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2 weeks ago | 
aljazeera.com | John Power |Erin Hale
US president steps up confrontation with China, raising tariffs to 125 percent. The US stock market has soared after United States President Donald Trump announced a 90-day pause on his "reciprocal tariffs" on nearly 60 countries, with the benchmark S&P 500 and tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite surging 9.52 percent and 12.16 percent, respectively. Asian markets have followed the US rally, with Japan's Nikkei 225 and South Korea's KOSPI opening about 7 percent and 5 percent higher, respectively.
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1 month ago | 
aljazeera.com | Charu Kasturi |Erin Hale
As US President Donald Trump sat in the Oval Office on February 28 with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for an explosive meeting that would reveal deep fissures between Washington and Kyiv, he was also asked by a reporter about another world leader: Vladimir Putin.
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1 month ago | 
aljazeera.com | John Power |Erin Hale
The US stock market has shed more than $1.7 trillion in value after United States President Donald Trump declined to rule out the possibility the economy could enter a recession this year. The benchmark S&P 500 on Monday tumbled 2.7 percent, dragging the index nearly 9 percent below its all-time high reached on February 19. Recommended Stories The tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 plunged 3.81 percent, its steepest single-day loss since September 2022.
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2 months ago | 
aljazeera.com | Erin Hale |Vijitra Duangdee
Bangkok, Thailand - At the end of January, Cambodia's Khmer HIV/AIDS NGO Alliance was unexpectedly informed by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) that all funding for its tuberculosis programme had been put on hold for 90 days.
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2 months ago | 
popularresistance.org | Erin Hale |John Power
Above photo: US President Donald Trump chats with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, on November 9, 2017. Andy Wong/AP. Analysts say Beijing hopes to seize moral high ground with referral of tariffs to World Trade Organization. NOTE: Deadline reports: In a symbolic show of anger, Canadian fans began booing “The Star-Spangled Banner” before NHL and NBA games over the weekend.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
aljazeera.com | Erin Hale
Taipei, Taiwan - As United States President-elect Donald Trump gears up for a second trade war with China once he takes office on January 20, the rare earth minerals essential to the production of electronics, vehicles and weapons are one resource expected to be caught up in the fray.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
aljazeera.com | Erin Hale
Google has pulled a flood of bad reviews about the McDonald's restaurant where police arrested Luigi Mangione, the suspect charged in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Internet users flooded the restaurant with negative reviews after Mangione's arrest on Monday following a tip-off from a McDonald's employee at the outlet in Altoona, Pennsylvania, a city of about 40,000 people.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
aljazeera.com | Erin Hale
Taipei, Taiwan - China has launched an antitrust investigation into chip giant Nvidia in what appears to be Beijing's latest act of retaliation against Washington's sanctions on Chinese tech companies. Chinese state media said on Monday that the California-based chipmaker was being investigated by the State Administration for Market Regulation for potentially violating China's antimonopoly laws.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
aljazeera.com | Erin Hale
United States President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to impose tariffs of 25 percent on Canadian and Mexican imports, and an "additional" 10 percent tariff on Chinese goods as soon as he takes office in January. Trump, who announced the plans on Monday on his social media platform Truth Social, said the measures were in response to Canada and Mexico's failure to keep undocumented workers and drugs from flowing across the US border.
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
aljazeera.com | Erin Hale
A computer game that allows users to recreate aspects of Hamas's October 7 attack on Israel has been removed from the popular gaming platform Steam in the United Kingdom at the request of counterterrorism police. Fursan al-Aqsa: The Knights of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, released in 2022, lets gamers play as the fictional character "Ahmad al-Falastini," a young Palestinian student, as he takes revenge on Israeli soldiers who tortured him and killed his family.
