Erin Hale

2 days ago | aljazeera.com | John Power |Erin Hale

Trump is expected to focus on securing investment in the US from Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. US President Donald Trump is due to arrive in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, in what will be the first stop of a three-day tour that will also see him visit Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. The White House said Trump was making a "historic return to the Middle East", the first official state visit of his second presidency, where he will concentrate on "strengthening ties".

1 month ago | aljazeera.com | John Power |Erin Hale

US president steps up confrontation with China, raising tariffs to 125 percent. The US stock market has soared after United States President Donald Trump announced a 90-day pause on his "reciprocal tariffs" on nearly 60 countries, with the benchmark S&P 500 and tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite surging 9.52 percent and 12.16 percent, respectively. Asian markets have followed the US rally, with Japan's Nikkei 225 and South Korea's KOSPI opening about 7 percent and 5 percent higher, respectively.

2 months ago | aljazeera.com | Charu Kasturi |Erin Hale

As US President Donald Trump sat in the Oval Office on February 28 with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for an explosive meeting that would reveal deep fissures between Washington and Kyiv, he was also asked by a reporter about another world leader: Vladimir Putin.

2 months ago | aljazeera.com | John Power |Erin Hale

The US stock market has shed more than $1.7 trillion in value after United States President Donald Trump declined to rule out the possibility the economy could enter a recession this year. The benchmark S&P 500 on Monday tumbled 2.7 percent, dragging the index nearly 9 percent below its all-time high reached on February 19. Recommended Stories The tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 plunged 3.81 percent, its steepest single-day loss since September 2022.

Feb 7, 2025 | aljazeera.com | Erin Hale |Vijitra Duangdee

Bangkok, Thailand - At the end of January, Cambodia's Khmer HIV/AIDS NGO Alliance was unexpectedly informed by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) that all funding for its tuberculosis programme had been put on hold for 90 days.