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So will the government of Donald Trump, which has been backing Mr Milei and buying pesos to prop up the Argentine currency.

China’s craze for crude is part of a grander plan. Since early 2024, when it became clear that President Donald Trump might ...

The Kremlin is acting yet more clinically and more cynically than it has before. Days before Mr Trump and Mr Zelensky met, ...

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Melania Trump will not be returning there anytime soon. Her husband’s four-day demolition of the East Wing caught nearly ...

I T IS THE start of the most important week of diplomacy for Donald Trump since he returned to office. A meeting between the ...

The haul was staggering: approximately $15bn in cryptocurrency, the most America has ever seized. On October 14th America’s ...