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New round of US-China trade talks kicks off in Madrid

China and the United States kicked off the latest round of trade talks on Sunday in Madrid, where they are set to thrash out their TikTok dispute and President Donald Trump’s promised hefty tariffs...

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Tectonic shift over the fault lines

On March 1, 2001, president George W Bush, speaking at the National Defence University in Washington DC, stated that the United States and Russia ‘are not and must not be strategic adversaries.’ Yet, more than two decades later, as the 2024 US presidential elections approached, Republican nominee Donald Trump remarked during a televised interview on November...

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Trump issues rare rebuke to Netanyahu over Qatar strikes

US president Donald Trump gave Benjamin Netanyahu a rare slap on the wrist Tuesday over Israel’s strikes against Hamas in Qatar, as he insisted he played no role in the attack by one close US ally against another...

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Trump and Modi say US-India trade talks continuing

US president Donald Trump said Tuesday that trade talks with India would continue, despite strained ties since his imposition of 50-per cent tariffs over New Delhi’s purchases of Russian oil...

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Trump threatens Russia with sanctions

US president Donald Trump threatened Sunday to impose more sanctions on Russia, after the Kremlin unleashed its biggest-ever aerial barrage at Ukraine...

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China opposes Trump’s blacklist

Beijing on Monday said it ‘firmly opposes’ US president Donald Trump’s decision to create a blacklist of countries Washington says unjustly detain Americans, which his administration has said could include China.

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EU fines Google $3.47b

The EU on Friday slapped Google with a massive 2.95 billion euros ($3.47 billion) antitrust fine for favouring its own advertising services, drawing a furious rebuke from president Donald Trump and a threat of fresh tariffs against Europe...

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US trade gap widest in four months

The US trade deficit expanded more than expected in July to its widest in four months, government data showed Thursday, on a surge in imports before a fresh wave of president Donald Trump’s tariffs kicked in...

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Trump health misinformation swirls despite denial

From manipulated images to out-of-context photos, false claims that Donald Trump is seriously ill — or even dead — have swirled online, with the misinformation persisting even after the US president publicly rejected it on Tuesday...

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US limits TSMC chipmaking tool shipments to China

President Donald Trump’s administration has revoked Taiwanese semiconductor giant TSMC’s authorisation to export US chipmaking equipment to China without a licence, further restricting access to US technology in the country...

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Gold tops $3,500, global stocks retreat

Stock markets fell and gold hit a record high of $3,501.59 an ounce Tuesday as investors fled to safe havens over concerns about US president Donald Trump’s Federal Reserve fight, tariffs uncertainty and Europe’s public finances...

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Minorities stand to lose in Trump’s Texas vote map redo

President Donald Trump’s drive to retain control of the US Congress by rewriting the Texas electoral map is playing out in part in a largely Latino, low-income patch of Houston that smells of chemical plants and oil refineries.

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US appeals court finds Trump’s global tariffs illegal

A US appeals court on Friday ruled that many of president Donald Trump’s tariffs, which have upended global trade, were illegal—but allowed them to remain in place for now, giving him time to take the fight to the Supreme Court.

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Trump still working for Putin, Zelensky meeting

US president Donald Trump is still working on a Russia-Ukraine peace summit, the White House said Friday, after French president Emmanuel Macron warned Trump risked being ‘played’ by Vladimir Putin.

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Trump moves to block $5b in foreign aid

US president Donald Trump has moved to block $5 billion of congressionally-approved foreign aid, the White House said Friday — raising the likelihood of a federal shutdown as Democrats oppose the policy.

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Lisa Cook sues Trump over move to fire her

US Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook filed a lawsuit Thursday to challenge Donald Trump’s move to fire her from her position — as the president widened his pressure on the central bank.

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Trump moves to limit US stays of students, journalists

President Donald Trump’s administration moved Thursday to impose stricter limits on how long foreign students and journalists can stay in the United States, the latest bid to tighten legal immigration in the country.