America

    The First Lady arrived at a palace in Italy – where the President was attending the G7 summit – wearing a Dolce & Gabbana coat which is worth almost $70,000 AUD (around £40,600). The coat, which is really bloody fancy, is available from ModaOperandi.com for $US51,000 (around £40,000) with a $25,100 (around £20,000) deposit. Although fashionistas from all over the world were chomping at the bit to see Melania’s latest wardrobe choice, many others have accused her of flaunting her wealth. And they do have a point. As The Mercury News pointed out, Melania’s coat could pay the salary of a teacher, police officer, coal miner or a Trump organisation assistant. Business Insider reported making $US51,500 (around £40,000) would put you in the 65% of Americans according to 2016 ...

    In an unusual admission, Group of Seven (G7) leaders have said in their final communique from a summit in Italy that they had failed to bridge differences over climate change with US President Donald Trump and America was unable to join other countries in committing to the Paris Agreement. The United States of America is in the process of reviewing its policies on climate change and on the Paris Agreement and thus is not in a position to join the consensus on these topics, the communique read. Understanding this process, the heads of state and of government of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom and the presidents of the European Council and of the European Commission reaffirm their strong commitment to swiftly implement the Paris Agreement, it add...

    Jared Kushner, the senior adviser to the president and the his son-in-law, reportedly discussed with the Russian ambassador the possibility of creating a secret communication channel between Donald Trump's transition team and the Kremlin. Sergei Kislyak, the Russian envoy to the US, told his superiors in Moscow that Mr Kushner proposed using Russian diplomatic facilities for their discussions, the Washington Post reported, citing US officials briefed on intelligence reports. The move, which was reportedly discussed in December, was apparently intended to make the confidential talks more difficult to monitor. Mr Kislyak was reportedly "taken aback" by the suggestion, according to Post, which cited anonymous US officials who were briefed on intelligence reports on intercepte...

    Today Barack Obama and Donald Trump appeared in public at the same time in Europe Thursday, but reactions could not have been starker. The former president received a rock-star welcome in Berlin, while his successor received looks of bewilderment from European leaders in Brussels. Here are some reasons why so many Europeans love Obama and loathe Trump. NATO: Trump chastised his colleagues for not contributing enough to their collective defense. NATO members must finally contribute their fair share and meet their financial obligations, Trump said. Twenty-three of 28 nations in the alliance are not paying what they should be paying for their defense. This is very unfair to the taxpayers of the USA. During the campaign, Trump called NATO obsolete and that before sending U.S. ...

    The US President Donald Trump pushed his way to the front of the world stage in Brussels on Thursday, shoving aside the leader of soon-to-be member Montenegro at a NATO summit. Trump was seen pushing his way past Prime Minister Dusko Markovic, then confidently adjusting his suit as he emerged in the front of the group, closer to NATO head Jens Stoltenberg. Video of the incident went viral and came as Trump delivered a tough message to NATO allies to dramatically increase their defence spending to ease financial burden to the United States. The NATO mission of Montenegro, which is joining the Western military alliance against stiff opposition from Russia, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Donald Trump on Thursday intensified his accusations that NATO all...

    A hooded man holds a laptop computer as blue screen with an exclamation mark is projected on him in this illustration picture taken on May 13, 2017. A newly found flaw in widely used networking software leaves tens of thousands of computers potentially vulnerable to an attack similar to that caused by WannaCry, which infected more than 300,000 computers worldwide, cybersecurity researchers said on Thursday. The US Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday announced the vulnerability, which could be exploited to take control of an affected computer, and urged users and administrators to apply a patch. Rebekah Brown of Rapid7, a cybersecurity company, told Reuters that there were no signs yet of attackers exploiting the vulnerability in the 12 hours since its discovery wa...

    The co-author of President Trump's bestselling book The Art of the Deal said Wednesday that he thinks the president is in the middle of a significant meltdown. I think he's reacting from a survival place, Tony Schwartz told Anderson Cooper on CNN's 360. He's in pure defensive mode. I think that he's being run by the part of his brain that's reactive and impulsive, not capable of reflection. The sense of siege that he feels because his sense of self-worth is so, so vulnerable that the series of things that have happened are overwhelming to him. Trump in ‘significant meltdown’ Schwartz's remarks follow the Justice Department Wednesday appointing a special counsel to probe Russian meddling into the 2016 presidential election. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced t...

    Donald Trump’s beleaguered White House was rocked on Tuesday by a pair of explosive allegations that he personally tried to quash an FBI investigation and that he disclosed highly classified information to top Russian officials. The Republican billionaire’s administration, now just barely four months old, was left reeling by the one-two punch, which sparked instant outrage from Democrats demanding a full explanation. Either claim on its own that he divulged top-secret information to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during an Oval Office meeting, or that he pressed FBI director James Comey to drop a probe into ex-national security advisor Michael Flynn would plunge any White House into serious crisis. But the reports both rebutted by Trump’s team add to a mounting per...

    United States President Donald Trump will give a major speech on the Islamic faith during his upcoming visit to Saudi Arabia, home to the religion’s holiest shrines, the White House said on Tuesday. He will meet and have lunch with leaders of more than 50 Muslim countries, where he will deliver an inspiring, direct speech on the need to confront radical ideology and the president’s hopes for a peaceful vision of Islam, National Security Advisor HR McMaster told reporters. Trump is set to visit Riyadh next week and meet with Saudi officials, as well as 56 Arab and Muslim leaders to discuss combating extremism and cracking down on illicit financing. According to a senior White House official speaking to Reuters news agency, Trump will discuss how to counter the threat from I...

    Lawmakers expressed shock and concern after learning that President Trump had revealed highly classified information to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador during a meeting in the Oval Office last week, according to current and former US officials. Obviously, they are in a downward spiral right now and have got to figure out a way to come to grips with all that’s happening, said Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, said of the Trump administration. The chaos that is being created by the lack of discipline is creating an environment that I think makes — it creates a worrisome environment, he said. Trump’s disclosures jeopardised a critical source of intelligence on the Islamic State, according to the officials. The informati...