Just a month after U.S. President Donald Trump hailed “progress” in talks with China, the world’s two most powerful nations are scrambling to salvage a planned summit of their leaders, now just a week away, while trading blame for a spike in tension.

Reuters New sanctions announced by the US have blacklisted Russia’s two largest oil producers US President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced “tremendous” new sanctions against two of Russia’s largest oil companies, in a bid to pressure Moscow into ending the war on Ukraine. The sanctions, announced via Trump’s Truth Social platform, target Rosneft and Lukoil

Donald Trump and Colombia’s Gustavo Petro have engaged in a new round of verbal sparring, with the United States president calling his South American counterpart a “thug” who is “making a lot of drugs”, and the Colombian leader threatening legal action against Trump in US courts. Weeks of escalating tension between Washington and Bogota hit

Hong Kong stocks wavered on Thursday, as investors looked for signs of easing geopolitical tensions following US leader Donald Trump’s remarks that he would “make a deal” with Chinese President Xi Jinping when they “meet next week” in South Korea. The Hang Seng Index fell 0.4 per cent to 25,682.73 as of 9.50am local time,

The Knicks’ season is back — and that means celebrities are out in full force at Madison Square Garden. Among them were Yankees superstar Aaron Judge and his wife, Samantha Bracksieck, who took in the action on Wednesday night as the Knicks opened up the 2025-26 campaign on their home court. Judge, who hit 53

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte on Wednesday praised President Trump’s act of not providing Ukraine with Tomahawk missiles in its war with Russia. Speaking with CNN hours after meeting with…

Tesla might be an electric automaker, but CEO Elon Musk has made clear that he thinks of it as much more: an innovator in artificial intelligence and software, a builder of world-shaking robots. He’s also argued that Tesla should be worth a lot more than it is today: up to $20 trillion, he posted in

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