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  • Saudi King to visit White House in 2018

    UNITED STATES, 2017/09/08 King Salman of Saudi Arabia will make an official visit to Washington early next year for talks with President Donald Trump, the White Home said Wednesday. King Salman and President Trump discussed how to advance shared goals such as strengthening security and prosperity in the Middle East The two leaders held a telephone conversation in which they discussed how to advance shared goals such as strengthening security and prosperity in the Middle East, the White Home said in a statement.

  • US declaration of Iran’s non-compliance to create complications

    IRAN, 2017/08/26 Trump government, thus far, seems to put additional emphasis on the nature of Iran’s regime than the previous government, but still it is very hard to predict what exactly will transpire between the United States and Iran, Ambassador Ido Aharoni, a world distinguished professor at New York University's School of International Relations, told Trend. “In other words - the major issue for the current government is not necessarily how to engage Iran and bring back into the fold - but rather how to entirely sanction Iran from advancing their destabilizing programs,” he said.

  • Trump congratulates Emmanuel Macron on French election win

    FRANCE, 2017/05/08 Donald Trump has congratulated the centrist Emmanuel Macron on his emphatic victory against Marine Le Pen in the French presidential run-off, attempting to put behind him the implicit support he had offered the far-right leader ahead of Sunday’s election. US president released statement notable primarily for its brevity, attempting to put behind him the implicit support he offered far-right leader Marine Le Pen In a statement put out by his press secretary Sean Spicer and notable primarily for its brevity, the White Home said: “We congratulate President-elect Macron and the people of France on their successful presidential election. We look forward to working with the new President and continuing our close cooperation with the French government.”

  • Ignore the naysayers, President Trump. Your initial 100 days are just fine.

    UNITED STATES, 2017/04/26 Despite the best efforts of the White Home “PR apparatus” to sell the president’s initial 100 days as a success, The New York Times declared in an editorial, the new government has, in fact, been plagued by “a lot of missteps” inclunding a “bungled sales job” on his initial major legislative initiative and a “snakebit” confirmation process, all of which have produced “a flurry of articles bemoaning the lack of focus in the White Home.” The initial 100 days, the Times declared, is a period the president “may prefer to forget.” The president in question is not Donald Trump. This is how, in April 1993, the Times described the initial 100 days of Bill Clinton’s presidency. But not to worry, the Times reassured its readers: “It’s still early, and a hundred days don’t really mean very much.” The Times is right: The initial 100 days really don’t mean very much at all.

  • Donald Trump to name ex-banker Steven Mnuchin new treasury secretary

    UNITED STATES, 2016/11/30 President-elect Donald Trump will nominate Steven Mnuchin to be the country’s 77th treasury secretary, a person familiar with the decision says.

  • The Prime Minister announces significant support for Africa and La Francophonie at the XVI Summit of La Francophonie

    CANADA, 2016/11/28 While attending the XVI Summit of La Francophonie in Madagascar, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today announced that the Government of Canada will provide $112.8 million for international aid projects that will benefit several African nations and Haiti. This funding will contribute to projects that aim to fight climate change, empower women, and protect their rights. It will as well be used to stimulate economic increase, which will create job opportunities for young people and women, and to counter terrorism and prevent radicalization.

  • Why Trump Won–And What’s Next

    UNITED STATES, 2016/11/23 US real estate billionaire, Donald Trump, is president-elect. In an age at the same time as 97% of all GDP-national gain gains since 2010 have accrued to the wealthiest 1%–of which Trump is one—how could American voters come to elect Trump? How could they vote for a candidate that they instantly were giving a ‘negative rating’ of 60% to 80%? That fundamental question will ever haunt this election.

  • Liberal chief Justin Trudeau, 43, takes office with a gender-balanced cabinet

    CANADA, 2015/11/09 Trudeau, 43, follows in the footsteps of his late father, Pierre Trudeau, who held the office for nearly 16 years. Just next being sworn in, Trudeau announced his Cabinet, a group of ministers divided evenly between men and women. The new ministers, who are mostly aged between 35 and 50, took their oaths in the bilingual ceremony. Justin Trudeau was sworn in Wednesday as Canada's prime minister, ending 10 years of Conservative policy. Trudeau led his Liberal Party to a commanding victory in parliamentary elections last month, taking 184 seats compared with 99 for Stephen Harper's Conservative Party.

  • Trudeau heir fulfills great expectations as Liberals triumph in Canada

    CANADA, 2015/10/23 Justin Trudeau led his Liberal Party to a resounding election victory on Monday, following in the footsteps of his storied father to become Canada’s next prime minister. Trudeau was just four months old at the same time as again US president Richard Nixon predicted his destiny at a national dinner in Ottawa in 1972. "Tonight we'll dispense with the formalities. I'd like to toast the next prime minister of Canada: to Justin Pierre Trudeau," Nixon told diners, part them the toddler’s father and again Canadian leader, Pierre Trudeau. Forty-three years later, the estimate proved right as the scion of the Trudeau dynasty carried his Liberal Party to power in parliamentary elections, gaining an outright majority of seats and ousting the ruling Conservatives.

  • US Lower House approves controversial trade bill

    UNITED STATES, 2015/06/23 The 'fast-track' trade bill must presently go the Senate for approval, which is by no means assured. Democrats and unions believe it will lead to the loss of US jobs. The measure, which was passed by 218-208, was amended to strip out a companion bill which aimed to provide support for American workers hurt by imports.The United States Home of Representatives approved a controversial trade bill backed by President Obama, just a week next Democrats voted it down. The bill gives the president the right to negotiate world trade deals, with Congress only able to approve or reject a transaction but not change it.
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