WASHINGTON, Aug 26, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - President Donald Trump on Monday announced new measures that tightened his grip on security in Washington, a day after National Guard troops began carrying weapons in the US capital. Trump ordered the deployment of the National Guard -- who now number more than 2,200 -- earlier this month as part of what he has billed as a crackdown on allegedly out-of-control crime in the city. On Monday, Trump ordered Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to set up a specialized unit within Washington's National Guard "dedicated to ensuring public safety and order in the nation's capital." In the same executive order, Trump directed the hiring of additional National Park Police in the city, as well as...
WASHINGTON, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - US President Donald Trump is famed as a political showman -- and during a record-breaking three hour and 16...
WASHINGTON, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - The Trump administration on Tuesday suspended several employees of the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) after they publicly...
BRUSSELS, Belgium, Aug 26, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - The European Commission Tuesday asserted the "sovereign right" to regulate the activities of tech giants within the bloc...
WASHINGTON, Aug 26, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - US President Donald Trump said Monday that he expects to visit China this year or shortly afterwards, noting that...
BANGKOK, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - A Thai woman who received one of the kingdom's longest ever royal insult sentences was freed from prison on...
SARAJEVO, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Bosnia's national museum has defended a decision to donate funds from the display of a precious Jewish manuscript to...
WASHINGTON, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - The head of the UN's nuclear watchdog has said a team of its inspectors are "back in Iran," the...
KYIV, Ukraine, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Russian strikes on the strategic Ukrainian port city of Kherson killed an 81-year-old woman Wednesday and wounded two...
N'DJAMENA, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - A cholera epidemic at a camp for Sudanese refugees in neighbouring Chad has killed 68 people since it broke...
DAKAR, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Mauritanian security forces have committed "serious human rights violations" against migrants and asylum seekers ranging from torture to rape...
KYIV, Ukraine, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Ukraine acknowledged for the first time on Tuesday that Russia's army has entered the Dnipropetrovsk region, a central...
BRASILIA, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - A Brazilian judge on Tuesday declared far right ex-president Jair Bolsonaro, who is under house arrest while awaiting the...