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Canada’s prime minister has hit out at Donald Trump’s comments about annexing the country, saying “you can’t take our country, and you can’t take our game”, in the wake of a major ice hockey win. On Thursday, Canada beat the United States to win the 4 Nations hockey tournament, with the tense action on the

The man who has emerged as Donald Trump’s geopolitical dealmaker-in-chief has said that he’s developed a “friendship” with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Steve Witkoff was named as Mr Trump’s Middle East envoy shortly after the US election but he has since been involved in negotiations with Russia about ending the war in Ukraine. Mr Witkoff

At the Faena Hotel on Miami Beach, at breakfast, I overheard the conversation on the next table. “Trump is creating instability,” one man said to the other, who disagreed. It was a good natured but forthright debate that cut to the heart of a global divide right now about the language and actions of the

Donald Trump has said Volodymyr Zelenskyy “better move fast or he is not going to have a country left” as peace talks between the US and Russia continue – without Ukraine at the table. Officials from the White House and the Kremlin have this week begun holding discussions in Saudi Arabia. The decision for the

Ukraine’s president appears to be fighting a war on two fronts – against Russian forces on the ground and against American assaults over the airwaves. View from Ukraine by Deborah Haynes, security and defence editor With Donald Trump openly attacking him, Ukraine’s president is dispensing with the diplomatic niceties towards a crucial partner and is

That the United States chose to hold talks with Russia about Ukraine without Ukraine sums up the power imbalance that is upending security assumptions for the whole of Europe. Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the Ukrainian president, has consistently warned that Kyiv must have a seat at the negotiating table for any discussions about ending Vladimir Putin‘s war

A Florida man has been charged with attempted murder after shooting two Israeli tourists – who he shot at because he thought they were Palestinian.  Mordechai Brafman, 27, shot at their car 17 times in Miami Beach on Saturday night. The men in the car – who local media are reporting as father and son

Russia has reportedly released a American citizen who had been detained on drug charges, just hours ahead of its talks with the US over Ukraine. The New York Times said that Kalob Byers Wayne had been released by Russia on Monday, hours before the discussions were set to begin. The 28-year-old had been arrested at

Extreme weather and life-threatening cold temperatures are set to hit western states near the Rocky Mountains – after severe flooding killed at least 10 people in the eastern US over the weekend. The National Weather Service’s (NWS) weather prediction centre said a winter storm tracking from the Central Plains to the Mid-Atlantic is expected to

At least 10 people, including a mother and seven-year-old child, have been killed amid harsh weather in the US. Storms and severe flooding have hit areas of Kentucky, leaving nine dead and hundreds of others in need of rescue. Elsewhere, a person in Atlanta was killed when an “extremely large tree” fell on a home

The US nuclear safety watchdog, which sacked hundreds of workers under orders from Donald Trump’s administration, is now trying to contact employees to rehire them. The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has been attempting to notify some employees who had been let go that they are now due to be reinstated. But according to Sky

👉 Follow Trump 100 on your podcast app 👈 As White House officials head to Saudi Arabia to begin peace talks between Russia and Ukraine, how influential will Donald Trump be as a powerbroker on the world stage? And, our US correspondents Mark Stone and James Matthews discuss if Donald Trump and Elon Musk have

👉 Follow Trump 100 on your podcast app 👈 As Donald Trump’s vice president JD Vance launches a blistering attack on the European allies in a speech at the Munich Security Conference, US correspondents Mark Stone, Martha Kelner and James Matthews discuss why was he talking with the leader of Germany’s far-right AfD party? And,

Donald Trump has confirmed he will meet Sir Keir Starmer “very soon” after the prime minister “asked to come” to the US. Mr Trump discussed details of his phone call with Sir Keir while taking questions from the media in the White House’s Oval Office on Friday. “He asked for a meeting, and I agreed

The US president has promised to target countries which charge tax on US imports by matching them with a reciprocal tariff. Donald Trump has ordered his team to start calculating duties by early April – increasing fears of a global trade war that could also accelerate US inflation. “On trade, I have decided for purposes

Donald Trump has said he would love to have Russia return to the G7 group of advanced economies, and that expelling the country “was a mistake”. Russia had been a member of the club of industrialised nations, then known as the G8, until it was excluded following its annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea region in 2014.

