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US Senate won’t take up ICE funding bill amid row over Trump’s ballroom, which president defends as ‘very good expenditure’ – live

Fonte: The Guardian - World · Pubblicato: 2026-05-21T18:22:46+00:00

President claims ‘I don’t need money for the ballroom’ as Senate Republicans move to ditch $1bn funding plan amid fears of alienating votersSign up for the Breaking News US emailSenate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer, House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries and other Democrats spoke held a news conference, ahead of the vote-a-rama Thursday morning.“The Republican agenda is one big broken promise,” said Schumer, criticizing the Republican budget bill. “We still haven’t seen the bill, because they are fighting with each other.”Trump v Cook: Donald Trump’s case for firing Federal Reserve governor

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El fallido viaje del enviado especial de Trump a Groenlandia

Fonte: El País - Internacional · Pubblicato: 2026-05-21T18:21:37+00:00

Jeff Landry abandona la isla danesa sin asistir a la inauguración de un nuevo consulado después de que la población local expresara rechazo a su presencia

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Iran’s World Cup hopes hit US visa hurdles

Fonte: Al Jazeera - World · Pubblicato: 2026-05-21T18:19:25+00:00

Players from Iran’s national football team are in Turkey applying for US visas for the 2026 World Cup.

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US Senate refuses to push through ICE funding amid row over Trump’s ballroom

Fonte: The Guardian - World · Pubblicato: 2026-05-21T18:14:42+00:00

Senate will not pass the $70bn legislation ahead of a 1 June deadline set by Trump ahead of the Memorial Day recessA bid to restore funding to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and border patrol has been derailed by rows over a $1bn proposal for security measures tied to Donald Trump’s White House ballroom and controversial plans to create a $1.8bn “anti-weaponization” fund.The US Senate will not pass the $70bn legislation ahead of a 1 June deadline set by the US president, Republican senators told reporters on Thursday, as lawmakers leave Washington for the Memorial Day recess. Con

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Итоги торгов на Мосбирже 21 мая

Fonte: Vedomosti – All Articles · Pubblicato: 2026-05-21T18:11:22+00:00

Главный бенчмарк российского фондового рынка по итогам основной сессии в четверг, 21 мая, вырос на 0,91% до 2664,29 пункта. Его долларовый аналог индекс РТС прибавил 1,14% и составил 1185,63 пункта.

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Sadiq Khan sparks row with Met after blocking £50m AI deal with Palantir

Fonte: The Guardian - World · Pubblicato: 2026-05-21T18:07:40+00:00

Exclusive: Scotland Yard criticises London mayor’s decision as disappointing and warns it could hit policing A £50m Metropolitan police deal with the controversial US tech company Palantir has been blocked by Sadiq Khan, sparking a bitter row between the London mayor and Scotland Yard.After the UK’s largest police force had agreed to use Palantir’s AI technology to automate intelligence analysis in criminal investigations, Khan intervened, citing “serious concerns” about how the deal was struck. Continue reading...

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EN DIRECT, guerre en Ukraine : Vladimir Poutine se félicite du bon déroulement des exercices nucléaires entamées mardi avec la Biélorussie

Fonte: Le Monde - International · Pubblicato: 2026-05-21T18:07:28+00:00

« Il est crucial de continuer à améliorer la préparation au combat des forces nucléaires stratégiques et tactiques », a déclaré jeudi le président russe, à l’issue de manœuvres, au cours desquelles des vecteurs de l’arme atomique ont été testés.

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EN DIRECT, guerre en Ukraine : Vladimir Poutine se félicite du bon déroulement des exercices nucléaires entamés mardi avec la Biélorussie

Fonte: Le Monde - International · Pubblicato: 2026-05-21T18:07:24+00:00

« Il est crucial de continuer à améliorer la préparation au combat des forces nucléaires stratégiques et tactiques », a déclaré jeudi le président russe, à l’issue de manœuvres, au cours desquelles des vecteurs de l’arme atomique ont été testés.

