Month: February 2026

Citadel hedge fund boss, Republican donor and vocal Trump critic says administration has made ‘distasteful’ choices not in the public interestThe billionaire investor Ken Griffin has accused Donald Trump’s administration of “enriching” its families, and criticised its interference in American businesses as “distasteful”.Griffin, who is the chief executive of the hedge fund Citadel and a large Republican donor, rebuked the Trump administration, saying it “has definitely made missteps in choosing […]

Dismantling rules will make children vulnerable to chronic diseases ‘make America healthy again’ wants to eradicateDonald Trump’s aggressive rollback of environmental protections directly contradicts the promises of his “make America healthy again” campaign, according to new research.Helmed by Robert F Kennedy Jr, Trump’s health and human services department has touted pledges to “transform our nation’s food, fitness, air, water, soil and medicine” and “reverse the childhood chronic disease crisis”. But […]

PM says former cabinet minister and peer lied about ‘extent and depth of the relationship’ and should not have been appointed as US ambassadorNewly released Jeffrey Epstein files: 10 key takeawaysPMQs is starting soon. Here is the list of MPs down to ask a question.The Reform UK MP Lee Anderson has dismissed claims that his party’s plan to support the pub industry would cost far more than the £3bn it […]

Dictator’s second son, a key figure in post-2011 Libyan politics, reportedly shot dead at home by masked assailantsSaif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi and for years the second most powerful person in the country, has been killed in a village south-west of Tripoli, officials said on Tuesday night.The 53-year-old died from gunshot wounds in the town of Zintan, 85 miles south-west of the capital, […]

Major obstacles to viable deal remain after Volodymyr Zelenskyy accuses Moscow of violating energy truceEurope live – latest updatesUkrainian and Russian negotiators have begun a second round of US-led peace talks in Abu Dhabi as Washington seeks a pathway to end the nearly four-year war in Ukraine.The two-day trilateral talks starting on Wednesday come after Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russia of exploiting a US-backed energy truce last week to stockpile weapons […]

Government blames ‘terrorist cells’ for attack in Woro village, one of country’s deadliest in recent monthsGunmen have killed at least 162 people in a village in Kwara state in western Nigeria, a Red Cross official has said, making it one of the deadliest attacks in recent months in the country, which has been plagued by interlinked security crises.Armed gangs known locally as bandits who loot villages and kidnap for ransom […]

Shelling kills 14 Palestinians in north, attacks on tents kill six in south as evacuations through Rafah suspended.Source: www.aljazeera.comRead full article