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JAKARTA – Indonesia will not retaliate against U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade tariff on Southeast Asia’s largest economy, its senior economic minister said on Sunday in the government’s first response to the levy. Chief Economic Minister Airlangga Hartarto said in…
PARIS – French far-right leader Marine Le Pen said on Sunday she would fight peacefully to overturn her five-year ban from running for office and draw inspiration from the slain American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. A Paris…
JERUSALEM – Palestinian militant group Hamas said it fired a barrage of rockets at cities in Israel’s south on Sunday in response to Israeli “massacres” of civilians in Gaza. Israel’s military said about ten projectiles were fired, but most successfully…
VERONA, Italy – The outlook for Prosecco, Brunello di Montalcino and other Italian wines in the United States is increasingly gloomy, producers and importers said, following President Donald Trump’s imposition of a 20% tariff on European imports. Italy exports more…
ABUJA – Nigeria’s central bank has sold nearly $200 million to support the naira currency after President Donald Trump’s tariffs sent shockwaves through global markets, the bank said on Sunday. The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) said a decline in…
WASHINGTON – More than 50 countries have reached out to the White House to begin trade talks, a top economic adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday as U.S. officials sought to defend sweeping new tariffs that have…
JERUSALEM – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday he hopes U.S. President Donald Trump will ease tariffs imposed on Israel when the two meet in Washington this week. Under a sweeping new tariff policy announced by Trump, Israeli…
SYDNEY – Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Sunday pledged A$2.3 billion ($1.39 billion) to help homeowners buy batteries to store solar power and lower their energy costs, a major issue in the May 3 general election. Albanese’s centre-left Labor…
SEOUL – North Korea on Sunday is holding its first Pyongyang International Marathon in six years, hosting foreign runners in the reclusive country that had largely closed its borders during the pandemic. Athletes from China, Romania and other countries have…
PASTO, Colombia – Colombian armed group Comuneros del Sur, which has broken away from the leftist National Liberation Army (ELN) rebel group, handed over war material and signed two agreements with President Gustavo Petro, the government and the group said…
COGNAC, France – Christophe Fillioux’s family estate in the cognac region of southwest France has survived for five generations, through wars and financial crises. Now, though, he has started to tear up some of his vineyards by the roots. U.S….
TAIPEI -Taiwan President Lai Ching-te met tech executives on Saturday to discuss how to respond to new U.S. tariffs, promising to ensure Taiwan’s global competitiveness and safeguard the island’s interests. President Donald Trump announced across-the-board import tariffs on Wednesday with…
BEIJING – China’s state-run media has taken to the internet with AI-generated videos, featuring dancing robots and fraught consumers, to chide U.S. President Donald Trump and tariffs they say threaten high inflation and economic distress for Americans. “‘Liberation Day’, you…
HANOI – Vietnamese budget airline VietJet is set to operate Chinese-made COMAC ARJ21-700 aircraft, also branded as C909, on domestic routes for the first time from mid-April, according to a company statement reviewed by Reuters. The airline plans to operate…
DOHA – Congo’s government and M23 rebels last week held private talks in Qatar for the first time since the rebels conducted a lightning offensive in the country’s east, a source briefed on the discussions told Reuters. The talks, which…
LONDON – British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Saturday he was ready to step in to help “shelter” the country’s businesses from the fallout from U.S. President Donald Trump’s new tariff policies, mooting state intervention for the worst-affected industries….
RIO DE JANEIRO – Brazilian state-run oil company Petrobras has completed work on a veterinary center in the Amazon region that is required for it to obtain an environmental permit for an offshore drilling project, the company said on Saturday….
PARIS – France could see a 0.5 percentage point reduction in gross domestic product growth as a result of U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff policies, Prime Minister Francois Bayrou said in an interview on Saturday. “Trump’s policies could cost us…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Saturday expressed disappointment in the U.S. embassy’s response to a Russian missile strike that killed 18 people, including nine children, in Zelenskiy’s hometown of Kryvyi Rih. Zelenskiy, who has been cautious about openly criticizing Washington…
BANGKOK – Three U.S. aid workers were laid off while in Myanmar helping the rescue and recovery from the country’s massive earthquake, a former senior staffer said, as the Trump administration’s dismantling of foreign aid affects its disaster response. After…
MOSCOW – Russia’s defence ministry said on Saturday Ukraine had increased its attacks on Russian energy infrastructure, hitting targets 14 times in the last 24 hours, despite a U.S.-brokered moratorium. In a statement published on Telegram, the ministry said Ukraine…
ROME – U.S. tech-billionaire Elon Musk said on Saturday he hoped in future to see complete freedom of trade between the United States and Europe, speaking days after U.S. President Donald Trump announced tariffs on trading partners. Musk, a Trump…
SEOUL -South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was ousted on Friday by the Constitutional Court, ushering in an election after it upheld parliament’s impeachment over his imposition of martial law that sparked the nation’s worst political crisis in decades. The…
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau discussed on Friday with Panama’s Foreign Minister Javier Martinez-Acha the importance of an ongoing audit of Hutchison’s management of concessions of two ports at either end of the Panama Canal, the State Department…
BUDAPEST/WASHINGTON – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to visit the White House on Monday to discuss recently announced tariffs with U.S. President Donald Trump, three Israeli officials said on Saturday. The impromptu visit was first reported by Axios,…
CAIRO – A Palestinian paramedic who was present at an incident in which 15 of his colleagues were killed in southern Gaza last month said he saw Israeli troops firing at emergency vehicles that he later saw stained with blood….
Multiple Ukrainians legally in the United States under a humanitarian program received an email this week telling them their status had been revoked and they had seven days to leave the country or the “federal government will find you.” A…
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio discussed tariffs with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the State Department said in a readout of their conversation on Friday, in the aftermath of a sweeping new tariff policy announced by the United States….
KRYVYI RIH, Ukraine -A Russian attack killed at least 19 people including nine children in the Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih on Friday, local officials said, but Russia’s Defence Ministry said it targeted a military gathering there. The Ukrainian military…
TOKYO – Nintendo said it is delaying the start of pre-orders for the Switch 2 gaming device in the United States as it examines the potential impact of tariffs. Pre-orders will not start on April 9 in the U.S. “in…