Trump’s Canada 51st state plan ‘is not a joke’, says foreign minister Canada’s Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly has told the BBC she takes US President Donald Trump’s remarks on making Canada the 51st state of his country “very seriously”. “This is not a joke anymore,” Joly told Newsnight. “There’s a reason why Canadians, when they … Read more
Royal Navy HMS Somerset (rear) followed Russian corvette Boikiy (front) through the English Channel The Royal Navy has released images of a Russian warship which it tracked sailing near British waters. The corvette Boikiy was part of a task group which was tracked by HMS Somerset for three days as it made its way through … Read more
Lesotho’s government says it is shocked by US President Donald Trump saying that “nobody has ever heard of” the southern African nation. Trump, addressing the US Congress in his first speech since his return to the Oval Office, made the reference as he listed cuts made to what he said was wasteful expenditure. “Eight million … Read more
Nick Thorpe Eastern Europe correspondent in Bucharest BBC Tens of thousands of Romanians marched on Bucharest’s Victory Square, the seat of the Romanian government, at the weekend, after the presidential election favourite was taken in for questioning. Calin Georgescu was picked up on his way to register as a candidate, and he was later charged … Read more
Lucy Gilder, Jake Horton & Ben Chu BBC Verfiy Getty Images In his address to Congress, which ran for more than an hour and a half, President Donald Trump made a series of claims about the state of the US under his predecessor Joe Biden and the achievements of his first weeks in office. He … Read more
Reuters Palestinian children in Gaza gather to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen Food prices in Gaza have spiked and aid food parcels could soon run out after Israel blocked the entry of humanitarian aid, the UN’s humanitarian agency said. OCHA’s partners reported that flour and vegetable prices more than doubled in some cases, … Read more
Paul Kirby Europe digital editor RALF HIRSCHBERGER/AFP Friedrich Merz hopes to form a new government by late April Friedrich Merz, who’s expected to become Germany’s next chancellor, has announced a political deal to raise hundreds of billions of euros in extra spending on defence and infrastructure. “In view of the threats to our freedom and … Read more
US actor Jesse Eisenberg has been awarded Polish citizenship by President Andrzej Duda, after telling the story of the Jewish population during World War Two in his Oscar-winning film A Real Pain. Eisenberg wrote, directed and starred in the film, about two American cousins who travel to Poland to honour their grandmother, a Holocaust survivor, … Read more
For 30 miles we bounce along a dirt road in southwestern Wyoming, heading toward a jagged skyline. It’s early September and the aspens are starting to turn yellow. As we climb toward the mountains, the air grows colder. Soon the road will see snowfall. Jeff Munroe, a professor of geology at Middlebury College in Vermont, … Read more
AIB, one of Ireland’s two main banks, made a record pre-tax profit of €2.7bn (£2.2bn) in 2024, up 13% on the previous year. The Irish state continues to own a 12% stake in the bank as a legacy of a bail-out during the financial crisis. The bank’s chief executive, Colin Hunt, said there was now … Read more