Arms deliveries, sanctions loopholes: How Trump’s recent moves benefit Russia

Police and railway personnel examine a derailed train at Habarana in eastern Sri Lanka on February 20, 2025, which killed six elephants. – / AFP A Sri Lankan passenger train derailed Thursday, February 20, after smashing into a family of elephants, with no passengers injured but six animals killed in… Read Details ⇢

Relations between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.S. President Donald Trump deteriorated rapidly Wednesday as Zelenskyy said Trump was living in a Russian-made “disinformation space” and Trump called Zelenskyy “a dictator without elections” in comments that were sure to complicate efforts to end the war. FRANCE 24’s Gulliver Cragg reports… Read Details ⇢

MISSION, Texas – U.S. Border Patrol agents encountered nearly 220 people on Monday, a sharp decline from more than 1,800 on the same day last year. As part of President Donald Trump’s sweeping immigration crackdown, the Coast Guard has ramped up its operations along the Rio Grande. The U.S. Coast Guard… Read Details ⇢

Prime Minister Georgia Meloni says pope was ‘alert and responsive’ and cracking jokes during hospital visit. Pope Francis’s blood tests have shown a “slight improvement” in his condition as he receives hospital treatment for pneumonia, the Vatican has said. The 88-year-old pontiff was now in stable condition, as he continues… Read Details ⇢

The excitement around the Humane AI Pin has faded. The company behind the $700 AI device has sold its assets to HP for $116 million, and some of the employees have joined the company. It’s a lot of money, but not exactly a coup for Humane, considering the startup had… Read Details ⇢

Director General Rafael Grossi of International Atomic Energy Agency (second left) in Okuma, near Fukushima, Japan, February 19, 2025. YUICHI YAMAZAKI / AFP This is one of the world’s largest earthmoving projects. It has required the removal and storage of 13 million cubic meters of earth, the equivalent of 4,300… Read Details ⇢

President Donald Trump is moving to give the White House direct control of independent federal regulators such as the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Communications Commission. The move generated criticism that it could ultimately lead to widespread abuse by the Trump administration. For in-depth… Read Details ⇢

Detroit Lions star receiver Jameson Williams won’t be facing any league discipline after an October 2024 incident in which he was pulled over with an unlicensed gun, per the Detroit Free Press.  Williams faced arrest on a gun charge after being pulled over on Oct. 8, 2024, where he and… Read Details ⇢

US president’s proposal comes amid scepticism of claimed savings from Elon Musk’s cost-cutting drive. United States President Donald Trump has proposed using some of the savings from tech billionaire Elon Musk’s cost-cutting drive to give Americans cash and pay down government debt. Speaking at an investment summit hosted by Saudi… Read Details ⇢