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Who are the 10 best FIFA World Cup players of all time?

Fonte: Al Jazeera - World · Pubblicato: 2026-05-21T18:06:27+00:00

The all-time greats who have shone on the biggest stage and written their names in football World Cup folklore.

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En Inde, l’entrée en politique fracassante de Vijay, superstar du cinéma tamoul

Fonte: Le Monde - International · Pubblicato: 2026-05-21T18:00:21+00:00

L’acteur Joseph Vijay Chandrasekhar a créé la surprise en remportant les élections régionales dans le Tamil Nadu. L’homme de 51 ans s’est appuyé sur ses millions de fans et a joué la carte de l’alternance.

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Comment la guerre à Gaza a transformé le campus de l’Université libre de Bruxelles en champ de bataille idéologique

Fonte: Le Monde - International · Pubblicato: 2026-05-21T18:00:16+00:00

Le tribunal correctionnel de Bruxelles a examiné l’altercation survenue en mai 2024 entre des étudiants propalestiniens et juifs sur le campus de l’ULB. Le procès des deux jeunes prévenus, dont le jugement est attendu le 16 juin, a mis en lumière les tensions qui traversent l’institution, secouée par les polémiques et les accusations d’antisémitisme.

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De la Libye à l’Europe, la logistique déshumanisante des migrants : « Tenir un centre de détention, c’est comme contrôler un puits de pétrole »

Fonte: Le Monde - International · Pubblicato: 2026-05-21T18:00:08+00:00

« Migrants en Méditerranée, la mécanique du silence » (4/4). Exploités, rançonnés et violentés en Libye, les exilés qui survivent à la traversée sont invisibilisés et tombent parfois aux mains de mafias liées aux entreprises agricoles. Mais « ce qui compte, c’est que les arrivées irrégulières baissent », résume-t-on à Rome.

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Italian police stop party attended by Mick Jagger over music ban

Fonte: The Guardian - World · Pubblicato: 2026-05-21T17:58:37+00:00

Music is banned on Wednesdays on island of Stromboli where Rolling Stones frontman was celebrating wrapping a filmPolice on an Italian island stopped a party attended by Mick Jagger – because music is banned on Wednesdays.The Rolling Stones frontman was on Stromboli, the volcanic island among Sicily’s Aeolian archipelago, for the production of Three Incestuous Sisters, a film by the Italian director Alice Rohrwacher in which he stars. Continue reading...

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Senior civil servants to get bonuses for first time to reward ‘doers, not talkers’

Fonte: The Guardian - World · Pubblicato: 2026-05-21T17:54:50+00:00

Senior staff will get 2.5% pay rise with bonuses for highest performers in plan to ‘rewire’ civil serviceSenior civil servants will get bonuses for exceptional performance for the first time under a new system that Darren Jones, the Cabinet Office minister, said would reward the “doers, not the talkers”.Jones, who is also chief secretary to the prime minister, said most civil servants would get a 3.5% pay rise, but senior staff would have a base increase of 2.5%, with 1% held back for bonuses for the highest performing officials. Continue reading...

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US supreme court dismisses Alabama’s bid to execute intellectually disabled man

Fonte: The Guardian - World · Pubblicato: 2026-05-21T17:54:39+00:00

Court throws out state’s challenge to judicial finding that inmate convicted of murder is ineligible for death penaltyThe US supreme court on Thursday threw out a challenge by the state of Alabama to a judicial finding that a death row inmate convicted of a 1997 murder is intellectually disabled and thus ineligible under the US constitution for the death penalty.In this highly unusual move, and in a single-sentence, unsigned order, the court dismissed Alabama’s petition for review in Hamm v Smith without deciding it, effectively undoing its earlier decision to take up an appeal by state offici

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Aurionpro secures $33 million fintech deal in the US

