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Trump says Iran must ditch ‘concept of a nuclear weapon’ ahead of more talks

President Donald Trump on Monday once again reiterated that Iran must abandon any hope of obtaining a nuclear weapon as the U.S. prepares for more talks in less than a week.
«Iran has to get rid of the concept of a nuclear weapon. They cannot have a nuclear weapon,» Trump told reporters from the Oval Office while sitting alongside the president of El Salvador.
«Iran wants to deal with us, but they don’t know how. They really don’t know how,» Trump continued.
TRUMP TEAM HOLDS ‘CONSTRUCTIVE’ FACE-TO-FACE NUCLEAR TALKS WITH IRAN, WILL MEET AGAIN NEXT WEEKEND
President Donald Trump shakes the hand of El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, Apr. 14, 2025. (Pool via AP)
The president confirmed the U.S. will hold more talks with Iran next Saturday in Italy, one week after the first talks began in Oman.
Details of the discussion remain nil, though they were seen as a launching point as Washington tries to negotiate with Tehran to end its nuclear program.
Iranian state media reported that Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi «briefly spoke» together during the two-hour meeting, which suggests Tehran viewed the discussions positively given their initial refusal to hold «direct» talks.
The White House similarly described the talks as «very positive and constructive,» though it also conceded that «very complicated» issues remain unresolved.
TRUMP DEMANDS DO-OR-DIE NUCLEAR TALKS WITH IRAN. WHO HAS THE LEVERAGE?

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, left, meets his Omani counterpart Sayyid Badr Albusaidi prior to negotiations with U.S. Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff in Muscat, Oman, Saturday, April 12, 2025. (Iranian Foreign Ministry via AP)
Trump has said negotiations with Iran need to happen «very quickly» but he has not provided a specific timeline on how long he will allow the diplomatic process to be carried out before he turns to military options.
The president has repeatedly threatened to «bomb» Iran should it not stop its ambitions to develop a nuclear weapon.
But the extent that the U.S. intends to shut down Tehran’s nuclear program also remains unclear as some call for complete disarmament as Iran also continues to advance its missile programs.

The Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) has analyzed where Iran’s nuclear infrastructure is located as Israel mulls retaliatory attack, Jan. 31, 2025. (Image provided by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) )
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«I’ll solve that problem. It’s almost an easy one,» Trump told reporters while comparing the end of Iran’s decades-long ambitions to develop a nuclear weapon to the challenge of ending Russia’s war in Ukraine.
«I think Iran could be a great country as long as it doesn’t have nuclear weapons,» Trump said. «If they have nuclear weapons, they’ll never get a chance to be a great country.»
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«No sabemos cuánto se dañaron las instalaciones nucleares de Irán, pero lo que no se eliminó es su programa», dice un experto argentino en armas atómicas

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Anxious Republicans turn to Trump amid divisions over ‘big, beautiful bill’

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Republicans in the House and Senate are anxiously watching whether President Donald Trump will take a more aggressive approach in corralling GOP lawmakers in favor of his «big, beautiful bill.»
«President Trump is the leader of the Republican Party, isn’t he? I think it’s incumbent upon him to make sure everybody in the Senate understands that this is a signature piece of legislation that essentially 77 million Americans voted for,» Rep. Derrick Van Orden, R-Wis., told Fox News Digital.
The Senate is working through a massive piece of legislation advancing Trump’s agenda on tax, immigration, energy, defense and the national debt — which the president has said he wants on his desk by the Fourth of July.
Trump has been pushing Republicans on the bill in public, addressing it at back-to-back events on Thursday and Friday while also posting on his Truth Social platform.
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President Donald Trump is pushing Republicans to get his bill over the line by the Fourth of July. (Brendan SmialowskiAFP via Getty Images)
Congressional leaders have said they’ve been in near-constant contact with Trump or his White House staff about the legislation. Indeed, numerous White House officials, including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and Vice President JD Vance, to push Senate Republicans to stay on course.
But some House Republicans want him to be as forceful as he was when their chamber passed the bill by just one vote in May. Trump summoned multiple groups of Republicans to the White House on several occasions in the lead-up to that vote, and even made a rare trip to Capitol Hill to gin up support within the House GOP.
Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., told Fox News Digital that when the House was going through the motions of advancing the mammoth legislation, it «looked all but impossible» to get it across the finish line.
But it was because of Trump, he said, that the bill succeeded.
«He’s our closer in the bullpen right now,» he said. «His arm is getting warmed up, and we’ll bring him in here in the ninth inning, and he’s going to throw heat. And so far, he’s pitched a no-hitter.»
It’s worth noting that several senators who have expressed concerns about the bill have spoken individually with Trump.

