NewsGlobal tensions rise: Trump's talks, tariffs, and tests
Global tensions rise: Trump's talks, tariffs, and tests
It happened while you were asleep. Here’s what global agencies reported during the night from Thursday to Friday.
- I support Article 5 of NATO, but it will not be needed in Ukraine, said US President Donald Trump at a press conference with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Thursday. The head of the British government declared readiness to send troops to Ukraine.
- The administration of President Donald Trump announced on Thursday the almost complete elimination of aid and subsidy programmes within foreign aid programmes (USAID), control of which has already been taken over by the State Department.
- Suppose the US imposes tariffs on Canada on Tuesday. In that case, Canada will respond immediately and decisively, stated Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday, responding to a question about Ottawa's reaction to President Donald Trump's announced introduction of tariffs.
- Mexico has sent back to the USA drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero and 28 other imprisoned gangsters linked to the most dangerous criminal groups, announced the Mexican prosecution on Thursday. It was the largest operation in years, and the media linked it to US President Donald Trump's tariff threats. According to Reuters, some analysts view the extraditions as a gift to Trump in the context of ongoing negotiations.
- The North Korean army conducted a test of strategic cruise missiles, reported state media on Friday. Leader Kim Jong Un, who oversaw the trial, called for maintaining full readiness to use nuclear weapons.
- Hungary has requested that the USA exempt the Russian-led expansion project of the nuclear power plant in Paks from sanctions imposed by the previous American administration, conveyed Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto on Thursday.
- The Parliament of the Republika Srpska (RS), an autonomous part of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), passed laws on Thursday prohibiting the operation of nationwide courts and prosecutors on its territory. This move is a reaction to the sentencing by a court in Sarajevo on Wednesday of RS President Milorad Dodik.
- Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vulin met with Kremlin ideologist Alexander Dugin in Russia on Thursday. The Serbian politician accused the European Union of attempting to provoke conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina, according to a statement from the Serbian government.
- In Bosnia and Herzegovina, a total of eight people were arrested in connection with the discovery on Wednesday in a house in the north of the country of 31 children, who were most likely victims of human trafficking. Among those arrested were the parents of some of the children.
- Nicaraguan authorities announced on Thursday that they will withdraw the country from the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC). The decision was made after a UN experts' report criticised the authoritarian rule of President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Rosario Murillo, in this Central American country.
