FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The European Union expects to find out on Monday whether President Donald Trump will impose punishing tariffs on America’s largest trade partner in a move economists have warned would have repercussions for companies…
Category: 3. Europe
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Musk puts Trump beef back on the front-burner
Elon Musk’s plans to form a new political party have rekindled his simmering feud with Donald Trump, putting the president and tech mogul at odds with the GOP megabill fresh in the rearview mirror and next year’s midterms on the horizon.
Musk spent the weekend needling the president on…
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Von der Leyen — finally — defends herself over ‘Pfizergate’ – POLITICO
“It is no secret that I was in contact with top representatives of the companies producing the vaccines that would get us out of the crisis … just as I sought advice from the best epidemiologists or virologists in the world,” she told the European Parliament on Monday.
While the…
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US to revoke terrorist designation on Syrian group HTS
The State Department will officially revoke the foreign terrorist designation for the al-Nusrah Front, the group whose leader now heads the government in Syria after orchestrating the overthrow of dictator Bashar Assad late last year.
The move, outlined in a to-be-published memo dated late…
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Trump sends tariff letters to Japan, South Korea, extending deadline
President Donald Trump is threatening to slap 25 percent tariffs on Japan and South Korea as he continues to negotiate trade deals with the countries ahead of a new Aug. 1 deadline.
The rates, which were detailed in letters Trump posted to Truth Social Monday afternoon, effectively match the…
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Europeans Push Back Against Tourism With Water Guns, Protests: CityLab Daily
Mass tourism in some destination hotspots in Europe has reached a tipping point as travel returns to pre-pandemic levels. Locals, fed up with crowded streets, rowdy tourists and with being squeezed out of the housing market, are fighting back —…
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Switzerland indicts two men on charges of spreading so-called Islamic State ideology
By Gavin Blackburn with APPublished on
ADVERTISEMENTFederal prosecutors in Switzerland announced an indictment on Monday of a Kosovan and a Swiss-Macedonian dual national on terrorism-related charges and spreading the ideology of the…
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La bromance Starmer-Macron a un problème, Donald Trump – POLITICO
François-Joseph Schichan, ancien diplomate français et directeur du cabinet de conseil Flint Global, partage l’idée que cette semaine peut être considérée comme un “sommet de réconciliation”, mais reconnaît qu’il y aura néanmoins des “différences sur certaines questions,…
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Three former officials in France cleared of allegations they mishandled COVID-19 pandemic
The decision, announced by one of the former officials on X, comes five years after a top court in France opened an investigation.
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Watch: The performer from the Philippines takes centre stage in Qatar
Once silenced by grief, Dorothy Chrizelle Collado found her voice again with the help of a community theatre group.
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