The Trump administration announced Wednesday that it will launch a wave of tariff-related investigations into more than a dozen U.S. trade partners, the next phase in President Donald Trump’s sweeping global trade wars.
In a process that is likely…
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The U.S. and allies announce plans to tap emergency oil reserves; missile strikes continue throughout the Middle East
The United States and its allies announced steps to ease rising oil prices on Wednesday as the war with Iran continued to create chaos in the global oil market amid ongoing missile attacks throughout the Middle East.
Three ships were struck near…
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Why did U.S. bombings cause ‘acid rain’ to fall in Iran? An atmospheric scientist explains
This article originally appeared on The Conversation.
Reports are emerging of black rain falling over parts of Iran in the hours after U.S.-Israeli airstrikes on oil depots on the weekend, with some outlets describing it as “
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Iran tells world to get ready for oil at $200 a barrel as it fires on merchant ships
By Parisa Hafezi, Alexander Cornwell and Bo Erickson
DUBAI/TEL AVIV/WASHINGTON, March 11 (Reuters) – Iran said the world should be ready for oil at $200 a barrel as its forces hit merchant ships on Wednesday and the International Energy…
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At least 17 killed after drone strikes school in Sudan | Sudan
At least 17 people, most of them schoolgirls, were killed on Wednesday when an explosive-laden drone blamed on Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces struck a secondary school and a health care centre.
At least 10 people were wounded in the…
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Britain is ejecting hereditary nobles from Parliament after 700 years
LONDON (AP) — Centuries of British political tradition will end within weeks after Parliament voted to remove hereditary aristocrats from the unelected House of Lords.
On Tuesday night members of the upper chamber dropped…
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