## Trump demands $500B in rare earths from Ukraine for continued support

Authored by politico.eu

Ukraine holds huge deposits of critical elements and minerals, from lithium to titanium, which are vital to manufacturing modern technologies.

It also has vast coal reserves, as well as oil, gas and uranium, but much of this is in territories under Russian control.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been dangling allowing the U.S. to develop his country's natural resources as a tactic to keep Trump on side.

“The Americans helped the most, and therefore the Americans should earn the most,” Zelenskyy said Friday in an interview with Reuters.

“I would also like to talk about this with President Trump.”.

Trump, who hopes to beat China in the global race for resources, has voiced his desire to exploit Ukraine’s mineral abundance before.

Earlier this month, he told reporters in the Oval Office, “We’re looking to do a deal with Ukraine where they’re going to secure what we’re giving them with their rare earths and other things.”. »

### Trump signs executive order to establish a White House Faith Office

Authored by pbs.org

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday to establish the White House Faith Office as part of the Domestic Policy Council.

The order renames the existing White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives.

Trump also announced the creation of a White House faith office led by Paula White-Cain, a longtime pastor in the independent charismatic world. »

### Valve Seemingly Bans All Steam Games That Require Watching Advertisements To Play

Authored by gamespot.com

Valve has seemingly introduced new rules that ban games that require users to watch paid ads (or rely on other such ad-based revenue models) from Steam.

The page explains that Steam does not contain paid advertising, and that advertising-based revenue models are not allowed on the platform.

"If your game's business model relies on advertising on other platforms, you will need to remove those elements before shipping on Steam.". »

### Diablo creator says fast levelling up in modern ARPGs ‘cheapens the entire experience’

Authored by videogameschronicle.com

The creator of Diablo says he feels that modern action RPGs level up the player too quickly.

In an interview with Videogamer, David Brevik – who was senior designer and lead programmer on Diablo, and project and design lead on Diablo 2 – criticised modern takes on the genre for rewarding players too quickly.

Last month it was claimed that a Switch 2 port of Diablo 4 is in the works. »

### Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 breaks into Steam's top 50 most-played with a peak concurrent player count more than twice what the original had

Authored by gamesradar.com

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 has more than two and a half times the peak concurrent player count the original game ever achieved, an impressive feat for any direct sequel.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance had a peak concurrent player count of 96,069 when it was released in February 2018 - a very respectable number.

As noted by one redditor , this means the game is in Steam's top 50 chart for all-time peak concurrents. »

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