Mark Carney, el recién elegido primer ministro de Canadá, llegará a la Casa Blanca “en la próxima semana o menos”, dijo el presidente estadounidense, Donald Trump.

Trump calificó a Carney como un “caballero muy agradable” que, en su llamada telefónica del martes, “no podría haber sido más agradable”.

El presidente reflexionó que ambos candidatos en la carrera —Carney y el líder del Partido Conservador, Pierre Poilievre— “odiaban a Trump” y que la figura conservadora “me odiaba más”.

El primer ministro de Canadá prometió el martes unir al país para enfrentar la guerra comercial y amenazas de anexión del presidente estadounidense, tras una victoria electoral que lo dejó muy cerca de la mayoría absoluta en el Parlamento.

El Partido Liberal obtuvo 169 escaños en las elecciones parlamentarias, pero no logró la mayoría absoluta de 172, lo que le obligará a pactar con otra fuerza minoritaria para que Carney se mantenga como primer ministro.

Tras una campaña dominada por las amenazas de Trump, Carney afirmó que hay “un nuevo camino a seguir” en un mundo “fundamentalmente cambiado” por un Estados Unidos que se muestra hostil al libre comercio.

“Es tiempo de ser audaces, de enfrentar esta crisis con la abrumadora fuerza positiva de una Canadá unida”, afirmó el primer ministro. También subrayó la necesidad de trabajar sin distinción de partidos.

Tras irrumpir en el día de la elección con sus amenazas de anexionar Canadá, Trump llamó este martes a Carney para felicitarlo y acordaron reunirse pronto, según un comunicado de la oficina del primer ministro.

Los líderes coincidieron “en la importancia de que Canadá y Estados Unidos trabajen juntos como naciones independientes y soberanas”, indicó la nota.

Hace apenas unos meses, el camino parecía despejado para que los conservadores canadienses, liderados por Pierre Poilievre, volvieran al poder tras diez años de gobierno liberal de Justin Trudeau.

Pero el regreso de Trump a la Casa Blanca cambió el panorama. La guerra comercial del republicano y sus amenazas de anexionar a Canadá provocaron indignación entre los canadienses e hicieron que lidiar con Estados Unidos se convirtiera en prioridad.

Carney, quien reemplazó a Trudeau hace solo un mes, convenció a los canadienses de que su experiencia en el sector financiero, como presidente de los bancos centrales de Canadá y Reino Unido, le servirá para enfrentar la volátil ofensiva arancelaria de Trump.

Ante sus simpatizantes la noche del lunes, Carney llamó al país a la unidad para los “difíciles meses que se avecinan y exigirán sacrificios”.

“Si Donald Trump no hubiese estado ahí, los conservadores probablemente habrían ganado”, dijo el politólogo Genevieve Tellier de la Universidad de Ottawa.

Poilievre, que centró su campaña en las insatisfacciones de política interna que golpearon al gobierno de Trudeau, reconoció la derrota y prometió trabajar con los liberales para contrarrestar la guerra comercial de Trump.

“Siempre pondremos a Canadá en primer lugar”, declaró a simpatizantes en Ottawa el líder conservador de 45 años, que además perdió su banca en Carleton, una circunscripción rural cerca de la capital federal.

“Los conservadores trabajarán con el primer ministro y todos los partidos por la meta común de defender los intereses de Canadá y alcanzar un nuevo acuerdo comercial que deje atrás estos aranceles”, expresó.

A pesar de la derrota, Poilievre logró que los conservadores obtuvieran su mejor desempeño en varias elecciones. Representan la segunda fuerza política en el Parlamento.

El líder del partido independentista Bloc Quebecois, Yves-Francois Blanchet, también instó a la unidad y a una “tregua partidaria” en un Parlamento que “tendrá que enfrentar a Donald Trump”.

“Sinceramente creo que los quebequés y canadienses esperan que el nuevo Parlamento sea estable y responsable durante las negociaciones” con Washington, dijo Blanchet, cuyo partido será la tercera fuerza.

Los liberales obtuvieron la mayoría absoluta en 2015, pero gobernaron en minoría desde 2019.

(Con información de AP y AFP)

The United States and Ukraine are on the verge of signing a mineral deal after months of fraught and chaotic negotiations, although a last-minute snag still needs to be ironed out.

Ukraine’s prime minister said First Deputy Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko was flying to Washington on Wednesday to sign the deal, which is central to Kyiv’s efforts to mend ties with President Donald Trump and the White House as the U.S. president tries to secure a peace settlement in Russia’s war in Ukraine.

