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Sep 28, 2026 - World

President Donald Trump sparked an angry backlash on Monday after calling Canada “one of the worst countries in the entire world” as he complained about stalled negotiations with the longtime U.S. ally.“They have been one of the worst countries in the entire world,” Trump told reporters while taking questions in the Oval Office. “We get along with China, we get along with people, we make good deals, but Canada has been really very difficult to deal with.”The remark quickly drew outrage online.“Despite all of Trump’s b------- like this, Americans still like Canada a helluva lot more than they like him,” attorney and prominent Trump critic George Conway wrote on social media, pointing to a YouGov poll on Americans’ attitudes toward Canada.Others piled on.“This is Trump admitting that Canada has stood up to him,” author Steve Saideman, a political scientist at Ottawa’s Carleton University, wrote on Bluesky.Writer Lawrence Herzog asked on Bluesky, “How much longer do Canadians have to endure bullying and abuse from this person?”The War Monitor X account pointed to Trump’s treatment of two U.S. rivals, writing, “Meanwhile, Russia and China literally got red carpet treatment.”Canadian health researcher Tara M. offered a shorter response for her Bluesky followers: “Seriously?”“Of course he thinks that,” concluded politics writer Nick Field in an X post, “they’re one of the few countries that refuses to bribe him.”Despite all of Trump’s bullshit like this, Americans still like Canada a helluva lot more than they like him.https://t.co/rd3nB6f0yy https://t.co/l9MHpF6ud6 pic.twitter.com/1ZUGakYyPg— George Conway ⚖️???????? (@gtconway3d) September 28, 2026

Sep 28, 2026 - World

President Donald Trump is open to making major concessions to Iran in exchange for commitments regarding its nuclear program, U.S. officials told Axios, a position he’s gone back and forth on over the past several months.According to the unnamed U.S. officials, Trump is willing to unfreeze Iranian funds and offer sanctions relief in exchange for major nuclear concessions. The admission comes as a fresh round of talks is expected to take place this week in New York between U.S. and Iranian negotiators, done by proxy through Qatari and Pakistani mediators.During his first term, Trump famously tore up the Iran nuclear deal brokered by former President Barack Obama — a deal built on sanctions relief and the release of frozen Iranian funds. But in June, Trump warmed to those same concessions, agreeing to lift all U.S. sanctions on Iran and release all of its frozen or restricted funds.Trump quickly walked those concessions back, however, after hostilities between the United States and Iran resumed in July. In August, Trump explicitly told reporters that his administration was not seeking to extend the June interim peace agreement, which included sanctions relief and the unfreezing of funds.In what appears to be yet another pivot, Trump has once again warmed to the idea of granting Iran its requested concessions, with the U.S. officials voicing optimism for this week’s talks.“[The indirect talks have been] positive and constructive, [and Iran] has indicated they are flexible on the nuclear issues,” one of the U.S. officials told Axios, speaking on the condition of anonymity.

Sep 28, 2026 - World

Add the travel industry to the growing list of economic casualties of President Donald Trump's policies, joining farmers and manufacturers as sectors bleeding cash under his trade wars and border crackdowns.Geoff Freeman, president and CEO of the U.S. Travel Association, laid out the damage in blunt terms to Axios co-founder Jim VandeHei: even America's "closest allies" are refusing to visit. Despite the U.S. hosting the World Cup this summer, overseas travel still fell — the country is on pace to lose 2 million overseas visitors compared with last year, a drop that leaves visitation 20 percent below its 2019 peak. "We're the only major country in the world losing visitation," Freeman told VandeHei. "It's mind-boggling."The falloff is concentrated among traditional allies. Canada is down 23 percent over two years, while Germany and France have each dropped double digits year to date. Freeman said the exodus is "largely out of protest and fear" rather than economics, as travelers shun a country whose tariffs and immigration enforcement have made headlines abroad. Meanwhile, China is "capturing the visitors America is losing by expanding visa-free entry," and Japan is riding the "cheap yen" and surging reputation to a long-term tourism boom.The hit to travel — an industry that supports millions of U.S. jobs — lands alongside mounting anger from farmers squeezed by Trump's tariff fights and cut off from major agricultural buyers, and manufacturers still waiting for the factory jobs Trump's "Liberation Day" tariffs promised but never delivered.

