focus the U.S. leader's unprecedented second state visit firmly on global affairs rather than domestic political problems. After a day of pomp and ceremony in which Trump rode in a carriage with King Charles and feasted at a state banquet, the U.S. president and Starmer will celebrate the unveiling of a 150 billion pound ($205 billion) package of U.S. investment into Britain. The deals, covering areas such...

September 18, 2025 12:29 PM

NYT chief executive warns Trump is deploying ‘anti-press playbook’

The chief executive officer of the New York Times, Meredith Kopit Levien, said the company would "not be cowed" by U.S. President Donald Trump’s $15-billion lawsuit against the newspaper, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday. The suit is the latest in Trump's flurry of legal attacks on media during his second term, including a $10-billion defamation case against the Wall Street Journal in July. The lawsuit was legally baseless, Levien told a Financial Times conference in remarks the pap...