The United States House of Representatives took a significant step towards potentially easing trade tensions with Canada, while also seeing a member of the Trump administration visit Venezuela, and President Zelenskyy of Ukraine stated elections would only be held after a ceasefire with Russia, according to multiple news sources.
On Wednesday, the House advanced a bill that would roll back President Donald Trump's tariffs on Canada, signaling a growing willingness among Republicans to break with his administration, according to Al Jazeera. The vote saw several Republicans crossing party lines to vote with Democrats. In other news, US Energy Secretary Chris Wright visited Venezuela to meet with interim President Delcy Rodriguez, marking the first time a member of President Trump's cabinet had visited the country, Al Jazeera reported.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that Ukraine would only hold elections once security guarantees were in place and a ceasefire with Russia was achieved, Euronews reported. Zelenskyy pushed back against suggestions that he was planning to stage fresh ballots under US pressure, stating, "We will move to elections when all the relevant security guarantees are in place. I have always said that the issue of elections is raised by various partners. Ukraine itself has never raised it."
In other news, Prince William's trip to Saudi Arabia was overshadowed by the ongoing Epstein scandal, according to Sky News. The demand to hear from the royals had been enormous, but the calls for them to tell us more risked overshadowing how huge it was to get those statements earlier in the week from both William and Kate and Buckingham Palace, according to Rhiannon Mills, Royal correspondent for Sky News.
Additionally, an Irishman, Seamus Culleton, is reportedly fearing for his life after an ICE crackdown under the Trump administration, turning his American dream into a nightmare, according to Sky News. Culleton, who was married to an American and had a work permit, is now in a detention center in Texas.
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