Sep 28, 2026 - World

The scandal-plagued 42-year-old ex-prosecutor who unsuccessfully represented President Donald Trump in his $460 million civil fraud trial raised eyebrows this weekend by marrying a Turkish billionaire with a history of romancing women connected to powerful political leaders and securing lucrative construction deals, reports show. Alina Habba’s weekend wedding to Turhan Mildon, 29, spurred a flurry of interest in the businessman whose exes have been linked to a Turkish president and the Venezuelan leader ousted by Trump earlier this year, as the Middle East Eye reported last week. “This marriage has no political motivation,” Mildon told the news outlet.Mildon, a third-generation member of the family business Miller Holding, has largely stayed out of the public eye despite high-profile romances and business dealings. Such romances include his marriage to Betul Gursoy, whose father’s company built the Camlica Mosque in Istanbul at the request of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, according to Middle East Eye.Since 2021, Mildon’s own company Milvest has secured about $1 billion worth of construction contracts in Congo — after he received an introduction to its president, Felix Tshisekedi, from Erdogan.Mildon's Kinshasa Financial Centre drew public scrutiny after local reports alleged former Congolese Finance Minister Nicolas Kazadi, who denied wrongdoing, had mismanaged funds.Mildon's company was also accused of improperly obtaining import exemptions for building supplies for his massive Kinshasa Arena — Mildon denied those claims.Such accusations did not prevent Mildon from securing a contract to build a drone base reportedly worth $67 million earlier this year.In March, the Associated Press reported drone strikes and clashes between Congo’s government and Rwanda-backed M23 rebels had cast doubt over a peace deal Trump helped negotiate in 2025, alongside a deal to allow the U.S. to access Congo’s minerals.After Mildon and Gursoy divorced in 2024, the billionaire dated the daughter of Remigio Ceballos, a Venezuelan admiral close to former President Nicolas Maduro, Middle East Eye reported.In 2025, Mildon’s company Vencement announced a profit-sharing deal with the Venezuelan government to revive 10 public cement factories, according to the Middle East Eye report.Once again, there were allegations.“Claims have circulated that Vencement, despite being profitable, has failed to pay some contractors,” according to the outlet. “The sums allegedly owed are disputed, with some estimates running into hundreds of thousands of dollars.”Mildon denied owing any money.In June of this year, Venezuela’s National Assembly president Jorge Rodriguez announced he wanted Turkish cement companies to explain why cement-bag prices had spiked to $37."The cement prices are different all over the country and even though we sell each bag for three to five dollars, people resell them up to 20-30 dollars," Mildon told Middle East Eye."We asked the government to create a task force to control the market to lower the prices but didn’t see any concrete movement yet."Habba — who resigned as Trump’s U.S. Attorney for the state of New Jersey after it was found she was wrongly appointed — and Mildon married Saturday at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City after a mere months-long relationship, the New York Post reported.Habba and Mildon reportedly met earlier this year at a Kennedy Center event in Washington, D.C., reports show.Habba was photographed at the Kennedy Center premiere of “Melania” on Jan. 29 — and reportedly filed for divorce from parking lot millionaire Gregg Reuben, 54, exactly two weeks later.Perks of the relationship with the CEO include an approximately 23-carat diamond and a Hermès Birkin bag worth about $30,000, according to the Daily Mail.Ragıp Soylu, Turkey Bureau Chief for the Middle East Eye, revealed on X that United Kingdom company records indicate Mildon was born in December 2000, which would make him four years younger than his stated age — 25.

Sep 28, 2026 - World

Marie-Celestin Karondwa was attacked on Sunday after promoting measures to prevent spread of disease, his party saysA senior member of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s ruling party was beaten to death on Sunday after appearing on a radio programme to raise awareness about the Ebola outbreak, a party representative has said.Marie-Celestin Karondwa, the acting president of the Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS) party’s federal executive committee in Butembo, a new hotspot for the outbreak, was attacked after taking part in a ​radio show during which he ‌promoted prevention measures for the disease, ‌the UDPS federation in the city said in a statement, Reuters reported. Continue reading...