European Union foreign ministers agreed Monday on a two-billion-euro plan to raid their own arsenals and jointly purchase desperately needed artillery shells for Ukraine, diplomats said. Diplomats said the plan targets sending the first one billion euro's worth of shells to Ukraine by the end of May and signing the joint contracts by the start of September.
Latin American leaders on Wednesday urged a united front to tackle US President Donald Trump's tariff onslaught and the economic uncertainty it has brought. Trump's tariffs on imports of non-US products, some of them suspended and altered numerous times, threaten economic disruption for CELAC economies.
The World Trade Organization chief said Wednesday the US-China tariff war could reduce trade in goods between the two economic giants by 80 percent, pulling down the rest of the world economy. President Donald Trump raised tariffs on China to 125 percent on Wednesday as the world's two largest economies fought over retaliatory levies.
Argentina is bracing for fresh austerity protests Wednesday, with a 24-hour general strike slated to start at midnight against President Javier Milei, who remains focused on Washington and a new IMF loan. Thursday's labor action will be the third general strike in budget-slashing Milei's 16-month-old presidency, and was called by unions to protest his brand of "chainsaw" austerity.
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