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Lithuania offers to pay for US base as Trump weighs idea
President Donald Trump said Monday, Oct. 5, that the United States would consider setting up a permanent military base in Lithuania. A day later, the Baltic country's government said it would pay for one. "They are friends of mine, they…
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Iran says Strait of Hormuz stays shut until US meets terms
Iran will keep the Strait of Hormuz closed until Washington meets seven conditions set out in a June interim agreement, parliament speaker Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf said on Sunday, Oct. 4. His remarks came a few days after Tehran received the…
Trump weighs Iran decision: ‘easy way or hard way’
President Donald Trump said on Saturday, Oct. 3, that he has "a decision that I'll make about Iran." Speaking to reporters at the White House before leaving for midterm campaign stops in Ohio, he said Iran had been "decimated" and…
Trump says Iran has ‘virtually given up’ nuclear weapons
President Donald Trump said Saturday that Iran has "virtually given up any plans of a nuclear weapon." He spoke to reporters on the South Lawn as he left the White House for a rally in Ohio. Stopping Iran from getting…
Trump rules out diesel export ban after G7 fuel release
President Donald Trump said Friday that the United States will not ban diesel exports. The announcement came hours after Group of Seven leaders agreed to release 100 million barrels of oil and fuel over four months, starting with a large…
Slovenia’s .si domains surge after Trump ‘SI’ order
Slovenia's.si internet domain is having a rush of registrations after President Donald Trump told U.S. federal agencies to stop saying "artificial intelligence" and use "super intelligence," or SI, instead. Klara Herman, a spokesperson for Slovenia's domain registry, told the BBC…
Trump says Europe agreed to release diesel stockpiles
President Donald Trump said on Friday that European countries had agreed to release a large share of their emergency diesel stocks. His announcement came hours after EU governments discussed a French plan meant to cool fuel prices driven up by…
US sends third carrier, up to 10,000 troops to Middle East
The Pentagon is sending a third aircraft carrier strike group and more Marine Corps ships to the Middle East. The move will add 9,000 to 10,000 troops to the region as President Trump considers renewing strikes on Iran after the…
Huang, other CEOs confronted Amodei over AI warnings at White House
Top artificial intelligence executives stood together with President Trump on Tuesday, Sept. 29, to endorse voluntary safety principles. In a private meeting around the same event, some of them challenged Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei over his public warnings about the…
Iran receives US response to Hormuz proposal via Qatar
Iran said Wednesday it received an official US response to its proposal to end the seven-month war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, but sources close to the negotiations warn the two sides are drifting further apart, raising the prospect…
EU vows to push global AI safety rules despite Trump opposition
World leaders left the 81st United Nations General Assembly last week sharply divided over how to govern artificial intelligence, with the European Union and United Kingdom pressing for binding international standards while President Donald Trump rejected any "globalist scheme to…
Trump offers Iran sanctions relief for nuclear steps
President Donald Trump is willing to offer Iran sanctions relief and release frozen funds in exchange for concrete progress on Tehran's nuclear program, U.S. officials told multiple news outlets on Monday, marking a conditional shift just days after Washington rejected…
Trump tells Zelenskyy to ‘settle with Putin’ as strikes kill at least 16
Russian and Ukrainian strikes killed at least 16 people over the past 24 hours, both sides reported on Saturday, as the war's aerial dimension continues to expand more than four years after Moscow's full-scale invasion. The deadly exchanges came as…
Trump administration locks in $400M Ukraine aid before deadline
The Trump administration has made legally binding commitments to spend nearly all of the $400 million Congress approved for military aid to Ukraine, ensuring the funds will not expire when the fiscal year ends on September 30, according to three…
Xi urges Trump to formally oppose Taiwan independence
Chinese President Xi Jinping used his first White House summit with Donald Trump on Thursday to deliver his most explicit demand yet that the United States formally "oppose" Taiwan independence, escalating Beijing's pressure on a issue it considers its brightest…
Carney says Canada won’t trade away EU ties for U.S. deal
UNITED NATIONS — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said this week he sees potential for a trade agreement with the United States but drew a firm line: Canada will not surrender its ability to forge closer ties with the European…
Trump greets Xi on tarmac in rare personal welcome
President Donald Trump broke with protocol on Wednesday, traveling to Joint Base Andrews in Maryland to personally greet Chinese President Xi Jinping on the tarmac as the Chinese leader arrived for a three-day state visit to Washington. The gesture, described…
Altman, Amodei urge AI caution at UN Security Council
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei addressed the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday, calling for international cooperation on artificial intelligence safety and warning that increasingly powerful systems could slip beyond human control.
Zelenskyy urges UN to choke Russia’s war revenues
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday that the world must continue to strangle Russia's war funding, declaring that "Russia's revenues must remain a target" as the conflict grinds past the four-and-a-half-year mark.
Iran’s Pezeshkian calls country a ‘victim’ in rare wartime UN address
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian addressed the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday in what is believed to be the first time a foreign leader has spoken at the world body while their country is at war with the host nation.…
Kremlin rebuffs Zelenskyy’s call for trilateral talks with Putin and Trump
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on U.S. President Donald Trump to organize a three-way summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, declaring he is "ready any time" to meet if it could bring an end to the war now in its…
Trump holds first meeting with US-backed Venezuelan leader at UN
President Donald Trump held his first face-to-face meeting with Venezuela's interim President Delcy Rodríguez at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, a diplomatic encounter that took place just kilometers from the New York jail where ousted leader Nicolás Maduro…
Trump to greet Xi on tarmac as high-stakes state visit begins
Chinese President Xi Jinping is set to arrive in Washington on Wednesday evening for a three-day state visit, where U.S. President Donald Trump plans to greet him personally on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews — an unusual gesture that…
Altman and Amodei to brief UN Security Council on AI Wednesday
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are set to brief the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday in a session devoted to the future of artificial intelligence, as the technology dominates discussions at the annual UN General…
US and Iran hold first direct talks in months at UN General Assembly
President Donald Trump disclosed on Tuesday that US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner engaged in three hours of talks with an Iranian delegation on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, marking the first high-level…
Trump endorses diesel export ban as prices hit record
President Donald Trump on Tuesday endorsed a temporary ban on U.S. diesel exports, telling reporters at the United Nations General Assembly in New York that a decision would come "fast, one way or the other" as the national average price…
Investors deepen cross-border AI bets ahead of Xi-Trump summit
As the United States and China race to build separate artificial intelligence supply chains, investors in both countries are quietly maintaining — and even deepening — their financial ties across the divide. The cross-border capital flows come into focus this…
Trump tells UN that AI will now be called ‘super intelligence’
President Donald Trump told the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday that US government documents would replace "artificial intelligence" with "super intelligence," calling the existing term misleading and pledging to accelerate rather than restrain the technology's development.
Trump defends Iran war in address to UN General Assembly
President Donald Trump returned to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday and delivered a forceful defense of his decision to go to war with Iran, arguing before world leaders that the nearly seven-month conflict was necessary to prevent Tehran…
Argentina seeks to renegotiate US trade deal, citing Supreme Court tariff ruling
Argentina's government has told the Trump administration it cannot secure the congressional votes needed to ratify the bilateral trade agreement the two countries signed in February, according to Bloomberg. The disclosure throws into doubt one of the most prominent diplomatic…