Trump threatens to bomb bridges and power plants unless Iran resumes talks
Trump's comments aired as the two countries exchanged fire for the fourth day in a row and the US resumed blockading Iranian ports.
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Trump retreat over Hormuz tolls suggests he is struggling to end Iran war
The abrupt about-face from the US president was the latest twist in a conflict that has now lasted more than four months.
Strait of Hormuz 'faultline' exposes weakness of the US-Iran deal
Control of the waterway has become a key point of contention between the US and Iran, as a ceasefire deal falters.
New US Ebola patient arrives in Germany for treatment
Aid worker flown to Berlin as Trump administration bars Americans from traveling to US on commercial flights A US national who contracted Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has arrived in Germany for treatment, the health ministry in Berlin said on Monday, weeks after another American infected with Ebola in the DRC was treated in Berlin. Meanwhile, the Trump administration on Monday said it was blocking American citizens in the DRC from traveling to the US on commercial flights, Reuters reported, citing a White House official. Continue reading...
‘God is punishing the politicians’: anger at earthquake response grows in Venezuela
Threat of social unrest rises as public indignation at lack of disaster aid comes on top of fallout from US military intervention • A revolution in ruins: fury amid the rubble of a housing project in quake-hit Venezuela Public anger at what many perceive as the Venezuelan government’s botched response to twin earthquakes that killed nearly 4,500 people is growing, with one grieving mother caught on camera berating the son of former president Nicolás Maduro. Maduro’s politician son received a hostile reception while visiting a semi-destroyed social housing project named after his father’s late…
WATCH LIVE: Jay Clayton testifies in confirmation hearing for director of national intelligence
President Donald Trump picked Clayton for the role last month amid pressure from Congress to name Tulsi Gabbard's permanent replacement.
Maine Democrats criticize GOP Sen. Susan Collins after fatal ICE shooting of motorist in the state
A federal immigration agent fatally shot a motorist just south of Maine's largest city on Monday, the second time in a week that ICE has used deadly force on American soil and at least the ninth death since President Donald Trump began his immigration crackdown.
EN DIRECT, 14-Juillet : Emmanuel Macron passe en revue les troupes le long des Champs-Elysées pour son dernier défilé
Le défilé, qui prend place sur l’avenue des Champs-Elysées, entre l’Arc de triomphe et la place de la Concorde, est placé sous le signe du « réveil stratégique de l’Europe », dans un contexte de menaces sur le front est et de désengagement américain.
EN DIRECT, guerre au Moyen-Orient : un pétrolier touché par un missile au large d’Oman lundi, rapporte l’agence de sécurité maritime britannique
« Un pétrolier a déclaré avoir été touché par un missile alors qu’il quittait le détroit [d’Ormuz] par la route du sud », a fait savoir l’UKMTO. Le commandement américain pour le Moyen-Orient a par ailleurs annoncé que les Etats-Unis reprendraient mardi à 22 heures le blocus des ports iraniens, qui avait été levé le 18 juin dans le cadre de la trêve entre Washington et Téhéran.
DP World, l’entreprise qui a fait des Emirats arabes unis une puissance portuaire et logistique
« La ruée sur les ports » (5/16). Majoritairement détenue par le gouvernement de Dubaï, la compagnie est présente dans 75 pays, jusqu’en Afrique et en Amérique du Sud. Elle est le bras armé des Emirats arabes unis pour sécuriser leurs approvisionnements en minerais ou en denrées agricoles.
A Cuba, retour progressif du courant après une troisième panne générale d’électricité en moins de dix jours
Depuis la fin de l’année 2024, le réseau électrique de l’île, soumise à un blocus pétrolier américain, subit régulièrement des coupures générales ou partielles en raison de la vétusté des infrastructures et de la pénurie de carburant.
Kwame N’Krumah, père du panafricanisme et idéologue oublié de Conakry
« Chefs d’Etat africains en exil » (3/6). L’ancien dirigeant du Ghana exilé en Guinée était le héraut du panafricanisme et un grand défendeur de l’indépendance des pays d’Afrique. Aujourd’hui, il est difficile de trouver des documents qui racontent son histoire.
L’administration Trump ordonne la suspension des contrôles routiers de l’ICE, la police fédérale de l’immigration
La décision de l'administration Trump d'interrompre les contrôles routiers de l'ICE survient après la mort d'un Colombien dans une petite ville américaine.
US must act quickly to counter China’s growing tech progress, lawmakers told
China is an existential threat to the United States, and Washington needs to slow Chinese momentum and accelerate US technological advances, or fall well behind the Asian giant, witnesses told lawmakers at a Congressional round table on Tuesday. Among the possible strategies needed to counter Beijing’s growing prowess, analysts said, included expanding the Silicon Shield – an attempt to remove China from semiconductor supply chains – to drone and other vital technologies; drastically reducing US...
How Beijing’s islands of control are reshaping the South China Sea
A decade after Beijing rejected the ruling by The Hague’s Permanent Court of Arbitration on its South China Sea claims, rival nations continue to manoeuvre for control. In the third of our series on the anniversary, Laura Zhou looks at why the gap between international law and geopolitical reality on the water has never been wider. On a scorching morning this summer, more than a hundred Chinese tourists stepped ashore on Tree Island in the hotly contested Paracels. They were greeted not only by...
US says Nvidia’s H200 exports to China remain ‘trivial’ despite approvals
American chipmaker Nvidia has shipped “very few” H200 artificial intelligence (AI) chips to mainland China and Hong Kong, a top Trump administration official told lawmakers on Tuesday, marking the first deliveries since the United States approved such sales. US President Donald Trump cleared the sale of Nvidia’s H200 chips to China in December, with the Commerce Department approving around 10 Chinese firms to purchase the powerful AI processors this year, including Tencent and ByteDance. “For...
Trump scraps Hormuz toll plan but presses ahead with Iran blockade
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday abandoned plans to impose a 20 per cent charge on commercial cargo passing through the Strait of Hormuz, less than a day after unveiling the proposal, while pressing ahead with a naval blockade targeting Iranian trade. Trump said the proposed fee would be replaced by trade and investment agreements with Gulf states following discussions with regional leaders. “Based on highly productive conversations with Middle East leadership, I have decided to replace the...
EU signals emergency import curbs after dramatic growth in Chinese trade gap
The European Union is prepared to introduce emergency measures to combat China’s extraordinary export surge as new figures showed the trade gap had widened dramatically, its top trade enforcer said on Tuesday. Safeguard measures that permit tariffs and quotas to be enforced to combat sudden import surges may “become legitimate on a case-by-case basis”, Denis Redonnet told the European Parliament’s trade committee. Redonnet, the EU’s deputy director general for trade, added that the bloc had...
OpenAI pushes back on Apple trade secret lawsuit
OpenAI has issued another statement on the lawsuit, this time suggesting it lacks merit.
Trump admin puts Americans in Congo on "do-not-board" list, barring return
Citizens must now spend 21 days in a third country before they are allowed to come home.
US military sent explosive drone boats into combat for the first time
US military’s drone boats struck an Iranian naval port as war heats up again.
As cyclospora illnesses surge to a record, Michigan officials eye lettuce as a possible cause
Infections from the diarrhea-causing parasite cyclospora are surging, and officials say early information points to lettuce or salad greens as a possible culprit.
