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- Trump lands in South Korea amid deadlocked trade talks over $350bn deal on tariffs
US president to be presented with replica royal gold crown before meeting his South Korean counterpart, Lee Jae Myung, but expectations of a breakthrough on tariffs are lowDonald Trump landed in South Korea on Wednesday to meet President Lee Jae Myung, with deadlocked talks over a $350bn trade deal between the two countries threatening to cast a shadow over the event.After arriving on a flight from Tokyo, where he signed a rare earths deal with Japan’s new prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, the US president addressed a summit of CEOs ahead of a meeting with Lee in the town of Gyeongju, a historical city playing host to the annual Apec summit. Continue reading... ...[TheTopNews] Read More.26 mins ago - Hurricane Melissa live updates: storm strengthens again to category 4 as it nears Cuba; ‘extensive...Reports of families trapped by floodwaters in Jamaica, as hurricane moves on to threaten Cuba’s second-largest cityHurricane Melissa makes landfall in JamaicaVisual guide to Hurricane MelissaTell us if you’ve been affectedWelcome to our live coverage of Hurricane Melissa as it travels through the Caribbean.Melissa is heading for Cuba’s second-largest city, Santiago de Cuba, after making landfall in neighbouring Jamaica as the strongest cyclone on record to hit the Caribbean island nation.Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica’s on Tuesday as a category 5 hurricane. It is the strongest to lash the island since record-keeping began in 1851. The storm lost some power crossing Jamaica’s mountainous terrain, but remains a powerful Category 4 storm, according to the National Hurricane Center.The hurricane is now making a toward Cuba. It could make a second landfall there as early as midnight, bringing winds of between 140 and 145mph.Cuba’s president warned citizens the storm could be… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.47 mins ago
- After a year of student-led protests, the cracks in Serbia’s government have turned into fissures ...The government of Aleksandar Vučić’s now resembles a political Ponzi scheme: borrowing legitimacy through spectacle while deferring its collapseOn 1 November 2024, a concrete canopy collapsed at the railway station in Novi Sad, Serbia’s second-largest city, killing 16 people. The tragedy triggered the longest wave of protests the country had seen in a decade – a spontaneous uprising against corruption, negligence and the arrogance of power. One year on, the cracks in Serbia’s concrete have turned into fissures in its political foundations.The calamity cut deep for two reasons.Srdjan Cvijić is a writer and the president of the International Advisory Committee of the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy thinktank Continue reading... ...[TheTopNews] Read More.50 mins ago
- ‘It’s been a cesspit, really, my life’: war photographer Don McCullin on 19 of his greatest pi...At 90, McCullin has spent seven decades recording conflict and tragedy – while escaping snipers, mortar fire and capture. He reflects on pain, pride and regretWar photographers are not meant to reach 90. “Fate has had my life in its hands,” says Don McCullin. Over his seven-decade career covering wars, famines and disasters McCullin has been captured, and escaped snipers, mortar fire and more. How does it feel to be a survivor? “Uncomfortable,” he says. No wonder he finds solace in the beautiful still lifes he creates in his shed, or in the images he composes in the countryside around his Somerset home.McCullin is proud of escaping the extreme poverty he was born into, and the interesting and adventurous life he has lived, but he says the accolades – including a knighthood in 2017 – make him uneasy. “I feel as if I’ve been over-rewarded, and I definitely feel uncomfortable… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.50 mins ago
- Director of Bataclan terror attack drama rejects accusations of ‘indecency’Jean-Xavier de Lestrade defends decision to film mini-series inside Paris theatre where 130 people died in 2016The Oscar-winning director of a TV mini-series about survivors of the 2015 terrorist attack at the Bataclan in Paris has rejected accusations his decision to film inside the theatre was “indecent”.Jean-Xavier de Lestrade said the hostages on whose story the eight-part docudrama was based wanted their terrifying ordeal recreated inside the building and to film it elsewhere would have been “trickery”. Continue reading... ...[TheTopNews] Read More.50 mins ago
- Trump and Xi talks could end months of global economic chaosHigh on agenda for the leaders of the US and China will be rare earths and tariffs, with a chance of a relationship resetAhead of Thursday’s long-awaited first meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping since the US president’s return to office, officials from both sides have been hammering out the contours of what a trade deal between Washington and Beijing might look like, an agreement that could bring an end to months of global economic chaos caused by the US-China trade war.The two leaders have not met in person since 2019. Since then, the war in Ukraine and increasing concern in Washington about China’s technological advances, as well as longstanding issues about the imbalanced US-China trade relationship, have strained the bonds between the two superpowers. Continue reading... ...[TheTopNews] Read More.50 mins ago
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