LAGOS JANUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Donald Trump blamed Russia’s war on Ukraine on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy — an escalation of a pattern of sympathetic rhetoric toward the war’s aggressor, Russian President Vladimir Putin. “He should never have let that war start. The war’s a loser,” Trump said, referring to Zelenskyy, on a podcast with conservative commentator…
LAGOS JANUARY 23RD (NEWSRAGERS)-Saudi Arabia’s crown prince said Thursday the kingdom wants to invest $600 billion in the United States over the next four years, comments that came after President Donald Trump earlier put a price tag on returning to the kingdom as his first foreign trip. Trump’s 2017 trip to Saudi Arabia upended a…
LAGOS JANUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Attorneys general from 22 states sued President Trump in two federal district courts on Tuesday to block an executive order that refuses to recognize the U.S.-born children of unauthorized immigrants as citizens, the opening salvo in what promises to be a long legal battle over the Trump administration’s immigration policies. Eighteen states…
LAGOS JANUARY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-France and Germany on Wednesday warned Donald Trump against threatening “sovereign borders” after the US president-elect refused to rule out military action to take Greenland, an autonomous territory of European Union member Denmark. “There is no question of the EU letting other nations in the world, whoever they may be… attack its…
LAGOS DECEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Canada’s Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland quit Monday in a surprise move after disagreeing with Justin Trudeau over US President-elect Donald Trump’s tariff threats. Freeland also stepped down as finance minister, and her resignation marked the first open dissent against Prime Minister Trudeau from within his cabinet and may threaten his hold…
LAGOS DECEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President-elect Donald Trump said in an interview with “Meet the Press” moderator Kristen Welker that “you have no choice” but to deport everyone who is illegally in the U.S., including possibly removing the American citizen family members of those deported. Trump also said he will move to end birthright citizenship — long…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Arizona man was arrested Monday after allegedly threatening to kill President-elect Donald Trump in a series of Facebook videos, including one in which he appears to hold up an AR-15-style rifle, according to court documents. Manuel Tamayo-Torres faces a felony charge of threatening the president-elect after he made several threats against…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Labour Party Presidential Candidate in Nigeria’s 2023 election, Peter Obi, has joined other world leaders in congratulating U.S. President-Elect Donald Trump on his recent electoral victory. In a statement released by his media aide, Ibrahim Umar, Obi praised the American people for the orderly conduct of the election, commending U.S. electoral…