{"id":66699,"date":"2026-02-18T21:59:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T02:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/18\/trump-news-at-a-glance-presidents-board-of-peace-set-to-meet-minus-some-key-us-allies\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T21:59:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T02:59:44","slug":"trump-news-at-a-glance-presidents-board-of-peace-set-to-meet-minus-some-key-us-allies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/18\/trump-news-at-a-glance-presidents-board-of-peace-set-to-meet-minus-some-key-us-allies\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump news at a glance: president\u2019s \u2018board of peace\u2019 set to meet, minus some key US allies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of world leaders and national delegations will meet in Washington DC on Thursday for the inaugural meeting of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">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.<\/p>\n<p>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/gaza\">Gaza<\/a>, which has been devastated in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/israel-hamas-war\">war with Israel<\/a> and remains in a humanitarian crisis.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/18\/trump-administration-news-at-a-glance-today\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s Board of Peace, as major European allies declined to join &#8230; <a title=\"Trump news at a glance: president\u2019s \u2018board of peace\u2019 set to meet, minus some key US allies\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/18\/trump-news-at-a-glance-presidents-board-of-peace-set-to-meet-minus-some-key-us-allies\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump news at a glance: president\u2019s \u2018board of peace\u2019 set to meet, minus some key US allies\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}