South Korean President Lee Jae Myung on Thursday said that the US immigration raid on a Hyundai factory was "bewildering" and could have adverse effects on future South Korean investments in the US. The raid was the largest single-site anti-immigration operation conducted since US President Donald Trump cracked down on immigration, a top political priority since he returned to office in January.
The rift stemmed from former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's allegations that Indian agents were involved in the assassination of Sikh leader and activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar. Nijjar was shot dead by two masked assailants as he left a Sikh temple in the Canadian province of British Columbia in 2023Image: Darryl Dyck/ZUMA Press/IMAGO According to media reports, Nijjar was a prominent organizer in the Sikh community in Canada.
Iranian Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref has vowed that Tehran will not "bow to pressure" despite the impending triggering of a UN mechanism that would restore sanctions over its alleged "grave noncompliance" of the 2015 nuclear deal. "We are not volunteering for sanctions, but this time, too, the Iranian people will neither back down nor bow to pressure," Aref said on August 31 during a weekly cabinet meeting, according to the ISNA news agency.
We are so delighted to be able to share that Gena, and all those taken with her, have been released following their kidnapping on 3 August, 2025, from the St Helene property in Kenscoff, Haiti.
American and European officials thought they had a real opportunity to end the war in Ukraine. President Donald Trump's envoy, Steve Witkoff, flew to Moscow to meet with Vladimir Putin believing that a breakthrough was possible. Trump welcomed the Russian president to America, rolling out a literal red carpet. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky rushed to Washington with European leaders, some of whom even sounded optimistic. Trump "broke the deadlock" with Putin, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said at the White House. "If we play this well, we could end this."
The intensely close but complex relationship between Britain and Ireland is one that a British ambassador to Ireland observed in a 1977 dispatch: the British "take the Irish for granted, whereas (the Irish) are obsessed with us. We don't remember the past and they cannot forget it." If we think a lot about that relationship, one might think that there would be no need for a book like Philip Stephens's These Divided Isles. Too often we don't think deeply about our relationship with Britain.
Finnish president Alexander Stubb has been speaking at a press conference before the country's ambassadors' conference in Helsinki. In comments reported by the Finnish public broadcaster, Yle, he said that he hoped Trump's patience with Putin would run out soon. He insisted that Finland and other European countries will do everything we can do achieve lasting peace. He also hinted that the only way to force Putin to end the invasion of Ukraine would be by hitting his allies,
He pays him lip service, right? He tells Trump what he wants to hear about mail-in voting, Todd said. The former Meet the Press anchor added that what the president really wants is for Putin to admit he would have never invaded Ukraine with Trump in office, a win that Todd noted Putin never fully gave Trump. That is total disrespect by Putin, right? It totally should undermine the idea that Putin wouldn't have launched this invasion of Ukraine had Trump been president, Todd said.
"I express my deepest sympathy to those injured in the Russian missile attack on Munkachevo, and I wish them a speedy and full recovery," Sulyok said in his original statement posted to Facebook on August 21. The post was taken down shortly after it went up, only to be replaced by a nearly identical statement with the word "Russian" ("orosz" in Hungarian) removed from the first sentence.
After a week of high-stakes diplomacy aimed at halting the war in Ukraine, United States President Donald Trump says he is set on arranging a summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Following separate meetings with both leaders, Trump has ruled out sending US troops to Ukraine, but pledged security guarantees to Kyiv and indicated that Washington could provide air support to reinforce a potential deal.
Bolton stated that negotiations between Putin and Zelensky might succeed more if Trump is present, although he expressed skepticism about the effectiveness of direct bilateral talks.
Starmer has shown his willingness to throw the diplomatic kitchen sink at efforts to keep Trump on side, including in February handing the president a written invitation from the king for an unusual second state visit.
