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Canada’s retaliatory tariffs on about $20 billion worth of American imports took effect at 12.01am on Tuesday, ranging from 15% to 50% and applying to steel, dairy, appliances, agricultural equipment, pulp and paper, and electronics. The measures, a response to the United States’ 50% tariff on $20 billion

Ukraine’s prosecutor general Ruslan Kravchenko resigned amid corruption accusations after anti-graft officers searched his offices at the weekend. He called the allegations “completely unsubstantiated” and denied wrongdoing. The National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABu) and Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (Sapo) announced Saturday they uncovered a money-laundering

Shock at the far right’s Saxony-Anhalt win rippled Sunday, yet not all were unhappy. After exit polls, Donald Trump posted results on Truth Social, delighted by the CDU collapse and AfD surge. The result humiliated Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz, whose party lost over half its seats while

UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband has announced sweeping sanctions alongside France and Canada targeting Israeli settlements in the West Bank, marking the strongest condemnation ever issued by the British government. Miliband declared that the government would now officially acknowledge Israel’s occupation of the West Bank as unlawful in its

Fourteen men have gone on trial in Paris over the deaths of at least 31 people in the worst mass drowning from a small-boat crossing in the Channel on record. The accused, alleged to be linked to people-smuggling networks, face charges including manslaughter and facilitating illegal immigration as

French vineyards hit by severe drought and heatwaves are expected to report a 30-year low in wine production after the country's hottest ever recorded summer, according to the agriculture ministry. Initial estimates suggest winemakers will produce just under 34m hectolitres from this year's harvest: a