Trump’s Top Trade Representative Details Offer That Canada Rejected

23 août 2026 à 10:43

In an interview, Jamieson Greer, President Trump’s trade representative, laid out details of what the United States offered to Canada before talks crumbled.

Jamieson Greer, the U.S. trade representative, said Canada would have been given the most preferential treatment of any trading partner.

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Carney Slams U.S.-Canada Trade Proposal and Vows Retaliation

Par : Ian Austen

22 août 2026 à 16:35

Prime Minister Mark Carney gave a powerful speech to Canadians on Saturday morning, hours after ordering negotiators to suspend U.S. trade talks despite President Trump’s punishing tariffs.

Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada said that he had pulled negotiators out of trade talks with the United States because the Trump administration had “asked too much and offered too little.”

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Waking Up to an Escalating Canada-U.S. Trade War

Par : Ian Austen

22 août 2026 à 06:22

The two countries are locked in a potentially devastating tariff war after last-minute demands ended talks in Washington late Friday night.

Dominic LeBlanc and Janice Charette at the Canadian Embassy in Washington in June.

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Carney Stands Up to Trump in U.S.-Canada Trade War

Par : Matina Stevis-Gridneff

23 août 2026 à 03:15

Canada’s prime minister walked away from what he thought was a bad trade deal with the United States. Many Canadians are behind him, but it will be costly.

Mark Carney, Canada’s prime minister, said on Saturday that “Canada is becoming stronger and less dependent on America.”

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How a Trump Envoy Uses Vodka and Dirty Jokes to Conduct U.S. Diplomacy

Par : Valerie Hopkins

22 août 2026 à 10:38

The diplomat, John Coale, says his personalized approach gets results and matches the president’s style. Critics contend he is giving up too much to an authoritarian leader.

John Coale, the U.S. special envoy to Belarus, was on hand last year in Lithuania for the arrival of released prisoners from Belarus.

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Canada-U.S. Tariff Talks Continue as Trump’s Midnight Deadline Looms

Par : Matina Stevis-Gridneff

21 août 2026 à 20:06

Canadian negotiators were in Washington to finalize a deal that would stave off new tariffs and improve the terms of existing ones, but Mark Carney faces a tough sell back home.

The ArcelorMittal Dofasco steel plant in Hamilton, Ontario. President Trump hit the Canadian steel industry with tariffs of up to 50 percent last year.

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Canada-U.S. Trade War Escalates as Talks Collapse

Par : Matina Stevis-Gridneff · Ian Austen and Ana Swanson

22 août 2026 à 11:59

Intense negotiations to stave off new levies by the Trump administration ended in an impasse as Mark Carney suspended talks. U.S. tariffs on Canada, and retaliatory tariffs on the U.S., will come into effect.

Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada said he suspended the trade talks because the American side introduced last-minute terms that ”called into question the reliability of any deal.”

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5 Deportees Are Flown by US to Equatorial Guinea After they Resist Deplaning in Liberia

Par : Pranav Baskar · Hamed Aleaziz and Genevieve Glatsky

21 août 2026 à 19:36

At least five of the people flown to Liberia under the Trump administration’s third-country deportation program resisted leaving the plane. They were then flown to Equatorial Guinea.

The Bamy Hotel, where migrants are held, in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea.

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Canada-U.S. Tariff Talks Continue as Trump’s Midnight Deadline Looms

Par : Matina Stevis-Gridneff

21 août 2026 à 12:22

Canadian negotiators were in Washington to finalize a deal that would stave off new tariffs and improve the terms of existing ones, but Mark Carney faces a tough sell back home.

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Why China Thinks It Can Resist Trump’s Economic Threats on Iran

Par : David Pierson and Berry Wang

21 août 2026 à 09:44

Beijing can squeeze U.S. critical mineral supplies and has enough oil to withstand the loss of Iranian crude, Chinese analysts say.

Oil storage tanks and facilities in Shanghai in March. China has large stockpiles of oil that make it less vulnerable to energy supply disruptions.

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Iran Must Plan to Overcome U.S. Sanctions After Trump’s ‘Economic D-Day’ Threats, Tehran Official Says

Par : Aurelien Breeden

21 août 2026 à 07:38

Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, lead negotiator in talks with Washington, made the comments after President Trump vowed an “economic D-Day” against Iran.

In Tehran last month. Before the latest round of sanctions was announced, Iranians were already contending with sky-high inflation and other economic hardships.

