El presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, instó nuevamente al mandatario ucraniano, Volodimir Zelensky, a alcanzar un “acuerdo” que ponga fin a la guerra en Ucrania, argumentando que su par ruso, Vladimir Putin, está “dispuesto” a negociar.

“Zelenski debe moverse y llegar a un acuerdo. Creo que Putin está dispuesto a llegar a un acuerdo”, declaró Trump en una entrevista concedida al medio Politico. El mandatario estadounidense retomó expresiones utilizadas durante una reunión en la Casa Blanca hace un año, donde reprendió públicamente a Zelenski y sugirió que el líder ucraniano se encuentra en una posición débil que lo obliga a hacer concesiones.

“Es impensable que él sea el obstáculo”, afirmó Trump y analizó las negociaciones que está impulsando su administración entre Kiev y Moscú: “(Zelensky) no tienes las cartas. Ahora él tiene todavía menos cartas”.

Trump cuestionó reiteradamente el apoyo financiero del país norteamericano a Ucrania y manifestó su admiración por Putin. Las declaraciones sobre Ucrania coinciden con la ofensiva militar que Estados Unidos mantiene junto a Israel contra el régimen iraní, campaña en la que, según el mandatario, se han invertido millones de dólares.

Desde su asunción en enero de 2025, Trump prometió terminar con la guerra en Ucrania, aunque admitió que lograr ese objetivo ha resultado difícil. Mientras tanto, el Kremlin sostiene sus ataques en territorio ucraniano. Trump ha evitado adoptar medidas más duras contra Putin y lo describió como el único líder capaz de negociar con ambas partes.

Zelensky afirmó el miércoles que, “en este momento, debido a la situación en torno a Irán, no hay señales claras que indiquen la posibilidad de una reunión trilateral”, la cual estaba pactada para que comience el 5 de marzo. Agregó que, “tan pronto como la situación de seguridad y el contexto político lo permitan, reanudaremos ese trabajo diplomático trilateral”.

En medio de las pausadas conversaciones entre las delegaciones de los países involucrados en la guerra que inició días atrás su quinto año, Ucrania y Rusia liberaron este jueves a 200 prisioneros de guerra cada uno, en el primer tramo de un intercambio que prevé la liberación de 500 personas por cada país, según informaron funcionarios de ambas partes.

El plan para el canje se alanzó durante conversaciones celebradas en Ginebra el mes pasado.

El mandatario ucraniano destacó el impacto de la medida en redes sociales: “Hoy, 200 familias ucranianas recibieron el mensaje más esperado: sus seres queridos regresan a casa”. Un video difundido por el Comisionado de Derechos Humanos de Ucrania, Dmytro Lubinets, mostró a militares descendiendo de autobuses envueltos en banderas ucranianas y gritando “¡Gloria a Ucrania!”, además de abrazar a quienes los recibieron.

Entre los prisioneros liberados por Rusia se encuentran soldados ucranianos capturados en 2022, incluidos quienes participaron en el asedio de tres meses a la planta de acero de Azovstal en Mariúpol, precisó Lubinets.

Por su parte, el Ministerio de Defensa ruso difundió imágenes de sus soldados subiendo a un autobús, vitoreando y ondeando banderas rusas. Rusia informó que Emiratos Árabes Unidos y Estados Unidos participaron en la mediación del intercambio.

De acuerdo con el negociador ruso Vladimir Medinsky, nuevas liberaciones están previstas para el viernes y el acuerdo contempla el intercambio de 500 prisioneros en total por cada bando. Los intercambios de prisioneros de guerra se mantienen como uno de los pocos ámbitos de cooperación entre ambos países desde el inicio del conflicto.

(Con información de AFP)

Israeli forces struck a meeting of Iran’s Supreme Council on Tuesday as officials gathered to choose a successor to the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, a senior Israeli official told Fox News.

«Israel struck while they were counting the votes for the appointment of the supreme leader,» the official said.

The strike came just south of Tehran as Iran continued targeting Israeli population centers, with Israel signaling that continued attacks on civilians would not be tolerated.

Israeli officials believe multiple Iranian officials responsible for counting the votes in the succession process were killed in the strike. The officials were not among the ruling clerics or top mullahs, but the attack marked a substantial escalation as Israel continued expanding its target set inside Iran.

The strike underscored the depth of Israeli intelligence penetration inside Tehran and marked one of the most dramatic escalations yet in the joint U.S.-Israeli campaign aimed at dismantling Iran’s political and military leadership from the top down.

It came as Iran’s leadership structure appeared increasingly hollowed out.

More than 40 of Iran’s most senior leaders — including Khamenei — have been killed since the operation began, with 49 eliminated in the opening salvo of Operation Epic Fury early Saturday, fracturing the regime’s command structure and dealing a crippling blow to its military leadership and command-and-control networks.

