2025-03-30 16:36
COPENHAGUE, 30 mars (Reuters) - Les États-Unis n'auront pas le Groenland, a déclaré dimanche le Premier ministre danois, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, dans un message sur Facebook en réponse au souhait exprimé par Donald Trump de s'approprier le vaste territoire arctique. "Le président Trump dit que les États-Unis obtiendront le Groenland. Soyons clairs : les États-Unis n'obtiendront pas cela. Nous n'appartenons à personne d'autre. Nous déterminons notre propre avenir", écrit le chef du gouvernement dans ce message. Sign up here. Donald Trump a déclaré samedi à NBC News qu'il avait eu des entretiens concernant l'annexion du territoire danois semi-autonome. "Nous aurons le Groenland. Ouais, à 100%", a déclaré le locataire de la Maison blanche, selon NBC. Vendredi, lors d'une visite sur une base militaire américaine dans le nord du Groenland, le vice-président américain JD Vance a accusé le Danemark de ne pas assurer corectement la sécurité de l'île et estimé que les États-Unis feraient du meilleur travail en la matière. https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/les-usa-nauront-pas-le-groenland-assure-le-premier-ministre-danois-2025-03-30/
2025-03-30 16:22
WASHINGTON, March 30 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump threatened Iran on Sunday with bombing and secondary tariffs if Tehran did not come to an agreement with Washington over its nuclear program. In Trump's first remarks since Iran rejected direct negotiations with Washington last week, he told NBC News that U.S. and Iranian officials were talking, but did not elaborate. Sign up here. "If they don't make a deal, there will be bombing," Trump said in a telephone interview. "It will be bombing the likes of which they have never seen before." "There's a chance that if they don't make a deal, that I will do secondary tariffs on them like I did four years ago," he added. Iran sent a response through Oman to a letter from Trump urging Tehran to reach a new nuclear deal, saying its policy was to not engage in direct negotiations with the United States while under its maximum pressure campaign and military threats, Tehran's foreign minister was quoted as saying on Thursday. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian reiterated the policy on Sunday. "Direct negotiations (with the U.S.) have been rejected, but Iran has always been involved in indirect negotiations, and now too, the Supreme Leader has emphasized that indirect negotiations can still continue," he said, referring to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. In the NBC interview, Trump also threatened so-called secondary tariffs, which affect buyers of a country's goods, on both Russia and Iran. He signed an executive order last week authorizing such tariffs on buyers of Venezuelan oil. Trump did not elaborate on those potential tariffs. In his first 2017-21 term, Trump withdrew the U.S. from a 2015 deal between Iran and world powers that placed strict limits on Tehran's disputed nuclear activities in exchange for sanctions relief. Trump also reimposed sweeping U.S. sanctions. Since then, the Islamic Republic has far surpassed the agreed limits in its escalating program of uranium enrichment. Tehran has so far rebuffed Trump's warning to make a deal or face military consequences. Western powers accuse Iran of having a clandestine agenda to develop nuclear weapons capability by enriching uranium to a high level of fissile purity, above what they say is justifiable for a civilian atomic energy program. Tehran says its nuclear program is wholly for civilian energy purposes. https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-says-there-will-be-bombing-if-iran-does-not-make-nuclear-deal-2025-03-30/
2025-03-30 16:17
COPENHAGEN, March 30 (Reuters) - The United States will not get Greenland, Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen said on Sunday in a post on Facebook in response to Donald Trump's statements he wants to take control of the vast Arctic country. "President Trump says that the United States is getting Greenland. Let me be clear: The United States won't get that. We do not belong to anyone else. We determine our own future," Nielsen said in the social media post. Sign up here. Trump on Saturday told , opens new tab NBC News he "absolutely" had real conversations about annexing the semi-autonomous Danish territory. "We'll get Greenland. Yeah, 100%," Trump said, according to NBC. During a visit to a U.S. military base in the north of Greenland on Friday, U.S. Vice President JD Vance accused Denmark of not doing a good job of keeping the island safe and suggested the United States would better protect the strategically located island. https://www.reuters.com/world/greenland-prime-minister-says-us-will-not-get-island-2025-03-30/
