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Myanmar leader heads to Bangkok as quake deaths climb to 3,000
Myanmar’s junta chief Min Aung Hlaing will travel to Thailand for a regional summit as his country reels from an earthquake that killed thousands and left cities in ruins. The earthquake in central Myanmar last Friday killed 3,085 people and injured 4,715, the junta has said. Hundreds more are missing and the toll is expected…
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Young Sicilian woman killed in broad daylight by stalker
The murder of a young Sicilian woman by a stalker in broad daylight has sent shockwaves across Italy, where 11 women have been killed since the start of the year. University student Sara Campanella, 22, was killed by an acquaintance on Monday afternoon in the Sicilian city of Messina. Witnesses told media that they saw…
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Trump gambles it all on global tariffs he’s wanted for decades
Donald Trump’s politics have shifted considerably over his decades in the public sphere. But one thing he has been consistent on, since the 1980s, is his belief that tariffs are an effective means of boosting the US economy. Now, he’s staking his presidency on his being right. At his Rose Garden event at the White…
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Nobel Peace Prize winner Oscar Arias says US cancelled his visa
The former president of Costa Rica, Oscar Arias, says his US visa has been revoked. Arias, a Nobel laureate, said he was informed of the decision weeks after he had publicly criticised Donald Trump, comparing the behaviour of the US president to that of a Roman emperor. The 84-year-old, who was awarded the Nobel Peace…
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President Trump announces new tariffs on all imports to US
US President Donald Trump has announced a universal “baseline” 10% tariff on all imports into the US, on what he has dubbed “Liberation Day”. Trump also unveiled a 10% tariff on UK goods and 20% on EU goods in a watershed moment for global trade. The US will also hit certain countries with much steeper…
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How aid becomes a weapon in Myanmar’s war zone
Getty Images More than 2,700 people were killed in a devastating earthquake that hit Myanmar on 28 March In the immediate aftermath of an earthquake, there is a 72-hour “golden window” when those trapped under rubble are most likely to survive. But in the 72 hours after a 7.7 magnitude quake struck Myanmar on Friday,…
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Meloni says Trump tariffs are ‘wrong’ as world leaders react
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has said US tariffs on European Union imports are “wrong”, after US President Donald Trump announced he would begin charging a 20% rate on EU goods. Meloni is one of the many world leaders reacting to Trump’s “liberation day” announcements, which include a universal 10% baseline tariff on all imports…
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Le Pen’s ban outraged France’s far right
Andrew Harding Paris correspondent BBC Outrage is a precious political currency and France’s far right has spent this week attempting, furiously and predictably, to capitalise on the perceived injustice of a court’s decision to block its totemic leader, Marine Le Pen, from standing in the 2027 presidential election. The airwaves have been throbbing with indignation.…
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‘Worst offenders’ around world face import taxes up to 50%
Natalie Sherman BBC News, New York Watch: Key moments in Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs announcement President Donald Trump has unveiled plans for sweeping new import taxes on all goods entering the US, in a watershed moment for global trade. The plan sets a baseline tariff on all imports of at least 10%, consistent with a…
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Survivor challenges Israeli account of attack on Gaza ambulances
BBC Paramedic Munther Abed survived the attack that killed 15 emergency workers by diving to the floor in the back of his ambulance “I’m the only survivor who saw what happened to my colleagues,” Munther Abed says, scrolling through pictures of his fellow paramedics on his phone. He survived the Israeli attack that killed 15…