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Donald Trump sat side-by-side with billionaire Elon Musk, a once trusted advisor with whom the US president had a spectacular public falling out, at a memorial event for right-wing leader Charlie Kirk on Sunday. Trump chatted in a manner that appeared friendly with Musk, who once led the Republican's so-called "Department of Government ...
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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro rejected US allegations of being a drug trafficker and asked President Donald Trump for dialogue, according to a letter released Sunday by Caracas, as tensions soar between the two countries. The letter addressed to Trump is dated September 6 and was sent days after the United States deployed warships off the ...
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US President Donald Trump on Sunday called slain right-wing activist Charlie Kirk "a giant of his generation" at a massive memorial event marked by strong Christian rhetoric and praise for the man many speakers referred to as a "martyr." The 79-year-old Republican said Kirk was "above all a devoted husband, father, son, ...
This is Beirut, 21/09 05:50 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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The entire leadership of Trumpism, starting with President Donald Trump and his Vice President JD Vance, will gather on Sunday for the memorial ceremony of assassinated ultraconservative influencer Charlie Kirk, in a stadium of more than 60,000 seats in Arizona. Charlie Kirk, 31, was assassinated on September 10 by a gunshot to the neck while ...
This is Beirut, 19/09 22:05 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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US President Donald Trump said Friday he will welcome Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to the White House next week and expects a resolution to a long-running rift on fighter jets. It will be the first visit to the White House by Erdogan since 2019 during Trump's first term, with former president Joe Biden having a tense relationship with ...
This is Beirut, 19/09 21:40 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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US senators failed to pass a stopgap funding bill Friday as Republicans raced to avert a government shutdown and political challenge to President Donald Trump. Lawmakers in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives had narrowly passed the measure, but it was shot down by Democrats in the Senate amid no sign of compromise with Trump's ...
This is Beirut, 19/09 20:25 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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US President Donald Trump hailed Friday what he called progress with Chinese President Xi Jinping, including on selling blockbuster app TikTok, and said he would visit the Asian power, which offered a more cautious assessment of their talks. The leaders of the world's two largest economies spoke by telephone for the second time since the return ...
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More than 140 world leaders will descend on New York next week for the annual United Nations General Assembly summit, which will be dominated this year by the future of the Palestinians and Gaza. One world leader who will miss the gathering is Mahmud Abbas, the Palestinian president who Washington denied US visas to attend, along with his ...
This is Beirut, 19/09 11:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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President Donald Trump, who recently accused Xi Jinping of working to "conspire" against the United States, hopes to finalize the fate of video-sharing app TikTok and make progress on trade talks in a phone call with the Chinese leader on Friday. "I'm speaking with President Xi, as you know, on Friday, having to do with TikTok, and also trade," ...
This is Beirut, 18/09 17:45 - Reading : less than a minute
On Wednesday, US President Donald Trump attended a state banquet at Windsor Castle, joined by 160 guests alongside members of the royal family.
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Donald Trump hailed America's "unbreakable bond" with Britain Thursday as he and Prime Minister Keir Starmer signed a huge tech deal on the second day of the US president's pomp-filled state visit. A day after King Charles III treated Trump to a day of royal pageantry at Windsor Castle, Trump flew to Starmer's Chequers country residence for talks ...
This is Beirut, 18/09 12:55 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Swiss exports to the United States fell to their lowest level since 2020 in August when massive US tariffs came into effect, official data showed Thursday. The Alpine country's exports to the United States reached 3.1 billion Swiss francs ($3.9 billion) in August, a 22.1 percent drop from July, customs figures showed. Donald Trump imposed a ...