President Donald Trump on Tuesday directed Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to begin a national security probe of tariffs on critical U.S. imports, including rare earths and other vital substances.
South African police on Tuesday rescued American pastor Josh Sullivan from the gang of armed men who kidnapped him last week.
Argentine President Javier Milei said on Monday that his country “intends to be a firm ally of the United States” and hopes to cement that friendship by signing a trade agreement that “will undoubtedly benefit both the United States and Argentina.”
A massive dust storm or “haboob” swept across central and southern Iraq on Tuesday, hospitalizing 3,747 people with breathing difficulties according to Iraqi health officials.
Indian Trade Secretary Sunil Barthwal said on Tuesday that his government has “decided to go for a path of trade liberalization with the United States.”
China has restricted the export of several crucial rare earth minerals to the United States in response to President Donald Trump’s tariff increases.
Radio Free Asia (RFA) on Saturday quoted reports from Chinese exporters and port officials who said traffic is visibly slowing down at China’s big port cities of Shanghai and Guangdong, while some factory production has virtually “ground to a halt.”
South Africa appointed former deputy finance minister Mcebisi Jonas as a special envoy to the United States on Monday, ostensibly to improve frayed relations between the two countries.
Outgoing U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink says Russia attacked the Ukrainian city of Sumy with cluster munitions, killing dozens.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry on Friday pledged to give high-level nuclear talks with the United States this weekend a “genuine chance” to succeed. Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed the talks would take place on Saturday in Oman.
The International Maritime Organization (IMO) held a meeting in London on Friday at which member nations agreed to impose the world’s first global carbon tax, a fee of $380 per metric ton on “greenhouse gases” emitted by ships up to a certain limit and $100 per ton beyond that.
The World Uyghur Congress (WUC), an international coalition of Uyghurs who fled persecution in China, issued a statement Wednesday that confirmed a man detained in Sweden on suspicion of spying for China was a longtime spokesman for the group.
China raised its tariff on U.S. imports to 125% on Friday in retaliation for President Donald Trump’s latest tariff increase, while making plans to dispose of its excess goods by flooding the rest of the world with cheap exports.
Officials in the Dominican Republic said on Thursday the death toll from Tuesday’s tragic collapse of a popular nightclub has grown to over 200 people.
Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal says President Donald Trump’s trade policies could create “the opportunity of a lifetime” for India.
China’s updated “Unreliable Entity List” — a list of American companies banned from doing business in China in retaliation for President Donald Trump’s tariffs — has grown to include eleven U.S. drone manufacturers.
China’s increasingly shrill and desperate efforts to prove itself tough and fearless against President Donald Trump’s tariffs hit a new low on Thursday, when Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning decided to post old footage of Mao Zedong, the founder of the Chinese Communist Party – and the worst mass murderer in history.
Beijing has been talking tough ever since President Donald Trump began raising tariffs against China, swiftly retaliating with its own tariff hikes instead of negotiating like most other major countries and vowing to “fight to the end.” There are some good reasons why China’s blustery confidence might be misplaced.
The U.S. State Department on Tuesday raised El Salvador’s travel rating from Level Two to Level One, the safest rating for American travelers.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on Tuesday repatriated three Americans accused of participating in a failed coup attempt against President Felix Tshisekedi in May 2024.
The U.S.-China trade war heated up on Wednesday, as President Donald Trump’s tariffs on China soared to a total of 104 percent and China retaliated by announcing an 84 percent levy on U.S. goods.
South Korea has scheduled a snap election for June 3 to replace President Yoon Suk-yeol, who was impeached in December for attempting to impose martial law, then formally removed from office last Friday by the South Korean Constitutional Court.
Representatives of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) met in Qatar with M23 insurgents last week to discuss a ceasefire.
Iranian state media said on Tuesday that Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi will meet with Trump administration envoy Steve Witkoff in Muscat, the capital of Oman, on Saturday.
China’s state-run Global Times uncorked a furious editorial on Tuesday denouncing President Donald Trump for attempting to “blackmail” Beijing with his “abuse of tariffs.”
An Indian government official reportedly told Bloomberg that New Delhi is “unlikely to immediately retaliate against President Donald Trump’s tariff imposition.”
Taiwanese President William Lai Ching-te proposed zero tariffs, lower trade barriers, and more investment in the United States in response to Trump’s tariffs.
The United Nations marked Monday, April 7 as the 31st anniversary of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, in which a million men, women, and children from the Tutsi tribe were slaughtered, along with members of the rival Hutu tribe who spoke out against the bloodbath.
China’s retaliation against President Donald Trump’s tariffs includes more export controls on rare earth minerals, which are vital to electronics and battery manufacturing.
The Vietnamese Trade Ministry said this week it will impose temporary anti-dumping tariffs on some galvanized steel products from China and South Korea.
The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said on Friday that the military government of Myanmar is limiting aid to victims of last week’s devastating earthquake because the victims live in areas held by insurgent forces.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio asked allied foreign ministers gathered in Brussels on Thursday to increase their defense spending to five percent of their gross domestic products (GDP) – a very substantial increase for most members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and considerably more than the even the United States spends as a percentage of GDP.
China announced on Friday that it will impose a 34 percent tariff on all U.S. goods in retaliation for President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs on Wednesday. The Chinese tariff hike is scheduled to take effect on April 10.
The Turkish opposition is calling for an economic boycott to protest the detention of leading presidential candidate and Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, prompting a police crackdown on Thursday that led to 11 arrests.
Thousands of Haitian citizens marched through the streets of Port-au-Prince on Wednesday to protest escalating gang violence.
The Chinese Commerce Ministry on Thursday demanded President Donald Trump immediately rescind the tariffs he announced on Wednesday.
Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Ho Duc Phoc, accompanied by an entourage of Vietnamese business executives, announced an emergency trip to Washington on Wednesday — the day President Donald Trump revealed his “Liberation Day” tariff schedule which included a 46 percent duty on imports from Vietnam.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is warning shoppers that some companies are “maple-washing” their products – that is, falsely labeling them as “made in Canada” – to attract consumers who want to purchase only domestically-made goods during trade tensions with the United States.
The Syrian energy ministry on Tuesday attributed a nationwide blackout to a “technical malfunction in the electrical system.”
The military junta that rules Myanmar admitted on Wednesday that its forces fired “warning shots” at a Chinese convoy that was attempting to deliver humanitarian aid to victims of Friday’s devastating earthquake.
