2025

As he welcomed the leaders of Ukraine and Canada to his country estate this week, the king was sending a message to the world.

President Claudia Sheinbaum’s government made major concessions — and delivered results — to avert President Trump’s 25 percent tariffs. He imposed them anyway.

As President Trump begins to side with Russia, the Kremlin propaganda machine has changed its tune.

As Chinese leaders meet in Beijing, they are striking a confident posture despite serious challenges to the economy and growing pressure from the United States.

With Iran already wounded economically and diplomatically, hard-liners forced out two top officials and blocked talks with the United States, freezing President Masoud Pezeshkian’s agenda.

At a pizza and coffee joint in Kyiv named for the U.S. president, patrons are having second thoughts about its moniker after President Trump suspended military aid to Ukraine.

China and Canada immediately announced retaliatory tariffs, and Mexico said it would announce its own measures on Sunday. The responses escalated a trade war that has rattled the globe.

The decision marked the realization of a fear that has racked Ukraine since President Trump’s re-election.

“We are working on all possible scenarios to protect Ukraine,” said President Volodymyr Zelensky, whose country was looking to European allies for support.

Many ethnic Serbs in what was once Yugoslavia have long chafed at Washington’s foreign policy. ‘Trump’s America is different,’ said a former leader of a Serb enclave in Bosnia.