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August 25, 2026 7:58 PM

Trump threatens to change the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America amid Canada trade war

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he was considering changing the name of Lake Ontario to “Lake America” as a trade war between the United States and Canada escalates. “The United States is giving serious consideration to changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America in that we don’t expect to doing much business with Ontario any longer,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. One of the five Great Lakes of North America, Lake Ontario borders both the Canadian prov...

August 24, 2026 11:52 AM

‘Entering the endgame’: US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announces ‘economic D-Day’ against Iran

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Sunday (local time) said the Trump administration was entering the “endgame” in its campaign against Iran and announced what he described as an “economic D-Day” aimed at severing the Iranian regime’s economic lifelines. In a post on X, Bessent said, “President Trump has dismantled Iran’s military capabilities, destroyed nearly 100 percent of its military factories, and buried its nuclear program.” “We are now entering the endgame. At daw...

August 20, 2026 1:09 AM

UN’s Antonio Guterres seriously concerned by US sanctions on ICC

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is seriously concerned by the U.S. decision to impose sanctions on International Criminal Court President Tomoko Akane and senior trial lawyer Abdoulaye Seye, a U.N. spokesperson said on Wednesday. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio imposed the sanctions on Tuesday in the latest escalation in the Trump administration's campaign against The Hague-based court, which was established in 2002 by the international community to prosecute war crimes, genocide an...

August 19, 2026 1:12 AM

Kushner’s talks with Israel, Hamas end without breakthrough on Trump Gaza plan

U.S. President Donald Trump's envoy and son-in-law Jared Kushner left Jerusalem on Monday without a breakthrough after two days of talks with Israeli and Hamas leaders over a stalled U.S. plan to end the war in Gaza, with both sides standing firm on key demands. Kushner met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel a day after meeting the political leader of Hamas in Egypt in a bid to revive the plan. Israel has carried out air strikes and seized more territory in Gaza despite an October...

August 19, 2026 1:11 AM

US sanctions International Criminal Court president, senior lawyer

The U. S. imposed sanctions on Tuesday on the International Criminal Court's president and a senior trial lawyer at the court, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said. The move is the latest escalation in the Trump administration's campaign against The Hague-based court, which was established in 2002 by the international community to prosecute war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity. The U.S. is not a member of the court. Rubio said in a statement that he was imposing sanctions on Tomoko ...

August 19, 2026 12:28 AM

Trump says no talks planned with Iran, Tehran says Strait of Hormuz still shut

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday no talks were taking place with Iran and none were scheduled, and he insisted that the Strait of Hormuz was open, contradicting an earlier Iranian assertion that the critical waterway remained shut to shipping. The receding prospects of a deal to end the nearly six-month conflict drove up oil prices again on Tuesday, while stock markets sagged and borrowing costs for major economies including the U.S. hit multi-decade highs, amid concerns about the lo...

August 18, 2026 9:32 PM

MEA highlights ‘credibility and robustness’ of India’s electoral system after Trump’s remarks

The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Tuesday reiterated the credibility of India’s electoral system, reaffirmed its commitment to combating terrorism and outlined New Delhi’s positions on a range of regional and international issues, including Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) and the earthquake in Indonesia. Addressing the ministry’s bi-weekly media briefing, MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said India’s election machinery has established its credibility and...

August 17, 2026 9:40 AM

Trump’s envoys meet mediators, Israel strikes Gaza

Donald Trump's envoys met with Egyptian, Qatari and Turkish mediators in Cairo on Sunday, a diplomatic source said, aiming to advance the U.S. president's Gaza peace plan, even as Israel pressed on with airstrikes in the enclave. Hamas officials were present at some of the meetings that mediators held with Trump's envoy and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and Trump's Board of Peace envoy for Gaza, Nickolay Mladenov, the diplomat said. A senior Israeli official said Kushner and Mladenov were schedul...

August 15, 2026 7:33 PM

Iran defiant on strait as Trump tells Americans to accept high gas prices

Iran called on the U.S. to accept defeat while President Donald Trump blasted Tehran as "very evil" and told Americans to brace for continued high fuel prices as a result of the war. Progress toward peace talks and oil tanker traffic through the strategic Strait of Hormuz waterway remained halted, with no sign the warring parties were moving toward ending the conflict that the U.S. and Israel launched on February 28. "This strait will be opened and closed only under Iran's command, and so long...

August 17, 2026 3:10 PM

Trump’s Secret Flight: When Presidential Security Means Keeping Everyone Guessing

The most extraordinary detail about Donald Trump’s secret aircraft switch in Ankara may be the catering truck. But the real story is not the truck. It is why U.S. security officials decided that the President’s location had to be concealed, even from some of the people travelling with him. On July 8, after the NATO summit in Ankara, Trump publicly boarded the familiar blue-and-white Air Force One. Cameras filmed him climbing the stairs. Journalists followed him onto the aircraft. https://y...