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AdvertisementKing Charles IIIWorldEuropeKing Charles wins praise for deft handling of Trump on US state visitThe British monarch delivered a diplomatic masterclass on the trip, mixing praise for his host with subtle criticism
3-MIN READ3-MIN ListenAssociated PressPublished: 1:20am, 2 May 2026US President Donald Trump sang the praises of King Charles after the latter’s state visit this week. He even lifted some tariffs on Scotch whisky as a favour to the British monarch.
The king delivered a diplomatic masterclass on the trip, mixing praise for his host with subtle criticism. It’s unclear, though, whether it will make a major difference to a transatlantic relationship troubled by divisions over issues including the Iran war.
“In the short term probably yes, in the long term probably no,” said Kristofer Allerfeldt, a University of Exeter professor specialising in American history. But he said Charles had “definitely clawed back some of the prestige of the monarchy” in his homeland with h..

AdvertisementDonald TrumpWorldUnited States & CanadaTrump to put 25% tariffs on EU cars, says bloc not complying with trade dealThe status of the pact was first put in doubt after the Supreme Court ruled the president lacked legal authority for his duties on EU goods
2-MIN READ2-MIN ListenAssociated PressPublished: 1:00am, 2 May 2026US President Donald Trump said on Friday that he would increase the tariffs charged on cars and trucks from the European Union next week to 25 per cent, a move that could jolt the world economy at a fragile moment.
Trump said in the post that the EU “is not complying with our fully agreed to Trade Deal”, though he did not flesh out his objections in the post.
Trump and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen had agreed to the trade deal last July. It set a 15 per cent tariff on most goods.
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Quote of the day by Immanuel Kant (Image source: Wikipedia) For hundreds of years, people have thought about self-respect, dignity, and personal responsibility. One of the thinkers who looked deeply into these ideas was Immanuel Kant, a German philosopher whose work still has an impact on ethics, philosophy, and modern thought. His quote, “One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him,” may sound harsh at first, but it has a clear and useful lesson about how people act and how they are treated in society.This statement is based on a bigger idea that Kant believed in. He thought that human dignity and the idea that every person has value were very important. The quote shows how how you see yourself affects how others treat you. It implies that when an individual diminishes their self-worth or permits mistreatment, it becomes challenging to anticipate respect from others. Kant's words are still talked about today because they are still relevant and cl..

Britain extracted 25 million years of life and labour through slavery in Barbados: Report A report presented in Barbados states that the British colonial practices drained nearly 25 million years of life and forced work from enslaved Africans. Value lost through such extraction may reach £1.6 trillion, as researchers seek to quantify historical harm. The research is based on tools like economic modelling, demographic data, and historical records to measure the depth of exploitation across over 2 centuries of ownership-based bondage. A report from The Guardian point toward economist Coleman Bazelon, leading the research through Public Interest Experts, a non-profit organisation. Coverage from The Guardian relies on court-level evidence, expert commentary, and the official statements presented during the study’s release.Researchers estimate that unpaid labour by enslaved people in Barbados created wealth worth £400 billion to £560 billion. Additional loss due to shorter lives adds anothe..

AdvertisementMyanmarAsiaSoutheast AsiaMyanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi moved from prison to house arrestState media broadcast a photograph of the Nobel laureate ⁠flanked by two uniformed personnel – the first public image of her in years
2-MIN READ2-MIN ListenReutersPublished: 12:33am, 1 May 2026Updated: 12:36am, 1 May 2026Myanmar’s detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been moved to house arrest, state media reported on Thursday, over five years after the country’s military ousted a civilian government led by the Nobel laureate and imprisoned her.Suu Kyi, 80, has been detained by ‌the junta since and her whereabouts have been unclear amid a deadly civil war that was triggered by the February 2021 coup that has engulfed much of the impoverished Southeast Asian nation.
“… the remaining portion of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s sentence has been commuted to be served at a designated residence,” state-run MRTV reported, using an honorific for the veteran politician.
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AdvertisementUnited StatesWorldUnited States & CanadaMan charged with trying to kill Trump agrees to remain in custodyCole Allen, 31, did not immediately contest prosecutors’ arguments that he was a danger to the community
2-MIN READ2-MIN ListenReutersPublished: 11:50pm, 30 Apr 2026The man accused of attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump at a black-tie press gala in Washington agreed on Thursday to remain in custody while his case moves forward.
The suspect, Cole Allen, 31, would ‌not immediately contest prosecutors’ arguments that he was a danger to the community and should remain in jail, his lawyer, Tezira Abe, said during a court hearing.
Allen allegedly stormed a security checkpoint and fired a shotgun outside the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday.
AdvertisementProsecutors argued Allen carefully planned to attack Trump and other officials in his administration as they dined with some 2,600 journalists, politicians and others ⁠in a ballroom at the Washington..