The latest version of the minerals agreement was reached after Kyiv secured a significant concession from the Trump administration that only future military aid would count as the US contribution to the deal, according to the Financial Times.

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Trump had indicated in February that he wanted access to Ukraine’s rare earth materials as a condition for continued U.S. support in the war, describing it as reimbursement for the billions of dollars in aid the U.S. has given to Kyiv.

But a famous Oval Office spat with Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskyy set negotiations back. However, the pair met face-to-face in Rome on Saturday at the Pope’s funeral.

According to a draft of the new agreement seen by Reuters, the two countries would create a joint reconstruction fund funded by 50% of profits from Ukraine’s new mineral licenses.

The draft agreement gives the U.S. preferential access to new Ukrainian natural resources deals but does not automatically hand Washington a share of Ukraine’s mineral wealth or any of its gas infrastructure, the draft showed.

Ukraine would not be required to pay back previous aid provided to the war-torn country by the U.S., with only future aid being counted as America’s contribution to the fund.

President Donald Trump meets face-to-face with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for the first time since their Oval Office spat in February. (Vatican and Ukraine Ambassador to Holy See)

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«Truly, this is a strategic deal for the creation of an investment partner fund,» Shmyhal said on Ukrainian television. «This is truly an equal and good international deal on joint investment in the development and restoration of Ukraine between the governments of the United States and Ukraine.»

However, a snag arose as Svyrydenko’s plane headed to Washington, with U.S. officials reportedly demanding that Ukraine sign three documents at once—the framework, a detailed fund agreement and a technical document—which Ukraine says is not immediately possible due to required parliamentary ratification, according to the Financial Times citing three people briefed on the situation.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s team told her she should «be ready to sign all agreements, or go back home,» the Financial Times reports, citing three people familiar with the matter.

In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, firefighters carry a body of the victim following Russia’s missile attack that killed at least 24 civilians in Sumy, Ukraine, Sunday, April 13, 2025. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP) (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)

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The U.S. is seeking access to more than 20 raw materials deemed strategically critical to its interests, including some non-minerals such as oil and natural gas. Among them are Ukraine’s deposits of titanium, which is used for making aircraft wings and other aerospace manufacturing, and uranium, which is used for nuclear power, medical equipment and weapons. Ukraine also has lithium, graphite and manganese, which are used in electric vehicle batteries.

Unlike an earlier draft, the deal would not conflict with Ukraine’s path towards European Union membership — a key provision for Kyiv.

The two sides signed a memorandum, published on April 18, as an initial step towards clinching an accord on developing mineral resources in Ukraine. In the memorandum, they said they aimed to complete talks by April 26 and to sign the deal as soon as possible.

Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report. 

President Donald Trump defended the deportation of illegal alien and alleged MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia during a fiery interview with ABC, pointing to a photo he shared on social media clearly showing the notorious gang’s name tattooed across Abrego Garcia’s knuckles. 

Other recent photos of the illegal alien, however, do not appear to show the tattoo, Fox News Digital found. 

«Ask any law or immigration enforcement official who’s been on the ground about Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s tattoos: they’re MS-13,» White House spokesman Kush Desai told Fox News Digital Wednesday when asked about other photos appearing not to show «MS13» tattooed on Abrego Garcia’s hand. «An ICE investigation, a local police investigation, and the government of El Salvador have all determined that he is a wife-beating MS-13 terrorist illegal alien who should never have been in the United States. There is no dispute about these facts.»

Trump joined ABC News for an interview in the Oval Office that aired on Trump’s 100th day back in the White House, where he defended that Abrego Garcia had «MS13» scrawled across his hand. 

«On his knuckles he had MS-13,» Trump told ABC in an interview that aired Tuesday, referring to Abrego Garcia, who was deported to El Salvador’s notorious high-security prison CECOT in March, before he was moved to another detention center in the country earlier in April. 

«He had some tattoos that were interpreted that way,» ABC’s Terry Moran replied.

«M-S-1-3 — It says M-S-one-three,» Trump continued in the interview. 

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«That was Photoshop,» Moran responded while attempting to change the topic of conversation. 

Trump shared a photo to his social media accounts April 18 showing a man’s hand with «MS-13» tattooed across his knuckles above other tattoos, such as a marijuana leaf, smiley face, cross and a depiction of a human skull. 

Trump continued that Moran was doing «such a disservice» by claiming a photo clearly showing «MS-13» tattooed across the hand was «Photoshopped,» arguing Moran was spreading «fake news.»

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«Fair enough, he did have tattoos that can be interpreted that way,» Moran added during the interview. «I’m not an expert on them.» 

