Tag: Donald Trump

• Thursday, July 13th 2017 - 01:09 UTC

  Donald Trump Jr admits meeting Russian lawyer but did not inform his father

  

  United States President Donald Trump's son has said he did not tell his father about a meeting with a Russian lawyer who said she could help his election campaign. Donald Trump Jr told Fox News the meeting was “just a nothing” but he should have handled it differently.

• Monday, July 10th 2017 - 15:13 UTC

  G20 admits “Trump factor”: climate policy disagreement and blow to multilateral cooperation

  

  Leaders from the world's leading economies broke with U.S. President Donald Trump on climate policy at a G20 summit on Saturday, in a rare public admission of disagreement and blow to multilateral cooperation.

• Friday, July 7th 2017 - 07:08 UTC

  Trump urges Russia “to cease its destabilizing activities”; on Friday he meets Putin

  

  In a keynote address in Warsaw, U.S. President Donald Trump urged Russia “to cease its destabilizing activities in Ukraine and elsewhere” and specifically reaffirmed Washington's commitment to NATO's Article 5. Trump spoke on Thursday before a cheering, flag-waving crowd of 10,000 people at historic Krasinski Square in central Warsaw, where former President Lech Walesa sat among guests in the VIP area.

• Saturday, July 1st 2017 - 13:35 UTC

  Trump announces new oil pipeline to Mexico right “under the wall”

  

  US President Donald Trump announced the construction of a pipeline to carry oil to Mexico through the border near Peñitas, Texas, which would run under the infamous wall he has promised to build.

• Tuesday, June 27th 2017 - 15:46 UTC

  Trump's revised travel ban scores first SCOTUS win

  

  The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) on Monday partially lifted an injunction on President Donald J. Trump’s travel ban and thus allowed restrictions on citizens from certain predominantly Muslim countries to go into effect.

• Saturday, June 17th 2017 - 16:26 UTC

  Pence to visit Colombia, Chile, Argentina and Panama in August

  

  US Vice President Mike Pence announced he will be travelling to Central and South America later this year. During a conference on Prosperity and Security in Central America in Miami it became known that the Vice President will be touring Colombia -Cartagena and Bogota-, Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile and Panama City on August 13-18.

• Friday, June 16th 2017 - 19:40 UTC

  Trump says he is restoring some of the restrictions lifted after the Obama administration's detente with Cuba.

  

  US President Donald Trump has reversed parts of his predecessor Barack Obama's diplomatic re-engagement with Cuba, tightening rules on Americans travelling there and restricting US companies dealing with enterprises controlled by the island nation's military.

• Friday, June 9th 2017 - 10:43 UTC

  Fired ex FBI chief claims Trump spread “lies”, could have obstructed justice and fired him over Russiagate

  

  Former FBI Director James Comey asserted on Thursday that President Donald Trump fired him to interfere with his investigation of Russia's ties to the Trump campaign, bluntly accusing the White House of spreading “lies, plain and simple.” Comey also revealed that he'd orchestrated the public release of information about his private conversations with the president in an effort to further the investigation.

• Monday, June 5th 2017 - 08:12 UTC

  “Enough is enough” says PM May, “too much tolerance of extremism in our country”; confirms Thursday election

  

  Prime Minister Theresa May said Britain must be tougher in stamping out Islamist extremism after attackers killed at least seven people by ramming a van into pedestrians on London Bridge and stabbing revelers in nearby bars. After the third militant attack in Britain in less than three months, May said Thursday's national election would go ahead. But she proposed regulating cyberspace and said Britain had been far too tolerant of extremism.

• Friday, June 2nd 2017 - 06:42 UTC

  May disappointed with Trump's decision to drop Paris climate change agreement; Europe condemns

  

  PM Theresa May has told Donald Trump of her “disappointment” with his decision to pull the US out of the 2015 Paris climate agreement. In a phone call with the US president, Mrs. May said the UK remained committed to the deal, according to a Downing Street statement. But Mrs. May has been criticized for not signing a joint condemnation from France, Germany, and Italy. Mr. Trump said he would try to negotiate a new, “fairer” climate deal.