Keir Starmer

UK PM Blasts Trump’s NATO Afghanistan Remarks as ‘Appalling and Insulting’

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has fiercely condemned US President Donald Trump’s dismissal of NATO allies’ sacrifices in Afghanistan, calling the comments “insulting and frankly appalling”. The backlash intensifies transatlantic tensions over Trump’s NATO Afghanistan remarks during a Fox News interview. Trump’s Thursday interview from Davos, Switzerland, sparked outrage when he claimed NATO troops “stayed a little back, a little off the front […]

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Nigeria provided intelligence for US airstrikes – Foreign Affairs Minister

Nigeria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Yusuf Tuggar, has stated that is is Nigeria that provided the intelligence for US airstrikes on Christmas Day. The minister, on Friday signalled more strikes against jihadist groups were expected after a Christmas Day bombardment by US forces against militants in the north of the country, which it said […]

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Ben Carson slams Twitter, Facebook, others over ban on Donald Trump

United States secretary of department of housing and urban development, Ben Carson, has criticised social media companies for placing a ban on accounts belonging to US President Donald Trump. Following the invasion of Capitol Hill by Trump supporters when congress was certifying the victory of President-elect Joe Biden on Wednesday, social media companies like Facebook, […]

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Donald Trump’s controversial COVID-19 adviser, Scott Atlas, resigns

President Donald Trump’s controversial coronavirus adviser resigned Monday, while hopes for a first wave of vaccinations before the end of 2020 received a further boost with an announcement from US firm Moderna. Scott Atlas, a favored coronavirus adviser of the US president, who tweeted in October “Masks work? NO,” has submitted his resignation, effective as […]

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