Fox News Digital examined two separate photos of Abrego Garcia shared with the media in recent weeks that do not appear to show the MS-13 tattoo. 

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele, who struck an agreement with the Trump administration to accept thousands of violent gang members illegally living in the U.S. and house them in a high-security prison in the country, shared a photo of Abrego Garcia after his arrival to El Salvador in March that does not appear to show «MS13» tattooed across his hand. 

President Donald Trump in the Oval Office holding a photo of the tattoos on Abrego Garcia’s knuckles that the White House says are affiliated with the MS-13 terrorist group. (Donald Trump TRUTH Social)

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«Kilmar Abrego Garcia, miraculously risen from the «death camps» & «torture», now sipping margaritas with Sen. Van Hollen in the tropical paradise of El Salvador,» Bukele posted to X April 17, accompanied by photos of Abrego Garcia shaking hands with Democratic Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen, who visited El Salvador in April to protest the Trump administration’s deportation of the man. 

The photo shows other tattoos across Abrego Garcia’s knuckles — including the marijuana leaf, smiley face, cross and human skull tattoos — but does not appear to show «MS13» like in the photo shared by Trump. 

Another photo shared by CASA, an immigration activist group, earlier in April showed a separate photo of Abrego Garcia with his young son that also did not appear to show the tattoo. Fox News Digital reached out to CASA for additional details and comment on the matter, but did not immediately receive a reply Wednesday morning. 

Fox News Digital reached out to the White House and Abrego Gacria’s attorney for comment on the photos and reported MS-13 tattoo, but did not immediately receive replies.

Abrego Garcia entered the U.S. illegally from his home country in El Salvador in 2011 and was issued a deportation order in 2019, Fox News Digital previously reported. Trump administration officials acknowledged in court in March that his March 15 deportation had been an administrative error, but have since defended the deportation and argued that El Salvador could release him if the nation chose to do so. 

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Abrego Garcia was suspected of partaking in labor/human trafficking, according to a 2022 Homeland Security Investigations report previously obtained by Fox News. The report also stated that «official law enforcement investigations» revealed that Abrego Garcia was a member of the notorious gang MS-13, which Trump has designated as a terror organization.

President Donald Trump’s administration has been on an illegal immigration crackdown.  (Brian Snyder/Reuters)

Abrego Garcia was pulled over by a Tennessee Highway Patrol trooper Dec. 1, 2022, after he spotted the car speeding and not remaining in its lane, according to the Homeland Security Investigations report. 

The trooper noticed eight individuals in the car with Abrego Garcia, who said he began driving three days prior from Houston to Temple Hills, Maryland, via St. Louis to «perform construction work,» Fox Digital previously reported. The report states that the trooper suspected the group was involved with a human trafficking incident, as there was no luggage in the vehicle. 

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New documents further revealed that Abrego Garcia was driving a black 2001 Chevrolet Suburban that he said belonged to his «boss.» The Suburban was identified by the Department of Homeland Security as belonging to Hernandez Reyes, who pleaded guilty to human smuggling after being caught in Mississippi in a car with passengers from Mexico, El Salvador and Honduras, Fox Digital previously reported. 

President Donald Trump, right, shakes the hand of El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, April 14, 2025.  (Pool via AP)

The Homeland Security Investigations report also notes that in October 2019, the Prince Georges County Police Gang Unit identified Abrego Garcia as a member of the notorious Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang.

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Abrego Garcia was also recently revealed to have a record of being a «violent» repeat wife beater, according to court records filed in a Prince George’s County, Maryland, district court by his wife, Jennifer Vasquez.

His wife, however, has since publicly defended him. 

«I find myself pleading with the Trump administration and the Bukele administration to stop playing political games with the life of Kilmar,» she said earlier this month before a federal court judge. «Our family is torn apart during this scary time. Our children miss their dad so much.»

Gang members seen in a cell at the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) in Tecoluca, in San Vicente, El Salvador on April 04, 2025. ((Photo by Alex Pena/Anadolu via Getty Images))

The deportation has been wrapped up in court proceedings since last month, with a Maryland federal judge ordering the Department of justice to «take all available steps to facilitate» his return to the U.S., which was a ruling upheld by an appeals court and the the U.S. Supreme Court. 

The Trump administration, however, contends that «cannot guarantee success in sensitive international negotiations» with El Salvador to secure the release. 

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«The United States does not control the sovereign nation of El Salvador, nor can it compel El Salvador to follow a federal judge’s bidding,» Solicitor General John Sauer wrote in the Trump administration’s Supreme Court petition earlier this month, the New York Post reported. 

Fox News’ Stepheny Price, David Spunt and Michael Dorgan contributed to this report.