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Nuuk, Greenland – Greenland’s most popular social media influencer announced her political bid just weeks ahead of Tuesday’s elections as she felt the winds of change blowing across the vast Arctic island. “This is truly a historic moment. I feel like we are finally voting on independence. This has primarily happened because the US is showing greater interest in Greenland,” Qupanuk Olsen, the 39-year-old running with the pro-independence opposition party Naleraq in the parliamentary vote, told Al Jazeera. “It’s a huge wake-up call.” Usually, she spends her time updating her hundreds of thousands of social media followers about everyday life…

China anunció el sábado aranceles de hasta el 100 por ciento sobre la canola, la carne de cerdo y otros alimentos procedentes de Canadá, en represalia por la decisión canadiense del pasado agosto de cobrar fuertes impuestos a las importaciones de vehículos eléctricos, acero y aluminio chinos.Los aranceles chinos, que entran en vigor el 20 de marzo, fueron también una clara advertencia a Canadá —e, indirectamente, a México— para que no coopere con Estados Unidos en materia comercial. El gobierno del presidente Donald Trump, al igual que el gobierno de Joe Biden antes que él, ha estado exigiendo que Canadá…

Abraham Lincoln suggested the United States was “the last, best hope of Earth.” Ronald Reagan celebrated it as a “shining city on a hill.” George W. Bush argued that the nation was “the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world.”But to President Trump, America is the all-powerful player in a series of high-stakes transactions.“You don’t have the cards right now,” he lectured President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine in their extraordinary Oval Office showdown.Mr. Trump is radically different from his Republican predecessors in countless ways. But rarely is the contrast starker than in his approach to American leadership in…

The Foreign Ministry in Pyongyang warns US-South Korean exercises threaten “conflict”.North Korea has fired several ballistic missiles as South Korea and the United States initiated military drills. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said on Monday that North Korea’s fifth launch event this year fired several missiles off the west coast into the sea. The launch came as South Korea and the US began their annual Freedom Shield joint exercises. The drills are scheduled to last until March 20. That drew condemnation from nuclear-armed Pyongyang, which issued a statement calling the exercises a “dangerous provocative act” that increases the risk…

JABLEH, Syria (AP) — Syria’s interim government signed a deal Monday with the Kurdish-led authority that controls the country’s northeast, including a ceasefire and the merging of the main U.S.-backed force there into the Syrian army.The deal is a major breakthrough that would bring most of Syria under the control of the government, which is led by the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham that led the ouster of President Bashar Assad in December.The deal was signed by interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa and Mazloum Abdi, the commander of the U.S.-backed, Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces.The deal to be implemented by the end…

In Trump’s idealized framing, the United States was at its zenith in the Gilded Age, a time of rapid population growth and transformation from an agricultural economy toward a sprawling industrial system.The desire to recreate that era is fueled by Trump’s fondness for tariffs and his admiration for the nation’s 25th president, William McKinley.Though Trump’s early implementation of tariffs has been inconsistent — with him imposing them, then pulling many back — he has been steadfast in endorsing the idea of 21st century protectionism. There have even been suggestions that higher import tariffs on the country’s foreign trading partners could…

US president says economy is in a “period of transition” amid uncertainty over his trade policies.United States President Donald Trump has declined to rule out the possibility that the world’s largest economy is headed for a recession amid market concerns over his “America First” economic agenda. In an interview with Fox News that aired on Sunday, Trump demurred when asked if he expected a recession this year. “I hate to predict things like that. There is a period of transition, because what we’re doing is very big. We’re bringing wealth back to America. That’s a big thing,” Trump said during…

For decades, the rest of the world, especially China and countries in Europe, have produced much more than they have consumed, selling goods to America in exchange for an ever-growing pile of U.S. dollars. This could happen because the United States consumes much more than it produces, gobbling up the difference in the form of persistent trade deficits, and financing those deficits with debt, which Chinese and European investors are happy to buy.President Trump is unwilling to accept this state of affairs. His administration has accelerated a shift to what my colleagues and I at the investment management firm Bridgewater…

Beijing began imposing tariffs on Monday on many farm products from the United States, for which China is the largest overseas market. It is the latest escalation of a trade fight between the world’s two-largest economies.The Chinese government announced the tariffs last week, shortly after President Trump raised tariffs on Chinese products for the second time since he took office in January. The Chinese tariffs will include a levy of 15 percent on U.S. products like chicken, wheat and corn, as well as 10 percent on products like soybeans, pork, beef and fruit.Beijing said that goods that had already been…

Ukrainian forces have stalled the Russian offensive in the eastern Donetsk region in recent months and have started to win back small patches of land, according to Ukrainian soldiers and military analysts.Russia still holds the initiative, and conducts dozens of assaults across the eastern front every day, the soldiers and analysts say. But after more than 15 months on the offensive, Russian brigades have been depleted and Moscow is struggling to replace destroyed equipment, offering limited opportunities that Ukrainian forces are trying to exploit.“The Russian offensive effort in Donetsk has stalled in recent months due to poor weather, exhaustion among…