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During a joint press conference Donald Trump refuses to shake hands with Angela Merkel. Sean Spicer says Trump “didn’t hear” the request.

He got what he wanted.

Over the weekend Sweden’s deputy Prime Minister Isabella Lovin shared a photo to mark the signing of a Climate law which binds all future governments to net zero emissions by 2045, ‘for a safer and better future’.

When he stood as a candidate for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination? He’ll never get it, we thought.

It wasn’t all that long ago that the idea of the President of the United States instructing female employees to “dress like women” was laughably implausible.

You can’t have viable and sustainable peace and security if you don’t include woman, writes Joanna Hayter, CEO of the International Development Agency.

It’s been two and a half weeks since the election.

I was nineteen when Barack Obama was inaugurated as President of the United States.

The global consequences of the Trump Presidency are already beginning: he’s set to rip up key international trade deals, he’s signed an executive order that will jeopardize women’s health worldwide, and he’s promised to push ahead with building that wall.

“Yes we can.

In one of his first acts as President, Donald Trump has signed an executive order to cut funding to organisations that provide women with advice on abortions.

The day after the inauguration of Donald Trump as 45th president of the United States, almost three million women and men marched on the streets nationwide to show their rejection to the demonstrated sexism, xenophobia and Islamophobia of the new American president.