APRNEWS - U.S. President Donald Trump and Brazil’s new far-right leader Jair Bolsonaro forged a bond over their shared brand of conservative and populist politics on Tuesday, with Trump pledging to give more U.S. support to Brazil’s global ambitions.

GUARDIAN - As trade tensions between the world’s top two economies escalate, the multilateral trading system is being jolted, leaving the world economy on a slippery slope towards a full-scale trade war, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has stated.