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Washington Post
8 hours ago
- Politics
- Washington Post
Trump seeks crown as world peacemaker, brokering truce in central Africa
President Donald Trump celebrated a U.S.-brokered peace agreement between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo in an Oval Office ceremony Friday, touting the potential pause in a decades-long conflict as he sought to build his image as a global dealmaker. It was the latest in a flurry of global peacemaking efforts Trump has undertaken to mixed results, working phones and meeting personally with leaders to resolve a conflict between India and Pakistan and wars in Iran, Ukraine and Gaza. In some cases, including in Iran, a ceasefire has held — but at times he has also projected more optimism than some warring leaders themselves, as was the case Friday in the Oval Office.
Asharq Al-Awsat
10 hours ago
- Politics
- Asharq Al-Awsat
Trump Says Gaza Ceasefire Is Possible Soon
President Donald Trump said on Friday he believes it is possible that a ceasefire in the Gaza conflict will be reached within a week. Trump, at an Oval Office event celebrating a Congo-Rwanda accord, told reporters that he believes a ceasefire is close. He said he had been just been talking to some of the people involved in trying to reach a ceasefire to hostilities between Israel and Hamas.
Reuters
11 hours ago
- Politics
- Reuters
Trump says Gaza ceasefire is possible soon
WASHINGTON, June 27 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Friday he believes it is possible that a ceasefire in the Gaza conflict will be reached within a week. Trump, at an Oval Office event celebrating a Congo-Rwanda accord, told reporters that he believes a ceasefire is close. He said he had been just been talking to some of the people involved in trying to reach a ceasefire to hostilities between Israel and Hamas.
LBCI
3 days ago
- Politics
- LBCI
Trump says Zelensky meeting at NATO 'couldn't have been nicer'
U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday his closely watched meeting in The Hague with Ukraine's leader Volodymyr Zelensky "couldn't have been nicer." "You know, we had a little rough time sometimes, but he couldn't have been nicer," said Trump of the meeting, seemingly referring to an infamous shouting match between the two leaders in the Oval Office. AFP
Yahoo
20-06-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Olympic leader Bach got 10% raise in 2024 payment that trails far behind soccer's elected leaders
President Donald Trump looks at a display of soccer team pins with Carlos Cordeiro, former president of the United States Soccer Federation, left, and FIFA president Gianni Infantino, in the Oval Office, Wednesday, June, 18, 2025, after he met with members of the Juventus soccer club. (Doug Mills/The New York Times via AP, Pool) FIFA president Gianni Infantino speaks as President Donald Trump meets with members of the Juventus soccer club in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, June 18, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) FILE - IOC President Thomas Bach, right, greets Kirsty Coventry after she was announced as the new IOC President at the International Olympic Committee 144th session in Costa Navarino, western Greece, Thursday, March 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis, File) FILE - IOC President Thomas Bach, right, greets Kirsty Coventry after she was announced as the new IOC President at the International Olympic Committee 144th session in Costa Navarino, western Greece, Thursday, March 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis, File) President Donald Trump looks at a display of soccer team pins with Carlos Cordeiro, former president of the United States Soccer Federation, left, and FIFA president Gianni Infantino, in the Oval Office, Wednesday, June, 18, 2025, after he met with members of the Juventus soccer club. (Doug Mills/The New York Times via AP, Pool) FIFA president Gianni Infantino speaks as President Donald Trump meets with members of the Juventus soccer club in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, June 18, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) FILE - IOC President Thomas Bach, right, greets Kirsty Coventry after she was announced as the new IOC President at the International Olympic Committee 144th session in Costa Navarino, western Greece, Thursday, March 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis, File) GENEVA (AP) — The International Olympic Committee paid its president Thomas Bach $350,000 in 2024, the Olympic body said Friday — a 10% raise for his final full year in office after a two-year freeze. The payment, or 'indemnity' in Olympic language, revealed in its annual report is small compared to soccer bodies that, like the IOC, are based in Switzerland and count annual revenue in billions. Advertisement Bach on Monday will formally hand over to President-elect Kirsty Coventry, who will start an eight-year initial term as the Olympic body's first female leader and first from Africa. The IOC has classed the 71-year-old Bach as a volunteer on a full-time executive mission who 'should not have to finance activities related to his function from his personal savings.' Bach, who also gets living allowances, was paid from 12% to 15% what soccer gives its top elected officials. FIFA paid its president Gianni Infantino $5.2 million in taxable salary and bonus last year, plus other expenses. Infantino also is among the 109 IOC members and so can claim $7,000 each year for office costs and $450 daily allowance when on Olympic business. Advertisement UEFA president Aleksander Čeferin got almost $4.3 million in taxable income last year, including $300,000 from FIFA as one of its vice presidents. It is unclear if the 41-year-old Coventry will be a salaried president of the IOC instead of officially a volunteer. The IOC was asked for comment. The two-time Olympic champion in swimming left her job as sports minister of Zimbabwe after winning the seven-candidate IOC election in March. Bach's annual payment has been decided by the IOC's ethics commission on the stated principle 'the president should not financially benefit from his position.' The German lawyer held a series of business consultancies and board of director seats before being elected in 2013 to lead the IOC. Advertisement The IOC paid Bach 225,000 euros ($259,000) in 2020. It rose to 275,000 euros ($317,000) in the year of his re-election, 2021, then was frozen for each of the next two years. International sports bodies have typically published details of leadership pay as part of governance reforms, particularly after corruption scandals in soccer. ___ AP Olympics:
