New Delhi, July 19 -- MEXICO CITY - Claudia Sheinbaum agreed to attend the World Cup final as a guest of Donald Trump.

The Mexican president confirmed Friday that she would be in the stands at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey on Sunday for the final between Argentina and Spain, accepting an invitation that had been extended by the White House. It will mark the first time Sheinbaum and Trump have shared a public setting since December, when a phone call between the two leaders briefly eased a months-long standoff over tariffs and migration. The decision to go, she told reporters in Mexico City, was deliberate. "I decided to go because it is a direct invitation from the president of the United States," she said.

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