(Al Jazeera Media Network) United States President Donald Trump announced that he would “immediately pause” tariffs on Mexico and Canada for 30 days after speaking with their leaders on Monday.
However, a 10% tariff on all China exports comes into effect on Tuesday.
So what led to this decision, and why was the pause announced?
What happened between the US, Canada, Mexico and China?
On February 1, Trump signed executive orders imposing 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada, with a...
(BBC News) Swedish police say "around 10" people have been killed in a shooting on a school campus in the central city of Orebro.
Police believe the perpetrator is among the dead and that he acted alone. A motive is not yet clear.
Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson describes the attack as the "worst mass shooting" in Sweden's history.
The shooting happened at a school for adults, although there are children's schools on the site.
Students and staff were...
(BBC News) The leader of a pro-Russian paramilitary group in eastern Ukraine has died in hospital after being injured in an explosion in Moscow on Monday morning, Russian media have said.
Armen Sargsyan, the leader of the "Arbat" battalion, was severely injured following a blast in the entrance hall of a residential building in northwest Moscow, 12 km from the Kremlin.
He was evacuated to a hospital by helicopter and placed in intensive care after the...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum and her United States counterpart Donald Trump have announced a month-long pause to the sweeping US tariffs that were threatened for exports from Mexico.
Both leaders confirmed the agreement in social media posts on Monday, a day before the tariffs were supposed to come into effect. Sheinbaum was the first to reveal the pause, writing on the platform X.
“We had a good conversation with President Trump with great respect for our relationship...
(BBC News) Asian shares slid on Monday morning after US President Donald Trump followed through on his promise to impose tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China.
Investors are bracing for a potential trade war that could hit the earnings of major companies and dent global growth.
Canada and Mexico have said that they will hit back with retaliatory tariffs while China promised "corresponding countermeasures" and vowed to challenge Trump's move at the World Trade Organization.
Trump has said the tariffs are...
(BBC News) Donald Trump says he ordered military air strikes on a senior attack planner and others from the Islamic State (IS) group in Somalia.
"These killers, who we found hiding in caves, threatened the United States and our Allies," Trump posted on social media.
"The strikes destroyed the caves they live in, and killed many terrorists without, in any way, harming civilians."
In a post on X, the office of the president of Somalia said they...
(BBC News) Canada will react forcefully and immediately if Donald Trump imposes tariffs, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Friday.
The US president has said he could levy a 25% tariff on Canadian imports as soon as Saturday.
"It's not what we want, but if he moves forward, we will also act," Trudeau said.
Tariffs are a central part of Trump's economic vision. He sees them as a way of growing the US economy, protecting jobs and...
(BBC News) US President Donald Trump has said he will follow through with his threat to hit imports from Canada and Mexico with 25% border taxes, known as tariffs, on February 1.
But he added that a decision about whether this would include oil from those countries has not yet been made.
Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Trump said the move was aimed to address the large amounts of undocumented migrants and the fentanyl that...
(BBC News) Hamas says 110 Palestinian prisoners have been freed as buses arrive in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.
It is the third release of hostages since the ceasefire deal between Israel and Gaza began earlier this month.
Earlier, seven hostages – two Israelis and five Thais – were freed in Khan Younis, as hundreds of people swarmed round the hostages' vans in chaotic scenes.
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said they were "shocking scenes".
An eighth hostage, Agam...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) More than 60 people are believed to have been killed after an American Airlines plane collided with an army helicopter while landing at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport near the District of Columbia in the US.
American Airlines said on Thursday that 60 passengers and four crew members were on board the jet travelling from Wichita, Kansas, to the United States capital. An unnamed army official confirmed that the helicopter, on...