Fonte: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Pubblicato: 2026-05-21T17:54:20+00:00

The three-year engagement with a leading US digital insurance payments platform includes payment platform maintenance, cloud and DevOps services, as well as AI and data engineering support

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Met Palantir row gets to heart of how public services should use AI

Fonte: The Guardian - World · Pubblicato: 2026-05-21T17:53:23+00:00

The UK’s largest police force says Palantir is the only company that can supply what it needs. Is that worth the increasing controversy that comes with them?London mayor Sadiq Khan blocks £50m Met police deal with PalantirIt’s bot vs bobby. The row over whether the controversial US AI company Palantir should be paid £50m to help the Metropolitan police hits to the heart of how public services will be delivered in the coming years.A similar dynamic is playing out in hospitals, schools and town halls, but right now police chiefs are turning to AI to escape a fiscal bind. The UK’s largest police

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U.S. bears brunt of Israel’s missile defense, Pentagon assessments show

Fonte: Washington Post - World · Pubblicato: 2026-05-21T17:52:47+00:00

Amid hostilities with Iran, the American military expended far more advanced interceptors to protect Israel than Israeli forces did, according to Defense Department data.

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Former head of Minnesota non-profit gets nearly 42-year prison sentence for fraud

Fonte: The Guardian - World · Pubblicato: 2026-05-21T17:50:52+00:00

Aimee Bock ran Feeding Our Future, which claimed it helped provide millions of meals to children during the pandemicSign up for the Breaking News US newsletter emailA federal judge has sentenced Feeding Our Future founder Aimee Bock to nearly 42 years in prison for orchestrating what prosecutors called the largest pandemic fraud scheme in the country.Thursday’s sentencing follows a $250m plot that exploited federal child nutrition programs. The plot later became a flashpoint in Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota, leading to violent demonstrations and the ICE killings of two Amer

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Prospect of Labour leadership race brings out different sides of rivals

Fonte: The Guardian - World · Pubblicato: 2026-05-21T17:49:58+00:00

Burnham and Streeting’s latest stances confound caricatures of left and right as party faces electoral bindThe Labour party has seemed to inhabit three parallel worlds over the past fortnight.There is a prime minister celebrating good news on the economy and lower migration figures and breezily insisting he will fight the next election, but with his party intent on deposing him. Continue reading...

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India raises concerns over UK's steel measures in WTO: Official

Fonte: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Pubblicato: 2026-05-21T17:48:14+00:00

The UK defended the measures as necessary to protect domestic steelmaking capacity, even as the issue threatens to complicate implementation of the India-UK trade agreement

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US homeland security put out alert on comedian who created parody ICE tip website

Fonte: The Guardian - World · Pubblicato: 2026-05-21T17:45:43+00:00

DHS issued ‘Bolo’ for Ben Palmer, whose videos of calls with members of the public who thought they were reporting immigrants went viralThe Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has circulated a “Be on the Lookout” alert to law enforcement nationwide, targeting a comedian whose satire of US immigration enforcement went viral.The subject of the alert, known as a “Bolo”, was Ben Palmer, a Nashville-based standup comedian and prankster who created a parody anti-immigration tip website. His revealing videos of calls with members of the public who thought they were reporting immigrants to US Immigr

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Ebola: US ban on travellers from DRC, Uganda or South Sudan ‘not the solution’

Fonte: The Guardian - World · Pubblicato: 2026-05-21T17:41:51+00:00

Africa CDC says restrictions could increase public health risks and highlight ‘deeper structural injustice’ in global healthA US travel ban for people coming from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda or South Sudan in response to the Ebola outbreak could make the situation worse, critics have said.The outbreak was declared a public health emergency of international concern on Sunday and continues to spread, with a new case reported in the DRC’s South Kivu province, an area under the control of armed rebel groups. Continue reading...

