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Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday issued new guidance halting spending on most existing foreign aid grants for 90 days. The order, which shocked State Department officials, appears to apply to funding for military assistance to Ukraine. Rubio’s guidance, issued to all diplomatic and consular posts, requires department staffers to issue “stop-work orders” on […]

The Trump administration plans to rejoin an international anti-abortion pact alongside countries such as Uganda, Saudi Arabia and Belarus, taking its first formal step to roll back Biden-era global health policies and previewing an expected strategy of seeking to curtail abortion access for millions of women and girls worldwide. Secretary of State Marco Rubio instructed […]

Ukraine is ready to transit gas from Azerbaijan to Europe, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Saturday. Zelenskyy told reporters in Kyiv he had discussed the arrangement with Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev when the pair met in recent days. Azerbaijan “has a large export capacity. The export capacity is 25 billion cubic meters,” Zelenskyy said. […]

Police are investigating after the grave of Jean-Marie Le Pen, godfather of the French far right, was vandalized during the night between Thursday and Friday. A police source told French newspaper Le Figaro on Friday that the cross on the Le Pen family tomb, located in the cemetery in La Trinité-sur-Mer in northwestern France, had […]

A massive trade war looms after U.S. President Donald Trump announced Friday evening he will “absolutely” slap tariffs on goods from the EU. “Am I going to impose tariffs on the European Union? Do you want the truthful answer or should I give you a political answer? Absolutely, absolutely,” he told reporters in the Oval […]

KYIV — In one of his first acts as president, Donald Trump froze all foreign aid for 90 days, but Kyiv may dodge the worst of that action, Ukrainian officials said Tuesday. “In terms of budget funding, we’re secured. [Former President Joe] Biden’s administration transferred all the funds under the ERA initiative [$50 billion] to […]

This article is also available in: English Le président Donald Trump a signé un décret lundi pour retirer une nouvelle fois les Etats-Unis de l’Accord de Paris sur le climat. Cette décision a instantanément mis le pays à l’écart de l’effort mondial visant à endiguer le réchauffement climatique. Cette fois-ci, ce retrait pourrait avoir des […]

DAVOS, Switzerland — Only months ago, Kyiv was terrified a second Donald Trump presidency would force Ukraine to capitulate to Vladimir Putin. Today, it’s pinning its hopes on Trump finally ending three years of carnage. Gathering in Davos this week for the annual World Economic Forum, Ukrainians and their backers see the newly inaugurated United […]

Donald Trump is promising a “golden age of America” in his second term, and he’s issuing a raft of executive orders to try and make it happen. The president signed a slew of orders and directives that aim to end birthright citizenship and crack down on illegal crossings at the southern border, increase domestic energy […]