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LONDON — U.K. Prime Minister Andy Burnham engaged with messages from somebody impersonating one of Donald Trump’s closest advisers, four officials have told POLITICO. The new PM communicated with someone posing as White House chief of staff Susie Wiles before becoming suspicious that the contact was illegitimate, the officials said. “We do not comment on national security matters,” Downing Stre...
Dave Brat, Australia’s freshly confirmed U.S. ambassador, didn’t need to learn another language to qualify for his new gig. But he’s coming into the job fluent in a niche dialect that could give him a big advantage. “He can speak Trump,” James Braid, President Donald Trump’s director of legislative affairs, said in a recent interview. “He can understand Trump, and he’s recognized as a longtime ...
President Donald Trump directed the Pentagon on Sunday to substantially scale back planned joint military exercises with South Korea, saying that South Korea declined to help with denuclearizing Iran. “These exercises are not only costly, with much of these costs paid for by the United States of America (as usual!), but send a signal that is totally inappropriate and hostile,” Trump wrote on Tr...
Aan Annick De Ridder, minister van Aandacht Afleiden De Standaard
Torenhoge rentes op Amerikaans staatspapier zijn een waarschuwing voor Trump De Standaard
CANBERRA — Australia’s social media restrictions came into effect in December 2025, triggering a domino effect across the globe as countries in Europe and Asia debated or adopted similar rules. Together these legal reforms form the biggest regulatory and cultural overhaul faced by tech platforms since the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation came into effect in 2018. Here’s how t...
SYDNEY — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese listens not only to his advisers, or Foreign Minister Penny Wong, when it comes to Australian foreign policy. Increasingly, he makes a call to former Labor Prime Minister Paul Keating. This is one of the intriguing revelations in my new book, “Grand Ambition: Paul Keating’s Global Vision for Australia.” It shows that after Labor’s 2025 landsli...
CANBERRA — When a new British prime minister speaks to their Australian counterpart for the first time, it’s a reset of Australia’s oldest and deepest relationship. The agenda seems obvious: Intelligence sharing. Tariffs. Hot war and simmering conflict. If the conversation turns to sport, cricket has often been the obvious choice. But as Andy Burnham began his introductory calls to world leader...
• 8 Muslim countries condemn • Israel-Gaza conflict • Reject Trump plan
Firefighters battling Belgium’s largest modern-day wildfire were counting on crucial air support on Sunday to help tame the blaze in a hard-to-access nature reserve, after it doubled in size over the previous 24 hours. More than 250 firefighters and emergency personnel were mobilised through the night, according to a Sunday morning update from the regional government which warned conditions in ...
