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Good Morning! A lot is happening around the world today, March 5 2025, with politics taking centre stage. The ongoing row between Ukraine and the US dominates much of the global news cycle as the reaction to the fallout continues – and Europe looks for alternatives.

Vladimir Putin is rubbing his hands with glee as America does his bidding in Europe. Even Mr Putin could not…

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Donald Trump’s latest move delivers a major blow to US-EU trade relations, raising concerns over tariffs, NATO tensions, and economic policies. What does this mean for the future of transatlantic relations? Read more.

It has been a busy week so far for the US administration with political warfare taking place everywhere. Trump and Musk in…

ICJ Fugitive Netanyahu in Washington gets a red carpet treatment instead of handcuffs. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has arrived in the United States for meetings with President Donald Trump and others in his administration to discuss the Gaza ceasefire deal and his Middle East plans.

There’s a ceasefire agreement in Gaza is holding on by a thread but Israel continues to bomb the West Bank and is butchering palestinians at every chance it gets.

Musk has an issue with USAID being autonomous enough to disregard and undermine his orders.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs are no longer a threat but a reality. They cap off a wild January in Washington. ‘Tariff is a beautiful word’, only Trump would say something so Ron Burgundy.
He is using these tariffs to assert more authority over these trading partners and at the same time, put up taxes, without using the word TAX.

Starmer will be doing Trump’s dirty work in Europe, if he wants to keep his job.

Mainstream EU leaders have breathed a sigh of relief. After a Hungarian presidency marked by what they saw as damaging freelance diplomacy, the torch has now passed to Poland, which holds the reins for six months at a particularly turbulent time. There are huge questions in the EU about how to handle Donald Trump, about western support for Ukraine, about international trade, Europe’s competitiveness, and much else besides.

It has been a busy week, Trump escapes a prison sentence, Google, TikTok, Gaza ceasefire and Gilts have governments in a frenzy, all in the World News Briefing.

There are growing signs that a deal to end the fighting in Gaza could soon be agreed – read on for the details. In breaking news, a report from the US justice department says Donald Trump would have been convicted of illegally trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election results if he hadn’t been elected.

Tiktok users are moving to a chinese app as Tik Tok refugees pending the ban on the social media app in the US.

Google is under the cosh and is getting too big to control and world governments take on the search giant to break it up.

Is Musk proposing a new Australia? Has Egypt given up control of the Suez canal with the IMF loan. It has been a busy start to 2025 and despite the distractions of the Christmas period lots of mischievous politicals deals have been in play, that have skipped under the radar (of most news publications) but not ours, and here’s a recap of what you may have missed and an idea of what’s happening in 2025.

There is a race on in Gaza – The Israeli Genocidal regime has kidnapped the medical director of the last hospital in Gaza and then set it on fire to the hospital so no medical treatment can be provided to the dying Palestinians. It is the perfect way to clear the land, as it means the Palestinians in Gaza must now relocate further to the south in order to get treatment in makeshift tents.

President-elect Trump has shifted the narrative of Israeli hostages, he has told the Palestinian Authority to get the Israeli hostages back, in order to get any kind of consolidatory appeasement in a proposed ceasefire deal.

French Nazi leader Jean Marie Le Pen has died, a convicted xenophobic criminal- he was known as the found of the French BNP and is the father of Marine le Pen, who has since watered down his racist rhetoric to fit it within the realms of what is acceptable in today’s society. The French coined him as “the devil of the Republic”.

Sir Keir Starmer has been avoiding questions and interviews on Gaza during the Christmas period, His PR team have not allowed any interviews that will discuss the genocide in Gaza because of the optics of starving and freezing children and the Christmas spirit. In a way, they have welcomed the distraction of the grooming gangs.

Nigel Farage is transforming his image from a crooked pint pulling thug to – to the alternative to Tommy Robinson. His PR team are busy making him look more Prime MInisterial, have you noticed his news suits? and he won’t be seen smoking or drinking a pint as often anymore.

The drive for Syrian independence has been thrust upon us in a matter of weeks. Something the rebels weren’t able to do for years.

But this weekend Syrian rebels seized the capital city of Damascus on Sunday as President Bashar al-Assad’s regime collapsed in the face of the insurgents’ stunning offensive across the country.

The latest court ruling in the United States suggest that Tik Tok is on the verge of being banned in the United States, impacting millions of influencers.

In other news the big Mastercard lawsuit that was supposed to be a big payout has been settled as millions of customers were expecting a huge payout from the lawsuit, which will no longer come. This is good news for all the banks who use mastercard, not s good for the customers.