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Yunus urges Trump to defer reciprocal tariffs on Bangladesh by 3 months

- Times Report - April 7, 2025April 8, 2025

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus has written to US President Donald Trump, urging him to delay the implementation of reciprocal tariff measures on Bangladesh for three months. In a letter, Prof Yunus requested the postponement to allow the interim government sufficient time to implement its initiative aimed at significantly boosting US

Trump-Putin ceasefire talks show no initial signs of bringing peace to Ukraine

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- James Horncastle - March 19, 2025March 20, 2025

Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to a proposal by United States President Donald Trump for Russia and Ukraine to stop attacking each other’s energy infrastructure for 30 days, according to statements by both the White House and the Kremlin. Yet within hours of a Trump-Putin phone call about a U.S. ceasefire

Trump, democracy and the US constitution

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- Jan Lundius, IPS - March 17, 2025March 18, 2025

In these turbulent and sad times, it is hard to keep quiet about abuses and violations of human rights taking place around the world; in eastern DR Congo, South Sudan, Ukraine, and Gaza. Among the most egregious examples of incomprehensible stances on such abuses is the behaviour displayed by the

Seven questions about Donald Trump’s second term and the answers

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- Thomas Gift - November 10, 2024November 10, 2024

Donald Trump has been elected for a second term as US president. International affairs editor Rachael Jolley spoke with US expert Thomas Gift, founding director of the UCL Centre on US Politics, about what Americans will expect the president-elect to do once in office, and what he will prioritise.

Donald Trump faces his own debate fallout

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- Agence France-Presse - September 12, 2024September 12, 2024

Donald Trump emerged Wednesday from a rocky debate against Kamala Harris looking to regain his footing with 54 days until Election Day, the first ballots already going out in Alabama and other states on the cusp of early voting. Not even three months ago, Trump stepped off the debate stage in

How Donald Trump evoked a history of white authorities to define race

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- Kathryn Schumaker - August 15, 2024August 15, 2024

In late July, former President Donald Trump told a room of Black journalists that Vice President Kamala Harris, his rival in the 2024 presidential election, “happened to turn Black” recently. “She was Indian all the way, and then all of a sudden she made a turn […] she became a Black

Donald Trump’s third presidential nomination has never been in doubt

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- Jared Mondschein - March 8, 2024

Donald Trump’s political obituary has been written many times. His dominant performance in the Super Tuesday Republican primaries marks one more instance of him outlasting those who counted him out. While Trump has yet to officially clinch the Republican nomination for the 2024 presidential contest, his near-sweep of the Super Tuesday

Should Donald Trump be disqualified from state ballots in presidential poll?

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- John Hart - February 8, 2024

The US Supreme Court will hear oral arguments this week in former President Donald Trump’s appeal against the decision to exclude him from the ballot in the Colorado Republican primary for this year’s presidential election. The Colorado Supreme Court ruled in December that Trump was disqualified from holding the office of

Trump rejects Democrats’ accusations who compared him with Hitler

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- Times Report - December 23, 2023

Former US President Donald Trump has said that he has never read Adolf Hitler's works and that he is not his follower. "I know nothing about Hitler. I'm not a student of Hitler. I never read his works," Trump said in an interview with radio host Hugh Hewitt when commenting on

Out-Trumping the Trump

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- Marco Bitschnau, IPS - July 4, 2023July 6, 2023

It’s been seven months since Florida Governor Ron DeSantis celebrated a brilliant re-election victory in the midst of an otherwise mixed Republican midterm performance. He had come in with nearly 20 per cent more votes than Democrat Charlie Crist. This was an almost surreally good result for a state that, until