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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 […]

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 Treasury Department on Friday officially removed U.S. sanctions against dozens of Israeli groups and individuals accused of violence against Palestinians in the West Bank as part of President Donald Trump’s major reversal of Biden-era policy in the region. The action carries out Trump’s Day One move to rescind former President Joe Biden’s February 2024 […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday he is open to meet with United States President Donald Trump to “talk calmly” about issues such as energy prices and the Kremlin’s war on Ukraine. “It would be better for us to meet, based on the realities of today, to talk calmly on all those areas that are of interest […]

BERLIN — German conservatives’ determination not to play ball with the far right is ebbing away. Friedrich Merz, favorite to be chancellor after next month’s election, signaled he’d try to push tougher migration measures through parliament even if passage depends on the support of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party — a taboo-busting move […]

Hungary again delayed the renewal of the EU’s Russia sanctions on Friday, injecting a last-minute demand for Ukraine to reopen its pipelines and allow Russian gas to flow across the continent. “Now the issue of extending sanctions is on the agenda, I have put on the handbrake and asked European leaders to understand that this […]

President Donald Trump laid out an ambitious trade agenda Monday night that paves the way for tariffs on a number of fronts, White House trade counselor Peter Navarro said Tuesday. In a memo to incoming Cabinet leaders, Trump showed he wants to “quickly” conduct a number of “foundational studies” on the need for tariffs, Navarro […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]