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A billionaire who supports Donald Trump urged the American president to pause the newly announced trade tariffs, warning that otherwise he risks a self-inflicted “nuclear economic winter”. Against the backdrop of financial market turbulence, hedge fund manager Bill Ackman said that Trump should allow a three-month period during which affected countries can renegotiate their trade relationships with the United States, reports BBC. Ackman’s warning was supported by another influential voice on Wall Street. JPMorgan Chase chairman Jamie Dimon warned that the new tariffs could lead to price hikes for Americans. Despite the negative reactions, Trump defended his measures, saying that…
President Donald Trump stated, on Monday, to reporters that he “is not considering” implementing a pause in the enforcement of tariffs that he announced last week. He asserted that “permanent tariffs can exist and negotiations can also take place,” as reported by CNN.”Well, we’re not thinking about that. We have many, many countries coming to negotiate deals with us. And these will be fair deals. In certain cases, they will pay substantial tariffs. They will be fair deals. As you know, I spoke this morning with the Prime Minister of Japan and we had a very good conversation,” said the…
Victor Ponta, independent candidate for the position of President of Romania, has stated that if he becomes the head of state, he will block Ukraine’s grain exports through Romania. Such a stoppage of Ukraine’s grain exports would, obviously, create a new problem for the country, which has been facing a war initiated by Russia for over three years. Victor Ponta presented his intention regarding Ukraine’s exports in an interview broadcasted by Reuters on April 7, 2025. “The Romanian presidential candidate, Victor Ponta, stated on Monday that he will stop Ukraine’s grain exports through the country’s ports on the Black Sea,…
Russian President Vladimir Putin wants a ceasefire in Ukraine, but has not yet received a response to key questions from the Russian Federation, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Monday, April 7. After US President Donald Trump assumed the position of peace negotiator, his proposal for a ceasefire was accepted by Kiev, but not by Moscow.Trump, who says he wants to be remembered as a man of peace, has repeatedly stated that he wants the more than three-year war in Ukraine to end and has warned of the risks of escalation into a global war between the United States and Russia.Last…
The “news” that the eldest daughter of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Maria Vorontsova, was injured on the front lines in Ukraine has been dismantled as Kremlin propaganda by the independent agency Vertska. The information spread on Moscow’s appropriate Telegram channels, that Putin’s daughter was injured while treating Russian soldiers in Ukraine, is completely implausible, according to the analysis by the Russian publication.Putin’s daughter, Maria Vorontsova, supposedly was injured while treating Russian soldiers in December 2024, is the message being spread. Furthermore, she allegedly continued treating soldiers even after suffering a concussion, according to Russian propaganda.”Maria Vladimirovna Vorontsova visited the area…
Only a few days after a new wave of fake accounts imitating public figures, including Elon Musk and Donald Trump, the X network is preparing to enforce stricter rules for parody accounts. The decision will come into effect starting April 10th and is a direct response to the chaos caused by increasingly sophisticated imitations. Parody remains allowed but becomes invisible The new rule is simple, but with a major impact. If you want to create an account that parodies a public figure, you must clearly mark this in the profile name – using terms like “fake” or “parody”. Furthermore, you…
“Ukraine and Russia together have lost over a million people, dead or injured, as a result of the war initiated by Vladimir Putin. Many Ukrainian cities and villages have been wiped off the face of the earth due to Russian bombardments. Approximately 20,000 children were practically kidnapped and deported to Russia. However, besides all the human losses and material destruction, Ukraine has also suffered a colossal ecological damage. The Ukrainian authorities carefully document the evidence of a new type of war crime, known as ecocide (the destruction of ecosystems, mass extermination of flora or fauna, pollution of the atmosphere or…
A court has decided to place the general director of the company “NPO Gorizont” (Rostov-on-Don), Dmitri Hohlov, under arrest, Donnews reports. The enterprise is part of the “Gorizont” industrial group, which produces, among other things, radar equipment and drone detection systems, carrying out state orders from the Russian Ministry of Defense. Hohlov is the second director from the Russian military industry to be arrested this week. The regional FSB service announced the “stopping of illegal activities” of the company’s leader. According to statements, he is involved in “abuse of power in the process of executing a state defense contract”, TASS…
Donald Trump’s decision to impose tariffs on all imports to the US and introduce additional customs duties for America’s biggest trading partners has caused the strongest stock market crash in America since the 2020 pandemic. At the opening of Thursday’s trading, the S&P 500 index fell by over 4%, Nasdaq by 4.9%, Dow Jones by 3.7%, and the Russell 2000 index, which includes small-cap companies, plummeted by almost 7%. In just over an hour of trading, shares of the largest American companies lost $2 trillion in value. The total market capitalization of the American market decreased by $2.7 trillion -…
Russia and Belarus are among the few countries that have avoided the new tariffs imposed on Wednesday, April 2nd, by the Trump administration, while the United States has triggered a global trade war. The American President announced customs duties on imports from over 180 countries, but the two ex-Soviet nations are not on the list. Trump called the day of introducing tariffs “US Liberation Day”. US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt explained that Russia and Belarus, along with long-standing adversaries of the US such as North Korea and Cuba, are not affected by the…