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Tropical Cyclone Zelia made landfall on Friday afternoon in northwestern Australia, bringing intense rain and destructive winds to a sparsely populated region of the country that is home to ports and mines critical to the global economy. The authorities ordered residents to stay indoors. Australian meteorologists said the storm had made landfall at 12:30 p.m. … Read more
Hours after President Trump paved the way for upending the United States’ trade relationship with India with broad “reciprocal” tariffs, he and Prime Minister Narendra Modi presented a united front during a news conference on Thursday at the White House. Mr. Modi became the latest head of state to seek to placate an increasingly power-flexing … Read more
The Trump administration has renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, but most of the body of water lies outside maritime regions controlled by the United States. Maritime claims in the Gulf of Mexico Source: Sovereign Limits By Zach Levitt According to calculations by Sovereign Limits, a database of international boundaries, the … Read more
President Trump on Thursday set in motion a plan for new tariffs on other countries globally, an ambitious move that could shatter the rules of global trading and is likely to set off furious negotiations. The president directed his advisers to come up with new tariff levels that take into account a range of trade … Read more
Even as Europeans sought to display a united front in their support of Ukraine at a meeting of defense ministers in Brussels on Thursday, concerns are mounting that they could be left out in the cold by a Trump administration push to work with Russia to end the war. European leaders and top officials have … Read more
Trump ordered tariffs that could upend global trade President Trump yesterday ordered his advisers to calculate new “reciprocal” tariffs that would affect nearly every country around the world. India, Japan and the E.U. could be the hardest hit. The new tariffs, which could go into effect on or after April 2, would be calculated by … Read more
Authorities Believe Car Crash in Munich Was a Deliberate Attack
Harriet Tubman posters, origami paper cranes and rainbows have been disappearing from the halls of the American schools at NATO headquarters in Belgium, a response to the Trump administration’s rollbacks of diversity, equity and inclusion programs. Teachers were worried that they would be seen as signs of Black, Japanese and gay culture — and thus … Read more
A United States Navy aircraft carrier collided with a merchant vessel in the Mediterranean Sea shortly before midnight on Wednesday near a port in Egypt, Navy officials said. The U.S.S. Harry S. Truman, a Nimitz-class carrier, had been operating in the Red Sea while deployed under U.S. Central Command since Dec. 14, helping to launch … Read more
President Trump on Thursday offered reassurances that Ukraine would be involved in negotiations to end the war with Russia, a day after his remarks left that prospect in doubt and alarmed officials in Kyiv and Ukraine’s European allies that they would be left out of peace talks. “Of course they would,” Mr. Trump said in … Read more