US President Donald Trump says he will unveil “reciprocal” trade tariffs on Thursday, adding: “Today is the big one”. Countries around the world have been waiting for details on potential tariffs amid a series of threats from the White House. “Three great weeks, perhaps the best ever. Today is the big one: reciprocal tariffs,” Mr

Donald Trump has promised peace talks and teased the prospect of ending the war in Ukraine but, in the background, there are potential complications. Here’s what Sky News’ experts think about what America’s new military policy and these planned negotiations could mean for Russia, the US, and Ukraine – along with its aspirations to join

Donald Trump says there has been agreement to begin negotiations about ending the war in Ukraine, after holding phone calls with Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskyy. It is the US president’s first big step towards diplomacy over a conflict which he promised to end within 24 hours of being inaugurated. “We both agreed, we want

Elon Musk joined Donald Trump in the Oval Office as the US president signed an executive order allowing the tech billionaire to make large-scale reductions in the federal workforce. As head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), an advisory group, Mr Musk says he wants to add “common sense controls” to government and ensure

OpenAI’s chief executive and co-founder has told Sky News that his platform is “not for sale” after a group led by Elon Musk launched an unsolicited $97.4bn (£78.7bn) bid overnight. Sam Altman, who is attending the Paris AI Summit with world leaders, was asked whether he can still afford OpenAI after Mr Musk’s bid. “The

In what will be seen as a signature act of the new Trump administration, the president and his team have denounced and dismembered the US government’s international assistance arm, USAID, in a matter of three weeks. It is a decision that will have serious, real-world consequences – and the impact is already being felt in

Donald Trump says the Gaza ceasefire should be cancelled if all remaining Israeli hostages are not returned by noon on Saturday – as he warned Hamas that “all hell is going to break out”. The US president’s intervention came hours after Hamas has said it will delay the release of more hostages and accused Israel

Donald Trump has said he trusts Elon Musk and is going to ask him to investigate billions of dollars of “fraud and abuse” within the US military. The X owner is spearheading the US president’s efforts to cut costs and bureaucracy in government, which has already seen the US Aid Agency for International Development targeted.

Donald Trump says he will impose 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminium imports into the US, including from Canada and Mexico. The president said he would make the announcement on Monday, signalling yet another major escalation in his trade policy overhaul. Speaking on Air Force One as he flew from Florida to New Orleans

All major pieces have now been recovered of the passenger plane and US army helicopter which collided in mid-air in Washington DC last week, say safety officials. Sixty-seven people were killed in the 29 January disaster which left both aircraft in the Potomac River after they plunged into the water. The remains of all the

Demi Moore, Zoe Saldana, Kieran Culkin and Adrien Brody are among the big winners of this year’s Critics Choice Awards. Moore took home the best actress award for her performance in The Substance, in which she plays a fading Oscar winner who discovers a black-market drug to create a younger model of herself. The prize

A federal court has paused aspects of a plan by Donald Trump to dismantle the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and put roughly 2,700 of its staff on leave. District judge Carl Nichols, who was nominated by the US president during his first term, agreed with legal arguments from the largest government workers’ union

A search for a missing plane carrying 10 people is under way in Alaska. The Bering Air flight left Unalakleet at 2.38pm on Thursday but contact was lost less than an hour later, the firm’s operations director David Olson said. Officials are trying to work out its last-known position but the coastguard said the Cessna

Donald Trump has sanctioned the International Criminal Court (ICC), accusing it of “illegitimate and baseless actions targeting America and our close ally Israel”. In his latest round of executive orders, the US president has taken aim at the ICC and rallied against what he called anti-Christian bias in the US. It comes as a US

Donald Trump is not a man in the habit of backing down. His astonishing proposal to “own” Gaza and relocate two million Palestinians has faced unanimous opposition from America’s allies, but the president now has a plan and woe betide anyone who gets in the way. And that includes international law. “The Gaza Strip would

The White House has appeared to backtrack on Donald Trump’s assertion that Palestinians should be permanently resettled from Gaza. On Tuesday, during a visit of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Mr Trump said: “If we can get a beautiful area to resettle people, permanently, in nice homes where they can be happy and not be

Donald Trump’s announcement that he wants to “develop” Gaza and turn it into the “Riveria of the Middle East” has been described as “absurd” and “entirely unrealistic”. During a joint news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu late on Tuesday, Mr Trump proposed that the two million people living in Gaza could be moved