US and Ukraine sign agreement creating investment fund
The U.S. and Ukraine have signed an economic partnership agreement to develop mineral resources in the Eastern European country amid its grinding war with Russia, the Trump administration announced...
View ArticleTrump’s minerals deal with Ukraine leaves scramble for how to handle Russia
This week’s breakthrough on an economic cooperation deal with Ukraine is unlikely to soften Russian President Vladimir Putin’s resistance to President Donald Trump’s peace plan — and the White House...
View ArticleTrump to Carney: I’m just not that into you
Canada has long been one of America’s closest allies and biggest trading partners. Yet President Donald Trump is planning to greet its new prime minister Tuesday with little more than a metaphorical...
View ArticleTrump says he’ll lift Syria sanctions, urges Iran to negotiate
President Donald Trump lifted sanctions on Syria Tuesday and dangled a similar enticement to Iran during a speech in Saudi Arabia, offering himself up as a historic peacemaker and outlining a...
View Article‘Commerce not chaos’: Trump remakes the foreign trip
The first multi-day foreign trip of President Donald Trump’s second term bucked the norms of presidential travel, demonstrating just how swiftly and drastically his transactional approach to foreign...
View ArticleTrump touts Russia-Ukraine talks, even as he steps back
With President Donald Trump set to speak on Monday with Russian and Ukrainian leaders, Vice President JD Vance acknowledged that the two sides appeared to be at “a bit of impasse” and that the...
View ArticleTrump puts South Africa’s president on the defensive over unproven ‘genocide’...
President Donald Trump turned down the lights in the Oval Office and turned the tables on South Africa’s president, playing a video of Black activists calling for seizing the land of white farmers and...
View ArticleTrump is losing patience with Putin but unsure of his next move
President Donald Trump on Tuesday signaled that his patience with Vladimir Putin is running thin, warning the Russian leader that he is “playing with fire” by refusing to engage in serious peace talks...
View ArticleCourt rulings jolt Trump trade talks
Three federal court decisions in the last 24 hours have injected fresh uncertainty into President Donald Trump’s negotiations with the nation’s largest trading partners. Some foreign officials say it...
View ArticleTrump’s move-fast-and-break-things tariff strategy collides with reality
President Donald Trump’s move-fast-and-break-things ethos this week led to a major setback for his trade policy, leaving the White House scrambling to chart its way around a potentially devastating...
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Germany’s Merz ventures into Trump’s lion’s den
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz needs to be prepared for an ambush of the kind endured by the leaders of Ukraine and South Africa when he meets U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on...
View ArticleRoyal letters, famous golfers and rehearsed pitches: The tips and tricks to a...
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer came carrying a signed letter from the king. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa brought along two golf champs. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney repeatedly...
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Le chancelier Merz s’aventure dans la fosse aux lions de Trump
Le chancelier allemand Friedrich Merz doit être préparé en cas d’embuscade du même genre que celles subies par les dirigeants de l’Ukraine et de l’Afrique du Sud lorsqu’il rencontrera le président...
View ArticleMerz avoids a blowup in the Oval, but Trump goes his own way on Russia
U.S. President Donald Trump and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz papered over their differences, especially concerning the war in Ukraine, during their first face-to-face meeting in the Oval Office on...
View ArticleZelenskyy says he regrets that Oval Office blowup, but he’s still pushing Trump
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he regrets that his Oval Office meeting with President Donald Trump in late February spun out of control, but explained that it was his impatience to reach...
View ArticleTrump embraces Israeli strike after arguing against it
President Donald Trump spent the bulk of this week saying he hoped Israel wouldn’t strike Iran. But by Friday, he was all in. The president had hoped for more time to negotiate with Tehran over its...
View ArticleTrump leaving G7 early after signaling deepening Iran-Israel conflict in...
KANANASKIS, Alberta — U.S. President Donald Trump abruptly announced that he would leave the G7 summit a day early and return to Washington shortly after posting an ominous social media message that...
View ArticleIsrael presses ahead with strikes as Trump’s 2-week deadline looms
Israeli officials insisted Friday that they will keep up their bombing campaign against Iran, even as President Donald Trump has given Tehran a two-week deadline to come to some sort of diplomatic...
View ArticleTrump wants one thing from the NATO summit. Europe is going to give it to him.
President Donald Trump wants one big thing from next week’s NATO leader’s summit — and European leaders are itching to give it to him. That doesn’t guarantee the president will be satisfied. The...
View ArticleTrump threatens more strikes against Iran if it doesn’t negotiate a deal
President Donald Trump declared the U.S. bombing of Iran’s three major nuclear facilities to have been “a spectacular military success” during a Saturday night address to the nation, and left the door...
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