US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order targeting the Smithsonian Institution, which operates more than 20 museums and research centres visited by millions yearly in Washington DC and New York City.
The order directs the…
Category: 2. World
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Defiance or diplomacy – how Canadians want to deal with Trump
Canada is set to hold a federal election on April 28 following Prime Minister Mark Carney’s call for a snap election amid escalating trade tensions with the United States. The BBC asked Canadian voters in Toronto how they would approach Donald…
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Officer spared jail for Tasering 95-year-old
A former police officer has been spared a jail sentence over his fatal decision to Taser a 95-year-old woman with dementia symptoms at an Australia aged care home.
Kristian White said he had used the weapon to prevent a “violent confrontation”…
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Greenland prepares for uncomfortable visit from US vice-president
Watch: Ros Atkins on… Trump’s plan for Greenland Anthony Zurcher and Adrienne MurrayBBC News, Washington DC and Copenhagen
A high-powered delegation of US officials will spend Friday at a remote military base on Greenland in what is being viewed…
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Venezuelans deported to El Salvador prison ‘trapped in nightmare’
Will GrantMexico, Cuba and Central America correspondent
Reporting fromSan Salvador
Courtesy of Gertrudis PinedaGertrudis Pineda insists her son Oscar is not a criminal The lack of tangible information about her son Oscar – one of 238 Venezuelans…
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Putin says Greenland ‘nothing to do with Russia’ in nod to US
Steve RosenbergRussia Editor
Getty ImagesSpeaking in the Russian Arctic on Thursday, Putin said competition in the region was intensifying In Murmansk, the largest city north of the Arctic circle, President Vladimir Putin vowed to “strengthen…
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Affluent India’s pet obsession is fuelling a boom in care industry
For Neha Bapna, nothing in the world is more important than her dog Muffin.
Every time she takes a train to travel across India, the four-year-old Shih Tzu is right by her side – in first class. He only eats hypoallergenic food, which is often…
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Can Vietnam golf its way out of new US import taxes?
Annabelle LiangBusiness reporter
Getty ImagesVietnam’s PM has said he would “golf all day long” with Trump Countries around the world are braced for Donald Trump’s so-called “Liberation Day in America!!!” next week.
The US president’s deadline to…
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Albanese faces headwinds ahead of May vote
Katy WatsonAustralia correspondent
Getty ImagesAlbanese’s term has been marked by an agenda on climate change, cost of living and Indigenous issues When Cyclone Alfred barrelled over Australia’s east coast earlier this month, it also blew the…
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Ros Atkins on… Trump’s plan for Greenland
President Trump has repeated claims that taking control of Greenland is essential for US national security – as Vice-President JD Vance and his wife Usha visit a US space base there on Friday.
The BBC’s Analysis Editor Ros Atkins looks at what…
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