JD Vance (Image/AP) US Vice President JD Vance has given a detailed account of the chaotic moments inside the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner after a suspected armed man allegedly attempted to breach security and target President Donald Trump.Speaking in an interview on The Will Cain Show on Wednesday, Vance said that he initially did not understand what was happening inside the ballroom at the Washington Hilton hotel during Saturday’s high-profile event.”I really didn't know what was going on,” he told Fox News host Will Cain.”Just to give you my perspective, I'm sitting up there on the dais with some journalists and obviously with the president of the United States, a few seats to my right, and there's a lot of commotion,” Vance said.He added that he began hearing loud and unclear noises while seated alongside senior guests at the event.”Then I see people kind of ducking under tables and responding to commotion in the back of the ballroom,” he said…

AI image generated by ChatGPT This is a city which symbolizes a period in our shared history, or what Charles Dickens might have called ‘A Tale of Two Georges’: the first President, George Washington, and my five-times Great Grandfather, King George III. King George never set foot in America and, please rest assured, I am not here as part of some cunning rearguard action, King Charles III said, standing in the US Congress.It was a laugh line. It was also the entire speech in miniature.Charles began with a joke about a king who lost America and a president who won it, only to gently reassure his audience that he had not come back to reclaim the colonies. It landed because it acknowledged the most awkward truth in Anglo-American history and then defused it. But it also set up something more interesting. A monarch who represents one of the oldest surviving institutions in the world was reminding the world’s most powerful republic why it exists.Or so it seemed.What Charles did next was to ..

AdvertisementUS, Israel war on IranWorldMiddle EastTrump says US blockade could last for months, warns Iran to ‘get smart soon’The president spoke to oil executives about extending his naval blockade, amid reports that he had rejected Iran’s Hormuz proposal
2-MIN READ2-MIN ListenAgence France-PressePublished: 12:59am, 30 Apr 2026US President Donald Trump warned Tehran on Wednesday that it should “get smart soon” and capitulate to Washington’s demands for tight controls on its nuclear programme, as a US naval blockade turned the screws on Iran’s economy.
The US could extend its naval blockade of Iran for months more, oil executives were told in a meeting with Trump, an official said, after press reports that he had rejected Iran’s latest proposed deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
“Iran can’t get their act together … They better get smart soon,” Trump posted on his social media platform, above a mocked-up picture of himself toting a rifle in front of explosions wrecking a desert fortr..

AdvertisementEuropean UnionWorldEuropeSweden targets social media giants over ‘murder adverts’ recruiting childrenThe government wants to stop criminal gangs use of social media to recruit people – including youngsters – to kill and commit other crimes
2-MIN READ2-MIN ListenAgence France-PressePublished: 11:42pm, 29 Apr 2026Sweden’s government said on Wednesday it planned to introduce legislation requiring social media platforms like TikTok and Snapchat to take down criminal gangs’ ‘murder adverts’ within an hour or face hefty fines.
Criminal gangs active in Sweden increasingly use social media to recruit people to commit murders and other violent acts amid a surge in “crime as a service”.
The recruits are often children under the age of 15, Sweden’s age of criminal responsibility, meaning the youngsters cannot be prosecuted and fall under the responsibility of social services, making them valuable assets to the gangs.
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