President Donald Trump confirmed he will not meet with North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un during his trip to South Korea and blamed timing. Trump made his comments to South Korean counterpart, President Lee Jae-myung, adding that he remained committed to peace on the Korean Peninsula. “I know Kim Jong Un very well. We get…
As President Donald Trump continues his Asia tour with stops in Japan and later South Korea, businesses in both economic powerhouses are closely watching to see if his meetings with their leaders will offer more clarity to their trade relations with Washington. Even though the longtime US allies negotiated tariff rates of 15%, a lower…
We’re tracking President Donald Trump’s diplomatic tour in Asia, as he firms up a string of agreements in the region. Trump has left Malaysia and is now on his way to Japan, where he will meet the country’s first female prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, on Tuesday. In the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur, Trump joined the…
Memorial events are taking place in southern Israel, in the locations near the Gaza border where Hamas carried out its deadly attack on October 7 two years ago. Nearly 400 people attending the Nova Music Festival were killed and dozens were abducted from the site in the border community of Reim. Rows of placards bearing…
The UK was the first country to strike a trade agreement with the US to avoid President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs, the high import taxes on all trading partners he unveiled in April. Although the US kept the new baseline levy on UK imports at 10%, some carve-outs were agreed for British cars, plane…
The US and China have agreed to massively roll back tariffs on each other’s goods for an initial 90-day period, de-escalating a global trade war. The announcement comes after a weekend of marathon trade negotiations in Geneva, Switzerland by officials from the world’s two largest economies. Major breakthrough: The substantial, if temporary, breakthrough was unexpected….