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The Trump administration has reversed sweeping cuts in emergency food aid to several nations while maintaining them in Afghanistan and Yemen, two of the world’s poorest and most war-ravaged countries, officials said Wednesday.
China has raised tariffs to 84% on goods coming from the U.S. in an additional countermeasure.
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto said Wednesday that his country will offer temporary shelter to Palestinian medical evacuees and children orphaned by the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.
Iran’s president again pledged Wednesday that his nation is 'not after a nuclear bomb' ahead of talks between Tehran and the United States, going as far as dangling the prospect of direct American investment in the Islamic Republic if the countries can reach a deal.
Israeli aircraft struck a residential block in war-ravaged northern Gaza on Wednesday, killing at least 15 people, health officials said, as the renewed fighting in the devastated Palestinian enclave showed no signs of letting up.
World shares slumped on Wednesday after U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest tariff hikes took effect and he threatened to add still more.
Ukraine’s claim that significant numbers of Chinese nationals are fighting alongside Russia’s invading army is 'totally unfounded,' a Beijing official said Wednesday.
The roof of an iconic nightclub in the Dominican capital collapsed early Tuesday during a merengue concert attended by politicians, athletes and others, leaving at least 98 people dead and 160 injured, authorities said.
Canada amped up its retaliatory measures against Donald Trump’s tariffs today as the United States president brought his trade war to the world.
By declaring a trade war on the rest of the world, U.S. President Donald Trump has panicked global financial markets, raised the risk of a recession and broken the political and economic alliances that made much of the world stable for business after World War II.
A growing number of companies, including some Canadian, say they’ve been forced to lay off staff, as uncertainty around U.S. trade policy deepens.
U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that Canada is taking advantage of the United States through dairy tariffs. Speaking to reporters in the White House Rose Garden to announce his global tariffs on April 3, Trump said that Canada imposes a 250 to 300 per cent tariff on U.S. dairy products.
The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday said it has reached a preliminary, staff-level agreement with cash-strapped Argentina on a US$20 billion bailout, providing a welcome reprieve to libertarian President Javier Milei as he seeks to overturn the country’s old economic order.
The U.S. will impose 104 per cent tariffs against China at midnight tonight, White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt confirmed at a press briefing.
The three Americans convicted on charges of participating in a botched coup attempt in Congo last year have been repatriated to the United States.
