President Donald Trump on Friday threatened a 50% tax on all imports from the European Union as well a 25% tariff on smart phones unless those products are made in America. The threats, delivered over social media, reflect Trump’s ability to disrupt the global economy with a burst of typing, as well asContinue Reading
The Supreme Court in the United States on Tuesday blocked an order for the Trump administration to return to work thousands of federal employees who were let go in mass firings aimed at dramatically downsizing the federal government. The justices acted in the administration’s emergency appeal of a ruling by a federal judge inContinue Reading
Almost three quarters (73 percent) of Ukrainians believed that Donald Trump’s presidency was having a negative impact on Ukraine, according to a poll whose results were released on Tuesday. According to the survey conducted by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology, only 19 percent of the respondents viewed Trump’sContinue Reading
U.S. President Donald Trump said Sunday that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is attempting to back out of a rare earth minerals deal with the United States, warning that if he does that, he could have “problems.” “I think Zelensky, by the way, he’s trying to back out of the rareContinue Reading
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres welcomed new progress in ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine following recent U.S. separate talks with Russia and Ukraine, according to a UN statement issued late Wednesday. In the statement, Guterres “welcomes the announcements by President Donald Trump of the United States and President Vladimir PutinContinue Reading
by Xinhua writer Wang Nan With talks tentatively beginning to gain momentum, a peaceful resolution to the prolonged Ukraine crisis seems no longer a pure illusion. Over the past few days, U.S. President Donald Trump had separate telephone conversations with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, and Ukrainian PresidentContinue Reading
Moscow and Washington intend to work toward gradually normalizing bilateral ties, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Wednesday. In a telephone call on Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump discussed the ongoing conflict in Ukraine and ways to restore bilateral relations. “I can say withContinue Reading
