US President Donald Trump

The appointment is significant because Von Batten’s firm was hired by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar earlier this year under a $1.2 million, 12-month agreement to provide government-affairs and strategic-advisory services in the United States.

The prime minister said the US proposals could effectively turn Canadian industries into subsidiaries of American companies or impose conditions under which businesses would gradually cease operating in Canada.

Negotiated by the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, Defence Secretary, Pete Hegseth, and Venezuelan Interim President, Delcy Rodríguez, the deal establishes a public-private partnership, giving the US an effective 55 percent stake in operations across 17 oil fields.

According to Trump, American agricultural producers have for years faced serious difficulties dealing with a highly concentrated meat-processing industry dominated by a small number of major companies.

The United States is paying an increasingly heavy price in blood and money for its war with Iran, with Pentagon figures showing that 757 American service members have been wounded and 18 killed since the conflict began. The latest figures, published in the Pentagon's Defense Casualty Analysis System, represent an addition of 60 wounded personnel to the previous tally and bring the total number of US service members killed or wounded to 775.

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