söndag 22 december 2024

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Donald Trump's threat: US could take back Panama Canal

President-elect Donald Trump has accused Panama of charging too high fees for US ships passing through the Panama Canal. In a post on Truth Social, he threatens to demand that the canal be put under US control.

Trump also warns that the canal could fall into the "wrong hands" and specifically mentions China.

"We would and will NEVER let it fall into the wrong hands," he writes on his own social media forum.

The Reuters news agency writes that Trump's new threat is a "rare example" of a US leader threatening to pressure another country to hand over territory.

Report: Trump wants to take the US out of the WHO on day one

Donald Trump's transition team plans to take the US out of the World Health Organization (WHO) on January 20, the day Trump takes office, health experts who spoke to his team told the Financial Times.

That would mean the WHO would lose its largest contributor, severely impacting the organization's ability to tackle global health crises like the coronavirus pandemic.

Lawrence Gostin, a professor of global health at Georgetown University, describes it as "catastrophic."

- The US will leave a huge leadership and funding vacuum in global health. I can't see who would fill it. 

Ivanka Trump will not return to politics

Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka will stay out of politics during her father's second term, people close to her told CNN.

"This time, I choose to prioritize my young children and the privacy we have created as a family. I do not plan to be involved in politics," she wrote in 2022 when her father announced his second candidacy.

She has not changed her mind on that point, according to the sources.

Ivanka Trump worked for her father her entire adult life before leaving in January 2021, when Joe Biden took office. Her visibility as an advisor during his first term had a number of personal consequences.

Many of her liberal friends in New York society turned their backs on her, and in 2018 she shut down her successful clothing brand after widespread criticism of the ethics of running it alongside her role in the White House.

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