Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,135 These are the key events on day 1,135 of Russia’s war on Ukraine. A view shows destroyed cars and an apartment building damaged by a Russian drone strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on April 3, 2025 [Sofiia Gatilova/Reuters] Published On 4 Apr 20254…
EXPLAINERNews How much will Trump’s new tariffs hurt other countries and US consumers? Trump’s reciprocal tariffs range from 10 percent to more than 50 percent on the US’s trading partners. By Sarah Shamim, Hanna Duggal and Marium AliPublished On 4 Apr 20254 Apr 2025 On Wednesday, United States President Donald Trump imposed sweeping reciprocal tariffs on the US’s trading…
EXPLAINER Have Trump’s tariffs killed US-Africa preferential trade? The AGOA framework that saw African countries export duty free to the US is as good as dead, experts say. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters before signing an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Monday, March 31, 2025 [Pool via…
BREAKINGBREAKING, South Korea’s Constitutional Court removes President Yoon from office South Korea’s Constitutional Court said that President Yoon Suk-yeol ‘violated’ people’s basic rights by declaring martial law. South Korea’s impeached President Yoon Suk-yeol attends his impeachment trial at the Constitutional Court in Seoul, South Korea, on January 21, 2025 [Kim Hong-Ji/Pool/Reuters] By David D. LeePublished On…
Downtown Seoul tense as court due to rule on President Yoon’s impeachment Thousands of police have been deployed in the vicinity of the Constitutional Court in anticipation of its ruling on impeached President Yoon Suk-yeol. Supporters of impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol stage a rally to oppose his impeachment near the Constitutional Court in…
Six people dead after alleged dynamite attack in Bolivia gold-mining clash The dynamite attack is thought to be the result of two mining collectives fighting over access to gold deposits. Independent miners turn over a wagon to dump out minerals collected from the Pailaviri mine in El Cerro Rico, part of Potosi, Bolivia, on April…
Trump says he thinks Iran wants direct talks with US US president says Iran initially wanted talks through intermediaries, but he thinks Tehran has changed its position. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has warned the US it would receive a ‘severe blow’ if it attacks Iran [File: Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader/WANA via Reuters]…
At least 16 killed as two refugee boats sink off Turkiye and Greece Greek and Turkish coastguards still searching for two missing people from the two unrelated accidents. Lifejackets lie at Petra port on the northeastern Aegean Sea island of Lesbos, Greece, after the capsizing of a boat carrying refugees off the coast, on April…
The only option for many businesses and workers is to wait and see what level of harm Trump’s tariffs will inflict.
“The country is going to boom.” President Trump says he thinks the rollout of his global tariffs is “going very well.”