Presidency of Donald Trump

While the number of those killed in the Grenfell Tower has officially risen to 12 and 18 of the 78 ahve been critically injured, with fears that the death toll is almost certain to increase, some ISIS and Islamist sympathisers took to twitter to celebrate the tragedy, despite the fact that some of those in the flaming tower were Muslims themselves.

Officials in Maryland and the U.S. capital Washington will sue President Donald Trump for accepting payments and benefits from foreign governments through his business empire, news reports said late on June 11.

The suit centers on the so-called emoluments clause, which bans U.S. officials from taking gifts or other benefits from foreign governments.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday accused Qatar of being a "high level" sponsor of terrorism, potentially hindering the U.S. Department of State's efforts to ease heightening tensions and a blockade of the Gulf
nation by Arab states and others.

Former FBI Director James Comey yesterday accused the Trump administration of defaming him and telling lies about the agency, but declined to offer his opinion on whether President Trump sought to obstruct justice by asking him to drop an investigation into the former national security advisor.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has largely resorted to irony at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) as reporters seemingly failed to come up with new questions, focusing on Moscow's alleged meddling in the US elections, and Donald Trump.

Donald Trump is facing huge criticism at home and abroad after pulling the US out of the Paris agreement on climate change. The US president says it is too harmful to American jobs. Syria and Nicaragua are the only other United Nations members that are not signatories, quoted by the Guardian.

There has been widespread international condemnation of President Trump’s announcement that the US is withdrawing from the 2015 Paris climate agreement.
UN chief Antonio Guterres’s spokesman called it “a major disappointment” while the European Union said it was “a sad day for the world”.
However, senior Republicans and the US coal industry backed the move.

US President Donald Trump has decided to withdraw his country from the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.

Reuters reported on Wednesday, citing "a source briefed about the decision."

The Foreign Ministry's seasoned diplomats did warn the government prior to the U.S. presidential elections that a possible Trump administration did not promise a rose garden. But some of the advisers and some with access to the presidential palace argued otherwise. They were extremely enthusiastic about the prospects of a White House with Donald Trump.

The Pentagon has reportedly acknowledged that a US airstrike destroyed a mosque in Syria's Aleppo province in March, a CNN report says. The US had insisted that it targeted a terrorist meeting and claimed the mosque was intact, despite video evidence.