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BANGKOK (AP): Countries and industries were scrambling Friday to respond as President Donald Trump’s latest tariffs hikes upend global trade and world markets. China took the toughest approach so far, responding to the 34 per cent tariff imposed by...
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Coordinator of the Grenada National Cybersecurity Incident Response Team (CSIRT), Jervis Dabreo, is urging continued vigilance following the release of a malicious video featuring visuals purportedly of Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell. According to...
SEOUL (AP): The South Korean Constitutional Court’s decision to formally unseat President Yoon Suk Yeol is another test for the country’s democracy after the conservative-liberal divide deepened over his imposition of martial law and subsequent...
BRUSSELS (AP): The UK and French foreign ministers on Friday accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of dragging his feet in ceasefire talks aimed at halting Moscow’s all-out invasion of Ukraine, and demanded a swift response from Russia after...
BRUSSELS (AP): US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the Trump administration’s new envoy to NATO are seeking to reassure wary members of the US commitment to the alliance. Rubio on Thursday decried “hysteria and hyperbole” in the media about US...
TECOLUCA, El Salvador (AP) — Costa Rica's security minister toured El Salvador's maximum-security gang prison on Friday as part of his review of the measures that El Salvador has taken to reduce violence caused by powerful street gangs during a...
ATHENS (AP): Two boats carrying migrants sank in the early hours of Thursday in the narrow stretch of sea between Turkey and a nearby Greek island, leaving at least 16 people dead, one missing and more than 40 survivors, Greek and Turkish officials...
FRANKFURT (AP): US President Donald Trump’s sweeping new tariffs shocked governments and investors, provoking dismay, threats of retaliation and calls for negotiations to rescind the stiff new import taxes imposed on goods from countries around the...
BANGKOK (AP): Myanmar’s ruling military declared a temporary ceasefire in the country’s civil war Wednesday to facilitate relief efforts following a 7.7 magnitude earthquake that has killed more than 3,000 people. The announcement by the military’...
BANGKOK (AP) — The death toll from the massive earthquake that hit Myanmar nearly a week ago rose Thursday to 3,085 as search and rescue teams found more bodies, the military-led government said, and humanitarian aid groups scrambled to provide...
AP: Anger over the Trump administration’s tariffs and rhetoric will likely cause international travel to the US to fall even further than expected this year, an influential travel forecasting company said Tuesday. Tourism Economics said it expects...
CAIRO (AP): At least two people were killed in attacks by Sudan’s paramilitary forces on a famine-stricken camp in North Darfur for people displaced by the war in the country, officials and humanitarian organisations said. The Abo Shouk...
DEIR AL-BALAH (AP): The UN food agency is closing all of its bakeries in the Gaza Strip, officials said Tuesday, as supplies dwindle after Israel sealed off the territory from all imports nearly a month ago. Israel, which later resumed its...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The sweeping new tariffs announced Wednesday by US President Donald Trump were met initially with measured reactions from key trading partners, highlighting the lack of appetite for a full-fledged trade war. Trump presented...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced far-reaching new tariffs on nearly all US trading partners — a 34 per cent tax on imports from China and 20 per cent on the European Union, among others — that threaten to dismantle...
KINGSTOWN (CMC): The ruling Unity Labour Party (ULP) celebrated its 24th anniversary in office over the last weekend with Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves using the occasion to urge supporters to ensure that the party wins a sixth consecutive term...
