{"id":200880,"date":"2026-02-19T04:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T04:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-presidents-board-of-peace-set-to-meet-minus-some-key-us-allies-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T04:03:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T04:03:00","slug":"trump-news-at-a-glance-presidents-board-of-peace-set-to-meet-minus-some-key-us-allies-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-presidents-board-of-peace-set-to-meet-minus-some-key-us-allies-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump news at a glance: president\u2019s \u2018board of peace\u2019 set to meet, minus some key US allies – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some European leaders have criticised the organisation\u2019s murky funding and political mandate \u2013 key US politics stories from Wednesday 18 February at a glance
Dozens of world leaders and national delegations will meet in Washington DC on Thursday for the inaugural meeting of Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s Board of Peace, as major European allies declined to join the group and criticised the organisation\u2019s murky funding and political mandate.
The White House has indicated that the summit for his new ad hoc council at the renamed Donald J Trump Institute of Peace will heavily function as a fundraising round, with Trump announcing on social media that countries have pledged more than $5bn toward rebuilding Gaza<\/a>, which has been devastated in the war with Israel<\/a> and remains in a humanitarian crisis.
The board was initially formed with the reconstruction of Gaza as its stated primary goal, though its mandate has since been widened by the US president to include responding to other global conflicts.
But, despite Trump\u2019s characteristic bombast, the Board of Peace summit will open to heavy scepticism, with expectations limited both for Thursday\u2019s meeting in Washington and in the Middle East<\/a>, where the 100-day peace and recovery plan announced by Jared Kushner in Davos has stalled and aid into Gaza remains at a trickle.
\u201cThe board is a convenient way for a president who\u2019s interested in quick wins, transactions and a lot of motion in lieu of serious movement as a way to project that things are somehow \u2026 not dead,\u201d said Aaron David Miller, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and former US diplomat, referring to diplomacy. \u201cSo you could get some impressive pledges. But pledges are one thing, delivering is another.\u201d
The White House initiative received another blow this week as Pope Leo XIV <\/a>announced that the Vatican would not join the board, which critics have said is an attempt to usurp authority from other major international organisations, including the United Nations<\/a>, and may allow Trump to remain as its chair even after his presidency ends.
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The former boss of the Victoria\u2019s Secret lingerie brand, Les Wexner, said he has \u201cdone nothing wrong\u201d and has \u201cnothing to hide\u201d, as he testifies on Wednesday before a congressional committee in relation to his past ties to Jeffrey Epstein<\/a>.
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More than a dozen health and environmental justice non-profits have sued the Environmental Protection Agency<\/a> over its revocation of the legal determination that underpins US federal climate regulations.
Filed in Washington<\/a> DC circuit court, the lawsuit challenges the EPA\u2019s rollback of the \u201cendangerment finding\u201d, which states that the buildup of heat-trapping pollution in the atmosphere endangers public health and welfare and has allowed the EPA to limit those emissions from vehicles, power plants and other industrial sources since 2009. The rollback was widely seen as a major setback to US efforts to combat the climate crisis<\/a>.
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Donald Trump has urged Keir Starmer not to hand the Chagos Islands<\/a> over to Mauritius, warning he was \u201cmaking a big mistake\u201d.
Under the deal agreed last year, Britain would cede control over the British Indian Ocean Territory but lease the largest island, Diego Garcia, for 99 years to continue operating a joint US-UK military base there.
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Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s immigration policies are having a chilling effect on the hospitality industry, where nearly a third of workers are immigrants, according to the largest hospitality union in the US.
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The number of workers covered under union contracts increased to a 16-year high in 2025, despite ongoing attempts by the Trump administration to wipe out collective bargaining agreements for tens of thousands of federal workers, according to new data<\/a> from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Eight skiers who went missing after an avalanche swept the Castle Peak area of the Sierra Nevada mountains in California have been confirmed dead<\/a><\/strong>, authorities said on Wednesday.
The Trump administration<\/a> transferred the balance of federal funds it owed to the Gateway rail tunnel initiative on Wednesday<\/a><\/strong>, along with additional money beyond the original amount, clearing the path for work on the project to restart as early as next week.
Meta\u2019s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, testified at a landmark trial of social media companies on Wednesday<\/a><\/strong>. Plaintiffs\u2019 lawyers grilled Zuckerberg about internal complaints that not enough was being done to verify whether children under 13 were using the platform.
Environmental group Extinction Rebellion<\/a> said on Wednesday it was under federal US investigation and that some of its members had been visited by FBI agents<\/a><\/strong>, including from the agency\u2019s taskforce on extremism, in the last year.
NYU Langone Health, one of New York City\u2019s major hospital networks, announced this week that it will shut down its gender\u2011affirming care program for minors, as the Trump administration<\/a> escalates threats to strip federal funding from providers that treat trans youth.
The chair of the US\u2019s top media regulator claimed that journalists had been tricked into covering claims by the late-night host Stephen Colbert<\/a><\/strong> that he had been blocked by his network from interviewing Texas Senate candidate James Talarico.
Catching up? Here\u2019s what happened Tuesday 17 February<\/a><\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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