NEW DELHI: Asian markets on Friday slumped with Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 nosediving over 5.6% in early trade, as investors reacted to mounting fears that the US-China trade war is spiralling out of control. The fresh jitters come a day after Wall Street erased much of its historic rally, triggered earlier in the week by President
Hong Kong, China: Stocks and the dollar tumbled while gold hit a fresh record high as panic gripped markets again Friday after Donald Trump admitted that his global tariff blitz could see “a transition cost”. The US president’s decision to delay crippling duties for 90 days sparked a frenzied scramble for equities that had been
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SAN FRANCISCO — President Donald Trump’s administration has been predicting its barrage of tariffs targeting China will push Apple into manufacturing the iPhone in the United States for the first time. But that’s an unlikely scenario even with U.S tariffs now standing at 145% on products made in China—the country where Apple has manufactured most
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The weather was overcast at the time of the crash, but visibility over the river was not substantially impaired. Rescue crews had to deal with seven-degree water temperatures. A crane vessel arrives at the scene where a helicopter crashed.Credit: AP Rescue boats circled the submerged aircraft within minutes of impact near the end of a
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After many years of impassioned calls for an Oscar recognizing the art of the stunt, the film academy has decided to give it an official award. An achievement in stunt design prize will be added starting with the 100th Academy Awards in 2028, which will recognize films released in 2027, the film academy said Thursday. “Since the
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The Supreme Court has instructed the administration of President Donald Trump to “facilitate” the return of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a Maryland resident mistakenly deported to El Salvador. However, it stopped short of requiring that he be brought back to the United States directly, leaving the next steps to be determined by a lower court.
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On Wednesday, President Trump abruptly announced a 90-day pause on most of his planned country-specific “reciprocal” tariffs — with the notable exception of the People’s Republic of China. In so strikingly singling out China as the focus of America’s economic and geopolitical ire, Trump was not merely clarifying that the United States views China and
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With masks on and wearing layers of clothing in the hopes of changing their looks before escaping, a dozen pro-Palestinian activists broke a window in the building housing the president’s office at Stanford University last June, so one of them could crawl through and open doors for the rest. They had spent weeks if not
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Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic — Rescue crews in the Dominican Republic dug through the remains of a legendary nightclub Thursday whose roof collapsed earlier this week, killing at least 221 people, but hopes of finding survivors were slim. Meanwhile, dozens of people in the capital of Santo Domingo were still searching for their loved ones
Ecuadorans go to the polls on Sunday under the shadow of surging drug violence and a troubling explosion in the number of local gangs and mafias. A flood of cocaine from Colombia and Peru through Ecuadoran ports has drawn a who’s who of mafias from Albania to Italy to Mexico to this once-safe Andean nation. But
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