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US state department spokesperson says officials unable to shop ‘while Iranian people endure poverty’
Iranian officials at the UN summit this week won’t be able to shop in New York after the US government barred them from purchasing everything from bulk household goods to expensive watches.
The restrictions on the visiting Iranians were described by a state department spokesman as “maximum pressure”.
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Having exhausted a failed policy of appeasement, the US president may at last be ready to put pressure on Moscow
The judgment of a man who fails to distinguish between aggressor and victim when describing the Russia-Ukraine war is not worthy of respect. Unfortunately, when that man is the US president, his opinion cannot be ignored.
Earlier this year, Donald Trump asserted that Vladimir Putin had “all the cards” and urged Volodymyr Zelenskyy to make peace in terms that resembled surrender. This week, Mr Trump declared that Kyiv might achieve total victory, liberating all territory currently under Russian occupation.
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Ukrainian president tells world leaders that combination of drone technology and AI would end in catastrophe
Volodymyr Zelenskyy has appealed to global leaders to intervene to prevent Russia from leading the world through “the most destructive arms race in human history”, warning that the combination of drone technology and artificial intelligence would end in catastrophe.
Speaking to the UN general assembly, the Ukrainian president tried to galvanise not just the west but also China. His chilling account of how Russia is using technology to change the face of war was the opposite of Donald Trump’s claim that Russia’s military may only be a paper tiger.
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US president claims Russia is in ‘big economic trouble’ as he calls for Nato countries to stop imports of Russian oil
Donald Trump has said he believes Ukraine can regain all the land that it has lost since the 2022 Russian invasion in one of the strongest statements of support he has given Kyiv.
The US president delivered his upbeat assessment by claiming Russia was in big economic trouble in a post on Truth Social after meeting the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in New York.
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US president’s speech made a mockery of UN values and highlights the need for strong anti-Trumpian alliances
Such is the gravitational pull cast by Donald Trump and the US economy that the politics of the other 192 countries that make up the United Nations are rapidly being reduced to one long discussion about how to relate to and challenge this ever darker and weirder presidency.
Before Trump’s extraordinary 58-minute speech on the supposed threats posed by open borders, sharia law, the UN’s failings and the “climate hoax”, the supporters of the UN’s values already knew they faced a challenge. Now they realise the degree to which the world’s superpower seems bent on the destruction of everything they believe.
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While the Trump administration claims no one will die over the axing of its overseas development budgets, aid agencies say the action will cost at least 3 million lives. Fatima and her baby were among the first
When she woke on that Sunday morning, Fatima was part of a family preparing to celebrate – she was due to give birth to her third child any day and her brother was on his way home from Saudi Arabia to get married.
But by mid-afternoon, the family were instead preparing for a funeral – both Fatima and her baby were dead.
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The Australian prime minister appears to have failed to secure a bilateral with the US president on his visit to the UN general assembly in New York
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Anthony Albanese has been left off Donald Trump’s official meeting schedule this week at the UN general assembly in New York.
The White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said on Tuesday (Australian time) the US president would hold bilateral meetings with Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and European Union boss, Ursula von der Leyen.
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Exclusive: Documents show how fraught the effort was to line up a one-on-one between the Australian and US leaders in June, with the PM again hoping to meet Trump next week
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Anthony Albanese is anticipating his first face-to-face meeting with Donald Trump next week.
If it goes ahead, it will be the culmination of a long and complicated process of diplomatic scheduling, according to documents obtained by Guardian Australia under freedom of information.
Their meeting was locked in just days before;
Officials’ uncertainty over the status of the meeting;
The response among Australian officials when the US president cancelled meetings with Albanese and other world leaders.
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Ukrainian president will urge his US counterpart to impose more sanctions on Russia when they meet next week
Volodymyr Zelenskyy will urge Donald Trump to impose sanctions on Russia when they meet next week at the United Nations in New York, and has called on Ukraine’s allies to “stop wasting time”.
Zelenskyy said he expected further sanctions to be imposed if Vladimir Putin refuses to meet him for face-to-face talks or to agree to a ceasefire. “If the war continues and there are no moves towards peace we expect sanctions,” he said.
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Move deals potentially major blow to US tech industry, which relies heavily on workers from India and China
Donald Trump signed a proclamation on Friday that would impose an annual $100,000 fee on H-1B visa applications, dealing a potentially major blow to the US tech industry, which relies heavily on workers from India and China.
The US commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, said at a Friday press briefing that “all the big companies” had been briefed on the new fee.
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