Andy Burnham has arrived in Ukraine on Monday for his first overseas visit as UK Prime Minister. Just weeks after welcoming President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to the UK in July as his first international guest, Burnham traveled to Kyiv to reiterate the country's unwavering support for the Ukrainian people. Ukraine's foreign minister received Andy Burnham as he arrived in Kyiv. While chairing a meeti
The International Criminal Court has responded to a new round of U.S. sanctions targeting its president and a senior prosecutor, calling them "a flagrant attack" against the court. "These sanctions are a flagrant attack against the independence of an impartial judicial institution which operates...
The Trump Administration has imposed sanctions against two top-most officials of the International Criminal Court as part of what it calls a campaign to address the threat posed by The Hague-based war crimes tribunal. Announcing the sanctions against ICC President Tomoko Akane and ICC Senior Trial Lawyer Abdoulaye Seye on Tuesday, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said they directly engaged in
As one of his first actions as U.S. Attorney General, Todd Blanche has finalized a federal regulation and launched a new process allowing eligible Americans who are prohibited from possessing firearms to apply for restoration of their federal firearm rights. "The Second Amendment is not a second-class right, and the federal government should not permanently deprive Americans of a constitutional r
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has warned that Iran can expect the so-called "Economic D-Day" that President Donald Trump announced last week, on Monday. "At dawn begins an economic D-Day — the single greatest financial offensive ever marshaled against an adversary," Bessent wrote in an op-ed published in the Financial Times Sunday. Bessent will roll out tough economic sanctions that target
The UK Government has summoned Israel's Chargé d'Affaires to lodge protest against the Israeli Government's launch of a tender for a major settlement project in the E1 area of the occupied West Bank. Daniela Grudsky Ekstein, who leads Israel's diplomatic mission in London, was summoned on Wednesday to the Foreign Office, which demanded an immediate reversal of the move by the Netanyahu governmen
President Donald Trump has signed a Presidential Memorandum to help drastically boost U.S. commercial space launches. The Memorandum, which repeals an outdated National Space Transportation Policy, aims more than 1,000 rocket launches and reentries on American soil annually by 2030. It directs agencies to incentivize co-development of space transportation infrastructure with private sector partn
The Trump administration has announced a temporary halt to new tariffs on a number of Canadian goods ahead of the two neighbors signing a trade deal. "I have paused the 50% Tariffs against Canada, that were scheduled to kick in tomorrow morning for a three day period, based on the fact that Canada and the U.S.A., subject to the finalization of documents, have a DEAL!" President Donald Trump said
New data confirms that prescription drug prices in the United States has recorded their largest annual decline in more than 60 years. The steepest drop since 1963 is attributable to the Trump Administration's landmark Most Favored Nation policies, says the White House. As per the Consumer Price Index for July, prescription drugs index decreased 0.8 percent. Through Most Favored Nation pricing,
President Donald Trump has signed a National Security Presidential Memorandum to fix critical long-term issues in U.S. Navy shipbuilding and ship repair programs and restore capacity and competition to the maritime industrial base. The Memorandum directs the Secretary of War to establish a fifth Naval shipyard, the first in more than 80 years, to increase the Nation's submarine and aircraft carri