United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced on Wednesday that President Donald Trump’s administration will “aggressively” revoke the visas of Chinese students studying in the country. The move comes amid the Trump administration’s ongoing efforts to crack down on international students attending universities in the US, and at a time when Washington and Beijing…
The UK has entered the Eurovision Song Contest every year since 1959, but its success at the event has been very mixed over the decades. This year’s contest in Basel, Switzerland is the 69th edition of the annual competition, and comes after Swiss singer Nemo won the event last year with ‘The Code’. READ MORE: The…
EXPLAINER For the second time in his presidency, Donald Trump’s first official state visit is to Saudi Arabia. For the second time in his presidency, Donald Trump has chosen Saudi Arabia as the destination for his first official state visit, following brief stops in Italy and the Vatican for Pope Francis’s funeral. Trump arrived in…
After United States President Donald Trump suspended his “reciprocal tariffs” on major US trading partners on April 9, he ramped them up on China’s goods. US trade levies on most imports from China have climbed to 145 percent. Beijing retaliated with duties of its own, at 125 percent on US goods. Trump has long accused…
China has warned countries against striking trade deals with the United States at Beijing’s expense, ratcheting up its rhetoric in a spiralling trade war between the world’s two biggest economies. Responding to reports suggesting that US President Donald Trump’s administration is pressuring other countries to isolate China, a spokesperson for China’s Ministry of Commerce said…
April has yet more celestial highlights on offer in the form of the Lyrid meteor shower Gaze skywards at night in April and there are a host of celestial highlights to hold your attention from the Pink Moon and the Northern Lights to the Lyrid meteor shower. The days may be getting longer and the…
United States President Donald Trump has threatened new tariffs on Chinese electronic goods, three days after his administration announced exemptions on smartphones, laptops, flash drives and a host of other tech products from levies he has announced since April 2. Those exemptions provided relief to US tech companies reliant on Chinese manufacturing, like Apple and…
US President Donald Trump’s abrupt decision to implement a 90-day pause on the tariffs he imposed on dozens of countries has sent battered stock markets surging, even as he ratcheted up his trade war with China. Trump’s turnaround on Wednesday, which came just 13 hours after the duties had gone into effect, followed the most…
On April 2, 2025, President Donald Trump declared a 10 percent tariff on all imports, effective on April 5, with additional country-specific tariffs set to commence on April 9. The announcement sent shockwaves through the global economy, triggering the worst two-day loss in United States stock market history. On Thursday and Friday alone, $6.6 trillion…
It’s started. At 12.01am EST (04:01 GMT) on Wednesday, United States President Donald Trump’s “reciprocal” trade tariffs kicked in. And no country has been hit worse than China, which now effectively faces a 104 percent levy on the goods it sells to the US. Even as Washington moved to start negotiations with other trading partners…