Reuters It’s been a little over 18 months since Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said his country’s relationship with the United States, based on over a century of tight economic and military cooperation, was “over”. Trade talks collapsing, tit-for-tat tariffs, and Donald Trump’s talk of making Canada a “51st state” have all fuelled this bitter … Read moreCarney gambles on the world’s biggest investors betting on Canada
PA Media Donald Trump was at Trump International Golf Links in Doonbeg, County Clare, for the Irish Open during the second day of his visit to Ireland US President Donald Trump announced he will lift all tariffs on Irish whiskey at the end of his two-day visit to Ireland. He made the announcement before handing … Read moreTrump says he will remove all Irish whiskey tariffs as he ends two-day visit
Reuters Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has called for the pace of development to be slowed down There has been no shortage of warnings from AI’s top bosses about existential threats over the years. I attended the world’s first AI safety summit in Bletchley Park in November 2023 where the focus was on the most serious … Read moreQuestions mount over what an AI ‘slowdown’ would look like
A Russian drone has hit a train near the Ukraine-Poland border shortly after former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and top European security officials had passed through. No casualties were reported after the strike at Yahodyn, which hit the train’s engine. All the passengers had been evacuated, Ukrainian authorities said. Johnson and other European national security … Read moreRussia hits Ukrainian train shortly after Boris Johnson and top European officials leave station
While in Ireland attending a golf tournament at the golf course he owns in Doonbeg in County Clare, US President Donald Trump said the US will repeal a 10 percent tariff on Irish whisky, a duty that currently falls under those imposed on all European Union wine and spirit exports to the United States. “Everybody’s … Read moreUS will scrap Irish whisky tariff, Trump says
Alexander Zverev has crushed the dreams of the USA’s Ben Shelton and a partisan American crowd by winning the US Open men’s singles title in New York. The German won his second major championship and kept American men without a Grand Slam title since 2003, with a 6-3, 7-6 (2), 5-7, 6-2 triumph on Sunday. … Read moreZverev defeats Shelton in four sets to win his first US Open title
Getty Images/Anadolu Magdalena Andersson is narrowly ahead of Ulf Kristersson as favourite to be Sweden’s prime minister Sweden’s left- and right wing political blocs are in a tight race in Sunday’s general election, with current conservative Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson promising cabinet jobs for hard-right allies if he remains at the helm. Latest polls show … Read moreClose race in Sweden as hard right eyes role in government
Meta’s decision to settle the case on Wednesday came as a surprise. I was expecting weeks of courtroom drama as 29 states – almost two-thirds of North America – took on one US tech giant. Technically, the trial was about children’s online privacy. It was based on a US law called the Children’s Online Privacy … Read moreMeta’s $18bn settlement may hasten reckoning for social media on child safety
European football body UEFA is set to formally withdraw its threat to boycott FIFA competitions after receiving assurances that FIFA President Gianni Infantino’s failed World Cup selloff plan will not be revived. UEFA’s member federations are meeting Thursday in Monaco ahead of the Champions League draw, where they are expected to end the boycott threat, … Read moreUEFA set to end FIFA boycott threat over Infantino’s $20bn investor plan
The United States has imposed sanctions on the British activist group Palestine Action and the pro-Palestine international movement Masar Badil as the administration of President Donald Trump intensifies a global crackdown on critics of Israel. The US Department of the Treasury also imposed financial penalties on Wednesday against Autistici Inventati, an Italy-based group that provides … Read moreUS imposes sanctions on Palestine Action and other left-wing groups