Lula says if Trump hikes tariffs, Brazil will reciprocate
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Thursday that if US counterpart Donald Trump hiked tariffs on Brazilian products, he would reciprocate -- but that he would prefer improved relations over a trade war.
Saudi crown prince promises Trump $600bn trade, investment boost
It did not give details of the source of the funds, which represent more than half of Saudi GDP, or how they are expected to be used.
Trump toughens crackdown on immigration and diversity
President Donald Trump announced Wednesday deployment of an extra 1,500 US troops to the Mexican border, as he stepped up a crackdown against illegal immigration and diversity programs in a whirlwind start to his second term.
What Donald Trump’s second presidency means for Nigeria, by Olu Fasan
Earlier this week, on Monday, January 20, Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th president of the US. Eight years ago, on January 20, 2017, Trump was inaugurated as America’s 45th president. His remarkable comeback, after a four-year interregnum, makes him the second US president, since Grover Cleveland in 1892, to return to office for […]
Second coming of Trump and lessons for Nigeria
The much-publicised American presidential election of Tuesday, November 5, 2024, with its earth-shattering outcome came to a fitting climax on Monday, January 20, 2025 with the inauguration of the irrepressible Donald Trump as the 47th president of the United States of America. Trump, the man many in America and several parts of the world love to […]
Trump calls bishop ‘nasty’ over mercy for migrants, LGBTQ comment
US President Donald Trump ordered federal employees of diversity offices to be put on paid leave by Wednesday night, and called a Washington bishop “nasty” after she asked him to “have mercy” for migrants and LGBTQ children.
US govt workers in diversity jobs to be put on leave as programs ordered shut
While campaigning, Trump had vilified diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies in the federal government and corporate world, saying they discriminated against white people — men in particular.
Deportation: Trump authorises immigration agents to raid hospitals, churches, schools
Officers will now be able to make arrests at designated “sensitive” areas, including houses of worship, schools, and hospitals.
Trump signs executive order ending birthright citizenship
The order, titled “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship,” was signed just hours after Trump took office.
Trump vows to take Panama Canal, urges Putin to make Ukraine deal
Donald Trump cast himself both as a peacemaker and fierce defender of US interests in a mercurial return to the White House on Monday, vowing to seize the Panama Canal but also imploring Russia to make a deal on Ukraine. In only his first hours back as president, Trump also moved to withdraw the United […]
Trump pardons 1,500 US Capitol rioters
US President Donald Trump granted pardons on Monday to more than 1,500 of his supporters who stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, in a bid to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
