Trump voiced new tariff threats a day after taking office without immediately imposing tariffs. REUTERS/Carlos Barria |
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President Donald Trump vowed to hit the European Union with tariffs and said his administration was discussing a 10% punitive duty on Chinese imports because fentanyl is being sent from China to the US via Mexico and Canada. Separately, Trump has also escalated his campaign against diversity programs.
- Earlier this week, Trump announced the US will leave the World Health Organization, sending global health leaders scrambling for plan. Correspondent Jennifer Rigby weighs in on the exit of the organization's top funder on today's Reuters World News podcast.
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Despite Israel's vow to destroy Hamas, the group remains deeply entrenched in Gaza and its hold on power represents a challenge to implementing a permanent ceasefire, according to more than a dozen residents, officials, regional diplomats and security experts.
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Guns may have fallen silent in the enclave, but for many Gazans the agony is not over. Civil defense estimates the bodies of around 10,000 Palestinians killed in the war are yet to be found and buried.
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Turkey has detained nine people, including the owner of the hotel, in connection with a deadly fire that claimed the lives of 76 people and injured dozens at a ski resort in western Turkey, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said.
- Five candidates will appear on the ballot for a presidential election in Belarus on Sunday, but for the past 31 years there has only been one winner. Alexander Lukashenko is assured of a new five-year term in what the exiled opposition describes as a sham vote.
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Prince Harry has settled his lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch's News Group Newspapers over alleged unlawful information gathering, his lawyer said, after the media group admitted he had been the victim of unlawful activity.
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Italy's Meloni navigates a high-stakes relationship. Italian Government/Handout via REUTERS |
He hails a fantastic woman sweeping all before her in Europe. She praises a strong and shrewd defender of the West. Donald Trump and Giorgia Meloni, the sole European leader at Trump's inauguration, are fast forging a new transatlantic "special relationship". |
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Wealthy Indians tap into bathroom luxury with $18,500 smart toilets. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas |
India is emerging as a hotspot for Kohler, Toto and Hansgrohe. The bathroom hardware companies are planning more stores, striking deals with developers and stepping up production in the world's most populous nation as incomes grow. |
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