(BBC News) At least 34 people have been killed and 117 injured, including 15 children, after a Russian attack on the centre of Sumy, according to Ukrainian authorities.
Two Iskander-variant ballistic missiles struck at around 10:15 local time (08:15 BST), both hitting the area around Sumy State University and its congress centre.
Images and videos of the aftermath show bloodied bodies scattered in the streets around the impact of the missiles. At least two children were...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) China has announced it would raise tariffs on all United States goods to 125%, deepening a trade war between the world’s two largest economies.
“The US’s imposition of abnormally high tariffs on China seriously violates international trade rules, basic economic laws and common sense,” Beijing’s State Council Tariff Commission said in a statement announcing the retaliatory tariffs on Friday.
The new levy will take effect on Saturday, the statement said.
China and the US...
(BBC News) For days, Donald Trump and his White House team had insisted they were fully committed to their decision to impose sweeping "reciprocal" tariffs on dozens of countries. They even derided a report on Tuesday that said the president was considering a 90-day pause – news that triggered a brief stock market surge.
But now that pause on higher tariff rates, with a few notable exceptions, is a reality. The reordering of the global...
(BBC News) Hundreds of rescue workers in the Dominican Republic continue to search for survivors of a roof collapse at a nightclub in the capital, Santo Domingo.
At least 124 people died and more than 150 were injured in the incident, which happened just before 01:00 local time (05:00 GMT) on Tuesday at the Jet Set club, officials said.
Head of Emergency Operations Juan Manuel Méndez estimated that his team had "24 to 36 hours left"...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Ukraine plans to send negotiators to the United States this week to discuss Washington’s latest proposed deal for access to its rare earth minerals deposits.
Deputy Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko announced on Monday that a team would visit the US “to move forward with negotiations” on the contentious deal, which President Donald Trump has made a condition for continued support for Ukraine as it battles Russia’s invasion.
Trump has claimed that the...
(BBC News) US President Donald Trump's advisers have defended sweeping tariffs on imports and vowed to stay the course, despite market turmoil and calls to avoid a trade war.
In a series of television interviews, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent played down recent stock market falls and Howard Lutnick, the commerce secretary, insisted reciprocal tariffs would be implemented as planned.
Bessent said there was "no reason" to expect a recession as a result of the turmoil. "This...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) At least 18 people, including nine children, have been killed in a Russian missile attack on a residential area of the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih, local authorities said, in one of Moscow’s deadliest strikes this year.
Friday’s attack on President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s hometown, which comes as United States President Donald Trump is pushing for a ceasefire in the war, damaged residential blocks and caused fires, Dnipropetrovsk Governor Serhiy Lysak...
(BBC News) Global stocks sunk a day after President Donald Trump announced sweeping new tariffs that are forecast to raise prices and weigh on growth in the US and abroad.
Stock markets in the Asia-Pacific region fell for a second day, hot on the heels of the US S&P 500, which had its worst day since COVID caused an economic shock in 2020.
Nike, Apple and Target were among big consumer names worst hit, all of...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Greece on Wednesday became the first European Union member to take advantage of relaxed spending rules for defence, announcing a $27-billion, multi-year rearmament program.
The centrepiece of the program is a multi-layered defence system called the Shield of Achilles, which Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis told parliament was “essentially a dome combining existing air defences with new systems, offering protection on five levels – anti-missile, anti-ballistic, anti-aircraft, anti-ship, anti-submarine and anti-drone”.
It was Greece’s...
(BBC News) President Donald Trump announced a universal 10% tariff on imports into the US in a watershed moment for global trade.
The US will hit certain countries with much steeper tariffs, as high as 50%.
Trump says the UK will have a 10% tariff on goods, and the EU's rate will be 20%
In his announcement at the White House's Rose Garden, Trump calls it "liberation day", and says it will start a...
