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UN peacekeepers (UNIFIL) vehicles drive in the Lebanese village of Wazzani near the border with Israel, southern Lebanon, July 6, 2023. Photo: REUTERS/Aziz Taher/File Photo
USA

Trump administration proposes scrapping UN peacekeeping funding

Washington is the UN's largest contributor - with China second - accounting for 22% of the $3.7 billion core regular UN budget and 27% of the $5.6 billion peacekeeping budget

Being born in the top 1% certainly increases the odds of going to an elite school, such as Harvard. Photo: Bloomberg
USA

After Harvard rejects US demands, Trump adds new threat

Jennifer Vasquez Sura, wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran migrant who lived in the US legally with a work permit and was erroneously deported to El Salvador, looks on during a press conference with other family members, supporters and members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, in Washington, DC, US, April 9, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Ken Cedeno/File Photo
USA

Judge orders Trump officials to testify about efforts to return wrongly deported man

US President Donald Trump meets with El Salvador President Nayib Bukele (not pictured) in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC, US, April 14, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
USA

Trump says Iran must give up dream of nuclear weapon or face harsh response

US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff speaks to members of the news media with White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt outside of the West Wing at the White House in Washington, US, 6 March 2025. Photo: Reuters
Europe

Trump envoy says Putin open to 'permanent peace' deal with Ukraine

US President Donald Trump meets with El Salvador President Nayib Bukele in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC, US, April 14, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
USA

El Salvador's Bukele says he will not return man the US mistakenly deported

A pharmacy technician grabs prescription medicine off a shelf at a pharmacy in Midvale, Utah. Photo: George Frey/Getty Images via Bloomberg
Global Economy

Trump initiates chips and drug probes ahead of more tariffs

Demonstrators rally on Cambridge Common in a protest organized by the City of Cambridge calling on Harvard leadership to resist interference at the university by the federal government in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US April 12, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Nicholas Pfosi
USA

Harvard rejects Trump demands, gets hit by $2.3 billion funding freeze

US President Donald Trump speaks on the day of his remarks on tariffs in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, DC, US, April 2, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo
USA

Trump calls for deporting some citizens to El Salvador, testing US law

US President Donald Trump attends a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, DC, US, April 10, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Nathan Howard
USA

Trump says he expects to make a decision on Iran very quickly

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov attends an opening ceremony of the school year beginning known as the "Day of Knowledge" in the MGIMO (Moscow State University for Foreign Relations) in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Sept. 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
USA

Trump says Ukraine talks may be going OK, but there is a time 'to put up or shut up'

David Die Dejean poses for a portrait at the Crandon Park Marina in Key Biscayne, Florida, US, April 9, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Maria Alejandra Cardona Purchase Licensing Rights
Europe

Brain drain? Trump cutbacks force scientists to seek jobs in Europe

Muslim protestors pray outside the main campus of Columbia University during a demonstration to denounce the immigration arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, a pro-Palestinian activist who helped lead protests against Israel at the university, in New York City, U.S., March 14, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/David Dee Delgado/File Photo
USA

US immigration judge rules Palestinian Columbia student Khalil can be deported