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BEIJING/BRUSSELS/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – China will impose 84% tariffs on U.S. goods from tomorrow, up from the 34% previously announced, its finance ministry said on Wednesday, firing the latest salvo in a global trade war sparked by U.S.

BERLIN, (Reuters) – German conservatives under Friedrich Merz agreed a coalition deal with the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) today, aiming to revive growth in Europe’s largest economy just as a global trade war threatens recession.

BEIJING/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) –  President Donald Trump’s “reciprocal” tariffs on dozens of countries took effect today, including massive 104% duties on Chinese goods, deepening his global trade war even as he prepared for negotiations with some nations.

SINGAPORE,  (Reuters) – Oil prices fell to a four-year low yesterday in its worst five-day losing streak in three years, while several commodities, including base metals, tumbled as the trade war between China and the U.S.

BEIJING/BRUSSELS,  (Reuters) – China refused to bow to what it called “blackmail” from the United States as a global trade war ignited by President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs showed few signs of abating today, even as battered stock markets steadied.

(Reuters) – At least 50 hippos and other large animals have been killed by anthrax poisoning in eastern Congo’s Virunga National Park and have been spotted floating along a major river that feeds one of Africa’s great lakes, the head of the park said on Tuesday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday allowed  Donald Trump to pursue deportations of alleged Venezuelan gang members using a 1798 law that historically has been employ-ed only in wartime as part of the Republican president’s hardline approach to immigration, but with certain limits.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Shoshana Chatfield, who holds a senior position in NATO, has been fired as part of what appears to be an expanding national security purge of top officials by the Trump administration, three sources told Reuters on Monday.

BOSTON,  (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court yesterday declined to lift an order temporarily blocking the Trump administration from deporting people to countries the government did not previously raise without first allowing individuals to show they face risk of persecution or torture there.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department dispatched armed U.S. marshals to deliver a letter warning a fired career pardon attorney about testifying to congressional Democrats, her lawyer said in a letter seen by Reuters yesterday.

LIMA,  (Reuters) – Indigenous groups in Peru stopped blocking access to Glencore’s GLEN.L 

WASHINGTON/BRUSSELS,  (Reuters) – A global trade war touched off by U.S.

(Reuters) – A federal appeals court blocked U.S. President Donald Trump  from removing Democratic members from two federal labour boards  yesterday, setting aside its earlier ruling.

WASHINGTON/LUXEMBOURG,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to further increase tariffs on China today, raising the possibility of further escalation in a trade war that has already wiped trillions of dollars from global markets.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Wall Street leaders issued warnings on U.S.

WASHINGTON/TAIPEI/VERONA, Italy (Reuters) – More than 50 nations have reached out to the White House to begin trade talks since U.S.

(Reuters) – Thousands of protesters gathered in Washington, D.C., and across the U.S.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union countries will seek to present a united front in the coming days against U.S.

KYIV (Reuters) – A Russian missile attack on Kyiv killed one man and injured three other people overnight, causing damage and fires in several districts in the biggest such attack on Ukraine for weeks, Ukrainian officials said on Sunday.

WASHINGTON/TAIPEI/VERONA, Italy,  (Reuters) – More than 50 nations have reached out to the White House to begin trade talks since U.S.