Posts tagged with "Donald Trump"

Trump sets $50bn in China tariffs, Beijing ready to strike back Americas

Trump sets $50bn in China tariffs, Beijing ready to strike back

June 15th, 2018 US President Donald Trump announced hefty tariffs on $50bn of Chinese imports on Friday as Beijing threatened to respond in kind, in a move that looks set to ignite a trade war between the world's two largest economies. Trump, whose hardline stance on trade has seen him wrangle with allies, said in a statement that a 25 per cent...
Trump says N. Korea no longer threat, North highlights concessions Asia

Trump says N. Korea no longer threat, North highlights concessions

June 13th, 2018 North Korea no longer poses a nuclear threat, nor is it the "biggest and most dangerous problem" for the United States, President Donald Trump said on Wednesday on his return from a summit in Singapore with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. The summit was the first between a sitting US president and a North Korean leader and...
Trump says Russia should be at G7 meeting Russia

Trump says Russia should be at G7 meeting

June 8th, 2018 US President Donald Trump said on Friday Russia should also be attending a Group of Seven nations summit, as he prepared to fly into a chilly reception at the meeting in Canada, where other G7 leaders are set to clash with him over trade. Russia was expelled from what was then called the G8 in 2014 because of its annexation of...
Trump attacks EU, Canada amid backlash ahead of G7 summit World

Trump attacks EU, Canada amid backlash ahead of G7 summit

June 8th, 2018 Leaders of the Group of Seven rich nations headed for a summit in Canada on Thursday more divided than at any time in the group's 42-year history, as US President Donald Trump's 'America First' policies risk causing a global trade war and deep diplomatic schisms. In a bid to rebuild America's industry, Trump has imposed hefty tariffs...
For high-stakes summit with Kim, Trump trusts gut over note cards Americas

For high-stakes summit with Kim, Trump trusts gut over note cards

June 8th, 2018 US President Donald Trump will deploy a mix of charm and pressure to coax North Korean leader Kim Jong Un into a deal to give up nuclear weapons, trusting his gut instinct over briefing books in his ability to strike an accord, aides and former administration officials said. Kim, who at 34 is nearly half Trump's age, will get a...
Trump-Kim summit set for Singapore's Sentosa Island -White House Asia

Trump-Kim summit set for Singapore's Sentosa Island -White House

June 6th, 2018 The summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will be on Singapore's southern island of Sentosa, the White House said on Tuesday as preparations accelerated for next week's event. White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said in a Twitter post that the venue would be the Capella Hotel on Sentosa and...
Manafort 'attempted to tamper with potential witnesses' Americas

Manafort 'attempted to tamper with potential witnesses'

June 5th, 2018 President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, who has been indicted by US Special Counsel Robert Mueller, attempted to tamper with potential witnesses, Mueller said in a court filing on Monday. Mueller, who is investigating possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, asked the judge overseeing the...
Putin says 'fierce' US politics hindering summit with Trump Russia

Putin says 'fierce' US politics hindering summit with Trump

June 4th, 2018 Russian President Vladimir Putin blamed political ructions in the United States for difficulties in arranging a summit with President Donald Trump, in remarks broadcast on Monday. Trump said in March the two leaders would meet soon. But since then already fragile ties between Washington and Moscow have been strained further by the...
N. Korea shakes up top military brass ahead of Trump summit - US Asia

N. Korea shakes up top military brass ahead of Trump summit - US

June 4th, 2018 North Korea's top three military officials have been removed from their posts, a senior US official said, a move analysts said on Monday could support efforts by the North's young leader to jump-start economic development and engage with the world. Kim Jong Un is preparing for a high-stakes summit with US President Donald Trump in...
Trump says still chance of June 12 North Korea summit (Update) Asia

Trump says still chance of June 12 North Korea summit (Update)

May 25th, 2018 US President Donald Trump said on Friday said it was possible a planned summit with North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un could still take place on June 12 as originally planned, just a day after he cancelled the meeting citing Pyongyang's "tremendous anger and open hostility." Trump welcomed the conciliatory statement from...
Europeans scramble to salvage Iran deal after Trump reneges (Update) Middle East

Europeans scramble to salvage Iran deal after Trump reneges (Update)

May 9th, 2018 Dismayed European allies sought to salvage the international nuclear pact with Iran on Wednesday after President Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the landmark accord, while Tehran poured scorn on the US leader. "The deal is not dead. There's an American withdrawal from the deal but the deal is still there," French...
Russian firm's US affiliate paid Trump attorney $500,000 Americas

Russian firm's US affiliate paid Trump attorney $500,000

May 9th, 2018 An attorney for porn star Stormy Daniels said on Tuesday that President Donald Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen, was paid $500,000 by a company with ties to a Russian oligarch who was hit last month with US sanctions to punish Moscow for activities that included suspected meddling in the 2016 US election. In a tweet and a report,...
France says Iran deal ‘not dead’, Macron to contact Rouhani Middle East

