Advisers to Donald Trump’s administration told reporters that his “cleaning out” Gaza comment referred to a long-range plan to make the enclave habitable, and that it is “unfair” to Palestinians to tell them they’d return within five years.
United States President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to halt the funding and promotion of gender transitions for LGBTQ youth. In his order signed on Tuesday, Trump said the federal government would no longer “fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support” gender transitions – also referred to as gender-affirming care – for those aged…
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Hamas calls for global pressure on Israel to enter 2nd phase of Gaza truce
Counting the Cost Will China and the US head into a full-blown trade war? The US and China’s tit-for-tat tariffs are ratcheting up economic tensions between the two nations. Read more They were seen as a restrained response to Donald Trump’s tariffs against China. Beijing’s retaliatory duties on nearly $14bn in United States imports have…
Trump says Russia’s Putin wants Ukraine war ‘stopped and settled’
The United States has cancelled 83 percent of all the programmes at the US Agency for International Development (USAID) following a six-week review, according to Secretary of State Marco Rubio. “The 5,200 contracts that are now cancelled spent tens of billions of dollars in ways that did not serve, (and in some cases even harmed),…
