Tag: Donald Trump

• Friday, October 16th 2026 - 21:50 UTC

  Trump drops his new press secretary after a week of controversy

  

  Katie Zacharia will leave her post as White House press secretary just five days after taking it up, according to advisers to President Donald Trump quoted by several US media outlets, following a widely criticised first briefing and the revelation that she had presented herself as a lawyer without passing the bar exam.

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• Tuesday, October 13th 2026 - 09:13 UTC

  “Falkland Islanders will is to remain British, and we will uphold it”, PM Burnham told Trump

  

  “In my meeting with President Trump I raised the Falkland Islands and the clear and declared will of the Islanders to remain British”, revealed United Kingdom Prime Minister Andy Burnham in an oral statement to the House of Commons this Monday.

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• Monday, October 12th 2026 - 21:57 UTC

  Republican senators urge Trump to cancel the Putin diesel deal as unlawful

  

  Four Republican and three Democratic members of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee have urged President Donald Trump to “immediately reverse course” on his diesel supply deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin, arguing it contravenes the law banning Russian energy imports. It is the most direct Republican criticism of a Trump foreign policy decision in his current term.

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• Friday, October 9th 2026 - 22:44 UTC

  Trump says Russia will supply millions of tonnes of diesel as US eases sanctions on Moscow

  

  US President Donald Trump announced on Friday a deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin for Russia to supply some 4.8 million tonnes of diesel to US and global markets, aiming to curb rising fuel prices. To make it possible, the Treasury Department temporarily suspended sanctions on Russian diesel until April 2027.

• Friday, October 9th 2026 - 20:53 UTC

  US sanctions the International Criminal Court hours after a former judge wins the Nobel Peace Prize

  

  Donald Trump’s administration on Friday imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court as an institution, hours after the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to South African jurist Navi Pillay, a former judge of the court, “for her efforts to promote peace and international law”.

• Wednesday, October 7th 2026 - 08:07 UTC

  Trump promises payments to voters ahead of midterms dominated by the cost of living

  

  US President Donald Trump has announced a series of direct payments to various groups of citizens in recent weeks and has promised US$5,000 to every adult if Republicans keep control of Congress in the November 3 midterm elections, in which the cost of living is shaping up as the central issue.

• Sunday, October 4th 2026 - 08:57 UTC

  Trump declines to back Lula or Flávio Bolsonaro as Brazil votes

  

  US President Donald Trump has not endorsed either of the two leading candidates in Brazil's presidential election on Sunday, unlike in recent elections in Honduras, Colombia, Chile, Argentina and Costa Rica.

• Wednesday, September 30th 2026 - 19:10 UTC

  Trump and six tech companies sign a voluntary artificial intelligence safety accord

  

  US President Donald Trump and the heads of six technology companies signed a voluntary accord at the White House on Tuesday under which the companies commit to ensuring the safety of their own artificial intelligence systems. Trump called it “morally binding” and said it was “almost like a constitution”.

• Monday, September 28th 2026 - 06:01 UTC

  Britain has just received a painful reminder that nobody respects weakness

  

  By Daniel Hannan (*)
  
  As the Chagos humiliation shows, the Foreign Office’s slavish adoration of international courts has got us nowhere. What has all our imagined soft power brought us? For all our performative internationalism, we find ourselves friendless.

• Friday, September 25th 2026 - 09:37 UTC

  Trump and Xi end the state visit with the trade truce extended and no substantive deals

  

  Chinese President Xi Jinping's state visit to Washington ended on Thursday with a two-month extension of the bilateral trade truce, agreed before the meeting itself, and no progress on the central issues dividing the two powers: tariffs, rare earths, agricultural purchases, Taiwan and export restrictions on advanced chips.