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2 days ago | macaubusiness.com | Danny Kemp

US President Donald Trump signed a new travel ban Wednesday targeting 12 countries including Afghanistan, Iran and Yemen, reviving one of the most controversial measures from his first term. Trump said the measure was spurred by a makeshift flamethrower attack on a Jewish protest in Colorado that US authorities blamed on an man they said was in the country illegally.

1 week ago | macaubusiness.com | Frankie Taggart

A US federal court on Wednesday blocked most of Donald Trump’s sweeping import tariffs from going into effect, ruling that the president had overstepped his authority with the across-the-board global levies. The opinion marks a significant setback to the Republican leader as he bids to redraw the US trading relationship with the world by forcing governments to the negotiating table through tough new tariffs.

2 weeks ago | macaubusiness.com | Peter Hutchison |Helen ROWE

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced Thursday he had signed a contentious deal to return the remote Chagos Islands to Mauritius after a judge overturned a last-minute legal challenge. Labour leader Starmer said the agreement, supported by Washington, was “the only way” to maintain British and American control of a key military base on the archipelago’s largest island of Diego Garcia.

2 weeks ago | macaubusiness.com | Danny Kemp

President Donald Trump ambushed South African counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa on Wednesday by playing him a video that he claimed proved genocide is being committed against white people, driving farmers to flee to the United States. The extraordinary stunt turned the usually staid diplomatic setting of the Oval Office into a stage for Trump’s contention that white South African farmers are being forced off their land and killed.

2 weeks ago | macaubusiness.com | Peter Hutchison |Jo Biddle

Britain and the European Union on Monday reached a landmark deal setting out closer ties on defence and trade, and launching a new chapter after the UK’s acrimonious exit from the bloc five years ago.