The death toll from the nightclub roof collapse in the Dominican Republic surged to 221 yesterday, making it one of the Caribbean nation&s worst tragedies in recent history.

On Tuesday night, Donald Trump spent roughly an hour on a call with several Republican senators, all of whom urged him to pause his eye-watering global tariffs.

Five years ago, America was facing the beginning of an ending. People might not have realised it at the time, but Donald Trump&s first term as president was in heading into its final throes in the heat of a pandemic summer. Joe Biden would be elected to office in November 2020.

The UK&s Duke of Sussex met with war victims in Ukraine on Thursday in an unannounced visit to the country as part of his ongoing work with wounded veterans, a spokesperson said.