NewsNews overview: Worldwide tension rises, Trump's diplomacy and bold moves
News overview: Worldwide tension rises, Trump's diplomacy and bold moves
It happened while you were sleeping. Here’s what global agencies recorded overnight from Thursday to Friday.
- I support it [ed. note Article 5 of NATO]. I don't think we're going to have any reason for it, said U.S. President Donald Trump at a press conference with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Thursday. The British government leader declared readiness to send troops to Ukraine.
- In a statement announced on Thursday, the Trump administration informed about the near-total elimination of aid and subsidy programs within foreign programs (USAID), which the State Department has now taken control of.
- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stated on Thursday that if the United States enforces tariffs on Canada on Tuesday, the Canadian government will respond promptly and decisively. His remarks were in response to a question regarding Ottawa’s stance on President Donald Trump’s announced tariff measures.
- The Mexican prosecutor's office declared on Thursday that Mexico has extradited drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero and 28 other imprisoned gangsters linked to the most dangerous criminal groups to the U.S. This was the largest operation of its kind in years, and the media linked it to U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff threats. Some analysts, reported by Reuters, assess the extradition as a gift to Trump in the context of ongoing negotiations.
- The North Korean army conducted a test of strategic cruise missiles, state media reported on Friday. Leader Kim Jong Un, who supervised the test, called for maintaining full readiness to use nuclear weapons.
- Hungary asked the USA to exempt the project of expanding the nuclear power plant in Paks by Russians from the sanctions imposed by the previous U.S. administration, conveyed Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto on Thursday.
- The Parliament of the Republic of Srpska (RS), an autonomous part of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), passed laws on Thursday that ban nationwide courts and prosecutors from operating in its territory. This is in response to RS President Milorad Dodik's conviction on Wednesday by a Sarajevo court.
- Serbia's Deputy Prime Minister, Aleksandar Vulin, met with Kremlin ideologue Alexander Dugin on Thursday in Russia. According to a statement from the Serbian government, the Serbian politician accused the European Union of attempting to provoke a conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- In Bosnia and Herzegovina, a total of eight people were detained in connection to the discovery on Wednesday in a home in the north of the country of 31 children, who were most likely victims of human trafficking. Among those detained were the parents of some of the children.
- The authorities of Nicaragua declared on Thursday that they will withdraw the country from the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC). The decision was announced following the publication of a report by UN experts criticizing the authoritarian rule of President Daniel Ortega and his wife Rosario Murillo in this Central American country.
