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An international summit on the future of energy security opened in London on Thursday with stark opposition from Washington, which called policies to phase out fossil fuels “harmful and dangerous”. …

President Donald Trump’s top diplomat Marco Rubio on Tuesday unveiled a restructuring of the US State Department that will cut positions and scale back human rights offices, saying the “bloated” …

A technical, expert-level nuclear meeting between Iran and the United States will be held on Saturday, coinciding with the third round of indirect talks mediated by Oman, Tehran announced Tuesday. …

The US Department of Education will restart the “involuntary” collection of defaulted federal student loans on May 5, ending a Covid-era pause. More than five million borrowers are currently are …

More than 100 US universities and colleges, including Ivy League institutions Princeton and Brown, issued a joint letter on Tuesday condemning President Donald Trump’s “political interference” in the education system. …

US President Donald Trump wants Harvard to apologize for what his administration insists is the university’s tolerance of anti-Semitism, the White House said Tuesday. Trump “wants to see Harvard apologize. …

Wall Street forged ahead with a rally Wednesday afternoon, with the tech-focused Nasdaq soaring more than 10 percent shortly after US President Donald Trump announced a 90-day pause on higher …

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Donald Trump’s “strategy” had played out as planned after the US president paused tariffs for 90 days for most countries while hitting China harder. …

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that “the military option” would become “inevitable” if talks between Washington and Tehran on Iran’s nuclear programme drag on. “We agree that Iran …

Poland on Tuesday insisted US troops would remain on its territory, after the United States announced it would reposition personnel from a key base near the Ukrainian border. US troops …