Donald Trump has issues an apparent warning to Hamas, threatening “all hell to pay” if hostages held in gaza are not released by the time he returned to the White House. Back in october of 2023, Hamas had attacked Israel where 1200 people were killed and 251 were taken hostage. Now one of those hostages has been killed, which has… Read more »
Canada, Mexico, and China now respond to Trump’s tariff threats. Which to no one’s surprise they are not quite happy about it. 75% of Canada’s exports go to the US, so gaining a 25% tariff on their exports are not exactly something they are happy about. They were also compared to mexico when it came to immigration which only caused… Read more »
Joe Biden has gone to visit Angola and to discuss the trades and american investing in Angola’s infrastructure. This is gonna be known as a good counter to China’s Belt and Roads Initiative (BRI). Because we don’t like the BRI, because this would cause China’s economy to grow. Angola had relations with Russia and China until 2017 which then they… Read more »
Link to article: https://apnews.com/article/eu-mercosur-trade-agreement-farmers-uruguay-ca2ce61cf88b76a328d43c22bb85e00d The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, arrived in the country of Uruguay this thursday (12/5). Her trip was centered around finalizing many year-long negotiations to solidify a trade deal between the EU and the South American Mercosur trade bloc. This trace deal would establish a transatlantic market consisting of almost 700 million… Read more »
Alongside of other threats that president-elect Donald Trump is making, he also threatened to impose 100% tariffs on a bloc of nine nations if they tried to replace the US dollar with a rival currency. The BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, Chia, South Africa) group was trying to move away from the US dollar and Trump is putting an end to… Read more »
New president elected Donald Trump has threatened to impose tariffs regarding Canada and Mexico, which has seemed to create a split between the Canada and Mexico because Canada officials said that their borders shouldn’t be compared. Mexico’s president rejected the comments and Trump and the Canadian prime minister met together. “Trump has threatened to impose 25% tariff on goods from… Read more »
Donald Trump met with Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau at Trump’s Florida estate and had dinner together. He said that they had a “very productive meeting” together where they discussed many important topics to work together on. They talked about fentanyl, illegal immigration, trade, tariffs, and more. US elected president Trump has said that he will impose tariffs on products entering… Read more »
Link to article As agreements and negotiations progress between the European Union and Mercosur, a South American trade bloc of Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Bolivia, finalizing a major trade agreement, in response is sparking protests by European farmers. A deal was drafted originally in 2019, but because of environmental, economic, and political issues and disagreements, its final approval has… Read more »
Link to article As political instability continues in Haiti, gangs are now recruiting children at unprecedented levels, with reports of numbers of minors targeted rising by 70% in the past year, as reported by UNICEF. An additional statistic according to the U.N., is that 30-50% of all gang members in Haiti are children. Because of the humanitarian conditions facing the… Read more »
Link to article: https://apnews.com/article/mexico-fentanyl-drug-seizure-76b274660df084dd36e57dc6c000d922 Between the last two raids in northern Mexico, soldiers of the Mexican military have seized over a ton of fentanyl pills. This achievement marks the biggest fentanyl catch in Mexico’s history. The pair of raids followed a steep drop in fentanyl seizures within Mexico in early 2024. They also took place only days after U.S. President-elect… Read more »