President Donald Trump hosted NewsCorp CEO Rupert Murdoch at the FIFA Club World Cup Final just days before The Wall Street Journal reported that Trump had written a "bawdy" birthday letter to disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein for Epstein's 50th birthday.

The president said he personally told the Fox Corp mogul the story was a ”scam” and warned him not to print it. “But he did, and now I’m going to sue his ass off,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Thursday said he would not take orders over tariffs from a foreigner, referring to U.S. President Donald Trump, and later called the United States' threatened duty "unacceptable blackmail.

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Thursday slammed Donald Trump's threat to impose 50 percent tariffs on Latin America's largest economy as "unacceptable blackmail." In his speech, leftist leader Lula slammed Brazilian politicians who back Trump's policies as "traitors to the homeland.

Across Africa, and in the tiny nation of Eswatini, fury has erupted over the arrival of foreign deportees from the United States, after its government confirmed that migrants described by a Department of Homeland security spokesperson as “depraved monsters” had been sent to its prisons.