61 m. ago Who has joined Trump’s board of peace – and what power will it have?

Trump seems to envision the ‘board of peace’ with a far broader scope beyond Gaza

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86 m. ago Pope Leo ‘considering what to do’ after being invited to join Trump’s Board of Peace

The membership fee to join the Board of Peace reportedly costs $1 billion

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4 h. ago A list of countries joining Trump's Board of Peace, those not joining and those not committed

Several countries have said they will join U.S. President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace, while a few European nations have declined their invitations

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4 h. ago Netanyahu agrees to join Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ for Gaza despite war crimes arrest warrant

Israel has previously objected to the membership of the board

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5 h. ago Argentina 'could use Trump's peace board to make new claim on the Falklands' as officials warn 'monster' organisation could diminish UK power by sidelining the UN

The UK is worried that Argentine president Javier Milei, a close supporter of Mr Trump, could use the US leader's control of the body to further his country's baseless claim to the territory.

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6 h. ago The world leaders joining Trump’s Board of Peace – and those who declined

Trump seems to envision the Board of Peace with a far broader scope beyond Gaza

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6 h. ago Netanyahu to join Trump ‘board of peace’ despite previous objections

Israeli prime minister accepts position on US-proposed body with initial remit to oversee Gaza ceasefireIsrael’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said on Wednesday that he had agreed to join a US-backed “board of peace” proposed by Donald Trump, despite his office having earlier criticised the composition of its executive committee.The body, chaired by the US president, was initially presented as a limited forum of world leaders tasked with overseeing a ceasefire in Gaza. More recently, however, the initiative appears to have expanded well beyond that remit, with the Trump camp extending invitations to dozens of countries and suggesting the board could evolve into a vehicle for brokering conflicts far beyond the Middle East. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago Donald Trump's commanders could disobey him over Greenland invasion under secret law

As tensions continue to rise over Donald Trump's plans for Greenland, the island's political leaders have issued a joint statement making it clear they don't want to be part of the USA

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7 h. ago What is Trump's 'Board of Peace'? As Israel becomes latest to join, how the US President's body will be run

A statement from the Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu said he agreed to join the board.

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8 h. ago US supreme court to consider Trump’s bid to fire Lisa Cook from Fed board

Case will test the limit of Trump’s powers as he continues extraordinary campaign for control over central bankThe US supreme court will hear oral arguments over Donald Trump’s bid to fire a Federal Reserve governor on Wednesday morning, as his administration continues its extraordinary campaign for control over the central bank.The US president tried to fire Lisa Cook in August over apparent discrepancies on mortgage applications Trump’s officials claim are evidence of fraud. Continue reading...

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23 h. ago Rachel Reeves hits back at two child benefit changes criticism during visit to London charity

Chancellor joins Deputy Labour Leader Lucy Powell on visit to the Felix Project in Ealing to see the work being done by charities helping London families

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23 h. ago Trump’s board of peace is an imperial court completely unlike what was proposed

The US president’s global club was endorsed by the security council on a false prospectus and seems aimed at displacing the United NationsLike many punters who have tried to do business with Donald Trump in the past, the UN has found itself a victim of a classic bait-and-switch, thinking it was buying one thing, but getting quite another.When they voted to endorse the board of peace in November, other members of the UN security council hoped they were binding Trump into a Gaza peace process, but it now appears they were hoodwinked into backing a Trump-dominated pay-to-play club: a global version of his Mar-a-Lago court aimed at supplanting the UN itself. Continue reading...

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25 h. ago Putin’s Board of Peace invite ‘concerning’, No 10 says, as Starmer mulls offer

The board is part of Donald Trump’s 20-point peace plan to bring a sustained end to the conflict in Gaza.

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34 h. ago Trump threatens to slap 200 percent tariff on French wines over Board of Peace as president leaks text from Macron

Donald Trump threatened to hit France with a 200 percent tariff on champagne and wine Monday night before leaking a text message from Emmanuel Macron.

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40 h. ago Trump wants to hold a ceremony to recognize his ‘peace board’ during the Davos economic gathering this week

President has described it as ‘the most impressive and consequential Board ever assembled’, but many world leaders are skeptical of its $1bn membership fee and domination by Trump allies

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47 h. ago Donald Trump needs helpers for his appalling neocolonialist project. What else is this ‘board of peace’? | Owen Jones

Blair, Putin, Erdoğan, Orbán: the names of those invited to serve say it all. And it's about so much more than GazaThe fate of the Palestinian people offers a warning about the future of humanity. When I recently visited the West Bank, Palestinians kept impressing the same point on me: Israel has turned their land into a laboratory. The technology of oppression that it has deployed – including in its genocide in Gaza – ranges from hi-tech surveillance to military drones and AI on the battlefield. These technologies have been exported to oppressive states across the world. And it doesn’t stop there.This brings us to Donald Trump’s “board of peace”, now set to rule Gaza. In the sleepy Oxfordshire village of Sutton Courtenay, where George Orwell lies buried, the ground itself ought to be shaking. This isn’t peace. It’s naked neocolonialism.Owen Jones is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

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49 h. ago Is Trump trying to replace the United Nations with his own Board of Peace?

With the Kremlin claiming that Putin has been invited to join Trump’s Board of Peace alongside Tony Blair, chief international correspondent Bel Trew asks what the US president is up to

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54 h. ago Keir Starmer FAILS to endorse Donald Trump's 'Board of Peace' for Gaza as Britain frets about $1billion cost of membership... while Vladimir Putin is also now invited to join

The Prime Minister told a press conference in Downing Street he was 'talking to allies' about the terms of signing up to the US President's initiative.

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54 h. ago Kremlin says Putin has been invited to join Trump’s Gaza ‘board of peace’

Putin shows no signs of ending Ukraine war and claim adds weight to accusation Trump favours Russian presidentThe Kremlin has announced that Vladimir Putin has been invited to join Donald Trump’s “board of peace”, set up last week with the intention that it would oversee a ceasefire in Gaza.The Kremlin spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, told journalists on Monday that Russia was seeking to “clarify all the nuances” of the offer with Washington, before giving its response. Continue reading...

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54 h. ago Vladimir Putin invited to join Donald Trump's 'Board of Peace'

Donald Trump has invited Vladimi Putin to join a "Peace Council" for Gaza, it is understood

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