Tag: Donald Trump

• Monday, January 20th 2020 - 09:05 UTC

  Guaidó will meet with Pompeo at counterterrorism conference in Colombia

  

  Venezuela opposition leader Juan Guaidó has travelled to Colombia to participate on Monday alongside Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in a regional counterterrorism meeting — a new show of support by the Trump administration for the man it says is the country’s legitimate leader.

• Saturday, January 18th 2020 - 08:46 UTC

  IMF warns that the US/China accord is a “trade truce, and not the same as trade peace”

  

  The United States and China still have a long way to go to resolve their trade disputes although the partial deal signed this week is a step forward, IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva said on Friday. “Trade truce is not the same as trade peace,” she said.

• Friday, January 17th 2020 - 16:07 UTC

  Honduran migrant column heading for US, but Mexico warns it won't let them through

  

  US President Donald Trump has put Mexico and Central American nations under pressure to accept a series of migration agreements that aim to shift the burden of dealing with asylum-seekers on to them, and away from the United States.

• Friday, January 17th 2020 - 10:33 UTC

  Historic impeachment trial of Trump opens; Decisive US Senate controlled by Republicans

  

  The historic impeachment trial of Donald Trump opened on Thursday in the US Senate, as lawmakers took a solemn oath to be “impartial” in deciding whether to force the 45th US president from office.

• Friday, January 17th 2020 - 10:30 UTC

  Another victory for Trump: US Senate passes overwhelmingly the North American trade pact

  

  The US Senate on Thursday voted overwhelmingly to approve a new North American trade pact, handing President Donald Trump a second back-to-back trade win just as his impeachment trial was beginning in Washington. After a brief debate, lawmakers voted 89-10 in favor of a bill allowing the US-Mexico-Canada agreement to take effect, overhauling trade relations among the three countries.

• Thursday, January 16th 2020 - 08:54 UTC

  World stocks at record high after US and China sign a deal to defuse the trade war

  

  World stocks inched to a record high on Thursday after the United States and China signed a deal to defuse their 18-month trade war, which has weighed on global economic growth and hampered investments.

• Wednesday, January 15th 2020 - 09:55 UTC

  US supports Brazil as first bid to join OECD, ahead of Argentina

  

  The United States' change of stance to support Brazil's bid to join the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) ahead of Argentina was welcomed by the Brazilian government on Tuesday.

• Tuesday, January 14th 2020 - 09:33 UTC

  Killing Soleimani part of a broader policy of real deterrence to challenges, said Pompeo

  

  United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday said Qassem Soleimani was killed as part of a broader strategy of deterring challenges by US foes that also applies to China and Russia, further diluting the assertion that the top Iranian general was struck because he was plotting imminent attacks on US targets.

• Monday, January 13th 2020 - 09:52 UTC

  Trump the “protector” of Iranians protesting against the ayatollahs regime

  

  United States President Donald Trump warned Iran on Sunday against killing protesters who have risen up over the regime's downing of a civilian airliner as his defense secretary left the door open to talks with Tehran without preconditions.

• Saturday, January 11th 2020 - 09:50 UTC

  Trump sharply reduces flights to Cuba “to impede the regime gaining access to hard currency”

  

  The United States on Friday sharply reduced flights allowed to go to Cuba in a bid to reduce revenue to the communist island. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that charter flights would only be allowed to fly to Havana, not other airports - a step already taken with commercial flights.