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President Trump has warned Iran against resuming its nuclear weapons programme, following his decision to pull the US out of the nuclear deal. He spoke of “very severe consequences” if they do. The world has been reacting to the US move. Russia said it was “deeply disappointed”, China has expressed regret. Iran’s Supreme leader addressed…

Baroness Catherine Ashton was one of the major players on the long road to bring about the Iran nuclear deal and was credited with having a decisive role in the negotiations.

It was all about centrifuges, industrial spinning tubes designed to enrich uranium and crucial to making a nuclear bomb. Five years ago, Iran was set to spin thousands of them, but the deal brokered in 2015 stopped almost all of them and Iran’s nuclear programme was frozen. But Donald Trump has never liked it, once…

Iran and other countries respond to President Trump’s announcement on the nuclear deal.

Surgeons have dismissed as “ridiculous” the apparent suggestion by Donald Trump that guns could help deal with violent crime in London. The US President told a pro-gun rally in Texas that one hospital in the capital is like a “war-zone” because of this year’s spate of fatal stabbings. A trauma specialist from the Royal London…

“Learn before you speak” – that was President Trump’s advice to the media earlier today. Not advice his own legal team appear to have taken. One of his newer lawyers, the former Mayor of New York, Rudy Giuliani, has been contradicting the President this week about a payment made to an adult film star who…

The White House has been hosting National Prayer Day. But will Donald Trump require divine intervention over the latest revelations about alleged hush money paid to adult film star Stormy Daniels? The newest member of the president’s legal team, Rudy Giuliani, may have revealed rather more than Team Trump wanted.

We’re joined by Paul Ryan, a campaign finance lawyer at watchdog group Common Cause, and by conservative political commentator Scottie Nell Hughes, to discuss the latest allegations about Stormy Daniels and President Trump.

Former US secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, has just written a new book with fellow Stanford political scientist. It’s called Political Risk and explores a world in which dangers to western democracies come not just from Iran or Russia, but also from non-state actors online.

We speak to American author Jesmyn Ward about the gritty realities of life in the Deep South portrayed in her new novel ‘Sing, Unburied, Sing’. It is an intimate portrait of a Mississippi family in crisis taking in race, drugs and poverty.

Governor Bill Richardson, who was the former US ambassador to the United Nations and has travelled to North Korea numerous times, and Jean Lee, director of the Korea Foundation Centre in Washington, discuss the historic summit.

President Trump will be hoping that peace in Korea becomes his greatest legacy, telling the German Chancellor Angela Merkel that talks on the issue had “never gone this far”. He also claimed that he and Ms Merkel had always had a “good relationship”.

President Trump will be in UK this summer – arriving on Friday 13th of July for what’s being billed as a ‘working visit’ – including talks with Theresa May at Downing Street . Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has already greeted it as the “greatest visit ever” while critics are already predicting mass protests on the…

The American and French people have long had a “rendezvous with freedom”, the French President Emmanuel Macron declared today, as he spoke to a special joint session of the US Congress. There was frequent applause as he praised what he called the special bond between the two nations, but he also warned the United States…

President Trump had a stark warning for Iran today – saying it will have ‘bigger problems than it’s ever had before’ if it restarts its nuclear program He made those comments during a visit by President Emmanuel Macron of France to the White House.