Beijing says it will impose an additional 34 percent tax on US goods from next week in retaliation for Washington’s tariffs. China has announced a slew of countermeasures against tariffs imposed by United States President Donald
It’s become undeniable that black people – once missing from American whiskey bars and in the telling of whiskey’s story – have long played a role in creating the beloved spirit. C
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Japan is one of the world’s biggest plastic waste producers, thanks to its love of packaging – but a week of going plastic-free in Tokyo reveals surprising solutions. Every Tuesday morning when
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Foreign ministers from the G7 group of nations say Russia must immediately hand back control of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant to Ukraine. They accused Moscow’s forces of putting the entire region
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US conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been ordered to pay $49.3m (£41m) in damages after falsely claiming a 2012 school shooting was a hoax. A jury in Texas ruled the radio host
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Twitter spent $33m (£27m) on Elon Musk’s proposed deal to buy the firm between April and June 2022. It also said its number of monthly daily users had risen to 237m –
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Conservative leadership hopefuls have been setting out competing plans to cut taxes, as the race to replace Boris Johnson heats up. Many of the declared candidates have already promised to cut taxes
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President Rashad al-Alimi has toured the Gulf looking for more funds for the country’s war-damaged economy. A truce between Yemen’s internationally recognised government and the Houthi rebels has helped bring a semblance
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Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has criticised Finland’s decision to apply for Nato membership, claiming it and neighbouring Sweden are “home to many terrorist organisations”. The opposition from Erdogan has the potential to thwart the potential bids from the
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In a wide-ranging interview with the BBC’s Today programme, Bill Gates says conspiracy theories about him are “crazy” and that being shouted at in public is “awful”. He also told the BBC’s
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The EU has proposed some of its toughest measures yet against Russia, including a total ban on oil imports and sanctions on war crimes suspects. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen
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