Day: August 14, 2025

Trump’s foreign aid cuts have ‘strengthened tyranny’ in Myanmar, rights groups say

USAID funding cuts have given Myanmar’s military rulers ‘carte blanche’ to escalate human rights abuses

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Trump’s nominee for Bureau of Labor Statistics was Jan 6 ‘bystander’ outside Capitol, says White House

E.J. Antoni, tapped by President Trump to serve as the nation’s top economic data official, appears in Capitol Police surveillance footage from January 6, 2021

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The Department of Homeland Security is starting to annoy both brands and artists with its wild social media behavior

DHS attracting complaints from creatives for using their work online but insists it is ‘bypassing the mainstream media to give Americans the facts’

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Watch live: Starmer welcomes Zelensky to Downing Street ahead of Trump-Putin meeting

Watch live as Sir Keir Starmer welcomes Volodymyr Zelensky to 10 Downing Street on Thursday, 14 August, a day before Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are due to meet.

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Israel’s finance minister approves settlement to ‘bury the idea of a Palestinian state’

Israeli gunfire kills at least 25 in Gaza as Netanyahu says he will ‘allow Palestinians to leave’

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Zelenskyy to meet with UK’s Starmer as Europe braces for Trump-Putin summit

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is set to welcome Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in London

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Deadly wildfires cause chaos across Europe as thousands evacuated

Summer lightning storms have been named as one the reasons behind the fires

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UK ‘scales back’ plans for 30,000-troop reassurance force in Ukraine

Sir Keir Starmer is to meet President Zelensky in No 10 after Donald Trump warned Russia of ‘severe consequences’ if it does not stop the war ahead of Friday’s summit with Putin in Alaska

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Hernán Cortés manuscript stolen from Mexico’s archives returned after several decades

The FBI assisted in the search for the missing document believed to have been stolen between 1985 and 1993

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