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President Biden imposes major tariff hikes on Chinese electric vehicles, other imports
The higher tariffs, which have already drawn criticism from China, come as Biden is courting support of working-class voters in the 2024 election.
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Austrian court says convicted rapist Josef Fritzl can be moved to prison from psychiatric detention
Austrian judges have ruled that a man who kept his daughter captive for 24 years, raped her thousands of times and fathered seven children with her, can be moved from psychiatric detention to a regular prison, a court said Tuesday. The decision on Monday was the latest in a legal back-and-forth on Josef Fritzl's future. The state court in the town of Krems said in a statement that the 89-year-old can be moved as he no longer poses the kind of danger that requires keeping him in psychiatric detention.
AFP
Anglo American to split group after rejecting BHP bid
Anglo American said Tuesday it would offload steelmaking coal, diamond and platinum businesses and focus on critical minerals as it fights off a massive takeover bid by Australian rival BHP. After rejecting an improved takeover offer worth £34 billion ($43 billion) from BHP, which had hoped to create a copper titan, Anglo said it was accelerating plans to simplify the group and reward shareholders in a "radical" revamp.Anglo on Tuesday said it planned to offload its steelmaking coal arm and was
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Alaska lawmakers pass bill segregating sports teams by 'sex at birth'
Emotions are high as Alaskan House legislators argued for more than 17 hours on what critics say is a hurtful and discriminatory bill.
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Giant billboard collapse kills at least 14 in Mumbai
At least 14 people were killed in the Indian city of Mumbai after a giant billboard collapsed on them during a sudden thunderstorm, local authorities said.
USA TODAY
'He's had it': Biden's patience with Israel may be wearing thin as Rafah questions linger
President Joe Biden's pause of an arms shipment and a State Department report on Israel's conduct in Gaza are a turning point for the Democrat.
AFP
Modi files candidacy for India election in Hindu holy city
Cheering crowds greeted Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday as he submitted his candidacy for a Hindu holy city's parliamentary seat in a general election his party is strongly favoured to win. Modi waved to the gathered crowd after emerging from the office before leaving with his entourage, made up of senior figures from his ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Associated Press
Georgian parliament holds 3rd and final reading of divisive bill on foreign influence
Georgia’s parliament on Tuesday began the third and final reading of a divisive bill that sparked weeks of mass protests, with critics seeing it as a threat to democratic freedoms and the country’s aspirations to join the European Union. The bill would require media and nongovernmental organizations and other nonprofits to register as “pursuing the interests of a foreign power” if they receive more than 20% of their funding from abroad. A large crowd of demonstrators gathered on Tuesday morning in front of the parliament, amid a heavy presence of riot police, to protest the bill once again, as lawmakers were discussing it in the lead-up to a vote.
AFP
Armenia detains demonstrators as protest leader seeks PM's impeachment
Armenia on Tuesday detained dozens of demonstrators in the capital Yerevan as large protests continue against government plans to concede land to the country's historic foe, Azerbaijan.At a previous demonstration on Monday, police briefly detained around 150 protesters.
USA TODAY
States are grappling with recruiting poll workers. This Nebraska county drafts them.
We all know about jury duty but this county in the Cornhusker State takes it a step further: poll work duty
Reuters
China poses genuine and increasing cyber risk to UK, spy agency head says
China poses a genuine and increasing cyber risk to the United Kingdom, the head of British spy agency GCHQ said on Tuesday, adding that while Russia and Iran represented an immediate threat, Beijing was an epoch-defining challenge. "As the prime minister said yesterday, the next few years will be some of the most dangerous and transformational," Anne Keast-Butler told a security conference in Birmingham, central England. In her first major public speech since being appointed director of the intelligence communications agency last year, Keast-Butler said the threat from Russia was acute and globally pervasive, while Iran remained aggressive in cyberspace.
Associated Press
Biden hiking tariffs on Chinese EVs, solar cells, steel, aluminum - adding to tensions with Beijing
The Biden administration announced plans to slap new tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, advanced batteries, solar cells, steel, aluminum and medical equipment — an election-year move that's likely to increase friction between the world's two largest economies. The tariffs come in the middle of a heated campaign between President Joe Biden and his Republican predecessor, Donald Trump, in which both candidates are vying to show who's tougher on China. The tariffs are unlikely to have much of an inflationary impact because of how they’re structured.
CNN
Plans for ‘world’s largest coastal regeneration project’ revealed in Dubai
More than 70 kilometers of Dubai shoreline could become a huge coastal regeneration project, if the plan from developer Urb goes ahead.
CNN
Biden to increase tariffs on $18 billion in Chinese imports in a new warning to Beijing
President Joe Biden is increasing tariffs on $18 billion in Chinese imports across a handful of sectors deemed strategic to national security – an attempt to cripple Beijing’s development of critical technologies and instead prioritize US production.
CNN
A Trump judge and Biden’s Justice Department agree that a Texas map is illegal. But that doesn’t mean it will change
A county redistricting plan in Texas that a Donald Trump-appointed judge deemed “a clear violation” of the Voting Rights Act is back before a notoriously conservative appeals court.
Yahoo Finance
President Biden unveils a historic wave of tariffs on 'strategic' Chinese imports
President Joe Biden ramps up pressure on China with new targeted tariffs on a range of goods as his rival Donald Trump weighs even more draconian measures should the Republican win in November.
Politico
Trump sees Biden’s China tariffs, and raises him
Both candidates are pledging higher tariffs to protect American industry from Chinese competition. But their approaches would have wildly different impacts — both at home and abroad.
CNN
Putin to meet Xi in Beijing as world convulses from global conflicts
Chinese leader Xi Jinping will welcome Vladimir Putin to China this week for the Russian President’s second visit in less than a year – the latest sign of their growing alignment amid hardening global fault lines as conflict devastates Gaza and Ukraine.
Reuters
Israeli tanks push into Gaza's Rafah, as displaced civilians flee again
Israeli tanks forged deeper into eastern Rafah, reaching some residential districts on Tuesday, stepping up an offensive in the southern border city where more than a million people had been sheltering after being displaced in seven months of war. Israel's international allies and aid groups have repeatedly urged against a ground incursion into refugee-packed Rafah, warning of a potential humanitarian catastrophe. Qatar's Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani said Israel's operations in Rafah have set back efforts at trying to reach a ceasefire in talks that are being mediated by Qatar and Egypt, although it would continue to negotiate.
Associated Press
Migration tracking group says 76 million people were displaced within their countries in 2023
Conflicts and natural disasters left a record nearly 76 million people displaced within their countries last year, with violence in Sudan, Congo and the Middle East driving two-thirds of new movement, a top migration monitoring group said Tuesday. The Internal Displacement Monitoring Center report found that the number of internally displaced people, or IDPs, has jumped by 50% over the past five years and roughly doubled in the past decade. It counted 46.9 million physical movements of people in 2023 — sometimes more than once.

