President Donald Trump on Sunday amended two executive orders to exempt imports valued at less than $800 from Canada and Mexico.

Kirill Dmitriev wrote on Elon Musk’s X platform for the first time since 2012 this week to declare US-Russia cooperation was “key to address world challenges.” Then he posted a video graphic depicting a joint mission to Mars with the US and Saudi Arabia on what appears to be one of Musk’s SpaceX rockets.

Dictatorships would appear to be on the rise. Russian president Vladimir Putin, US president Donald Trump and even un-elected tech entrepreneur, Elon Musk are ruling by decree like "kings."

President Donald Trump said Russian leader Vladimir Putin would accept European peacekeepers in Ukraine as part of a potential deal to end Russia’s war there. Trump made the comments to reporters at a start of a meeting at the White House on Monday with French President Emmanuel Macron on the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

So-called authentic leadership was once seen as good and moral. But leaders are increasingly ‘signalling’ their messages in ways that can be highly polarising.

Donald Trump’s Oval Office meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky, in which the president and Vice President JD Vance berated the Ukrainian leader as he tried to argue that Russian President Vladimir Putin could not be trusted.

Russia’s newest envoy has made his opening gambit: offer up the prospect of lucrative business deals to Elon Musk and Donald Trump.