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President Donald Trump has thrust international trade relations and markets into a state of uncertainty with recent tariff declarations, but he also believes they will enhance the excitement the 2026 World Cup. At a Friday press conference in the Oval Office with FIFA president Gianni Infantino, Trump was asked how the current trade tensions, especially with Canada and Mexico, which are the other host countries with the U.S. in 2026, may affect the World Cup. “I think it’s going to make it more exciting,” Trump said. “Tension is a good thing, it makes it much more exciting.” President Donald Trump and FIFA…

Intensifying Russian attacks have killed at least 25 people in Ukraine, as Donald Trump, Volodymyr Zelensky and nearby European neighbours plead for peace.In Donetsk Region, at least 11 people have died, with 40 people, including six children, have been left seriously wounded.Others have been hurt from additional attacks in Kharkiv and Odesa.Following the fresh attacks, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said: “This is what happens when someone appeases barbarians.”“More bombs, more aggression, more victims,” he wrote on social media.Camera IconUkrainian rescuers working at the site of the shelling of a residential building shelling in Dobropillia in the Donetsk area, Ukraine,…

UN envoy expresses alarm and urges restraint on all sides amid clashes between security forces,Civilians have reportedly been among the hundreds killed in violence in Syria, as government forces surge to the country’s northwest to respond to fighters loyal to the ousted leader Bashar al-Assad. The situation represents the greatest challenge yet to interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa, who has promised accountability for anyone attacking civilians. The UN has expressed alarm, while appealing for calm from all sides. So what’s the risk of escalation? Presenter: Adrian Finighan Guests: Marie Forestier – Senior adviser at the European Institute of Peace Ammar Kahf…

Robert G. Clark Jr., who became the first Black person to sit in the Mississippi State Legislature since Reconstruction and who endured insults and ostracism before becoming a force in state politics, died on Tuesday at his home in Ebenezer, Miss. He was 96.His death was announced on Facebook by his son Bryant W. Clark, who succeeded his father in the Mississippi Statehouse seat that Mr. Clark had occupied for 36 years.A reserved yet genial politician, Mr. Clark was on the cusp of the revolution that transformed politics in Mississippi, a bastion of the most virulent white resistance to desegregation…

A controversial reality show detailing the lives of Nevada prostitutes took a shocking turn after one of the stars was found guilty of bludgeoning a woman to death in a drug-fueled frenzy. From 2011 to 2016, Showtime’s reality show “Gigolos” enthralled audiences by delving into the scandalous lives of five male escorts in Las Vegas. Four years later, one of the stars was arrested for killing a woman, as detailed in the new Paramount+ documentary “Sin City Gigolo: A Murder In Las Vegas.” Akshaya “Ash” Kubiak, who was known on the show as Ash Armand, was charged in the brutal death of…

It might be a moment of hush before chaos ensues, or it may be business as usual.U.S. employers added 151,000 jobs in February, the first full month under the new Trump administration, the Labor Department reported on Friday. The gain extended a streak of job growth to 50 months. The unemployment rate ticked up slightly, to 4.1 percent, from 4 percent in January.The report showed a decline of 10,000 in federal employment. But it was based on surveys conducted in the second week of February, as the Trump administration’s mass firings, buyouts and hiring freezes at federal agencies were still…

As longtime Liberal MP Pam Damoff prepares to leave politics when the next federal election is called, she is wistful but open about what is driving her to leave a career she has had for more than a decade. Vocal about the misogyny and threats she faced during her time in government, she wants public safety officials to take these threats more seriously.“We’ve seen a shift in how people treat politicians, and I really worry that at some point, someone will be injured or killed,” Damoff said in an interview.Damoff said harassment escalated during the COVID-19 pandemic.“You have to have…

Bayern Munich and Bayer Leverkusen, the Bundesliga’s top two teams, have both suffered surprise home defeats.

The dramatic rise in Germany’s financing costs this week is far from a rejection of Friedrich Merz’s fiscal bazooka, investors say, with many believing the chancellor-in-waiting’s spending plan can boost growth without stretching Berlin’s finances beyond a sustainable level.German Bunds had their biggest one-day sell-off in decades on Wednesday as markets adjusted to a dramatic change in German fiscal policy, and a massive increase in debt issuance, following Merz’s “whatever it takes” plan to spend on defence and infrastructure.Despite settling down at the end of the week, the 10-year Bund remained elevated above 2.8 per cent on Friday, having started…

Banks are trying to catch up to one of the hottest trends in consumer finance and head off competition from fintech start-ups, allowing clients to buy what they want when they want it and pay later on instalment — usually interest free.JPMorgan announced a new partnership with Klarna in February to offer the instalment loans to its 900,000 business clients, after introducing the so-called buy now, pay later options for its consumer card customers a few years ago. * Citigroup, too, offers deferred payment loans to both its customers and through retailers. Citi began offering deferred payment loans through Apple…