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President Biden imposes major tariff hikes on Chinese electric vehicles, other imports

Austrian court says convicted rapist Josef Fritzl can be moved to prison from psychiatric detention

Anglo American to split group after rejecting BHP bid

Alaska lawmakers pass bill segregating sports teams by 'sex at birth'

Giant billboard collapse kills at least 14 in Mumbai

'He's had it': Biden's patience with Israel may be wearing thin as Rafah questions linger

Modi files candidacy for India election in Hindu holy city

Georgian parliament holds 3rd and final reading of divisive bill on foreign influence

Armenia detains demonstrators as protest leader seeks PM's impeachment

States are grappling with recruiting poll workers. This Nebraska county drafts them.

China poses genuine and increasing cyber risk to UK, spy agency head says

Biden hiking tariffs on Chinese EVs, solar cells, steel, aluminum - adding to tensions with Beijing

Plans for ‘world’s largest coastal regeneration project’ revealed in Dubai

Biden to increase tariffs on $18 billion in Chinese imports in a new warning to Beijing

A Trump judge and Biden’s Justice Department agree that a Texas map is illegal. But that doesn’t mean it will change

President Biden unveils a historic wave of tariffs on 'strategic' Chinese imports

Trump sees Biden’s China tariffs, and raises him

Putin to meet Xi in Beijing as world convulses from global conflicts

Israeli tanks push into Gaza's Rafah, as displaced civilians flee again

Migration tracking group says 76 million people were displaced within their countries in 2023