31 h. ago Watch live: Trump delivers Congressional address after spending day blasting Canada’s Trudeau over retaliatory tariffs

Watch live as Donald Trump delivers his much-anticipated Congressional address on Tuesday (4 March) after spending the day blasting Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau over retaliatory tariffs.

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31 h. ago Watch: Trump delivers Congressional address after spending day blasting Canada’s Trudeau over retaliatory tariffs

Watch as Donald Trump delivers his much-anticipated Congressional address on Tuesday (4 March) after spending the day blasting Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau over retaliatory tariffs.

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35 h. ago Trump preps for Congressional address after spending day blasting Canada’s Trudeau over retaliatory tariffs: Live updates

President’s trade aggressions cause further unease after he suspends American aid for Ukraine

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38 h. ago Trudeau addresses Trump directly as he rips into his ‘dumb’ tariffs

Mexico, Canada, and China all plan to hit U.S. with retaliatory tariffs in response to Trump’s policies

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38 h. ago Trudeau condemns ‘dumb’ Trump trade war as Canada strikes back with tariffs

Canada’s prime minister says the US president wants to usher in the ‘complete collapse’ of the Canadian economyJustin Trudeau has claimed the aim of a “dumb” trade war launched by Donald Trump is to usher in the “complete collapse” of the Canadian economy and make it easier for the United States to annex Canada.Speaking hours after the US slapped 25% taxes on Canadian and Mexican goods – and a 10% levy on Canadian energy exports – the prime minister announced retaliatory tariffs on US exports and said his country would remain defiant against the aggression. Continue reading...

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39 h. ago Furious Justin Trudeau calls Donald Trump's tariffs 'dumb' and vows to escalate trade war

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivered a strong rebuke of President Donald Trump's decision to level punishing tariffs on their country.

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40 h. ago Trudeau calls Trump tariffs on Canada ‘a very dumb thing to do’ – live

Trudeau also says that he doesn’t believe Trump’s insistence that tariffs were imposed in retaliation for Canada’s failure to combat fentanyl traffickingUS consumers warned to brace for higher pricesChina and Canada retaliate against Trump tariffsDonald Trump has threatened to cut off funding to universities that allow “illegal protests”, and expel or deport students involved.Writing on Truth Social, the president said:All Federal Funding will STOP for any College, School, or University that allows illegal protests. Agitators will be imprisoned/or permanently sent back to the country from which they came. American students will be permanently expelled or, depending on on the crime, arrested. NO MASKS! Thank you for your attention to this matter.This is absurdly dishonest.I don’t even mention the UK or France in the clip, both of whom have fought bravely alongside the US over the last 20 years, and beyond.But let’s be direct: there are many countries who are volunteering (privately o...

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40 h. ago Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau hits out at Donald Trump’s ‘dumb’ tariffs in direct message to president

Justin Trudeau hit out at Donald Trump’s "dumb" tariffs on Canada as he announced his own retaliatory tariffs in response on Tuesday, 4 March.

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8 d. ago US officials have been absent from global climate forums during Trump 2.0

Exclusive: The ‘deeply troubling’ move comes amid concerns US ignoring international climate ramificationsUS officials have missed recent international climate forums sparking concerns about a potentially significant shift from Donald Trump’s first term, a review of meeting records and interviews with meeting attendees by the Centre for Climate Reporting and the Guardian show.On his first day back as president, Trump signed an executive order on stage in front of supporters at an arena in Washington DC which he said was aimed at quitting what he called the “unfair one-sided Paris climate accord rip off”. Trump’s exit from the Paris agreement means the US will join Iran, Libya and Yemen as the only countries outside the international agreement adopted in 2015 to limit global warming. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Explainer: what will the withdrawal of USAid mean for the Pacific?

Analyst says while USAid supports hundreds of jobs, the most significant damage from Donald Trump’s cuts will be to US relations with the PacificThe dismantling of USAid by president Donald Trump is having a ripple effect across the Pacific as people working on more than 100 projects and activities in the region grapple with an uncertain future.While Pacific analysts say overall the region is resilient and will not be heavily affected by the withdrawal, hundreds of people working on USAid projects across the region say their lives and communities have already been upended. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Zelenskyy’s week from hell: shock in Ukraine as Trump abandons Kyiv

As Donald Trump and his officials rip up three years of US rhetoric on supporting Kyiv, Volodymyr Zelenskyy is walking an unenviable diplomatic tightropeVolodymyr Zelenskyy has had some tough weeks in the past three years, but this past one may be up there with the worst of them.Back on Monday, in an hour-long interview with the Guardian at his Kyiv offices, the Ukrainian president was in a cautiously optimistic frame of mind. He said he had received “positive signals from the Americans” over upcoming negotiations. His team was working to fix a date for a meeting with Donald Trump, he said, and he was sure that the US president understood the importance of coordinating his position with Kyiv before talking to Russia. Continue reading...

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