Israeli analysts estimated that more than 1,000 enemy combatants have been killed inside Iran since the United States launched Operation Epic Fury and Israel launched its parallel campaign, Operation Roaring Lion, on Saturday. The estimate came from Israel’s latest battle damage assessment, according to a senior Israeli official.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu framed the conflict as part of a broader effort to neutralize Iran’s ballistic missile and nuclear ambitions.

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Pro-Iran protesters brandish weapons and signs depicting the late Iranian leader Ali Khamenei at a protest in Yemen. (Mohammed Hamoud/Getty Images)

«With these ballistic missiles, these weapons of mass death, these weapons, they bombed all these countries,» Netanyahu said. «And when they developed these ballistic missiles, they’ll try and eventually they’ll bomb you. This is what President Trump understood.»

Vice President JD Vance said the administration had set a clear, limited objective for the operation.

«There’s just no way that Donald Trump is going to allow this country to get into a multi-year conflict, with no clear end in sight and no clear objective,» Vance said. «He’s defined that objective as Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon and has to commit long-term to never trying to rebuild the nuclear capability.»

The joint U.S.-Israel assault entered its fourth day Tuesday, with no signs of slowing down.

A satellite image from Planet Labs shows a plume of smoke above Tehran, Iran, on March 1, 2026. (Planet Labs PBC)

President Donald Trump said the plan was ahead of schedule following the early elimination of Iran’s top leaders.

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The U.S. urged Americans to leave 14 countries across the Middle East as Iran’s counterattacks intensified. The State Department also closed two embassies in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.

The Gulf Cooperation Council warned Iran it would take «all necessary measures,» including possible military action, in response to Tehran’s missile and drone attacks.

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A group of two dozen state attorneys general sued President Donald Trump Thursday in an effort to block his new 10% tariffs from taking force, a move that all but ensures Trump’s newly revived tariff regime will end up back before the federal courts for the second time in nearly as many years.

The lawsuit was filed Thursday in the Court of International Trade by attorneys general from 24 states, including New York, Oregon, California and Arizona. 

The state attorneys general argued in the lawsuit that Trump lacks the authority to impose the 10% tariffs under Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974. 

They described the effort as an attempt to «sidestep» last month’s 6-3 Supreme Court ruling, which blocked Trump’s use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to unilaterally impose his 10% global tariff announced last April.

Trump responded to the ruling by immediately invoking Section 122 to keep the 10% tariffs in place in the near term. He also said then that the administration is planning to increase the import duties from 10% to 15% for certain countries. 

In the lawsuit, the state AGs said Trump «has made clear that he is going to impose worldwide tariffs by any means necessary» and argued that the effort is «an exercise of completely unrestrained executive power.»

«As with his unlawful use of IEEPA, the President has once again exercised tariff authority that he does not have — involving a statute that does not authorize the tariffs he has imposed — to upend the constitutional order and bring chaos to the global economy,» they added.

Next steps in the case are unclear, though the new lawsuit is likely to be met with fierce opposition from the White House and Justice Department.

Trump has continued to embrace tariffs as the signature economic policy of his second White House term. Trump, who previously billed himself the «Tariff Man,» has described the issue as «life or death» for the U.S. economy. 

Last April, Trump declared a national trade emergency to invoke IEEPA, citing the law as a means to address trade imbalances, reduce deficits with key trading partners and boost domestic manufacturing and production.

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President Donald Trump walks past Supreme Court justices during a State of the Union address at the U.S. Capitol.  (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Two federal courts — the U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT) and U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit — previously blocked Trump’s use of IEEPA to enact his tariffs, prompting the administration to kick the case to the Supreme Court last year for emergency relief. (The Manhattan-based Court of International Trade ruled last year that Trump, as commander in chief, does not have «unbounded authority» to impose tariffs under the emergency law.)

Lower courts had pressed the Justice Department to explain why Trump invoked IEEPA when other, more narrowly tailored statutes enacted by Congress more specifically address tariffs, including laws that cap tariffs at certain levels or set timeframes subject to congressional review.

Section 122 tariffs can remain in place for up to 150 days without congressional approval, and Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., vowed on the Senate floor last week that the Democratic caucus would not approve an extension of the broad import duties. 

Legally, the administration could have its work cut out for it as well. 

Some economists — as well as the state AGs — argue that there is a difference between a traditional balance of payment deficit and the trade deficit between the U.S. and other countries. 

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York City March 28. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

«Contrary to the Section 122 Proclamation, a trade deficit is not a balance of payments deficit,» the states argued in their lawsuit. 

Justin Wolfers, an economist at the University of Michigan, told Fox News Digital in an interview last year that Trump’s focus on the trade «deficit» is in fact based on a common misconception. 

«We have a dollar deficit, but we have a stuff surplus,» he said. 

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«What that means is we sell China a small amount of stuff, and they sell us a large amount of stuff,» Wolfers explained. For every dollar bill that goes to China, the U.S. gets something for it that Americans want to buy, like T-shirts. 

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