India’s Modi praises close Sri Lanka ties at holy tree
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid homage to Sri Lanka’s sacred Buddhist tree on Sunday before wrapping up a state
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Artist of ‘distorted’ portrait says Trump complaint harming business
The artist who painted US President Donald Trump in what he criticized as a “purposefully distorted” portrait has said his
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China slaps 34pct tariffs on US imports
BEIJING: China announced 34 percent tariffs on US imports on Friday, the first major economy to fire back against President
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Lesotho, Africa’s ‘kingdom in the sky’ jolted by Trump
US President Donald Trump in March ridiculed Lesotho as a place “nobody has ever heard of” and then this week
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22:20
‘Everyone worried’ by Trump tariffs in France’s champagne region
With the United States the largest export market for champagne, producers of France’s leading sparkling wine had little to celebrate
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22:19
UK avoids worst US tariffs post-Brexit, but no celebrations
More than four years after the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union became effective, Britain has escaped harsher US tariffs,
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Israel PM drops security chief nominee under fire from Trump ally
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said Tuesday he had reversed a decision to appoint former navy commander Vice Admiral
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16:23
The Taiwan Strait: crucial waterway and military flashpoint
China has launched some of its biggest military drills around Taiwan in months, in what it said was a “warning”
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‘Heartbreaking’ floods swamp Australia’s cattle country
Whole herds of cattle have drowned in vast inland floods seeping across the Australian outback, officials said Tuesday as the
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SpaceX to launch private astronauts on first crewed polar orbit
SpaceX is set to launch the first human spaceflight directly over Earth’s polar regions on Monday — a days-long, privately
