Tag: Donald Trump

• Monday, December 2nd 2024 - 10:12 UTC

  Milei pushes for trade flexibility at Mercosur Summit, eyes U.S. agreement

  

  Argentine President Javier Milei will attend the Mercosur summit in Montevideo on December 5-6, advocating for the bloc’s members to gain the freedom to sign independent trade agreements. This marks a departure from Mercosur’s traditional collective bargaining stance but stops short of proposing an exit from the bloc.

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• Tuesday, November 26th 2024 - 09:48 UTC

  Lula avoids the dragon’s, Belt and Road Initiative and agrees with China’s Xi on a neutral ‘shared future’

  

  President-elect Donald Trump’s impressive victory has had an impact worldwide given his promises, many of them with a strong dye of populism and protectionism, Making America Great Again.

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• Monday, November 18th 2024 - 08:25 UTC

  Guterres says “spirit of consensus” needed

  

  United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres addressed the “Argentine case” ahead of the two-day G20 Summit starting in Rio de Janeiro Tuesday and called for a “spirit of consensus” to move forward.

• Friday, November 15th 2024 - 10:46 UTC

  Milei first world leader to meet Trump post Nov. 5 elections

  

  Argentine President Javier Milei Thursday became the first foreign leader to meet US President-elect Donald Trump after the latter's victory in the Nov. 5 elections. They got together at the Republican's Mar-a-Lago complex in Florida during a CPAC (Conservative Political Action Convention).

• Friday, November 8th 2024 - 19:21 UTC

  US Federal Reserve cuts rate by 25 basis points, but future decisions to be conditioned by Trump and Republicans dominance

  

  The US Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee cut interest rates by a quarter percentage point, on Thursday, the same week in which Donald Trump was swept in as elected president with a Legislative and Judicial branch packed with his conservative populists.

• Thursday, November 7th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

  Harris concedes defeat but promises to keep fighting

  

  US Vice President Kamala Harris finally admitted Tuesday's electoral results were not what her Democrat Party had expected and conceded victory to former President Donald Trump. “When we lose an election, we accept the results,” she reckoned after telephoning the former Republican head of state to congratulate him.

• Wednesday, November 6th 2024 - 21:25 UTC

  World leaders congratulate Trump on his win - still not Harris

  

  While leaders from the world over have congratulated Republican candidate Donald J. Trump on his electoral win on Tuesday which has earned him a second 4-year term at The Oval Office, Vice President Kamala Harris is yet to acknowledge defeat, as is customary in these cases. Perhaps Trump himself was the only one to break that tradition four years ago when rumors of vote count-rigging still gave him hope against Joseph Biden.

• Wednesday, November 6th 2024 - 10:50 UTC

  No stopping Trump's way back into White House

  

  Although there was still no official confirmation, the Republican camp was preparing in the wee hours of Wednesday for what appears to be Donald Trump's unstoppable march back onto the White House following victories in key swing states such as Arizona, Michigan, and Wisconsin. Even the pro-Kamala Harris outlet The New York Times reckoned Trump's victory chances stood at “over 95%.”

• Monday, November 4th 2024 - 22:13 UTC

  Early US election winds blowing Trump's way

  

  Different signs on different fronts over the past few hours forecast that former US Republixan President Donald Trump was poised to returning to the White House after Tuesday's elections. However, fears of voting fraud or any other last-resort maneuver from the Democratica camp rooting for Vice President Kamala Harris were not to be ruled out.

• Monday, September 16th 2024 - 08:23 UTC

  Suspect arrested after second assassination attempt against Trump

  

  Former US President Donald Trump was the target of a second assassination attempt Sunday while playing golf in West Palm Beach, in the state of Florida, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) confirmed. A suspect with a criminal record of gun possession has been arrested while holding an AK47 rifle minutes after shots were reported.