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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Heather Stewart in Davos

Trump uses Davos address to accuse oil producers of prolonging Ukraine war

People follow a virtual speech of U.S. president Donald Trump at the Annual Meeting of World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland
Trump said he intended to cut business taxes to make them ‘among the lowest taxes of any nation on Earth’, to encourage manufacturers to locate in the US. Photograph: Markus Schreiber/AP

Donald Trump has made a combative return to the world stage, accusing oil producers of prolonging the Ukraine war by failing to cut prices, and threatening tariffs on all US imports.

In a typically blustering online address to the World Economic Forum in Davos, the new president called on Saudi Arabia and the oil-producers’ cartel Opec to cut the cost of oil, in order to choke off revenues to Russia and halt the conflict in Ukraine.

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