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Trump to speak with China’s Xi on Tuesday, trade adviser Navarro says

4 Feb 2025

By David Lawder and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump will speak with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday, his top trade adviser Peter Navarro told a Politico Live event, as new 10% tariffs on Chinese imports took effect, spurring retaliatory tariffs announced by Beijing. Asked how U.S. consumers and companies should …

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Trump plans to attend the Super Bowl, White House official says

4 Feb 2025

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump is planning to attend the Super Bowl in New Orleans on Sunday, a White House official said on Tuesday. (Reporting by Nandita Bose; writing by Jasper Ward; editing by Susan Heavey)

Mexican president shrugs off Ecuador tariff announcement

4 Feb 2025

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum on Tuesday dismissed the announcement from Ecuador’s president a day earlier to apply tariffs on Mexican goods, noting that her country’s trade with Ecuador represents a tiny share of exports. Ecuador’s President Daniel Noboa announced on Monday that his government will apply a 27% tariff on all …

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Iraqi-led air strikes kill five Islamic State operatives, US Centcom says

4 Feb 2025

(Reuters) – Precision airstrikes led by Iraqi security forces (ISF) killed five Islamic State (ISIS) operatives near Iraq’s Kirkuk on Jan. 31, the U.S. Central Command (Centcom) said in an X post on Tuesday. “An initial post-strike clearance found multiple explosive suicide belts and other materials,” Centcom said, adding that the airstrikes were enabled by …

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French far-right unlikely to back no-confidence vote against government

4 Feb 2025

PARIS (Reuters) – French far-right leader Jordan Bardella said on Tuesday that the French people would suffer most from more uncertainty over the budget, suggesting his party would likely not back no-confidence motions against Francois Bayrou’s minority government. Bayrou rammed the 2025 budget bill through parliament on Monday, betting that he has made enough concessions …

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Fiji leader to press Pacific Islands concerns in Washington after U.S. aid frozen

4 Feb 2025

By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) – Fiji’s Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka will attend a presidential prayer breakfast in Washington on Thursday, the first opportunity for a Pacific Islands leader to press the region’s aid and climate priorities with the Trump Administration. Community groups across the Pacific Islands, one of the world’s most aid reliant regions, …

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El Salvador offers to house criminals deported from the U.S. in its jails

4 Feb 2025

By Simon Lewis SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) -El Salvador on Monday offered to house in its jails “dangerous criminals” from anywhere in the world deported by the United States, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said after lengthy talks with the Central American country’s leader. Rubio, who is on his first oversees tour as the U.S. …

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US envoy says at least six Americans still wrongfully held in Venezuelan prisons

4 Feb 2025

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – There are at least six Americans wrongfully held in prison in Venezuela, U.S. President Donald Trump’s envoy Richard Grenell said on Monday, three days after returning to the U.S. from Venezuela having secured the release of six other Americans. “There is at least six,” Grenell said in an interview …

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Transatlantic trade war would hurt both sides, European leaders warn

4 Feb 2025

By Lili Bayer and Jan Strupczewski BRUSSELS (Reuters) -European leaders warned on Monday that U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to expand tariffs to the EU risked igniting a trade war that would harm consumers on both sides of the Atlantic. European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said if the U.S. and Europe started a …

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