Category: 1. Palestine

US President Donald Trump’s widest-ranging tariffs to date have come into effect – a move that may trigger retaliation and escalate trade tensions, upsetting the global economy.

The initial 10 percent “baseline” tariff took effect at United States seaports, airports and customs warehouses at 12:01am ET (04:01am GMT) on Saturday, ushering in Trump’s full rejection of the post-World War II system of mutually agreed tariff rates.

Among countries first hit with the 10 percent tariff…

These are the key events on day 1,136 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

These are the key events from Saturday, April 5:

Fighting

• A Russian missile attack has killed at least 18 people, including nine children, in a residential area of the Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih, local officials said, but Russia’s Ministry of Defence said it targeted a military gathering there.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says European military planners could be ready within a month with details of a foreign…

Reports say AI models from Microsoft were used as part of an Israeli military programme to select bombing targets in Gaza.

A pro-Palestinian protest by Microsoft employees has interrupted the company’s 50th anniversary celebration, the latest backlash over the tech industry’s work to supply artificial intelligence technology to the Israeli military.

The protest began on Friday as Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman was presenting product updates and a long-term vision for the company’s AI…

More than 500 law firms in the United States have rallied in support of Perkins Coie LLP, one of several legal offices that have been targeted under the administration of President Donald Trump.

In an amicus brief filed on Friday, the law firms accused the Trump administration of pursuing a campaign of “draconian punishment” against legal professionals who represent people and causes the president frowns upon.

“Any controversial representation challenging actions of the current…

The United States Department of Defense has confirmed it fired the head of the National Security Agency, in a move that sparked outrage over an alleged purge of security officials.

On Friday, Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell released a short statement, acknowledging the departure of four-star Air Force General Timothy Haugh as director of the National Security Agency (NSA), one of the government’s top intelligence-gathering bodies.

Haugh also led the US Cyber Command, which prepares for…

A federal judge has ordered the administration of President Donald Trump to return a man to the United States after he was wrongly deported to El Salvador.

Before issuing the ruling on Friday, Judge Paula Xinis called Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s deportation “an illegal act” and condemned Trump administration lawyers for lacking answers to fundamental questions surrounding the incident.

Abrego Garcia, 29, had been put on a deportation flight to El Salvador in March, despite an immigration…

China has announced tariffs on US products in response to new levies imposed on Chinese goods by US President Donald Trump.

Beijing unveiled a 34-percent tariff on all US goods and restrictions on exports of rare earth minerals.

With global financial markets sliding, how far are both countries willing to go?

And will this back-and-forth change trade policies?

Presenter: James Bays

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Two days after sending the economy reeling by announcing widespread tariffs, United States President Donald Trump headed to play golf at Mar-a-Lago, his private club in Palm Beach, Florida, even as the sell-off for financial markets worldwide is slamming into a higher, scarier gear.

Before heading to his private golf course, Trump wrote on social media: “THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO GET RICH.”

Investors are not buying that message.

The S&P 500 tumbled 5.7 percent as Wall Street’s worst…

Stock markets in the United States have seen another day of losses as President Donald Trump’s so-called reciprocal tariffs continue to cause global economic uncertainty.

At the close of markets on Friday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down by 5.5 percent, the Nasdaq Composite was down 5.8 percent, and the S&P 500 was down nearly 6 percent.

All told, the three indices saw their worst two-day stretch since March 2020 when the economic ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic took hold.

The…

The Israeli caller was on the phone talking to the Civil Defense workers. Identifying himself as from the Israeli army, he informed the workers that Israel would bomb the Dar al-Arqam school in Gaza City’s eastern Tuffah neighborhood a second time. The first time had already taken place an hour before the call. The bombing of the school killed 29 people on Thursday, and almost a hundred people were injured and stuck under the rubble. The Civil Defense team had been working on…