Sen. Steve Daines said Trump was Republicans’ ‘closer in the bullpen.’ (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
But Republicans who spoke with Fox News Digital showed varying degrees of enthusiasm when asked whether the president should repeat the intense involvement he had in the House.
When asked by Fox News Digital whether it’s time for the president to get involved, Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas., said, «That’s up to the White House. It’s up to the president.»
But Roy added, «I think the Senate needs to deliver, and I think the Senate ought to make good on the agreement that the majority leader had with us and with the speaker to work with us to achieve that level of spending cuts.»
Rep. Dan Meuser, R-Penn., said Trump is «always involved, so he’ll stay involved because we do want to get it done by July 4th.»
Rep. Scott Fitzgerald, R-Wis., said he was not being kept aware of how involved Trump was, but said the president’s deal-making skills would likely be needed.
«I mean, I think it’s gonna take that type of horsepower to kind of bring everybody together,» Fitzgerald said.
But some Republicans in the upper chamber are resistant.
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Senator Rick Scott said, ‘I’m not voting for something unless I know what I’m voting on.’ (Reuters)
«It doesn’t matter what he says, of course not,» Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., told Fox News Digital. «I mean, I’m not voting for something unless I know what I’m voting on.»
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Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., wouldn’t say whether he believed that Trump should put a finger on the scales more. But he told Fox News Digital that he was appreciative of the effort that Thune and Senate Finance Committee Chair Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, had put into getting feedback from Senate Republicans, but said that at a certain point, lawmakers just needed to vote on the bill.
«We have cussed and discussed this bill for a long, long time, and at some point you move from careful, rational deliberation into the foothills of jackassery,» Kennedy said. «And that’s where we are now. It’s time to vote. If people are unhappy, they can offer amendments.»
Fox News Digital reached out to the White House for comment.
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La República Democrática del Congo y Ruanda firmaron un acuerdo de paz, con la mediación de Estados Unidos

La República Democrática del Congo y Ruanda firmaron este viernes un acuerdo de paz -facilitado por Estados Unidos- que intentará poner fin a décadas de mortíferos combates en el este del Congo, a la par que buscará brindar al gobierno estadounidense y a empresas del país acceso a minerales críticos en la región.
El pacto, alcanzado tras meses de negociaciones, marca un paso significativo en los esfuerzos por frenar la violencia que ha devastado al este congoleño y que involucra a más de 100 grupos armados, entre ellos facciones respaldadas por Ruanda, provocando millones de muertes desde la década de 1990.
Precisamente, el documento suscrito prevé disposiciones sobre la protección de la integridad territorial, una prohibición de hostilidades y medidas concretas como la desmovilización, el desarme y la integración condicional de grupos armados no estatales.
De acuerdo con los términos del acuerdo, las partes se comprometen a respetar las fronteras internacionales y cesar acciones militares entre sí y contra sus ciudadanos y bienes. Además, se establecen mecanismos de verificación y seguimiento orientados a prevenir incursiones transfronterizas y el resurgimiento de la violencia, tradicionalmente alimentada por disputas étnicas, históricos resentimientos, y el control de los ricos yacimientos minerales de la región.
La ministra de Relaciones Exteriores del Congo, Therese Kayikwamba Wagner, celebró la noticia y aprovechó el momento, junto a su par ruandés, Olivier Nduhungirehe, para evocar la magnitud de la tragedia humanitaria vivida por la población congoleña.
“Algunas heridas sanarán, pero nunca desaparecerán por completo. Aquellos que han sufrido más están observando. Esperan que este acuerdo sea respetado, y no podemos fallarles”, dijo, en referencia al historial de acuerdos previos fracasados, así como al impacto profundo y sostenido de las hostilidades en la niñez, las comunidades desplazadas, sectores rurales, y en la estructura social y económica local.
Por su parte, Nduhungirehe valoró el potencial positivo de esta cooperación y sostuvo que “el crecimiento compartido y la cooperación transfronteriza desbloquearán dividendos tangibles para ambos países”.
“Debemos reconocer que hay una gran incertidumbre en nuestra región y más allá, porque muchos acuerdos anteriores no se han implementado, y no hay duda de que el camino que nos espera no será fácil. Pero con el apoyo continuo de Estados Unidos y otros socios, creemos que se ha alcanzado un punto de inflexión”, sumó el canciller ruandés.

El secretario de Estado estadounidense, Marco Rubio, también se expresó tras el anuncio y describió el acontecimiento como “un momento importante tras 30 años de guerra”, enfatizando no solo en las aspiraciones de paz de los pueblos afectados por el conflicto, sino también en los intereses internacionales involucrados en la estabilidad regional y el acceso de su país a los recursos estratégicos.
En tanto, el presidente Donald Trump destacó durante una conferencia de prensa que gracias a su intervención en “una de las peores guerras que cualquier persona haya visto” logró “reunirlos (a los bandos enfrentados) y negociarlo (el acuerdo)”.
“Y no solo eso, estamos obteniendo para Estados Unidos muchos de los derechos minerales del Congo”, sumó, en referencia al nuevo caudal de minerales críticos para sectores tecnológicos claves al que tendrá acceso en adelante, en medio de la carrera con China por la influencia y la explotación del continente africano.
Durante las negociaciones, la participación de Qatar también resultó clave; el país árabe del Golfo ofreció respaldo logístico y político para acercar las posiciones de las partes enfrentadas, a petición de la Casa Blanca y otras entidades internacionales.
(Con información de AP)
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