1 May 2025

US and Ukraine cut a deal on rare earth minerals

From Nights, 10:35 pm on 1 May 2025

Newsroom.co.nz national affairs editor Sam Sachdeva joins Emile Donovan to explain why rare earth minerals have become such a valuable and strategic asset in foreign affairs.

US President Donald Trump listens as the new US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., speaks after being sworn in at the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 13, 2025. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP)

Photo: AFP / Andrew Caballero-Reynolds

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