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China has reacted swiftly to the imposition of 10 percent tariffs on Chinese goods by United States President Donald Trump. They went into effect at 05:01 GMT on Tuesday, and moments later, China’s Ministry of Finance announced it would impose 15 percent tariffs on imports of US liquid natural gas (LNG) and coal and 10…

The United States has postponed planned 25 percent tariffs on Canadian and Mexican imports by a month, following 11th-hour calls between President Donald Trump and leaders from Canada and Mexico on Monday. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum agreed to boost border security to prevent the trafficking of drugs and migrants…

China said Tuesday it would counter President Trump’s tariffs on Chinese products with tariffs of its own on multiple U.S. imports. It also announced an antitrust investigation into Google and other trade measures aimed at the U.S., ratcheting up trade tensions between the two economic heavyweights. U.S. tariffs on products from Canada and Mexico were…

BREAKINGBREAKING, Police say probing attack ‘as attempted murder, arson and aggravated weapons offence’. Police have said five people have been shot at a school in Sweden. The Associated Press news agency has reported the attack occurred at an adult education centre in the city of Orebro. The area where the centre, called Campus Risbergska, is…

London — A panel of experts has disputed the medical evidence used to convict British nurse Lucy Letby of murdering seven newborns and trying to kill seven others, a doctor who led the examination said Tuesday. Dr. Shoo Lee, a retired neonatologist from Canada, said the group of 14 doctors concluded the newborns either died…

Tbilisi, Georgia — Jailed journalist Mzia Amaghlobeli gets weaker every day as her hunger strike has reached three weeks in Rustavi, a town near the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, her lawyer says. Now the 49-year-old is having difficulty walking the short distance from her cell to the room where they usually meet, and human rights officials,…

A violin made by the famed Antonio Stradivari in 1714 has the potential to become the most expensive musical instrument ever sold when it goes up for auction Friday at Sotheby’s in New York. The auction house is estimating the value of the “Joachim-Ma Stradivarius” at $12 million to $18 million. If it sells at…

Soldiers sent by Pyongyang to Russia’s Kursk region have halted combat after suffering major casualties, South Korea’s security services say. North Korean troops sent to support Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have been pulled off the front lines after suffering major casualties, according to reports. The roughly 10,000 soldiers that Pyongyang is believed to have sent…

Gunfights on Monday shook a Mexican border city plagued by drug cartel-related violence, forcing the suspension of flights at the local airport, authorities said. The violence in Nuevo Laredo, just south of Texas, followed the arrest of an alleged local cartel leader, Ricardo Gonzalez, alias “El Ricky.” The U.S. consulate in Nuevo Laredo issued a…

More than 80 years after a Brazilian warship was sunk by a German submarine during World War II, the vessel’s location has finally been confirmed, Brazil’s navy has revealed. The historic vessel was positively identified over a decade after a fisherman’s net became ensnared on the shipwreck, without him realizing what the obstacle was. On…