(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...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Syria’s de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa has been named president for a transitional period, the Syrian state news agency (SANA) has reported.
Al-Sharaa was also authorised to form a temporary legislative council for the transitional phase that will carry out its task until a new constitution is adopted, SANA reported on Wednesday, citing military official Hassan Abdel Ghani.
Al-Sharaa is the leader of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a former opposition armed group...
(BBC News) Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen visited three European capitals on Tuesday, days after US President Donald Trump reiterated his interest in acquiring Greenland.
Over the space of a day, Frederiksen met with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin, French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris, and NATO leader Mark Rutte in Brussels.
Although the leaders were said to have discussed issues including Ukraine and hybrid Russian attacks in the Baltic Sea, the Danish PM's whirlwind...
(BBC News) US President Donald Trump warns Chinese startup DeepSeek is a wake-up call for America's technology industry.
The emergence of DeepSeek's low-cost AI chatbot caused shockwaves on Wall Street, with Nvidia losing more than $500 billion in market value.
Shares in other major technology firms fell steeply in value when markets opened on Monday. That day, DeepSeek said it was hit by a "large-scale malicious attack".
Tech-focused shares in Japan fell on Tuesday, while stock...
