AS US PRESIDENT Donald Trump clings to the idea that ceasefires are in place, bombs are raining down on the people of the Middle East. Trump keeps repeating that he is close to agreeing a peace agreement with Iran – ...

HE IS stuck. US President Donald Trump is fighting disaster on three fronts – and fighting it badly. First is the attack he launched on Iran. He was never clear what his war aims were, but they were probably centred ...

WE WONDERED what US President Donald Trump meant when he said a peace agreement with Iran was near. It turns out that what he meant was that the USA was going to return to military action. •Events over the last ...

IT’S NOT going so well for US President Donald Trump. His military attack on Iran did not lead to Iran capitulating, and he doesn’t know what to do about it. And as mid-term elections loom, his popularity is taking a ...

US President Donald Trump and other key politicians were swiftly evacuated by security staff from the White House Correspondents’ Annual Dinner as a noise rang out which may have been gunshots. Whether the noise was a shooting or another loud ...

FOR SEVERAL days it seemed that US President Donald Trump had retracted his threat to escalate the war on Iran by bombing its civil infrastructure – in favour of negotiating a settlement. Now the talks are off. Hopes were first ...

THE BANK of England has predicted that global stock market are about to fall. With unusual candour, it has warned that share prices are too high and do not reflect the risks that the global economy is facing. The view ...

IT’S ESCALATION. That is how US President Donald Trump is going to deal with the collapse of peace talks with Iran. We say “peace talks” – but as Trump gave them a single day, they were more a case of ...

US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has agreed to delay his unlawful attack on Iran. He had promised to devastate the country tonight, with missiles and bombs targeting civil infrastructure. Trump appeared quite cheerful as he announced that he would implement a ...

IN HIS latest tantrum, US President Donald Trump has threatened to pull out of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO). The news came in an interview he did with the Telegraph newspaper. Trump is clearly motivated by frustration rather than ...