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Montevideo, August 27th 2026 - 08:46 UTC

Tag: Donald Trump

  • Friday, February 7th 2025 - 20:32 UTC

    ICC rejects Trump's sanctions and pledges to keep working

    Trump issued an executive order Thursday whereby ICC members or staffers and their relatives, including their bank accounts and possessions on US soil, can be seized

    The International Criminal Court (ICC) Friday condemned US President Donald Trump's sanctions against the United Nations tribunal while pledging to keep working. The Republican leader's move was deemed an attempt to “harm its independent and impartial judicial work.”

  • Thursday, February 6th 2025 - 13:19 UTC

    EU juggling options for if or when Trump imposes tariffs

    Sefcovic said the EU's response would be firm

    Given US President Donald Trump's tariffs imposition spree that has already hit Mexico, Canada, and China, the European Union (EU) is considering retaliatory measures should these threats materialize. The European Commission is considering using the “anti-circumvention instrument” (ACI), which allows restrictions in response to coerci⁷ve trade actions by other countries.

  • Wednesday, February 5th 2025 - 18:52 UTC

    Trump's idea on Gaza makes no sense to Lula

    “The United States is isolating itself from the world,” Lula insisted

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said that his US colleague Donald Trump's idea to take over the Gaza Strip made no sense. He also found the idea of relocating the local population to other countries hard to swallow. The Republican leader made these announcements Tuesday after meeting at the White House with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

  • Wednesday, February 5th 2025 - 11:27 UTC

    US to take control of Gaza and redevelop it, Trump says

    Netanyahu welcomed Trump's initiative but human rights groups said it meant ethnic cleansing

    US President Donald Trump announced Tuesday during a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House that his country intends to seize control of the Gaza Strip and have the local population resettled elsewhere. The Republican leader said rebuilding the enclave was near impossible after it became a “demolition site” following Israel's retaliation for the Oct. 7, 2023, mass murders and abductions from the Gaza-based pro-Palestine terrorist group Hamas.

  • Tuesday, February 4th 2025 - 08:46 UTC

    Tariffs on Canada also postponed after Trump-Trudeau talks

    Trudeau had announced Canada's own 25% tariff on US goods in retaliation

    After agreeing with Mexico's Claudia Sheinbaum on a one-month pause for the imposition of 25% tariffs, US President Donald Trump reached an understanding Monday with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, provided his northern neighbors acquiesced to a series of demands regarding border security, including higher spending on organized crime and drug trafficking fight, in addition to appointing an official specifically in charge of fentanyl, drug cartels, and terrorists. Under the new deal, Canada also agreed to launch a joint strike force to combat organized crime.

  • Monday, February 3rd 2025 - 19:28 UTC

    US tariffs on Mexico on hold after deal between Trump and Sheinbaum

    Trump was to speak later Monday with Trudeau. Hence, a similar measure in the Canadian case was not to be ruled out

    US President Doland Trump agreed Monday to put on hold for at least a month his decision to impose 25% tariffs on Mexican products after a conversation with his colleague Claudia Sheinbaum, during which new conditions were agreed upon.

  • Monday, February 3rd 2025 - 10:40 UTC

    Trump signs 25% tariffs on Mexican and Canadian goods

    Trump declared a trade war between the US on one side, and China, Mexico, and Canada on the other, with the EU seemingly next in line

    US President Donald Trump on Saturday signed the documents imposing a 25% tariff on Mexican and most Canadian goods and a 10% tariff on Canadian energy products and Chinese goods. The target countries announced retaliatory initiatives. The reciprocal import/export taxation will become effective Feb. 4.

  • Monday, February 3rd 2025 - 07:38 UTC

    Trump's tariffs already have repercussions in Japan

    Trump's economic plans might impact the exchange rate between the US dollar and the yen

    Hours after US President Donald Trump announced the imposition of 25% tariffs on Mexican and Canadian products, the Nikkei index in Tokyo, which groups together the 225 most representative stocks in the market, plummeted by 2.5%. The White House measures over the weekend impacted the Japanese capital early Monday morning.

  • Friday, January 31st 2025 - 21:09 UTC

    Trump’s envoy delivers stern warning to Maduro in Caracas as US flag displayed in Miraflores

    Maduro’s press released striking photos showing the U.S. flag prominently displayed at the Miraflores Palace—the seat of the Venezuelan Government

    Richard Grenell, the special envoy appointed by U.S. President Donald Trump, met with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro at the Presidential Miraflores Palace in Caracas on Friday. During the meeting, Grenell conveyed a non-negotiable message from White House official Mauricio Claver-Carone: Maduro must “receive back the Venezuelan criminals that have been sent to the United States.”

  • Thursday, January 30th 2025 - 11:29 UTC

    Fed leaves rates unchanged with a message to Trump, “in no hurry to adjust policy stance”

    “I’m not going to have any response or comment whatsoever on what the president said,” Powell said’ “It’s not appropriate for me to do so.”

    The United States Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged following the two day meeting with Fed chair Jerome Powell emphasizing at the press conference that “the bank is in no hurry to adjust its policy stance, since the US economy remains strong”.