France says Iran deal ‘not dead’, Macron to contact Rouhani

May 9th, 2018 France's foreign minister said on Wednesday the Iran deal was not dead despite US President Donald Trump's decision to pull out, and French President Emmanuel Macron would speak to his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani later in the day. Jean-Yves Le Drian told RTL radio that France wanted to stick to the nuclear accord that Tehran...
Anger in France, Britain over Trump's gun law speech World

Anger in France, Britain over Trump's gun law speech

May 6th, 2018 By Sarah White and David Milliken   U.S. President Donald Trump caused anger in France and Britain by suggesting looser gun laws could have helped prevent deadly attacks in Paris in 2015 and linking knife crime in London to a handgun ban. In a speech to the National Rifle Association (NRA) on Friday, Trump mimicked the...
Months after Parkland shooting, Trump to embrace NRA Americas

Months after Parkland shooting, Trump to embrace NRA

May 4th, 2018 President Donald Trump, who briefly pledged to "fight" the National Rifle Association after a February mass shooting at a Florida high school, is expected to throw his full weight behind the powerful gun rights group on Friday at an event in Dallas. In addressing the gun lobbying group's annual convention, the Republican president...
Macron's White House tree disappears Europe

Macron's White House tree disappears

April 30th, 2018 French President Emmanuel Macron celebrated the special relationship between the United States and France during his state visit to Washington last week by planting a tree with President Donald Trump on the grounds of the White House. Now the oak sapling is gone - at least temporarily. White House photographers noticed the tree...
Fired FBI director Comey says Trump 'morally unfit' Americas

Fired FBI director Comey says Trump 'morally unfit'

April 16th, 2018 Former FBI director James Comey said in an ABC News interview on Sunday that U.S. President Donald Trump is a dangerous, "morally unfit" leader doing "tremendous damage" to institutional and cultural norms. Comey, fired by Trump in May last year, was worried the president may be open to blackmail by Russia given claims he was present...
Amazon shares fall 6 per cent as Trump renews attack Americas

Amazon shares fall 6 per cent as Trump renews attack

April 2nd, 2018 Shares of Amazon.com Inc fell 6 per cent on Monday after US President Donald Trump again attacked the online retailer over the pricing of its deliveries through the United States Postal Service and promised unspecified changes. "Only fools, or worse, are saying that our money losing Post Office makes money with Amazon," Trump...
EU: Trump putting ‘gun to our head’ over tariffs (Update) Europe

EU: Trump putting ‘gun to our head’ over tariffs (Update)

March 23rd, 2018 European Union leaders called on US President Donald Trump on Friday to make permanent an EU exemption from US metal import duties, saying they reserved the right to respond "in a proportionate manner" to protect the bloc's interests. The 40-day exemption granted by Washington was like US President Donald Trump "putting a gun to our...
China urges US away from ‘brink’ as Trump picks trade weapons Business

China urges US away from ‘brink’ as Trump picks trade weapons

March 23rd, 2018 China urged the United States on Friday to "pull back from the brink" as President Donald Trump's plans for tariffs on up to $60bn in Chinese goods moved the world's two largest economies closer to a trade war. The escalating tensions sent shivers through financial markets as investors foresaw dire consequences for the global...
Cambridge Analytica CEO claims influence on U.S. election, Facebook questioned World

Cambridge Analytica CEO claims influence on U.S. election, Facebook questioned

March 21st, 2018 The suspended chief executive of Cambridge Analytica said in a secretly recorded video broadcast on Tuesday that his UK-based political consultancy's online campaign played a decisive role in U.S. President Donald Trump's 2016 election victory. CEO Alexander Nix's comments, which could not be verified, are potentially a further...
China's premier pledges further market opening World

China's premier pledges further market opening

March 20th, 2018 China will open up its economy further, and its door to the outside will only get wider, with foreign and domestic firms allowed to compete on an equal footing, Premier Li Keqiang said at the close the country's annual parliament session on Tuesday. The familiar-sounding pledges from Beijing came as the prospect of a global trade war...
Trump’s foreign policy, perhaps not so simple after all CM Regular Columnist

Trump’s foreign policy, perhaps not so simple after all

March 18th, 2018 By SM Farid Mirbagheri Fourteen months into his presidency Donald Trump has had a very visible impact upon the foreign policy of the United States. The US president seems to have replaced the passivity of his predecessor with a simple but pro-active approach that inter alia has rattled the North Korean leadership into an unwilling...
Tillerson gone, Trump unleashed CM Regular Columnist

Tillerson gone, Trump unleashed

March 18th, 2018 By Gwynne Dyer   Rex Tillerson did not suffer fools gladly. He called Donald Trump a “moron” in a private conversation after one meeting at the Pentagon and did not take the opportunity to deny it when a journalist asked him in public. In meetings with the president, he would “roll his eyes and slouch” whenever Trump...
FBI No.2 McCabe fired; claims he is being targeted Americas

FBI No.2 McCabe fired; claims he is being targeted

March 17th, 2018 US Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired the FBI's former No.2 official Andrew McCabe Friday, prompting McCabe to say he is being targeted because he is a crucial witness into whether President Donald Trump tried to obstruct the Russia investigation. Sessions, in a statement on Friday, said he felt justified in firing McCabe after the...
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