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Giorgia Meloni Has a Lot to Say: The Takeaways

Par : Roger Cohen

21 août 2026 à 05:04

The Italian prime minister is leading what will soon be the longest-lasting government in the country’s postwar history. She shows herself by turns funny and fierce in a rare interview.

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Giorgia Meloni Cuts the Hard Right a Path to Power

Par : Roger Cohen

21 août 2026 à 05:01

In a rare interview, the onetime political outcast reflects on her route from “the uncomfortable side of history” to the threshold of leading Italy’s most durable postwar government.

Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy at Palazzo Chigi in Rome last month.

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The Message Behind Trump’s Threats of ‘Economic Warfare’ Against Iran

Par : Anton Troianovski and Alan Rappeport

20 août 2026 à 22:58

President Trump’s threats of an “economic D-Day” carry a clear signal to Iran that he does not want to go back to war.

Among the challenges for President Trump is that he has repeatedly threatened Iran with destruction, only to pull back.

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Japan’s U.S. Ties Could Not Save a Top Judge From Trump’s I.C.C. Sanctions

Par : Javier C. Hernández and Kiuko Notoya

20 août 2026 à 17:22

Japan had tried to dissuade the U.S. from imposing sanctions on Tomoko Akane, president of the International Criminal Court, but the White House pressed ahead.

Tomoko Akane, president of the International Criminal Court, in The Hague in 2024.

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Trump Tariff Talks Leave Key Canadian Official Hopeful

Par : Ian Austen and Ana Swanson

21 août 2026 à 10:30

While President Trump has declared that the two countries effectively have a deal, a Canadian trade official said progress continued ahead of the Saturday deadline.

Dominic LeBlanc, the Canadian minister in charge of U.S. trade, arriving to meet with Jamieson Greer, the U.S. trade representative, on Thursday in Washington.

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State Dept. Declares U.S. Citizen in China Wrongfully Detained

Par : Karoun Demirjian

20 août 2026 à 10:59

U Min Zin, a scholar who studied Myanmar, is one of two U.S. citizens the department has designated as wrongfully detained in China.

The detained U.S. citizen U Min Zin disappeared in China’s Yunnan province after traveling there to attend an academic conference at the invitation of the Chinese government, according to the State Department.

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Trump’s Economic Threat Puts Focus on Iran’s Trading Partners

Par : Leo Sands

20 août 2026 à 10:34

President Trump appeared to suggest that the United States would impose economic penalties on countries that do business with Iran, though he did not specify what actions he would take.

Oil tankers moored at Tsing Yi port in Hong Kong.

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Trump’s Order to Cut Military Exercises With South Korea Carries Risks, Experts Say

Par : Eric Schmitt and Helene Cooper

20 août 2026 à 05:04

President Trump’s decision to curtail the military exercises came as allies question the U.S. commitment to longstanding alliances.

American and South Korean troops participating in the Ulchi Freedom Shield exercises last year.

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‘The Necessary Conversation’ Puts Family Political Arguments On Full Display

Par : Amanda Ripley and Gabriela Bhaskar

20 août 2026 à 14:27

“The Necessary Conversation,” a podcast and YouTube show, is a very public example of the political disputes families are having all across the country.

For Chad Kultgen and his family, fighting feels like progress.

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Trump vs. the International Criminal Court

Par : Katrin Bennhold

19 août 2026 à 16:50

The U.S. approach to the court has always been complicated. Now, it’s openly hostile.

The International Criminal Court in The Hague.

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North Korean Official Dismisses Reduced Drills Between US and South Korea

Par : Zane Irwin and Choe Sang-Hun

20 août 2026 à 06:20

Kim Yo-jong, a powerful adviser and sister of Kim Jong-un, also said she was “unaware” of any communication with Washington, contradicting President Trump’s claim her brother had responded to his outreach.

South Korean soldiers took part in a drill at a hotel in Seoul on Wednesday on the sidelines of a major joint military exercise with the United States named Ulchi Freedom Shield.

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Trump and Canada’s Carney Seem to Make Progress on a Tariff Deal, but Questions Linger

Par : Matina Stevis-Gridneff and Ana Swanson

19 août 2026 à 16:45

After a deadline extension, the latest U.S. tariff threats seemed headed toward resolution on Wednesday, but questions lingered about what Canada would give up, and what it would get in exchange.