American airstrikes in Syria show that Iran can expect consequences for supporting militia groups threatening US interests and personnel, Joe Biden has warned. “You can’t act with impunity. Be careful,” the US president said when asked what message he intended to send with the airstrikes early on Friday morning on Syria‘s eastern border with Iraq.
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Joe Biden has told Saudi Arabia’s King Salman that he will “hold them accountable for human rights abuses”. The president’s warning came after a newly declassified intelligence report concluded that the kingdom’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, is likely to have approved an operation to kill or capture a US-based journalist inside the Saudi consulate
Tiger Woods has been moved to a new hospital in Los Angeles as he continues to recover from multiple injuries sustained in a serious car accident this week. The 45-year-old golf star underwent surgery to stabilise compound fractures of his tibia and fibula following the horror crash on Tuesday. “Woods was transferred to Cedars-Sinai Medical
The US has launched airstrikes on eastern Syria – the first military action undertaken since Joe Biden became president. The Thursday evening strikes were in retaliation for a rocket attack in Iraq on 15 February that killed a civilian contractor and wounded coalition troops, including Americans. The targets were at a control point on the
Lady Gaga is understood to be offering a $500,000 reward for the safe return of two of her beloved pets after her dog walker was shot as he was looking after them. Ryan Fischer was attacked as he walked the star’s French bulldogs Koji, Miss Asia and Gustav in West Hollywood on Wednesday evening. Two
Caleb Cain used to think like a white nationalist. “Literally anyone can be radicalised,” he says, speaking from his own experience as someone who fell down the alt-right’s online ‘rabbit hole’. The 27-year-old says it was like being “groomed into a cult”, and it wasn’t until he watched extreme violence unfold that he decided to
Tiger Woods did not appear to be “aware of how gravely he was injured” after his car crash in California, the first officer on the scene has said. The 45-year-old golf star suffered serious leg injuries when his car hit a kerb and then a tree before rolling several times on the border of Rolling
Tiger Woods is undergoing surgery for “multiple leg injuries” after being cut from his car following an accident in Los Angeles. The accident happened on the border of Rolling Hills Estates and Rancho Palos Verdes on Tuesday morning. LA County Sheriff’s Department said Woods was the only person in the car. Image: The 45-year-old golfer
The former US Capitol Police chief says he only found out this week that his officers were warned just hours before the 6 January riots that extremists could commit “war” in Washington that day. Steven Sund was giving evidence to Congress in the first public hearing over the last month’s siege that saw dozens of
President Joe Biden has led a minute’s silence to honour America’s coronavirus victims after the country became the first to record more than half a million deaths. As 500 lit candles lined the White House steps to commemorate the dead, a military band played Amazing Grace and the president made his emotional remarks. “Today we
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have donated to a women’s shelter that was damaged in a large storm which hit Texas. The Genesis Women’s Shelter and Support in Dallas was badly damaged by Winter Storm Uri as its ceiling collapsed and burst pipes caused flooding of the onsite school. Women homed at the centre
President Joe Biden will mark the US surpassing half a million coronavirus deaths – the highest total in the world – with a moment of silence and a candle-lighting ceremony at the White House. It is expected the country will pass this total on Monday, just over a year after the first confirmed US death
Donald Trump is expected next Sunday to make his first public appearance since leaving office. The former US president, who departed the White House on 20 January, is set to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando, Florida. The full line-up of the annual gathering of conservative politicians and media figures has
US President Joe Biden has declared a major disaster in Texas as the state continues to struggle with extreme winter weather. The unusual winter storm crippled the state’s power grid and, despite Texas being rich in oil and gas, millions of residents were without power for days. Supply has resumed but it remains intermittent, with
Millions of people in parts of the southern US are having to boil water before drinking it after ruptured pipes caused by record low temperatures may have contaminated the water supply. In Texas, seven million people – a quarter of the population of the nation’s second-largest state – were under orders to boil tap water
There were only two dozen of them. They held their phones up to the windows of the coach to film from inside their first moments in a new country. The smiling and waving said it all. Image: Only a handful of people were permitted to cross the border – but it is expected more will
Texas senator Ted Cruz flew to Mexico with his family while the state he represents deals with power outages and water supply issues due to freezing temperatures. Parts of Texas have been without power for four days, with hospitals facing a loss of water pressure and heat. Meanwhile, the prominent Republican flew to the resort
NASA’s mission to search for signs of ancient life on Mars has sent back its first images from the surface of the Red Planet after a successful landing. The historic moment was the culmination of a seven-month journey in space and a considerably shorter trip through the Martian atmosphere. Claps and cheers erupted from the
The US winter storm has killed 32 people and left 3.4 million struggling to stay warm without power. The latest storm front is expected to move from parts of Texas, Arkansas and the Lower Mississippi Valley to the Northeast on Thursday. “There’s really no letup to some of the misery people are feeling across that
Dylan Buckner had made plans to see a female friend on Friday night. By 3.05pm on Thursday he had taken his own life. Nothing in his behaviour that week had given anyone any cause for concern. But the 18-year-old high school football star is, in the eyes of his family, one of the hidden victims