WASHINGTON – Japan is sending a team to negotiate on trade, U.S. President Donald Trump said, adding that he spoke earlier on Monday with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, who separately said he told Trump to rethink tariff policies. Trump’s…

Planemakers, airlines and suppliers are combing through billions of dollars worth of contracts to check their exposure to tariffs after a major U.S. supplier sparked debate over who should pay for an emerging trade war, industry sources said on Monday….

WASHINGTON – A host of U.S. federal agencies have unveiled fresh buyout offers to slash the federal workforce, renewing the voluntary program that preceded the first wave of mass firings led by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency. The Treasury…

WASHINGTON -U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy said he plans to tell Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to stop recommending fluoride in drinking water, the Associated Press reported on Monday.

WASHINGTON -The U.S. Justice Department on Monday repealed a Biden-era “zero tolerance” policy which called for revoking the licenses of gun dealers who willfully committed serious violations such as failing to conduct background checks, an FBI spokesperson said. The reversal…

A federal appeals court blocked U.S. President Donald Trump from removing Democratic members from two federal labor boards on Monday, setting aside its earlier ruling. The decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit further…

WASHINGTON -The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday allowed Donald Trump to use a 1798 law that historically has been employed only in wartime to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members as part of the Republican president’s hardline approach to immigration, but…

BOSTON – A U.S. appeals court on Monday declined to lift an order blocking the Trump administration from sending people with final deportation orders to countries not cited in earlier proceedings without first letting them make a case for humanitarian…

The U.S. announced a 5.06% average increase in the government’s final reimbursement rates for 2026 Medicare Advantage health plans run by private insurers, more than double the increase it proposed in January. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS),…

WASHINGTON – The top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee said on Monday that President Donald Trump’s decision to extend a deadline for China-based ByteDance to divest short video app TikTok’s U.S. assets violates the law. Senator Mark Warner also…

WASHINGTON/LUXEMBOURG -U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to further increase tariffs on China on Monday, raising the possibility of further escalation in a trade war that has already wiped trillions of dollars from global markets. Trump said he would impose an…

NEW YORK  – U.S. electric utilities are fielding massive requests for new power capacity as Big Tech scours the country for viable locations for new data centers to keep up with the compute demands of AI. A Reuters survey of…

ATHENS  – Greece’s economy can withstand the new challenges that U.S. tariffs pose, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Monday, as the country awaits a unified European Union stance on the matter. U.S. President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariff plans hammered global…

The U.S. Supreme Court turned away on Monday a challenge to New York firearms restrictions adopted shortly after the justices in 2022 struck down the Democratic state’s previous limits on carrying concealed handguns in a landmark ruling that expanded gun…

WASHINGTON – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he will impose an additional 50% tariff on China if Beijing does not withdraw its retaliatory tariffs on the United States. “Additionally, all talks with China concerning their requested meetings with…

MOSCOW  -The Kremlin said on Monday that Russia was ready to do all it could to help resolve tensions between the United States and Iran around Tehran’s nuclear programme, as Washington demands Tehran do a nuclear deal with it or…

BEIJING – China’s foreign ministry said on Monday the country had lodged representations with the United States over reports that a Taiwan delegation was in Washington to meet with the Trump administration. China opposes any form of official exchanges between…

AMMAN/ISTANBUL  – Turkey scoped out at least three air bases in Syria where it could deploy forces as part of a planned joint defence pact before Israel hit the sites with air strikes this week, four people familiar with the…

JAKARTA – Indonesia wants a fair and equal relationship with the U.S., and will pursue diplomacy to address a 32% tariff rate imposed by the Trump administration, President Prabowo Subianto said on Monday.

SHANGHAI  -Hong Kong and Chinese stocks dived on Monday as markets around the world crumbled in the face of a widening global trade war and fears it will unleash a deep recession. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index slumped more than…

WASHINGTON – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will seek to limit the sting of tariffs imposed on his country when he meets U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday, a visit likely to be closely watched by world leaders as global…

GENEVA -The heads of six U.N. agencies called on Monday for an urgent renewal of the ceasefire in Gaza, warning of aid shortages and hunger since Israel resumed its all-out assault with the deadliest week for Gaza’s children of the…

DETROIT  – U.S. and Canada auto sales could decline by 1.8 million vehicles this year and be stagnant over the next decade if the global trade war escalates, a Detroit-area automotive advisory firm forecasts. If the current tariffs stay in…

LUXEMBOURG – European Union ministers broadly agreed on Monday that the bloc should prioritise negotiations to remove tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump over retaliation even as it prepared a first set of targeted countermeasures. The 27-nation bloc faces 25%…

BEIJING – Threats and pressure are not the right way to deal with China, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said on Monday after describing U.S. President Donald Trump’s “reciprocal tariffs” as bullying. The tariffs are “typical unilateralism and protectionism, and…

GAZA/CAIRO – A Palestinian journalist was killed on Monday and nine others were wounded, some critically, when an Israeli air strike hit a tent used by local media in southern Gaza, medics and the local journalists’ union said. Footage showed…

MOSCOW – President Vladimir Putin still supports the idea of a ceasefire in Ukraine, but Russia has not yet been given answers to key questions it has about a truce proposed by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump, the…

TOKYO -Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said on Monday the government will continue to ask U.S. President Donald Trump to lower tariffs against Japan, but acknowledged results “won’t come overnight.” “As such, the government must take all available means” to…

LONDON -Cuts to aid budgets are threatening to undermine years of progress in reducing the number of women dying during pregnancy and childbirth, and could lead to a rise in deaths, the United Nations has warned. Globally, there was a…