
Central bankers worried about the risks of trade wars and cheap money
The global bank for central banks said U.S. and European stimulus measures won't provide "sustainable momentum."
Donald Trump's overt hostility to international organizations and multilateralism as U.S. president from 2017 to 2021 undercut longstanding alliances and treaties, alienated leaders and damaged America's global standing. Despite his exposure to sweeping criminal charges, Trump won his 2024 bid to regain the White House. Experts say the segregationist president, the first to be a sentenced felon, poses a technocratic threat to democracy, security and the post-1945 international rule-based order.
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The global bank for central banks said U.S. and European stimulus measures won't provide "sustainable momentum."
As host to the talks, Japan played peacemaker between the U.S. and nations antagonized by Trump's protectionism.
At a carefully staged visit, the British monarch touting the multilateral institutions that Britain and the U.S. helped to create after World War II — to prevent a third one.
The Mueller probe cast members of the Trump Organization's hundreds of pass-through companies and partnerships as central players in some of the main corruption themes.
The president's eldest daughter said in an interview that her father had asked her if she would be interested in the job.
David Malpass now oversees one of the most important international organizations set up after World War II.
The U.S. State Department said ICC chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda can visit the U.S. only for "official U.N. purposes."
A meeting of foreign ministers in the French seaside resort of Dinard this week will not include two senior U.S. officials.
These are turbulent times for the International Criminal Court, created 17 years ago as a court of "last resort."
The leaders had contradictory accounts of why there was no agreement on dismantling North Korea's nuclear weapons.
Leaders criticized the breakdown in transatlantic relations from U.S. isolationism despite China's growing power.
The U.S. will suspend participation in the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty against nuclear-capable cruise missiles.
The German chancellor noted there's been a "certain amount of disquiet in the international system," a thinly veiled criticism of the U.S. under the Trump administration.
António Guterres called for greater diplomacy, more climate ambition, better use of technology, more focus on the U.N.'s 17 major goals for 2030 and a renewal of foundational values.
Not surprisingly, the patterns of American and European leadership have been an affront to non-Western nations.
Despite co-founding the U.N. agency as a peace-promoting organization, the U.S. has now withdrawn from it two times.