UK - Theresa May has told Donald Trump not to start a trade war as she tells the US president of her "deep concern" at his plan to introduce tariffs on steel and aluminium imports to the United States. It comes after the Prime Minister's de facto deputy, David Lidington, rebuked Mr Trump for threatening a trade battle with the European Union. 'The latest strong words could put extra pressure on the trans-Atlantic 'special relationship'. Following a phone call between Mrs May and the president on Sunday, a Downing Street spokesman said: "The Prime Minister raised our deep concern at the President's forthcoming announcement on steel and aluminium tariffs....
UK - Supermarket shelves were still empty today despite the big thaw clearing most of the snow from Britain's roads. Deliveries to stores across the country have been delayed after the Beast from the East and Storm Emma buried the UK beneath an avalanche of snow. Shoppers reported bare shelves after panic buying in places such as Manchester, Birmingham and Newcastle. It comes as forecasters said Britain will be lashed with icy rain while fog will carpet the nation as the Beast from the East and Storm Emma recede, leaving chaos in their wake.
USA - A US war in North Korea would be bloody, with tens of thousands of US soldiers killed and millions of civilians on the Korean Peninsula. A recent US exercise projected brutality “beyond the experience of any living soldier,” according to Army chief General Mark Milley.
USA - Former Breitbart News Executive Chairman and White House Chief Strategist Stephen K Bannon is warning of a “new axis” of powers that will confront “the Christian West.” In an interview with GQ Magazine, Bannon described an axis of superpowers that the world has yet to see, saying the alliance against western nations is an evergrowing threat to the United States and its allies.
USA - President Trump’s planned steel and aluminum tariffs will combat China’s “deliberate attempt to bankrupt our strategic industries” vital to our national defense, said Curtis Ellis, the senior policy adviser for America First Policies. The Chinese government seeks economic hegemony via “predatory trade practices” designed to give China greater control over the global commodity market, Ellis told Breitbart’s Senior Editors-at-Large Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak on Thursday’s Breitbart News Tonight on SiriusXM.
UK - Facebook may be tracking your every move online even if you have never been on the site. Not content with monitoring the movements of its own users, the largest social network in the world is building secret files on the activities of billions of people. Mark Zuckerburg's company says that it uses this information to target adverts and content based on your preferences, as well as for security purposes. Facebook account holders are able to download a copy of the file kept on them, which contains detailed records of their activities while logged in. The privacy of users tracked via-third parties is currently less transparent, with no way of checking exactly what Facebook knows about you.
USA - In the latest gross violation of free speech committed by radical left-wing tech giants, YouTube has now deleted the entire Health Ranger video channel, wiping out over 1,700 videos covering everything from nutrition, natural medicine, history, science and current events.
USA - Right-wing broadcaster Alex Jones announced Saturday evening that YouTube had frozen his video channel and would delete it on Sunday, after CNN pursued the social media giant and its advertisers. The announcement came just hours after CNN published a story, “Advertisers flee InfoWars founder Alex Jones’ YouTube channel,” in which journalists Paul P Murphy and Gianluca Mezzofiore approached companies to explain why their ads were showing up on Alex Jones’s channel. Murphy and Mezzofiore also asked YouTube why it had not filtered out certain advertisers from showing up on the channel due to its “offensive content.”
PAPUA NEW GUINEA - A strong earthquake has struck Papua New Guinea - putting the Ring of Fire on high alert once again. The quake measured 6.0 magnitude and hit at a depth of 10 km (6 miles), the US Geological Survey said. It comes after a deadly quake struck the rugged New Guinea highlands, which was forced to declare an emergency. Nearly 150,000 people remain in urgent need of emergency supplies as damaged roads and landslides have hampered the delivery of aid to isolated communities. The quake destroyed or damaged the homes of around 7000 people, while 147,000 were in severe need of food, water and sanitation, the director of the International Red Cross in PNG, Udaya Regm has revealed. Landslides have cut roads, preventing the delivery of aid to several places where it's most needed.
GERMANY - Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) voted in favour of a coalition with Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives, German media reported, a result that would open the way to a new government for Europe's economic powerhouse. Five months after an inconclusive election, and after the failure of Merkel's first attempt to form a government with two smaller parties, the result if confirmed, should hand the long-serving chancellor a fourth term in office.
USA - With Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu set to visit Washington this coming week, the mix of politics, personalities and historical grievances that has stood in the way of Israeli-Palestinian peace is even more combustible than normal. President Donald Trump’s point man for mediation, Jared Kushner, is in the middle of a political firestorm, his plan remains a mystery and the Palestinians aren’t even speaking to the White House. If that weren’t enough, Netanyahu and Trump are both distracted by mushrooming legal investigations at home.
USA - President Donald Trump is promising, some may say threatening, to unveil his grand plan for a peace “deal” to end the so-called “Middle East problem”. What are the chances of him succeeding? The short answer is: nil! The problem with the “Middle East problem” is that those who tried to solve it never managed to define it and, as a result, sacrificed reality on the ground to the abstract elusive ideals. There is one thing that Trump the deal-maker could do. He could ask the Israelis and the Palestinians to work on an agreement, each in their own camp, on what they exactly want, and report to him.
VATICAN - The prominent African Cardinal Robert Sarah said in a recent address in Belgium that by forgetting its Christian roots the West is committing suicide, “because a tree without roots is condemned to death.” In his meeting in Brussels in early February, the outspoken prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments had strong words both for the leaders of European nations and for certain cardinals and bishops who distort the Catholic faith.
USA - After the White House said earlier that today's meeting would be a "listening" meeting, President Trump has taken investors by surprise by announcing that he will impose the long-rumored aluminum and steel sanctions next week. As expected, Trump said he would impose a 25% tariff on steel imports, and a 10% tariff for aluminum.
EUROPE - While earlier Europe said that it would disclose its trade war retaliation strategy no sooner than March 5, moments ago Reuters floated its latest trial balloon reporting that the European Union is considering applying a 25% tariff on roughly $3.5 billion of imports from the United States should Trump execute his plan for steel and aluminium tariffs. While the European Commission has said it would respond "firmly" to proposed US import duties, it also warned it would join others in a challenge at the World Trade Organization and consider safeguard measures, last deployed in 2002, to guard against steel and aluminium being diverted to Europe from elsewhere if US tariffs come in.
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