2 h. ago Wall Street stocks drop as investors fret over US economic slowdown

Tech shares hit as Tesla gives up all its post-election gains

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4 h. ago Wall St futures drop as investors fret over US economic slowdown

Treasuries rally as traders seek havens amid concerns over growth and inflation

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5 d. ago Asian shares and US futures are higher after Wall St losses wipe out S&P 500's post

Asian shares and US futures are higher after Wall Street's losses wiped out all of the S&P 500’s post-U.S. election gains

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5 d. ago Trump could meet Canada and Mexico ‘in the middle’ on tariffs, Lutnick says

Investors fret that aggressively protectionist trade policy will hurt economy

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5 d. ago Italy’s defence minister calls for the creation of a ‘European Defence Union’

Investors fret that aggressively protectionist trade policy will hurt economy

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5 d. ago US stock slide deepens on fears over impact of Trump tariffs

Investors fret that aggressively protectionist trade policy will hurt economy

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2 w. ago Asian shares are mixed after US stocks tumble on worries over tariffs

Asian shares are mixed after U.S. stocks fell sharply as reports showed the economy may be suffering as consumers and businesses fret over President Donald Trump’s policies

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2 w. ago ‘We paid a high price for human rights’: a road trip through the new Syria

In cities along the M5 highway just after the fall of Assad, many expressed relief – along with wariness about the futureAmid the rubble of Saraqib, some of the wall graffiti dating back to its time as a centre of the the 2011 Arab spring uprising remains. “The revolution will go on,” one reads. “Tomorrow the sun rises,” says another. A week after the astonishing rout of Bashar al-Assad by rebel forces led by the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, this small town of concrete, red earth and olive groves in Syria’s north-west was a stop on the Guardian’s 280-mile (450km) journey along the M5, the highway threading all of the country’s major cities and six provinces together.Suffering was palpable everywhere, from children rummaging through bins for food in Aleppo and Homs, to relatives searching for loved ones in Damascus’s prisons, to displaced people still living in tents in Idlib. There are huge challenges ahead for HTS’s transitional government, and in some places, sectarian vio...

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