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Annabelle Liang Business reporter Alamy The Nike Air Jordan 1 is, in some ways, the iconic US shoe. It’s a popular sneaker line by a large American brand, created four decades ago for homegrown basketball legend Michael Jordan. But although Nike sells most of its products in the US, almost all of its shoes are…

Mike Wendling Reporting fromDelta, Ohio BBC/Mike Wendling On a quick drive around the small Ohio town of Delta, you can spot nearly as many Trump flags as American stars-and-stripes banners. And at the petrol station near the Ohio Turnpike, the pumps bear relics of the last administration, with slogans slamming Trump’s predecessor: “Whoever voted for…

Stephen McDonell BBC China correspondent Reuters Neither Donald Trump nor Xi Jinping looks like they are going to back down on tariffs soon American companies looking to sell into the huge Chinese market have just taken a big hit. A 34% price increase on all US goods entering the country will knock some out of…

BBC Yasin Akgul, a photojournalist for AFP, was arrested at his home It was early morning on 23 March when the police came to Yasin Akgul’s door in Istanbul – while his children were still in bed. Just hours before, the Turkish photojournalist had returned home from covering mass anti-government protests. Now he was a…

Getty Images Donald Trump, in announcing his sweeping new tariffs on US imports on Wednesday, promised that the history books would record 2 April as America’s “liberation day”. After two days of stock market turmoil, however, this may also be remembered as the week the president’s second-term agenda ran headfirst into economic – and political…

“There’s a lot of other rich countries in the world, they should all be pitching in. “We’re going to do our part. We already have people there. We’ll have more people there. We’ll help as much as we can [but] it’s not the easiest place to work… they have a military junta that doesn’t like…

Anne Soy BBC deputy Africa editor, Nairobi AFP Lesotho’s garment workers face an uncertain future once President Donald Trump’s 50% import tariff kicks in Thursday was a “terrible” and “devastating” day for people involved in Lesotho’s textile sector as they digested the news that the country’s exports to the US would be hit by a…

Guy Hedgecoe Business reporter BBC Blanca Castro, who rents an apartment in central Madrid, says she is being forced out by her landlord Blanca Castro puts on a builder’s helmet before opening the door to her kitchen. Inside it, the ceiling has a large hole that is dripping water and it looks as if it…

Natalie Sherman BBC News, New York Getty Images Stock market turmoil deepened on Friday, as China hit back at tariffs announced by US President Donald Trump, raising the likelihood of an extended trade war and damage to the global economy. All three major stock indexes in the US plunged more than 5%, with the S&P…

On Thursday at least 27 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli air strike on a school-turned-shelter in northern Gaza, according to the Hamas-run health ministry. The Israel Defense Forces said it was targeting “prominent terrorists” inside a Hamas command and control centre in the area. BBC Verify’s Jake Horton explains what we know about the…