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President Donald Trump’s plan to impose widespread tariffs on foreign goods aims to persuade foreign manufacturers to produce their goods in factories in the United States and employ Americans.

During a recent interview with the conservative network Newsmax, Trump said this effort had already produced results.

“We have automobile plants being built at levels we’ve never seen anything like it, and they’re going up fast,” Trump said on March 26.

Asked for evidence, the White House…

Their death sentences over the botched 2024 coup effort have been commuted to life imprisonment.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) President Felix Tshisekedi has downgraded the death sentences of three United States citizens convicted for taking part in a failed coup attempt last year, reducing their punishments to life imprisonment.

Tshisekedi issued the commutation on Tuesday, according to presidential spokesperson Tina Salam, six months after the US nationals – along with 34…

Italy’s government has tightened the country’s citizenship laws, amid criticism that people – often with little real connection to the European nation – were delving into their family history to try to claim a passport only to ease their travel around the world.

Fewer people of Italian descent will now be able to obtain citizenship after the government narrowed its eligibility criteria to those with Italian parents or grandparents.

The government says it changed the rules around…

Occupied Palestine (Quds News Network)- The Israeli government has taken 9 million shekels ($2.4 million) meant for healthcare in Palestinian-Bedouin villages and redirected them to fund demolition of their houses, reported Israeli media.The funds, originally allocated to improve medical services, were transferred to the Yoav Unit, a police force that enforces building demolitions and protects Israeli demolition crews.

Physicians for Human Rights condemned the decision, calling it…

Convicted of fraud and barred from public office.

The end of the road it would seem for Marine Le Pen’s presidential ambitions.

She may appeal – but that is not likely to allow her run for the presidency in two years’ time.

What are the implications?

Presenter: 

Adrian Finighan

Guests:

Diane De Vignemont – independent journalist specialising in French politics and history.

Philippe Marliere – professor…

Gaza (Quds News Network)- Israeli forces bombed a United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) clinic in Jabalia, killing at least 19 people, including nine children. The victims had been seeking medical care when an Israeli missile struck, tearing their bodies apart and setting them on fire.

Breaking | In the latest toll, 15 Palestinians were killed and several injured, including children, in an Israeli airstrike targeting an UNRWA clinic sheltering displaced civilians in…

More journalists killed in Gaza than in both world wars, Vietnam, Yugoslavia and Afghanistan combined, says Costs of War project.

Israel’s war on Gaza has killed 232 journalists – an average of 13 per week – making it the deadliest conflict for media workers ever recorded, according to a report by the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs’ Costs of War project.

More journalists have been killed in Gaza than in both world wars, the Vietnam War, the wars in Yugoslavia…