On Monday, Trump told Rudd, who is also a former Australian Prime Minister, “I don’t like you” after the US President was told about the latter’s past comments about him.

In a meeting at the White House, Donald Trump told Australia's ambassador to the US, Kevin Rudd, "I don't like you, and I probably never will."

China currently controls about 70% of rare earths mining and 90% of the processing of the materials, which are found in everything from defence equipment to computer chips and cars.

A White House official said that under the deal, the U.S. and Australian governments plan to invest more than $3 billion together in critical mineral projects in the next six months, with recoverable...

President Donald Trump hosted Australian PM Anthony Albanese at the White House this morning — and like many of Trump’s open press bilaterals with world leaders, much of the focus was on the presiden...

Albanese said the deal represented an $8.5-billion “pipeline that we have ready to go.”