Feb 20 - Britain's foreign minister Yvette Cooper will meet with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday, after President Donald Trump renewed his criticism of London for ceding sovereignty of the Chagos Islands, which is home to a U.S.-UK air base.
COPENHAGEN, Feb 20 (Reuters) - Norway is relocating some of the around 60 soldiers it has in the Middle East to Norway as well as to other countries in the region on security grounds, a spokesperson for the Norwegian armed forces said on Friday. U.S. President Donald Trump
EU steel exports to the US fell 30% in 2025 under the weight of Washington’s 50% tariffs. With talks between Brussels and Washington still in deadlock, the downturn shows little sign of easing.
That's a lot of cash.
NASA is set to begin fueling 700,000 gallons of cryogenic propellant on the Space Launch System rocket at Kennedy Space Center on Thursday as it moves ahead with a test countdown of the Artemis II mission.
Continuing strong sales from online jewellers after a recent spike in gold prices also helped drive the increase.
The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced plans to stage Game of Thrones: The Mad King - the prequel to one of the world's most popular television series.
[ISS] Last week's Munich Security Conference clearly signalled that Africa needs security alliances beyond its traditional partners.
Experts say that nuclear cooperation can be a positive mechanism, but 'the devil is in the details,' and the Trump administration may not have fully gauged the consequences or the precedent created by its arms deal with Saudi Arabia
Season 1's a hit, I'd say.
Donald Trump said that he will give the green light to the release of classified information on extraterrestrials and alien life forms. The move comes after comments by Barack Obama, who did not rule out the presence of UFOs in the universe, triggering a media uproar.
A total lunar eclipse will cross the skies over the contiguous United States on Tuesday, March 3, turning the moon a deep reddish color in what's commonly called a "blood moon."
The Philippine foreign ministry says it will uphold "effective and principled diplomacy" in advancing the country's interests amid recent ill-tempered exchanges between government officials and the Chinese embassy in Manila.
EU foreign ministers will question Commission Vice-President Dubravka Šuica on Monday about her participation at the launch of Donald Trump’s Board of Peace in Washington, amid criticism from several member states over the Commission’s mandate and role.
Italy saw mascot mania in Milan as Tina, face of Milano Cortina 2026, welcomed Ayo from Dakar 2026.
The abandoned macaque became an internet sensation after footage of him clinging forlornly to zookeepers and dragging around a stuffed orangutan toy was widely shared on X.
The world’s deepest lake, located north of Mongolia, is a popular destination for tourists.
MOSCOW, Feb 20 - Seven Chinese tourists and a bus driver are feared dead after a tourist bus driving across a frozen stretch of Lake Baikal in Russia's Siberia plunged into the water when the ice broke beneath it, local governor, Igor Kobzev, said on Friday via his channel in
Geoengineering does little to defuse most of the risks that really matter for people – and it runs the risk of making some harms worse Planetary-scale solar geoengineering interventions involve the deliberate injection of either natural or artificial particulates into the
Ed Simon on how the intellectual elite absolves abusers of their crimes, Marigold Santos's loving epiphytes, and Damien Davis in conversation with Hakim Bishara.
Logan Paul’s $16.49 million Pikachu Illustrator is now the most expensive trading card ever sold. Here are the next six highest sales ever.
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The reason we slip and slide on ice—a phenomenon central to figure skating, curling and other Winter Olympic events—is a centuries-old physics mystery that may have finally been cracked
Why is water so different from air? It sounds like the start of a joke. But it’s a fair thing to wonder after the Trump administration last week officially revoked the so-called endangerment finding, a 2009 scientific conclusion that climate change threatens human health and
This is a lightly edited transcript of the February 19 edition of Right Now With Perry Bacon. You can watch the video here or by following this show on YouTube or Substack . Perry Bacon: This is The New Republic show Right Now I’m the host, Perry Bacon, and I’m honored to be
I’m a big fan of Tom Hooper’s 2008 HBO miniseries John Adams . Perhaps it’s because I’m a dad. Its genre is very much that of Dad Cinema classics like Master and Commander , in that it offers a granular, somewhat sentimental depiction of military history, an emphasis on neat,
Oklahoma’s governor just signed an executive order barring most of the state’s public colleges from offering tenure to professors. School administrators can secretly record classes under a new University of North Carolina policy. Nervous about violating restrictions on speaking
"The company had been struggling to find a buyer largely because of the porn stigma. But it has incredible financials that are very attractive," a source said.
