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Montevideo, June 5th 2025 - 21:51 UTC

Tag: Donald Trump

  • Wednesday, February 12th 2025 - 15:41 UTC

    Arab League opposes Trump's plans for Gaza

    Displacing Palestinians from the Gaza Strip is “unacceptable,” Ahmed Abul Gheit said

    Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Abul Gheit spoke Wednesday during the World Governments Summit in Dubai against relocating the Palestinian population living in the Gaza Strip, as US President Donald Trump suggested earlier this month. Abul Gheit thus concurred with Jordan's King Abdullah II, who made similar remarks after talks with the Republican leader at the White House late Tuesday. Trump had suggested Jordan could be one of the destinations for the Gaza residents after the US takes it over.

  • Tuesday, February 11th 2025 - 10:39 UTC

    First U.S.-Venezuela deportation flights begin under Trump-Maduro agreement

    Venezuelan deportees are loaded onto a plane, in an image shared by the White House, February 10, 2025.

    Two state-owned Conviasa planes departed from El Paso, Texas, on Monday, carrying the first group of Venezuelan deportees under the agreement between United States President Donald Trump and his counterpart, Nicolás Maduro. The operation comes just two weeks after Maduro met with Trump’s envoy, Richard Grenell, in Caracas—a meeting marked by the U.S. flag flying once again at Miraflores Palace.

  • Monday, February 10th 2025 - 13:31 UTC

    Europe prepares retaliatory measures to Trump's tariffs

    Von der Leyen suggested a defense alternative to NATO was needed

    US President Donald Trump's announcement that he planned to impose tariffs on European products to even up the trade scale “would be illegal and economically counterproductive,” the European Commission (EC) warned in a statement. It would also affect international trade and production chains, it went on.

  • Monday, February 10th 2025 - 09:10 UTC

    Trump slaps 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports

    “Any steel coming into the United States is going to have to have a 25% tariff. Aluminum as well. 25% for both,” Trump explained

    US President Donald Trump announced this weekend that 25% tariffs would be applied to all steel and aluminum imports effective immediately. “Any steel coming into the United States is going to have to have a 25% tariff. Also aluminum. 25% for both,” Trump said aboard Air Force

  • Monday, February 10th 2025 - 09:03 UTC

    Lula warns Trump he was not elected to rule the world

    You don't build a riviera on top of thousands of dead women and children, Lula stressed about Trump's announcements

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was harshly critical of his US colleague Donald Trump's announcement that his country would take over the Gaza Strip and turn it into the Riviera of the Middle East. “Nobody is going to make a beautiful place on top of thousands of dead bodies of women and children,” said Lula during a radio interview in Bahia State.

  • 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.