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The Problem Was Never Just China
Tariffs may feel like action, but they are not strategy. They are political theater, not economic vision.
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South Korea’s President Yoon ousted by Constitutional Court
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was ousted by the Constitutional Court on Friday, which upheld parliament’s impeachment motion over his short-lived imposition of martial law last year that sparked the country’s worst political crisis in decades. With Yoon’s ouster, a presidential election is required to take
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India’s Modi meets with Bangladesh’s Yunus for first time since Sheikh Hasina ouster
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with the leader of neighboring Bangladesh, India’s government said Friday, the first such meeting since a revolution in Dhaka ousted New Delhi’s long-term ally. Mod’s meeting with Bangladesh’s interim leader, Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, took place on the sidelines
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A wary Europe awaits Rubio with NATO’s future on the line
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio travels this week to a gathering of top diplomats from NATO countries and is sure to find allies that are alarmed, angered and confused by the Trump administration’s desire to reestablish ties with Russia and its escalating rhetorical attacks on longtime transatlantic partners.
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EU plans countermeasures to new US tariffs, says bloc’s chief
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen described US Donald Trump’s universal tariffs as a major blow to the world economy and said the European Union was prepared to respond with countermeasures if talks with Washington failed. “We are already finalizing the first package of countermeasures in response to
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Trump announces sweeping tariffs on imports, escalating global trade war
President Donald Trump on Wednesday unveiled a 10 percent minimum tariff on most goods imported to the United States, with much higher duties on products from dozens of countries, kicking into high gear a global trade war that threatens to drive up inflation and stall US and worldwide economic growth.
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Who is Putin’s envoy Dmitriev and what will he discuss in Washington?
Who is Kirill Dmitriev, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s investment envoy, who is reportedly heading to Washington for talks with US President Donald Trump’s administration? What is his job? Dmitriev, 49, the chief of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, the Russian Direct Investment Fund since 2011, was appointed in
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China’s ‘aggressive’ military activities around Taiwan put region’s security at risk, US says
The United States on Wednesday reassured its allies in the Asia-Pacific region of its “enduring commitment” of support amid what it called “China’s intimidation tactics and destabilizing behavior.” “Once again, China’s aggressive military activities and rhetoric toward Taiwan only serve to exacerbate tensions and put the region’s
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Trump to escalate global trade tensions with new reciprocal tariffs on US trading partners
US President Donald Trump was poised to impose sweeping new reciprocal tariffs on global trading partners on Wednesday, upending decades of rules-based trade, threatening cost increases and likely drawing retaliation from all sides. Details of Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff plans were still being formulated and closely held ahead of
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Russian and US steps to normalize ties bring optimism, China’s FM Wang Yi says
Russia and the United States have taken the first step toward normalizing relations, which inspire optimism, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told Russia’s RIA state news agency in remarks published on Tuesday. “Russia and the United States have taken the first step toward normalizing relations, which is good for
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Trump says ‘real pain is yet to come’ for Houthis, Iran
US President Donald Trump vowed Monday that strikes on Yemen’s Houthis will continue until they are no longer a threat to shipping, warning the rebels and their Iranian backers of “real pain” to come. “The choice for the Houthis is clear: Stop shooting at US ships, and we will
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Netanyahu reverses decision on new Israel security chief
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said Tuesday he had reversed a decision to appoint former navy commander Vice Admiral Eli Sharvit as security agency chief following criticism, including from a key US senator. “The prime minister thanked Vice Admiral Sharvit for his willingness to be called to duty
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Hundreds of thousands join Istanbul protest rally
Waving flags and chanting slogans, many hundreds of thousands of anti-government demonstrators rallied Saturday in Istanbul in defense of democracy after the arrest of mayor Ekrem Imamoglu which sparked Turkiye’s worst street unrest in over a decade. Under a cloudless blue sky, vast crowds gathered in Maltepe on the
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Russian response to US truce plans inadequate ‘for too long’: Zelensky
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Saturday that Russia’s response to US ceasefire efforts had been inadequate “for too long,” and that Moscow needed to be pressured into a peace deal. Both Moscow and Kyiv agreed to the concept of a Black Sea truce following talks with US officials earlier
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Syria’s president Al-Sharaa forms new transitional government
Syrian President Ahmed Al-Sharaa announced a transitional government on Saturday, appointing 23 ministers in a broadened cabinet seen as a key milestone in the transition from decades of Assad family rule and to improving Syria’s ties with the West. Syria’s new Sunni Islamist-led authorities have been under pressure
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Turkiye opposition calls mass rally in Istanbul
Protesters were to join a mass rally in Istanbul Saturday at the call of Turkiye’s main opposition CHP over the jailing of the city’s mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, a top figure in the party whose arrest has sparked 10 days of the country’s biggest street demonstrations in a