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US President Donald Trump, King Charles III, First Lady Melania Trump and Queen Camilla during the ceremonial welcome at Windsor Castle, Berkshire, on day one of the president's second state visit to the UK, on September 17, 2025.
Hard Numbers: Trump’s UK state visit begins, Brazil court fines Bolsonaro for racist comment, Ecuadorians protest new gold mine, & More
150: Pageantry will dominate the first day of US President Donald Trump’s state visit to the United Kingdom on Wednesday, culminating with an exclusive 150-person white-tie state banquet, featuring a toast to the president by King Charles III. The harder-edged politics will come on Thursday, when Trump meets with Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
1 million: Days after being sentenced to 27 years in prison for fomenting a coup, former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is in trouble with the law again. A federal court ordered him to pay a fine of 1 million reais ($188,865) for a racist comment he made to a Black supporter in 2021, telling him that his hair was a “cockroach breeding ground.”
$400 million: The Democratic Republic of the Congo is investing $400 million in satellite internet in a bid to improve the country’s drastically low connectivity rate. Only one in three Congolese is connected to the mobile internet. The company completing the project is co-owned by the Turkmenistan government.
90,000: An estimated 90,000 protestors took to the streets of Cuenca in central Ecuador to protest the construction of the Loma Larga gold mine there. Local residents are concerned the Canadian-run project will contaminate a critical water reserve.
47: Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Jerry Greenfield is leaving the ice cream giant that he founded 47 years ago in protest against its parent company Unilever for limiting his firm’s social activism. Greenfield is an outspoken progressive, and previously tussled with Unilever when Ben & Jerry’s refused to sell ice cream to Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
President Emmanuel Macron and Brigitte Macron receive President Joe Biden and First Lady Dr. Jill Biden at Elysee Palace. Featuring: Brigitte Macron, President Emmanuel Macron, President Joe Biden, First Lady Dr. Jill Biden Where: Paris, France When: 08 Jun 2024
Biden and Macron give Ukraine roadmap
French President Emmanuel Macron and US President Joe Biden solidified their respective support for Ukraine’s fight against Russia during Biden’s state visit to Paris on Saturday. The leaders released a joint "roadmap" that includes the use of frozen Russian assets to help fund Kyiv’s fight, despite resistance from some allied nations.
Biden warned that if Putin succeeds in Ukraine, “All of Europe will be threatened, but we’re not going to let that happen.” As voting in the European Union elections was ongoing, the president added: “The United States is standing strong with Ukraine. We’re standing with our allies. And we’re standing with France.”
But Macron and Biden are not completely aligned on their approach to the conflict. Last Thursday, Macron laid out plans to deploy Western forces and weapons in Ukraine – despite opposition from the White House, which is more cautious about such escalation.
At a Paris press conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Macron said he intends to “finalize” a coalition of countries that will send military trainers to Ukraine notwithstanding Biden’s concerns that they could end up in the line of fire and push NATO into decisions it would rather not make. When asked about this possibility, Macron insisted that it wasn’t about deploying weapons and soldiers to the front line, but about “recognizing Ukraine's sovereignty over its territory.”