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Getty Images Donald Trump has upended global trade with his tariffs announcement Fundamentally wrong, was how Germany’s outgoing chancellor, Olaf Scholz, described the new Trump tariffs. A unilateral attack – that was the view of Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez. French President Emmanuel Macron called them brutal, unfounded and certain to have a “massive impact”…

Hugo Bachega Reporting fromSouthern Lebanon Reuters Kfar Kila is one of the border towns in Lebanon that were almost completely destroyed by the Israeli military during last year’s war Last year, on 17 September, at around 15:30, a pager which a nurse called Adam was given at the start of his shift at a hospital…

Tom Espiner BBC business reporter Watch: ‘The country is going to boom’ after tariffs, says President Trump Global stocks have sunk, a day after President Donald Trump announced sweeping new tariffs that are forecast to raise prices and weigh on growth in the US and abroad. Stock markets in the Asia-Pacific region fell for a…

Tom Cruise has paid tribute to his Top Gun co-star Val Kilmer, who died earlier this week aged 65. Appearing at CinemaCon in Las Vegas, Cruise led a crowd in The Colosseum theatre in a moment of silence to “honour a dear friend of mine, Val Kilmer”. “I can’t tell you how much I admired…

Denmark will not give up Greenland to the US, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has said during an official visit to the Arctic Island. Responding to repeated threats from Donald Trump, Frederiksen offered closer collaboration on security but told the US president: “You can’t annex other countries.” Frederiksen stood alongside Greenland’s Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen…

EPA Casualties from the air strikes in Gaza City, including children, were brought to al-Ahli hospital At least 27 Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli air strike on a school in northern Gaza that was serving as a shelter for displaced families, the Hamas-run health ministry says. Dozens more were wounded when the Dar…

Social media influencers pose a “new and increasing threat” for uncontacted indigenous people, a charity has warned after the arrest of a US tourist who travelled to a restricted Indian Ocean island. Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, 24, allegedly landed on North Sentinel Island in an apparent attempt to make contact with the isolated Sentinelese tribe, filming…

The United Kingdom is set to host the 2035 Women’s World Cup after being the only valid bid received by Fifa, the organisation that runs international football. Scotland, Wales, England and Northern Ireland put forward a joint bid in March. Fifa has already stated that the tournament must be in Europe or Africa. There was…

Kennedy Gondwe BBC News, Lusaka Sista D The protesters handed a petition to Vice-President Mutale Nalumango Warning: This story contains distressing details. A protest march has been held in Zambia’s capital, Lusaka, against a recent spate of reports of men raping children. Over the last two months, Zambians have been shocked by several cases of…

Paul Kirby & Laura Gozzi BBC News EUROPEAN COMMISSSION/DATI BENDO/HANDOUT European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has already laid out initial countermeasures Europe’s leaders had been preparing for “Trump’s trade war” – but the reality of a 20% blanket US tariff still came as a shock. “This decision is a catastrophe for the economic…