Trump targets Venezuela with new prices
President Trump said yesterday that countries bought oil or gas in Venezuela would be forced to pay a 25% rate on their exports to the United States from April 2. He said Venezuela had “deliberately and deceived”
Later in the day, Trump said that he “could give many country breaks” on the prices, but did not specify which ones. Its administration gave Chevron, the second largest American oil company, two other months to produce oil in Venezuela and sell it in the United States
Trump also celebrated Hyundai Motor, a South Korean conglomerate at the White House for its announcement of an investment of $ 21 billion in the United States. The move could help South Korea avoid prices. The United States should apply reciprocal prices on April 2 which correspond to the taxes that countries will impose on American exports.
Large -scale effects: Japanese car manufacturers, initially optimistic about some of Trump’s policies, count with potentially devastating American taxes on cars made abroad.
Hegseth accidentally sent secret war plans to a journalist
Defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, disclosed war plans in a group of encrypted signal cats which included a journalist a few hours before American troops attacked the Houthi militia in Yemen, the White House said yesterday. Admission made after the journalist, Jeffrey Goldberg, editor -in -chief of the Atlantic, wrote in an article that he was wrongly added to the cat of Michael Waltz, the national security advisor.
Details: On March 15, Hegseth published the “operational details of the upcoming strikes on Yemen, including information on targets, weapons in the United States deployed and sequencing attacks,” said Goldberg. The national security council spokesman said that the message thread seemed authentic.
Context: The exchange took place outside the official channels which would normally be used for classified and very sensitive war planning. But Hegseth, the journalist wrote, told the group that they were “currently clean on OPSEC”, the military acronym for operational security.
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Turkey is in troubles. Here’s what we know.
The biggest demonstrations in more than a decade broke out across Turkey and more than 1,100 people have been detained, officials said. The authorities imprisoned and withdrawn from the Power Ekrem Imamoglu, the mayor of Istanbul and the first rival of President Rece Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday. Imamoglu was accused of corruption and support for terrorism.
The government has issued prohibitions for protest in major cities, limited access to social media sites and has flooded pro-government information channels with leaks aimed at indicating the guilt of Imamoglu.
Background: Imamoglu was imprisoned a few hours before the main opposition party of Turkey appointed him as a candidate in the next presidential election. Many people have called for its release and accused the government of having sidelined a political threat perceived for Erdogan.
What is the next step: If Imamoglu can escape his legal problems, he could be in a face to face race with Erdogan, whose term expires in 2028. Some polls suggest that Imamoglu could win.
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British classics obtain a shine
It is difficult to describe the classic English dishes without the stereotype that they are all bland, beige and soggy. While other cultural foods have long been the price of the London culinary scene, traditional British meals finally improve.
So what is cooking? There has been an increase in social media attention due to perverse fascination for British gravity – think of the radically informed images of beans in the oven. But the quality has also been raised, in part because a new generation of chefs opens its own restaurants and offers fresh sockets on the familiar. But there is still a lot of beige.
As a chef said, while British food is soft and simply made, “simple is not easy”.
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