[ad_1] US President Donald Trump’s scrapping of a duty-free loophole has shattered Temu and Shein’s business model, choking their flood of cheap Chinese goods into the United States.In 2024, 1.36 billion shipments entered the US under the so-called de minimis rule, exempting goods valued under $800 (€704) from import tariffs. That figure marks a nine-fold…
[ad_1] Bucharest: Romania‘s liberal interior minister Catalin Predoiu became interim premier on Tuesday, a day after the prime minister’s resignation deepened political tumult in the EU nation.Pro-EU Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu stepped down on Monday after far-right leader George Simion topped the first round of a tense presidential vote rerun.His resignation opens the way for…
[ad_1] S Jaishankar welcomed European Union’s strong condemnation of terrorism in all forms and manifestations. New Delhi: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Friday spoke to his counterpart from European Union Kaja Kallas and discussed the Pahalgam terror attack. Following the phone conversation, Jaishankar welcomed European Union’s strong condemnation of terrorism in all forms and…
[ad_1] File photo: Nigel Farage, Leader of Reform UK RUNCORN: Britain’s hard-right anti-immigrant Reform UK party is seeking to prove it is a credible political force in local elections this week that will test the popularity of Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer.Nigel Farage‘s upstart party is pushing to pick up scores of council and mayoral…
[ad_1] Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze and US President Joe Biden (Photo: Agencies) Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze was reportedly disinvited from a reception hosted by US President Joe Biden during the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on Wednesday. Kobakhidze was scheduled to address the UNGA on Thursday and had originally been invited to the…
[ad_1] ATHENS: The European Union will spend 3.5 billion euros ($3.71 billion) to protect the ocean and promote sustainability through a series of initiatives this year, the EU’s top environment official said on Tuesday. The 40 commitments range from fighting marine pollution to supporting sustainable fisheries and investments in the so-called blue economy – sustainable…
[ad_1] GENEVA (Reuters) – Israel is still imposing “unlawful” restrictions on humanitarian relief for Gaza, the U.N. human rights office said on Tuesday, despite assertions from Israel and others that restrictions have eased. Israel’s offensive in the Gaza Strip triggered by Hamas’ cross-border attacks on Oct. 7 has turned much of the Gaza strip into…
[ad_1] ROME: Forty-five migrants are missing and feared dead after their boat sank in the central Mediterranean on Wednesday as they tried to reach Europe from Tunisia, the United Nations migration agency said, citing accounts from survivors. In a separate shipwreck, Italy’s coast guard said on Wednesday it had found the bodies of nine people…
[ad_1] KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s air force shot down all 13 drones used in Russia’s overnight attack on southern regions, the Ukrainian military said on Friday. Shahed drones were destroyed over the Zaporizhzhia, Odesa and Dnipropetrovsk regions. Russia also used two S-300/S-400 missiles and three Iskander-M ballistic missiles in the attack. One of the attacks…
[ad_1] CHISINAU (Reuters) – Border police in ex-Soviet Moldova said on Thursday they had found and cordoned off what appeared to be fragments of an Iranian-made Russian drone just inside the country’s border with Ukraine. A police statement said the fragments were found near the villages of Etulia and Vladiceni and bore the inscription Heran-2,…
