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The White House is fully aware of the huge controversy surrounding this cluster munitions decision. 123 countries are part of the 2008 International Convention on Cluster Munitions which bans the use or transfer of this particular weapon. Almost all of America’s allies are signatories to the convention. Even within US government circles, there has been

President Biden has agreed to give Ukraine controversial cluster munitions to use against Russian troops. Thousands will be sent as part of a new US aid package worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Cluster munitions detonate in the air and release smaller “bomblets” that scatter over a large area. Ukraine war latest: Deadly blast at

Twitter has threatened to sue Facebook owner Meta over its new Threads platform, it has been reported. The company has written to Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg to say it “intends to strictly enforce its intellectual property rights, according to news site Semafor, citing a letter from Twitter lawyer Alex Spiro. “It demands that Meta take

A Texas man who allegedly disappeared eight years ago as a teenager was never really missing and had been living with his mother almost the whole time, police have said. Rudy Farias made international headlines over the weekend when it was reported he had been “located safe” in Houston after going missing in March 2015

The gloves are (about to be) off: Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg show no signs of backing down from their commitment to a supposed cage fight.  Rumours of a fight between the Twitter owner and the boss of Meta have been swirling for weeks. But how did the idea start, is the fight actually going

Electric car company Tesla has delivered a record number of cars in the second quarter – as its strategy to lower prices paid off and US consumers took advantage of tax credits. The carmaker beat market expectations and delivered 466,140 cars in the three months to the end of June, up 83.5% on a year

Joe Biden has said Vladimir Putin is losing the “war in Iraq” in the latest of a series of mistakes made by the 80-year-old president.  Answering questions from journalists, Mr Biden said: “It’s hard to tell but he’s clearly losing the war in Iraq.” “He’s losing the war at home, and he has become a

Donald Trump is suing a woman he was found to have sexually abused – claiming she falsely accused him of rape. E. Jean Carroll won a civil case against the ex-president in May. Jurors found Mr Trump sexually assaulted and defamed Ms Carroll. However, they stopped short of finding that Mr Trump had raped her.

MrBeast, the most-followed person on YouTube, says he turned down an invitation to travel on the doomed Titanic submersible. Five people were killed when OceanGate’s Titan submersible imploded during a trip to the Titanic wreck last week. In a tweet, MrBeast – whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson – shared a text message which he

Two New York lawyers have been fined after submitting a legal brief with fake case citations generated by ChatGPT. Steven Schwartz, of law firm Levidow, Levidow & Oberman, admitted using the chatbot to research the brief in a client’s personal injury case against airline Avianca. He had used it to find legal precedents supporting the

Microsoft’s record takeover bid for video games giant Activision Blizzard has gone before a US federal court. The Windows and Xbox maker wants to buy the company best known for the Call Of Duty, Warcraft, and Diablo franchises for $69bn (£54.2bn). It would be the largest tech acquisition ever. But the UK competitions watchdog blocked

China says comments by Joe Biden describing its leader Xi Jinping as a dictator are “extremely absurd and irresponsible”. The latest clash comes right after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken concluded a visit to Beijing that had sought to break the ice in what has become an increasingly strained international relationship. Issues such as

China’s President Xi Jinping has met US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Beijing – as the world’s two biggest economies look to cool rising tensions. Speaking after the meeting on Monday, Mr Xi said he hoped that Mr Blinken would make “more positive contributions” to stabilising ties between the two countries, state media reported.

Donald Trump and his lawyers have indicated how they will present the former president’s defence – both in the federal court and the court of American public opinion. So what will his defence look like? He will claim there has been no crime Trump claims that he did nothing wrong and that to charge him

Donald Trump has pleaded not guilty to charges that he unlawfully kept national security documents when he left office and lied to officials trying to recover them. Trump appeared before a judge in Miami’s federal court just days after he became the first former US president charged with federal crimes. Trump latest: Ex-president pleads not

Some, perhaps, may not be aware, but the state of Florida is considered “Trump country”. The 45th president of the United States is wildly popular here. As a simple measure of his favourability, look no further than the recent polls in the contest for the Republican Party’s nomination in next year’s presidential campaign. Donald Trump‘s

Three-time US Olympic medallist Tori Bowie died from complications related to childbirth, her agent has confirmed. Bowie died at the age of 32 at her Florida home in early May. Her representative Kimberly Holland confirmed on Tuesday she was in labour at the time of her death. “Unfortunately, so many people, including the media, are