•Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin US President Donald Trump and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin are expected to speak this week, officials said yesterday, as Washington and Kyiv’s European allies press Moscow to accept a ceasefire in the three-year war. The United States this week proposed a halt in fighting in the war after talks in [&helli...
•Tinubu and Trump The United States Congress has given President Donald Trump the green light to impose severe sanctions on Nigeria following reports that Nigerians account for 90 percent of Christians killed worldwide each year. Chairman of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, Chris Smith, announced the decision after a cong...
•The US Supreme Court in Washington, DC President Donald Trump took his contentious bid to end birthright citizenship in the United States to the Supreme Court yesterday. Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship, which he signed on his first day in office, was blocked by federal district courts in Maryland, Massachusetts a...
•Trump US President Donald Trump today threatened to impose 200-percent tariffs on wine, champagne and other alcoholic products from France and other European Union countries in retaliation against the bloc’s planned levies on US-produced whiskey. “If this Tariff is not removed immediately, the U.S. will shortly place a 200% Tariff on all WINE...
•Trump and Putin US President Donald Trump yesterday threatened new sanctions and tariffs on Russia over its bombardments of Ukraine, after previously suspending US aid to Kyiv in a stated bid to encourage diplomacy. But in comments later yesterday, he said it was “easier” to work with Russia than Ukraine in efforts to end the […]
•Trump US President Donald Trump vowed to plant the American flag on Mars during his address to Congress yesterday, a speech that was met with strong partisan reactions. While Republicans cheered, many Democrats protested by holding up signs, turning their backs, and walking out mid-speech, reports AFP. Trump, delivering his first address to C...
•China’s President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump US President Donald Trump said yesterday he would impose an additional 10 percent tariff on Chinese imports while moving ahead with levies on Canada and Mexico next week, citing “unacceptable” drug smuggling. Trump had announced — then halted — sweeping 25 percent levies on Canadian a...
•US President Donald Trump US President Donald Trump is set today to convene his first cabinet meeting since returning to office last month, in an effort to further his agenda with most of his nominees now having been confirmed by Congress. Billionaire supporter and advisor Elon Musk, tasked with overseeing the Department of Government Efficie...
•US President Donald Trump US President Donald Trump unveiled plans yesterday to sell new “gold card” residency permits for a price of $5 million each — and said Russian oligarchs may be eligible. Trump said sales of the new visa, a high-price version of the traditional green card, would bring in job creators and could […]
•Emmanuel Macron and Donald Trump French President Emmanuel Macron yesterday supported Donald Trump’s outreach to Russia over Ukraine but called on the United States to back any European troop deployment as a form of security guarantee. “We want a quick deal but not a fragile one,” Macron said at a joint news conference at the […]...