2025-03-30 13:46
ROME, March 30 (Reuters) - Italy's Eni (ENI.MI) , opens new tab confirmed on Sunday it was notified by U.S. authorities it would no longer be allowed to be repaid for gas production in Venezuela through oil supplies given by Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA. Reuters had reported on Saturday that the U.S. government had notified foreign partners of PDVSA, which include Eni, of the imminent cancellation of authorizations that allow them to export Venezuelan oil and byproducts. Sign up here. "Eni continues its transparent engagement with US authorities on the matter to identify options for ensuring that non-sanctioned gas supplies, essential to the population, can be remunerated by PDVSA," the Italian energy company said in a statement. "Eni always operates in full compliance with the international sanctions framework," it added. Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro has criticized the sanctions, saying they amount to an "economic war." https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/eni-confirms-us-will-no-longer-allow-oil-payments-venezuelas-pdvsa-2025-03-30/
2025-03-30 13:11
NIAMEY, March 30 (Reuters) - Niger has quit an international force fighting armed Islamist groups in West Africa's Lake Chad region as it seeks to shore up security around oil assets at home, the government said in a bulletin on state television. The Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF), which also includes soldiers from Nigeria, Chad and Cameroon, has been working to stem the insurgency since 2015, but progress has been hobbled by division and poor coordination, allowing armed groups to flourish across the region's sparsely populated scrublands. Sign up here. MNJTF has yet to comment on Niger's withdrawal, and it is unclear how the step will affect the mission's future. The Lake Chad region has been repeatedly attacked by militant groups, including Islamic State in West Africa and Boko Haram, whose insurgency erupted in northeast Nigeria in 2009 and has killed tens of thousands of people. Last year, Chad threatened to pull out of the MNJTF after about 40 soldiers were killed in an attack on a military base. And Niger has become increasingly withdrawn since a military junta overthrew President Mohamed Bazoum in 2023. Along with Burkina Faso and Mali - neighbouring states where juntas also snatched power in recent years - it withdrew from regional bloc the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in 2024. Niger's junta, which last week announced a five-year transition to constitutional rule, has promised to restore security in the country, whose vast desert north is crossed by migrants and traffickers. But the army has little control over large parts of the country. Islamist militants killed at least 44 civilians and severely injured 13 others during an attack on a mosque in the southwest this month. Its energy infrastructure, including an oil pipeline that links the Agadem oilfield to Benin's coast, has come under attack. https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/niger-withdraws-lake-chad-military-force-2025-03-30/
2025-03-30 13:07
SYDNEY, March 31 (Reuters) - Australia's mining and energy export earnings are expected to fall 6% in the financial year through June, with prices of its key iron ore shipments declining, the government said on Monday. Profits are forecast fall to A$387 billion ($243 billion) from A$415 billion the previous year due to "the impact of lower U.S. dollar prices for our resource and energy exports", the Department of Industry said in its quarterly resources and energy outlook. Sign up here. The forecast decline was smaller than the 10% drop predicted in December. "Further modest falls in earnings are likely over the five-year outlook," steadying at A$343 billion near the end of that period, the report said. The value of Australia's energy exports was returning to moderate levels after experiencing "extremely high levels" in 2021-22 and 2022-23, it said. "The high prices set during that period - due to the COVID-19 pandemic, bad weather and the fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine - encouraged a rise in energy supply." Iron ore will remain the mainstay of Australia's commodity exports, the report said, although it forecast prices of the steelmaking ingredient would fall on strong growth in global supply and lower demand from China. Iron ore exports to China from Australia's Port Hedland, a strong indicator of Chinese industrial activity, fell by 14.8% in February. ($1 = 1.5906 Australian dollars) https://www.reuters.com/markets/australia-forecasts-hit-resource-energy-export-earnings-lower-us-dollar-2025-03-30/
