The Secretary-General's stark message to the 193 member states came as United States President Donald Trump's administration made explicit what had been implicit for months: Washington will not make its outstanding mandatory payments to either the UN's administrative or peacekeeping budgets and will withhold some voluntary payments too...

President Donald Trump's speech from the podium was shocking yet his meeting with the Secretary General António Guterres later that day was cordial; he stressed that he needs the UN...

Getting in the good books of President Donald Trump is a top priority and the troops who go are likely to receive higher than usual pay...

Florida and the politics of peacekeeping No United States president has been as hostile to the United Nations as Donald Trump...

The US under President Donald Trump has grabbed headlines by scrapping the USAID agency but Germany France Finland Sweden and Belgium cut their aid budgets by €7 billion last year...

But the Senate is more divided on party lines over the issue: many leading Republicans are likely to follow President Donald Trump's strictures on South Africa which could mean its exclusion from the scheme and already include punitive 30% tariffs on some exports to the US...

Instead they advise such issues – debt in particular – should take the form of ‘win-win solutions' and ‘deals' favoured by US President Donald Trump...

Within hours of US President Donald Trump's re-election on 6 November 2024 his Zimbabwean counterpart Emmerson Mnangagwa ladled on the sycophancy in a social media posting: ‘Congratulations to President-elect @realdonaldtrump on your election victory...

Saudi escalationAs relations were deteriorating between the Saudi Arabian and Emirati leaders Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman al Saud visited United States President Donald Trump in Washington DC in November winning his approval for the purchase of F-35 fighter jets perhaps as many as 48 planes in a multi-billion-dollar deal that would make Saudi Arabia the first Arab nation to get such advanced military technology...

The main disappointment in Hargeisa on 26 December was that United States President Donald Trump did not follow suit and recognise Somaliland despite invitations from Israel and the UAE...