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• Saturday, February 15th 2025 - 08:59 UTC

  US Health authorities start staff downsizing under RFK, Jr.

  

  US Federal authorities terminated a series of employments after Robert Francis Kennedy, Jr. (RFK) was confirmed by the Senate Thursday as the country's new Health Secretary. Some 1,300 probationary-level workers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and 1,500 others from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) were laid off.

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• Thursday, February 13th 2025 - 10:55 UTC

  End of war in Ukraine nearer after Trump-Putin talks

  

  US President Donald Trump held a telephone conversation Wednesday with his Russian colleague President Vladimir Putin, with whom he discussed for over 90 minutes the idea of starting negotiations to end the war in Ukraine. Both leaders expressed their eagerness to end the conflict at the earliest opportunity possible.

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• Thursday, February 13th 2025 - 10:20 UTC

  Alckmin to push for return of US steel import quotas

  

  Brazilian Vice President and Minister of Development, Industry, Trade and Services, Geraldo Alckmin, defended on Wednesday the establishment of exemption quotas for steel and aluminum to be shipped to the United States, as it happened during US President Donald Trump's previous government (2017-2021).

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• Wednesday, February 12th 2025 - 18:58 UTC

  AP reporter banned from White House coverage over Gulf renaming

  

  A representative from the 178-year-old Associated Press (AP) news service was denied access to a White House event on Tuesday given the outlet's failure to adopt the name “Gulf of America” in reference to that portion of the Caribbean Sea previously known as “Gulf of Mexico” but renamed by US President Donald Trump shortly after his Jan. 20, 2025, inauguration.

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

  Arab League opposes Trump's plans for Gaza

  

  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.

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• Wednesday, February 12th 2025 - 10:55 UTC

  Brazil’s Finance Minister: Trump's tariffs damage global trade

  

  Brazil's Finance Minister Fernando Haddad stressed Tuesday that US President Donald Trump's decision to impose 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum imports was “counterproductive” to the global economy. “The global economy loses with this, with this retraction, with this de-globalization that is happening,” he added.

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• Tuesday, February 11th 2025 - 14:23 UTC

  Guterres wants Israel and Hamas to keep negotiating while Trump heralds hell in Gaza

  

  United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres Tuesday urged the terrorist group Hamas not to drop the plan to release Israeli hostages in exchange for convicted Palestinians. The Portuguese diplomat urged both sides of the conflict to avoid “hostilities” and carry on with the second stage of the ceasefire. Hamas had announced it would not abide by the deal after Israel allegedly violated the truce.

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

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

  

  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.

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

  Europe prepares retaliatory measures to Trump's tariffs

  

  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.

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

  Trump slaps 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports

  

  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

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