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Watch: What is a tariff? The BBC’s Adam Fleming explains US President Donald Trump is set to announce further tariffs on 2 April, which he has suggested will hit all countries. He has already introduced a series of taxes covering steel, aluminium and car imports as well as all goods from China. Trump argues the...
I detect a reasonable sprinkle of the jitters in government as the world waits for US President Donald Trump’s tariffs announcement later. It is the single most globally consequential day so far of the president’s second term. Foreign Secretary David Lammy said the UK must “prepare for the worst” and there is every expectation in...
Few papers avoid mentioning – or leading – on Donald Trump’s threat of global tariffs that he is poised to unveil on Wednesday. “Carnage” and “Trump trade madness” splashes the Daily Mirror, as it reports that the UK is “braced for new wave of tariffs today”. Trump has trailed the measures for weeks, initially suggesting...
Every time Donald Trump has mentioned his plan to levy massive tariffs on imports into the US, there has been a widespread assumption that they will be delayed, watered down or rowed back. Today, he will reveal in the White House Rose Garden not just how serious he is about “the most beautiful word in...
A Cornell University graduate student who had his US visa revoked due to protest activities against Israel has chosen to leave the US rather than be deported. Momodou Taal, who is a joint citizen of the UK and The Gambia, had his student visa revoked due to his on-campus protest activities last year as the...
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Russia says it is still “working with the US” after President Trump said he was “angry” and “pissed off” with Vladimir Putin. In its first response to Trump’s criticism of the Russian president, the Kremlin tried to play down the tensions between the two leaders. “We continue working with the US side, first of all,...
PA Media The Trump Turnberry resort was targeted earlier this month Donald Trump has labelled people accused of vandalising the Trump Turnberry golf resort as “terrorists”. Grafitti was sprayed on the clubhouse in red paint and the course was dug up and daubed with the words “Gaza is not for sale” The US president said...
Sir Keir Starmer and Donald Trump have agreed that “productive negotiations” about an economic deal between the UK and US will “continue at pace”, Downing Street has said. The Sunday night phone call between pair comes after sources at No 10 said the government was prepared to retaliate against US tariffs if needed. Trump has...
Donald Trump has said he is “very angry” and “pissed off” with Russian President Vladimir Putin after weeks of attempting to negotiate a ceasefire in Ukraine. In an NBC News interview, the US president said he was angry with Putin for attacking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s credibility, and threatened to impose a 50% tariff on...
Republican calls to investigate a group chat in which White House national security officials shared sensitive military information has intensified, with Oklahoma Senator James Lankford saying it is “entirely appropriate”. Lankford stopped short of calling for officials to resign when speaking to CNN on Sunday, but he joins a growing number of Republicans who have...
On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Education opened an investigation into California’s Department of Education over Assembly Bill 1955, a law passed last year that limits the forced outing of transgender students to their parents. The bill, already the subject of multiple legal challenges, has become a lightning rod for anti-trans activists who claim it...
Nadine Yousif and Jessica Murphy BBC News, Toronto Reuters Danielle Smith, Premier of Alberta, has taken a diplomatic approach to the trade war Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she is willing to walk into the “lion’s den” to sway American officials against Canadian tariffs – wooing the US president with meetings at Mar-a-Lago and cosying...
A number of Sunday’s papers lead on accusations aimed at the Duke of Sussex by the chairwoman of Sentebale, an African charity he co-founded. Dr Sophie Chandauka has spoken to the Financial Times and Sky News, calling Prince Harry’s brand “toxic”. Prince Harry resigned from the charity earlier this week after a row between the...