Kamala Harris is topping some new polls of Democratic White House contenders, a sign the former vice president and 2024 presidential nominee has staying power despite her defeat to President Trump. It's a reality that flies in the face of some of the talk after that race, in
While Congress’s unwillingness to counteract Donald Trump’s escalating authoritarianism has prompted much public handwringing, the past few months have brought out some public frustration with the judiciary’s efforts to rein in Trump. Recently, a Reuters analysis of court
President Trump is reportedly weighing a limited strike on Iran in the coming days as he seeks to build maximum leverage in negotiations and prepares the U.S. military for a prolonged battle if diplomacy fails. Aerial tracker websites have shown dozens of U.S. fighter jets and
Hundreds of K-12 students across the country have received detention or suspension after participating in classroom walkouts to protest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) efforts. Such anti-ICE or "ICE out" walkouts have increasingly popped up after Renee Good and
If our ethical beliefs come from our social environment, how do some people find the moral courage to defy convention? - by Dane Leigh Gogoshin Read on Aeon
You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack . You can read a transcript here . Britain’s Labor Party, led by Prime Minister Keir Starmer, has tacked to the right on immigration and transgender rights , in
But really, has anyone ever cast a longer and darker shadow from the grave than Jeffrey Epstein? American presidents shudder at his name, a British ambassador to Washington has been fired, a London government is rocked, while once-celebrated and admired men desperately wish
It will be business as usual for SpaceX when it tries to send up a rocket from the Space Coast Thursday night, but not so much for when the rocket comes back down.
[ENA] Addis Ababa -- The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has recognized institutions and individuals who played a central role in the successful hosting of the 39th African Union Summit and the Second Italy-Africa Summit.
[CAF] Al Ahly head coach Jess Thorup has described his side's TotalEnergies CAF Champions League quarter-final against Esperance Sportive de Tunis as a "tough mission for both teams" but insists the Egyptian giants remain firmly focused on reaching the semi-finals.
At the Berlin Film Festival, the Oscar-nominated director of 'It Was Just an Accident' declined his long-delayed Golden Bear and put the focus on Iranians killed and detained in a brutal crackdown.
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said in her inaugural address to parliament on Friday that Japan aims to resolve the territorial issue and conclude a peace treaty.
Even one of Matt Smith's bowties earned more than a TARDIS
The European Court of Auditors (ECA) has warned that Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan (EBCP) is “fraught with uncertainty”, according to an audit published on 19 February. Launched in 2021 with an initial budget of €4 billion for the 2021–2027 period, the EBCP aims to tackle cancer
Veteran actor David Harewood, known for “Homeland,” “Sherwood” and “Supergirl,” is finally leading a show with “Pierre.” “It’s my first lead character in a 40-year career, which is quite extraordinary, and the first time I’ve been number one on the call sheet. It’s an exciting
A man in Catania, Sicily, trained his dog to dump rubbish bags by the roadside in an attempt to outsmart anti-fly-tipping cameras, municipal police have said. The 'canine courier' was caught on newly installed surveillance footage, prompting officers to post the clip on the
The Paris court ruled there was an "absence of consent", accepting the complainant’s account that she was asleep and woke to the pain of penetration.
But the head of the US delegation at the AI Impact Summit in Delhi says: "We totally reject global governance of AI."
City of Catania calls ruse to avoid CCTV cameras installed to stop fly-tipping ‘as cunning as it is doubly wrong’ A man in Catania, Sicily, trained his dog to dump bags of rubbish by the roadside in an attempt to evade surveillance cameras installed to combat fly-tipping,
AMSTERDAM, Feb 20 - Former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte will not be present at pre-trial hearings in his case of alleged crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court next week, the court said on Friday.
Canada paid a one-off €10 million to join the EU’s SAFE defence scheme, whilst the UK was reportedly asked for a much higher fee. These numbers stem from reports of real negotiations, but the full picture is more complex.