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A Trump administration envoy to the Middle East pressed Lebanon’s new leaders on Friday to ensure that Hezbollah does not become part of the government, as it grapples with a fragile cease-fire and violence that could undermine its push for stability.The United States deputy envoy to the Middle East, Morgan Ortagus, said at a news conference in Beirut after meeting Lebanon’s new president, Joseph Aoun, that Hezbollah had been “defeated” by Israel.She added that the leadership of Lebanon was committed to ensuring that Hezbollah, a powerful Iran-backed militia, “is not a part of this government in any form.”There was no…
A Tesla showroom with its logo and electric vehicles on display, including the Model 3 and Model Y, is seen on January 12, 2025, in Chongqing, China. Cheng Xin | Getty ImagesSales of Tesla’s cars to China fell in January, as competition from domestic rivals continued to heat up.Tesla sold 63,238 units of its electric cars in January, down 11.5% from the 71,447 cars sold in the same month last year.Shares of Tesla were down about 1.5% in premarket trading.Chinese rival BYD meanwhile sold 296,446 pure electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles last month, up 47% year-on-year.Other Chinese rivals of Tesla, including…
President Trump touted the 2020 Abraham Accords that established formal ties between Israel and four Arab countries as one of the biggest foreign policy achievements of his first term.Now he is pursuing his long-desired goal of getting Saudi Arabia to join the accords — but he may have just dealt himself a serious setback. Mr. Trump’s proposal to transfer all two million Palestinians out of the Gaza Strip and then rebuild the enclave as the “Riviera of the Middle East” has antagonized some of the very people he needs to seal the deal.The Gaza idea was swiftly rejected by Arab…
President Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, made plainly clear how a Latin American nation — considered a U.S. adversary — will help the president deliver on a promise that carried him to the White House.Mr. Homan expected flights carrying Venezuelan migrants in the United States back to Venezuela to begin “within the next 30 days,” he said in an interview with The New York Times.It was the first indication of a timeline for the plan to send people back to Venezuela after Mr. Trump’s announcement that his government had struck a deal with the country’s autocratic leader, Nicolás Maduro.Last week,…
On Monday, a team at IBM that is contracted to manage human resources data for more than 500,000 federal employees received an unusual request to provide “read-only” access for the HR records for all 14,000 employees of the General Services Administration, according to a source familiar with the contract. The email was from IBM’s regular contact at the GSA, the agency that manages federal property. But the request was odd since the agency already had “read and write” access to the data. The request and the questions it raised were one example of the suspicion and speculation in Washington as President Donald Trump and Elon Musk conduct an unprecedented effort to shrink the…
A federal judge will consider Friday whether to block Elon Musk’s team from accessing systems at the Labor Department, which has investigated SpaceX and Tesla. Three unions asked Judge John Bates, an appointee of Republican President George W. Bush, to keep DOGE workers out of systems that also contain sensitive information about workers who have filed complaints and about Musk’s corporate rivals.“DOGE is violating multiple laws, from constitutional limits on executive power, to laws protecting civil servants from arbitrary threats and adverse action, to crucial protections for government data collected and stored on hundreds of millions of Americans,” wrote labor…
United States President Donald Trump has issued an executive order that bans transgender girls and women from participating in women’s sports in schools and other educational settings. The directive, titled “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports”, is the latest addition to a series of new executive actions that have shone a focus on gender debates within the US. After signing the order in the White House’s East Room on Wednesday, Trump declared that “the war on women’s sports is over”. What does Trump’s order say? The order instructs the Department of Justice to oversee a ban on transgender girls or…
Reserve Bank of India announces first rate cut in nearly five years as world’s most populous nation faces slowdown.India’s central bank has cut its benchmark interest rate for the first time in nearly five years as officials try to reverse slowing economic growth in the world’s most populous country. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said on Friday that it had lowered the repo rate, which the central bank lends to commercial banks, by 0.25 percent to 6.25 percent. The RBI last cut the key interest rate in May 2020, after which it rolled out a series of hikes aimed…
New Delhi, India – Kulvinder Kaur had tried and tried again to call her husband in the United States. After two weeks of the connection not going through, she was consumed by anxiety, she said from her home in Hoshiarpur, in the northern Indian state of Punjab. “I was really afraid about what might have happened to him – if he was robbed or killed there. He is father of my children and I was afraid if I would ever see him again,” Kaur said. Then, she saw a news telecast: President Donald Trump’s administration was deporting batches of illegal…
De pie en la rotonda del Capitolio, la primera ministra italiana, Giorgia Meloni, fue una invitada privilegiada en la toma de posesión del presidente Donald Trump.Meloni, la única dirigente europea que asistió al acto el mes pasado, comparte muchos de los impulsos conservadores y nacionalistas de Trump. Se lleva bien con su asesor multimillonario Elon Musk. Muchos de sus partidarios esperan que la especial relación de la dirigente italiana con el mandatario estadounidense refuerce la posición de Italia, y la suya propia.Pero incluso cuando Meloni se unió a la ovación de pie para el nuevo presidente estadounidense, Trump no tardó…