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Trump trips up Australia’s conservative opposition in election’s last laps

16 Apr 2025

By Alasdair Pal SYDNEY (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump is looming large in the final weeks of Australia’s general election campaign, spelling trouble for conservative opposition leader Peter Dutton just as a new poll shows Australians’ faith in the United States at an all-time low. A survey released on Wednesday by the Lowy Institute, …

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Trump orders tariff probe on all US critical mineral imports

16 Apr 2025

By Ernest Scheyder and Costas Pitas (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday ordered a probe into potential new tariffs on all U.S. critical minerals imports, a major escalation in his dispute with global trade partners and an attempt to pressure industry leader China. The order lays bare what manufacturers, industry consultants, academics and …

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China unexpectedly anoints new trade negotiator amid US tariff war

16 Apr 2025

By Ethan Wang, Laurie Chen and Eduardo Baptista BEIJING (Reuters) -China on Wednesday unexpectedly appointed a new trade negotiator key in any talks to resolve the escalating tariff war with the United States, replacing trade tsar Wang Shouwen with its envoy to the World Trade Organization. Li Chenggang, 58, a former assistant commerce minister during …

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Peru court jails ex-President Humala for money laundering; Brazil grants diplomatic asylum to his wife

16 Apr 2025

By Marco Aquino LIMA (Reuters) -A Peruvian court on Tuesday sentenced ex-President Ollanta Humala to 15 years in prison for receiving illicit campaign funds from a Brazilian construction firm, making him the nation’s latest former leader to head behind bars. Humala and his wife were accused of receiving funds from Brazilian builder Odebrecht, now known …

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Brazil grants asylum to wife of Peru’s former president Humala

16 Apr 2025

LIMA (Reuters) – Brazil has granted diplomatic asylum to Nadine Heredia, the wife of former Peruvian President Ollanta Humala after both were convicted of receiving illicit campaign funds, Peru’s Foreign Ministry said late on Tuesday. It added that the government would provide safe-passage and guarantees for the transfer of Heredia and her son. Humala is …

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Meta’s Zuckerberg eyed Instagram spinoff amid antitrust scrutiny, document shows

16 Apr 2025

By Jody Godoy and Katie Paul WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg considered spinning off popular photo-sharing app Instagram in 2018 over concerns about the growing risk of antitrust scrutiny, according to a document shown at a trial in Washington on Tuesday. The document was shown during Zuckerberg’s second day of testimony at the high-stakes …

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US funding running out for critical cyber vulnerability database, manager says

16 Apr 2025

By AJ Vicens and Raphael Satter WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The defense and research-focused nonprofit MITRE Corporation says funding from the U.S. government runs out on Wednesday for it to maintain a critical database of cyber vulnerabilities used by security researchers and digital defenders the world over. MITRE manages the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) database …

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