3 d. ago Trump’s transactional instincts could help forge a new Iran nuclear deal | Mohamad Bazzi

The president has a chance to make good on his reputation as a dealmaker as Iran moves closer to a nuclear weaponIn May 2018, Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew the US from the Iran nuclear deal and reimposed American sanctions that crippled the Iranian economy. Trump tore up the 2015 agreement, which had taken years for Iran to negotiate with six world powers, under which Tehran limited its nuclear program in exchange for relief from international sanctions. Trump insisted he would be able to negotiate a better pact than the one reached by Barack Obama’s administration.Today, in his second term as president, Trump is eager to fix the Iran deal he broke nearly seven years ago.Mohamad Bazzi is the director of the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern studies and a journalism professor at New York University. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago China grants some tariff exemptions for US imports as trade war bites

Sign of relief for foreign businesses comes as Donald Trump insists talks are under way to reduce levies

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4 d. ago Trump tariffs: President vents at China over Boeing as Beijing denies claims of trade deal talks

Beijing called claims of trade talks ‘groundless as trying to catch the wind’ and having ‘no factual basis’ as Trump insisted they were happening

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5 d. ago Starmer wishes Jennie the guide dog a happy birthday in the Commons

At Prime Minister’s Questions, Sir Keir joked that the golden retriever did not look ‘particularly interested’ in what he had to say.

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6 d. ago Trump says China tariffs will drop ‘substantially – but it won’t be zero’

US president says tariffs on imported goods will come down from 145% rate but insists ‘we’re doing fine with China’Donald Trump said during a White House news conference that high tariffs on goods from China will “come down substantially, but it won’t be zero”.Trump’s remarks were in response to earlier comments on Tuesday by treasury secretary Scott Bessent, who said that the high tariffs were unsustainable and that he expects a “de-escalation” in the trade war between the world’s two largest economies. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Pete Hegseth insists he's on 'same page' as Trump as his job hangs in jeopardy after Signal chat scandal intensifies

Pete Hegseth insisted on Monday he's on the 'same page' as President Donald Trump as his jobs hangs in the balance after a second signal scandal.

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1 week ago Trump insists neither Russia nor Ukraine are ‘playing’ him as peace talks continue

‘There’s no one saying this can be done in 12 hours,’ Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said

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1 week ago Trump says Maryland senator ‘looked like a fool’ in El Salvador while meeting Ábrego García as legal battles continue – live

Trump administration insists it cannot do anything to free Ábrego García; senator’s visit comes amid court battles over returning Maryland man to the USThe US is optimistic that it can end “the very brutal war” between Russia and Ukraine, Vice-President JD Vance said before a bilateral meeting with the Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni in Rome on Friday.The meeting comes less than 24 hours after the pair met in Washington. Vance said:I want to update the prime minister on some of the negotiations between Russia and Ukraine even in the past 24 hours, we think we have some interesting things to report on.Since there are the negotiations I won’t prejudge them, but we do feel optimistic that we can hopefully bring this war, this very brutal war, to a close. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Trump warns ‘substantial’ tariffs will remain on imports as Reeves prepares for US talks

US president doubles down on trade policy as chancellor aims to secure trade deal for UK in Washington

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1 week ago Musk claims to be ‘No. 2 after Trump for assassination’ and insists only the ‘paranoid’ survive in the world

Tech billionaire told influencer Ashley St Clair that revealing his relationship to her child would be dangerous, citing it as reason to keep his name off birth certificate

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1 week ago Visas not an issue in UK trade talks, insists India's top diplomat in London amid Trump tariff chaos

Vikram K Doraiswami stressed that his country wanted Indian companies to be able to move staff to Britain ‘more easily’ as part of an agreement, but their focus was on hiring locally

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1 week ago Trump 'reduces amount he wants Ukraine to repay America from $300bn to $100bn' after latest round of negotiations over rare minerals deal

Trump was insistent in the early days of his administration that his opposite number in Kyiv would have to repay America for all of the aid it had supplied to support Ukraine

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1 week ago Donald Trump's top advisor insists Vladimir Putin wants 'permanent peace' in Ukraine

Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff has said that "we might be on the verge of something that would be very, very important" after trying to negotiate an end to war in Ukraine with Vladimir Putin

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2 w. ago Donald Trump insists there will be NO tariff exemptions in dramatic policy reversal

President Donald Trump took to Truth Social to clarify that China - which is embroiled in an escalating trade war with the US - will not be exempt from tariffs on electronics and semiconductors

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2 w. ago Donald Trump insists on NO exemptions in tariff policy for electronics

The US President declared that there would be no exemptions from the tariffs on Sunday evening, after an initial notice on Friday raised hopes that electronic gadgets from China would be spared

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2 w. ago Donald Trump insists there will be NO tariff exemptions in dramatic u

Just days after economic experts saw a glimmer of hope among Donald Trump's raft of tariffs with a potential exemption on electronic goods, the US President has now clarified this is not the case

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2 w. ago Tariffs live: Trump insists policy ‘doing really well’ despite China hiking levies on American goods to 125%

Beijing will ignore further US action as ‘there is no possibility of market acceptance for US goods’ at current tariff level

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2 w. ago China’s exporters defy US ‘paper tiger’ as Beijing invokes Mao

Stoic defiance in ‘trinket town’ echoes Beijing’s insistence that nation can prevail against Donald Trump’s tariff blitz

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2 w. ago Trump insists tariff war is ‘doing really well’ as recession fears mount

S&P 500 and Dow Jones rise sharply after extraordinarily volatile week as experts warn of continued turbulenceDonald Trump insisted his trade war with much of the world was “doing really well” despite mounting fears of recession and as Beijing hit back and again hiked tariffs on US exports to China.As the US president said his aggressive tariffs strategy was “moving along quickly”, a closely watched economic survey revealed that US consumer expectations for price growth had soared to a four-decade high. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago White House says there is ‘great optimism’ in the economy despite ongoing market volatility – business live

Markets pick up slightly after earlier falls amid increasing fears of recession while White House insists Trump’s tariffs are ‘proven economic formula’US stocks fall again after rally following Trump’s shock retreat on tariffsWhat are bonds and why have they spooked Donald Trump?The US dollar slumped on Friday as waning confidence in the US economy prompted investors to ditch US assets to the benefit of safe havens like the Swiss franc, yen and euro, as well as gold.The yellow metal recorded a new all-time peak in early Asia trade, and the franc notched a fresh decade high, Reuters reports.There has been a pronounced ‘sell US’ vibe flowing through broad markets and into the classic safe-haven assets, with the USD losing the safe-haven bid. Continue reading...

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