36 h. ago Trump Urges Europe to Cut Russian Oil, Press China in Bid to End Kremlin War

Trump Urges Europe to Cut Russian Oil, Press China in Bid to End Kremlin War  UNITED24 Media

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2 d. ago Harvard scores big win over Trump as judge overturns billions in funding cuts

A federal judge in Boston on Wednesday ordered the reversal of the Trump administration’s cuts to more than US$2.6 billion in funding for research grants for Harvard University. US District Judge Allison Burroughs sided with the Ivy League school, ruling the cuts amounted to illegal retaliation for Harvard’s rejection of White House demands for changes to its governance and policies. The ruling delivers a significant victory to Harvard in its battle with the Trump administration, which has also...

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3 d. ago China’s Xi revelled in his parade – leaving Trump to stamp his feet in Washington

China’s Xi revelled in his parade – leaving Trump to stamp his feet in Washington  The Independent

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3 d. ago Trump tariffs live updates: Trump seeks Supreme Court 'emergency' hearing, rules out India tariff cuts

Trump tariffs live updates: Trump seeks Supreme Court 'emergency' hearing, rules out India tariff cuts  Yahoo Finance

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4 d. ago Russia, China agree to pipeline plan, leaving Beijing with the upper hand | Today News

Russia, China agree to pipeline plan, leaving Beijing with the upper hand | Today News  Mint

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4 d. ago Russia, China agree to pipeline plan, leaving Beijing with the upper hand

Russia, China agree to pipeline plan, leaving Beijing with the upper hand  Mint

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4 d. ago Russia, China Close In on Pipeline Deal, Leaving Beijing With the Upper Hand

Russia, China Close In on Pipeline Deal, Leaving Beijing With the Upper Hand  The Wall Street Journal

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5 d. ago Trump claims India offered zero tariffs on US goods, slams ‘one

US President Donald Trump said on Monday that India has offered to reduce its tariffs on US goods to zero, even as Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was making public shows of solidarity with Chinese and Russian leaders in the face of trade pressure from Washington. While calling the US relationship with India “one-sided,” Trump wrote on social media: “They have now offered to cut their Tariffs to nothing, but it’s getting late. They should have done so years ago.” The Indian Embassy in...

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5 d. ago North Korea's Kim Jong Un leaves for China by armoured train

North Korea's Kim Jong Un leaves for China by armoured train  BBC

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5 d. ago Foreign leaders leave Tianjin for Beijing to attend China's V

Foreign leaders leave Tianjin for Beijing to attend China's V-Day commemorations  Xinhua

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5 d. ago China nurse leaves kids in dash to save life of epileptic man at railway station

A nurse in China who bit off her fake nails and dashed hundreds of metres in a railway station to save a man who collapsed has received huge plaudits on social media for being a Good Samaritan. Li Mengyi, a nurse at the Yuebei People’s Hospital in Shaoguan, southern Guangdong province, was on holiday and taking her 15-year-old daughter and 12-year-old son to catch a train at Nanjing South Railway Station on August 12, the Southern Metropolis News reported. She responded instantly on hearing a...

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7 d. ago Trump to cut 500 jobs at Voice of America and parent agency despite legal actions

The agency that oversees Voice of America and other government-funded international broadcasters is eliminating jobs for more than 500 employees, a Trump administration official said. The move could ratchet up a months-long legal challenge over the news outlets’ fate. Kari Lake, acting CEO of the US Agency for Global Media, announced the latest round of job cuts late on Friday, one day after a federal judge blocked her from removing Michael Abramowitz as VOA director. US District Judge Royce...

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7 d. ago Human microbiome scientist Wang Leyao leaves US government agency for China

Epidemiologist and human microbiome scientist Wang Leyao, a scholar for the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), has returned to China amid drastic research funding cuts initiated by the White House. Wang joined the Shenzhen Medical Academy of Research and Translation (Smart) as a senior research fellow at the Institute of Human Immunology last month, according to an announcement on Smart’s official social media account on Monday. The academy stated that Wang “has long been dedicated to the...

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7 d. ago As Trump welcomes Chinese students, schools cut ties under Republican pressure

While US President Donald Trump this week said he would allow 600,000 Chinese students into the United States, members of Congress in his Republican Party are increasingly moving to dismantle many of the long-standing partnerships that would make their arrival possible. On the day Trump said the US would welcome more Chinese students, Temple University in Philadelphia announced it was ending its partnership with the China Scholarship Council, the main Chinese government body funding study abroad...

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8 d. ago Trump uses ‘pocket rescission’ to cut US$5 billion in foreign aid

US President Donald Trump has told House Speaker Mike Johnson that he will not be spending US$4.9 billion in congressionally approved foreign aid, effectively cutting the budget without going through the legislative branch. Trump, who sent a letter to Johnson on Thursday, is using what’s known as a pocket rescission for the first time in nearly 50 years. That is when a president submits a request to Congress to not spend approved funds towards the end of the financial year, so that Congress...

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8 d. ago EU readies new economic battle plan but leaves its old guns holstered

The European Union is preparing an “economic security doctrine” that will for the first time connect its trade and economic defences – but while Brussels builds the pipes, national leaders remain reluctant to turn on the tap. Sources say the doctrine, which was announced last week by trade chief Maroš Šefčovič, will allow bureaucrats to coordinate between existing and future instruments as they seek to make Europe’s fragmented arsenal quicker and more efficient to deploy. Yet, after spending...

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9 d. ago Trump tariffs live updates: EU moves to speed US car duty cuts as Mexico bows to Trump with tariffs on China

Trump tariffs live updates: EU moves to speed US car duty cuts as Mexico bows to Trump with tariffs on China  Yahoo Finance

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1 week ago ‘It depends’: maths star Terence Tao says on whether he would quit US for China

Would mathematician Terence Tao consider leaving the United States for Hong Kong or mainland China in light of funding cuts under the Trump administration? When the South China Morning Post put the question to the Fields medallist and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) professor, his response was measured but telling. “The situation is very fluid and unstable right now – far more than it has been at any previous point in the last 30 years,” Tao wrote in an email on August 21. “What...

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1 week ago ‘Will you leave US for China?’ It depends, mathematician Terence Tao says

Would mathematician Terence Tao consider leaving the United States for Hong Kong or mainland China in light of funding cuts under the Trump administration? When the South China Morning Post put the question to the Fields medallist and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) professor, his response was measured but telling. “The situation is very fluid and unstable right now – far more than it has been at any previous point in the last 30 years,” Tao wrote in an email on August 21. “What...

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1 week ago US trade deal leaves EU as the sidekick in Trump’s China policy

Europe has surrendered to Washington’s China containment strategy, trading sovereignty for subordination in a consequential geopolitical realignment. The August US-EU “Framework on an Agreement on Reciprocal, Fair, and Balanced Trade” was not negotiation but a capitulation that redefined Europe’s international role. Brussels accepted US President Donald Trump’s terms wholesale, recasting the European Union as an auxiliary enforcer of America’s China policy. This transformation centres on clause...

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