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Factbox-What is Ireland’s exposure to the US economy and Trump’s plans?

11 Mar 2025

DUBLIN (Reuters) – Ireland is among countries vulnerable to changes in the global economy proposed by U.S. President Donald Trump, with a significant proportion of employment, tax receipts and exports all directly dependent on a cluster of U.S. multinational firms. EMPLOYMENT Mostly U.S.-owned foreign multinationals, mainly in the technology and pharmaceutical sectors, employ about 11% …

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Irish prime minister faces balancing act at talks with Trump

11 Mar 2025

By Padraic Halpin DUBLIN (Reuters) – Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin faces a diplomatic balancing act during talks with Donald Trump on Wednesday, with Ireland among the countries most vulnerable to the U.S. president’s economic plans. The annual White House meeting to mark St Patrick’s Day is usually relatively straightforward for the country of 5.4 …

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Infection blamed for top Chinese lawmaker’s absence from key parliament session

11 Mar 2025

By Antoni Slodkowski and Laurie Chen BEIJING (Reuters) -The third-ranked leader of China’s ruling Communist Party was absent on Tuesday from a key parliamentary session he had been due to open, with his stand-in attributing the absence to a respiratory infection. Zhao Leji, 68, was not among the senior party leaders in the Great Hall …

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Syria’s interim president signs deal with Kurdish-led SDF to merge forces

11 Mar 2025

By Jaidaa Taha, Menna AlaaElDin CAIRO (Reuters) -The Kurdish-led and U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, which controls much of Syria’s oil-rich northeast, signed a deal with the Damascus government on Monday to join Syria’s new state institutions, the Syrian presidency said on Monday. Photos showed interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa and SDF commander Mazloum Abdi shaking hands …

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Hong Kong court convicts social worker for rioting at retrial

11 Mar 2025

By Jessie Pang and James Pomfret HONG KONG (Reuters) – A Hong Kong court convicted on Tuesday prominent social worker Jackie Chen of rioting, following a retrial after the government appealed against her initial acquittal. Chen pleaded not guilty and declined to testify during her retrial on a rioting charge related to an incident in …

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Russia launches air attack on Kyiv, Ukraine says

11 Mar 2025

KYIV (Reuters) – Russia launched air strikes overnight on Kyiv, with air defence systems engaged in repelling the attack, Ukrainian authorities said late on Monday. “Air defence forces are working to eliminate the threat in the skies over Kyiv,” Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on the Telegram messaging app. Reuters witnesses heard explosions in the capital …

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Russia on Witkoff visit: Russia-US contacts are quite intensive

11 Mar 2025

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Contacts between Russia and the United States are now quite intensive, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova was quoted as saying by the RIA news agency. Zakharova was commenting on media reports that Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff plans to visit Moscow this week to meet President Vladimir Putin. (Reporting by Reuters; …

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Cuba concludes release of 553 prisoners following Vatican-brokered deal

11 Mar 2025

By Dave Sherwood and Nelson Acosta HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba’s top tribunal said late on Monday 553 prisoners had been released following a deal brokered by the Vatican that seemed in limbo after U.S. President Donald Trump reversed a Biden administration pledge to ease sanctions on the country. Former President Joe Biden in January agreed …

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Japan’s trade minister fails to win tariff exemption assurance from US

11 Mar 2025

(Reuters) – Japan’s trade minister said he had asked the United States not to impose trade tariffs on his country, but did not win any assurance that Japan would be exempt, including from a 25% steel and aluminium duty set to start on Wednesday. “We agreed to continue close consultations with the U.S. government and …

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Trump’s ‘America First’ policies targeting South Korea, says acting president

11 Mar 2025

By Ju-min Park SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea’s acting President Choi Sang-mok said on Tuesday that U.S. President Donald Trump’s “America First” policies had started targeting his country. Choi said discussions with the United States over tariff measures and stronger cooperation on energy and shipbuilding were beginning ahead of “reciprocal tariffs” set to take effect on …

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