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Marco Rubio says US wants stronger energy partnership with India

Fonte: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Pubblicato: 2026-05-21T17:40:01+00:00

Ahead of his India visit from May 23-26, Rubio described India as a key partner and said discussions would also cover Quad cooperation, trade, defence and possible opportunities involving Venezuelan oil

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В Україні запущено єдиний ідентифікатор в мережах усіх національних мобільних операторів

Fonte: UNIAN (General) · Pubblicato: 2026-05-21T17:35:00+00:00

Інтеграції з Київстар, Vodafone Україна та lifecell, разом із попереднім впровадженням в Укртелеком, створюють інфраструктуру для безпечної реклами та суверенної економіки даних в Україні.

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Jeffrey Epstein assistant fiercely denies she was an accomplice and claims he abused her

Fonte: The Guardian - World · Pubblicato: 2026-05-21T17:33:34+00:00

Sarah Kellen told lawmakers that convicted sex offender ‘sexually and psychologically abused me … and gaslit me’Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email One of Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime assistants has fiercely denied she was an accomplice of the convicted sex offender during a congressional interview, claiming she was “sexually and psychologically abused” by the late financier.“I am here today to answer your questions, to dispel rumors and conspiracies, and to tell you the truth,” Sarah Kellen told lawmakers on the House of Representatives oversight and reform committee on Thursday m

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Diplomat who abruptly left Washington embassy was honoured by the king

Fonte: The Guardian - World · Pubblicato: 2026-05-21T17:33:15+00:00

Charles conferred LVO after his US visit on James Roscoe who had been standing in for Peter MandelsonA top diplomat who abruptly left his post at the British embassy in Washington earlier this week after standing in as interim ambassador for Peter Mandelson has been honoured by King Charles.No reason has yet been given for James Roscoe’s departure. An investigation is now under way into the leak of discussions at a meeting of the UK’s national security council. Continue reading...

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Trump insists White House ballroom security costs would be ‘very good expenditure’ despite Republican backlash – live

Fonte: The Guardian - World · Pubblicato: 2026-05-21T17:31:07+00:00

President claims ‘I don’t need money for the ballroom’ as Senate Republicans expected to ditch $1bn funding plan amid fears of alienating votersSign up for the Breaking News US emailSenate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer, House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries and other Democrats spoke held a news conference, ahead of the vote-a-rama Thursday morning.“The Republican agenda is one big broken promise,” said Schumer, criticizing the Republican budget bill. “We still haven’t seen the bill, because they are fighting with each other.”Trump v Cook: Donald Trump’s case for firing Federal Reserve gove

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Tui ends sponsorship of Married at First Sight after sexual misconduct allegations

Fonte: The Guardian - World · Pubblicato: 2026-05-21T17:22:51+00:00

Travel firm exits partnership after Panorama revealed allegations by three women against on-screen husbandsThe travel operator Tui has ended its sponsorship of the UK and Australian versions of Married at First Sight on Channel 4 after contestants on the former made allegations of rape and sexual misconduct.An edition of the BBC’s Panorama programme this week revealed allegations by two anonymous women that they had been raped by their on-screen husbands on the show. A third woman, Shona Manderson, accused her on-screen husband of sexual misconduct. All three men deny the claims. Continue read

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Trump insists White House ballroom security costs would be ‘very good expenditure’ despite GOP backlash – live

Fonte: The Guardian - World · Pubblicato: 2026-05-21T17:17:44+00:00

President claims ‘I don’t need money for the ballroom’ as Senate Republicans expected to ditch $1bn funding plan amid fears of alienating votersSign up for the Breaking News US emailSenate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer, House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries and other Democrats spoke held a news conference, ahead of the vote-a-rama Thursday morning.“The Republican agenda is one big broken promise,” said Schumer, criticizing the Republican budget bill. “We still haven’t seen the bill, because they are fighting with each other.”Trump v Cook: Donald Trump’s case for firing Federal Reserve gove

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