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President Donald Trump has announced a series of sweeping tariffs against trade partners, describing April 2 as “Liberation Day” and arguing that the punitive steps would bring industry and jobs back to the United States by fighting against what he claims are unfair duties imposed by others on US goods. Trump’s latest tariffs, announced on Wednesday, coupled with a series of similar moves since he returned to office on January 20, mark the most dramatic escalation in US tariffs in almost a century. Several nations have said they would retaliate, raising the risk of a global trade war marked by…
BREAKINGBREAKING, Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu has arrived in Hungary in defiance of the ICC’s arrest warrant against him.Hungary’s government has announced it will withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC), just before Prime Minister Viktor Orban was to receive his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu, the subject of an ICC arrest warrant. “Hungary exits the International Criminal Court. The government will initiate the withdrawal procedure on Thursday, in accordance with the constitutional and international legal framework,” Orban’s chief of staff Gergely Gulyas posted on Facebook on Thursday. The announcement comes as Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in Budapest early Thursday morning…
Apple’s iPhone 16 at an Apple Store on Regent Street in London on Sept. 20, 2024.Rasid Necati Aslim | Anadolu | Getty ImagesApple has made moves to diversify its supply chain beyond China to places like India and Vietnam, but tariffs announced by the White House are set to hit those countries too.U.S. President Donald Trump laid out “reciprocal tariff” rates on more than 180 countries on Wednesday.China will face a 34% tariff, but with the existing 20% rate, that brings the true tariff rate on Beijing under this Trump term to 54%, CNBC reported. India faces a 26% tariff, while Vietnam’s…
MELBOURNE: Incoming Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) chief Mark Arbib hopes the 2032 Brisbane Games will persuade the nation’s talented young athletes to pursue medals over football careers. Australian Rules football and rugby league have long dominated the country’s professional sports market, offering the kind of salaries and support to young athletes that Olympic sports struggle to match. Arbib, confirmed on Wednesday as the replacement for outgoing Chief Executive Matt Carroll, said the AOC needed to compete hard against the National Rugby League (NRL) and the Australian Football League (AFL) to lure talent. “I am a big fan of the NRL…
U.S. President Donald Trump inspects a Guard of Honour at Buckingham Palace on June 3, 2019, in London.Toby Melville | Getty ImagesU.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer told business leaders in Downing Street on Thursday that while President Donald Trump has a “mandate” to act in the interests of his country, the U.K. has a right to respond to the 10% levy the White House decided to impose on the country’s imports to the States.Still, he called for “cool heads” as he said that Britain would “move now to the next phase of our plan.””Decisions we take in the coming days…
The second batch of emergency humanitarian aid supplies dispatched by the Chinese government arrives at Yangon International Airport in Yangon, Myanmar, April 3, 2025. (Xinhua/Jia Haocheng)YANGON, April 3 (Xinhua) — The second batch of emergency humanitarian aid supplies dispatched by the Chinese government arrived at Yangon International Airport in Myanmar on Thursday.The second batch of aid supplies includes 800 tents, 2,000 blankets, 3,000 boxes of biscuits, 2,000 boxes of mineral water and other urgently needed supplies. The supplies were transported to Yangon by a chartered flight from China.The first batch of emergency humanitarian aid supplies dispatched by the Chinese government…
Listen to article LAHORE: For more than a decade, Lahore has choked under a thick blanket of smog and air pollution. But successive governments seem more focused on polishing their green credentials than making a real difference. Continuing this trend, the newly formed Environment Protection Force aims to lead by example in a city where most commercial and private vehicles still run on petrol, with no proper emissions monitoring. Its solution? Patrolling the streets and conducting inspections in 25 gleaming hybrid carspurchased at a staggering cost of Rs 250 million, funded under the World Bank Green Program. To give the government the…
PARIS: Olympic 200m champion Letsile Tebogo said on Wednesday he could have become a delinquent if the sport of athletics had not given him a focus. Tebogo, who stunned the field in Paris last year to became Botswana’s first Olympic gold medallist in any sport, said he would take the lessons he learned from his childhood into his new role as a global ambassador for the Kids Athletics scheme. “Sport has really helped me a lot because I think without sport … probably I would be a criminal by now,” 21-year-old Tebogo told reporters on a video conference call. “In…
Listen to article KARACHI: Pakistani pilgrims departing from Karachi and Islamabad for Hajj this year will once again benefit from the “Road to Makkah” initiative, which streamlines immigration procedures before departure. The Ministry of Religious Affairs has issued a letter to the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) director general, instructing officials to ensure all necessary arrangements for Hajj operations at Jinnah International Airport in Karachi and Islamabad International Airport. According to a letter from the Royal Saudi Embassy to the Ministry of Religious Affairs, immigration services will once again be provided at Karachi and Islamabad airports under the Road to Makkah initiative. The…
Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa is facing what experts say is the biggest threat to his rule yet as a succession battle erupts ahead of general elections scheduled for 2028. Recent manoeuvrings by the president and his supporters to extend his rule to 2030 have led to calls and protests from within his party for the president to step down or be forced to do so. The upheavals have seen the dismissal of top security officials, a move experts say Mnangagwa is taking to avoid being overthrown in a coup. The president has long faced criticism from Zimbabweans, but dissent within…