Trump, Prince Charles to meet
Prince Charles has agreed to meet with President Donald Trump during his controversial state visit to England next month, CNN has learned, in a move that sets up the prospect of a diplomatically awkward exchange over climate change.
Mr. Trump and Charles, heir to the British throne, are expected to meet for afternoon tea at Clarence House, the official residence of the Prince and his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall.
While a state visit guarantees an audience with the Queen, visiting leaders don’t automatically get a one-onone with Charles.
The Prince’s office declined to comment publicly on the meeting, or the agenda. But given Charles’ passionate and lifelong environmentalism, and Mr. Trump’s well-known climate-change skepticism, it seems inconceivable that the issue would not be discussed.
Charles warned against “potentially catastrophic global warming” in a speech during a tour of the Caribbean in March. “We demand the world’s decision-makers take responsibility and solve this crisis,” he said. The Trump administration, by contrast, has been accused of deprioritizing the issue, withdrawing from the Paris climate accords in 2017.
The most likely date for the Trump-Charles encounter is June 3, the first day of the President’s visit.
Changes in Ukraine
KIEV, Ukraine — Minutes after taking office Monday, Ukraine’s new president, Volodymyr Zelensky, announced a snap parliamentary election he hopes will consolidate his power and help him deliver on campaign promises to end endemic corruption and a prolonged separatist conflict.
Mr. Zelensky, 41, a political neophyte who gained popularity as a television comedian, said in his inaugural address that his first priority is to reach a ceasefire in the war against Russian proxies in the country’s east that has claimed 13,000 lives.
The new president won a landslide victory in April, leading a political party, Servant of the People, that was registered just last year, and does not yet hold any seats in the Ukrainian Parliament. Voting for a new Parliament had been scheduled for October, but Mr. Zelensky dissolved the current Parliament and moved the election to July, aiming to seize an advantage while he remains very popular.
Farage ‘milkshaked’
LONDON — Angry Britons are fighting against hate speech and unpopular farright campaigners with an unlikely weapon: the milkshake.
In recent weeks, the act of “milkshaking” has become a symbol of protest on British soil, with Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage becoming the latest target in a string of attacks that have seen dairybased drinks tossed at controversial European election candidates during events across the country.
Mr. Farage had been campaigning Monday in the city of Newcastle for only around 20 minutes when a 32-year-old man hurled a drink at him, covering his suit in a sticky liquid that the attacker later confirmed was a banana and salted caramel milkshake from Five Guys that cost $6.68.
Soon after the attack, a visibly shaken Farage can be heard reprimanding his security team for their inability to protect him successfully. In a widely circulated video, he can be heard saying: “complete failure” and “how did you not stop that?” In the background, witnesses of the attack can be heard laughing as Mr. Farage attempts to make a swift exit.