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China’s government says it will “fight to the end” if the US continues to escalate the trade war, after Donald Trump threatened huge additional tariffs in response to China’s retaliatory measures. On Tuesday, China’s commerce ministry accused the US of “blackmail” and said the US president’s threats of additional 50% tariffs if Beijing did not … Read more
The NHS is attempting to ease the pressure on GPs and A&E by sending a new type of health worker door to door in deprived areas to help detect illnesses before people need urgent care. Community health and wellbeing workers (CHWW) are already deployed in 12 areas of England, with 13 others to follow, in … Read more
The Bank of England should use its meeting next month to cut interest rates by at least half a percentage point to 4% in response to the financial turmoil created by Donald Trump’s trade tariffs, the former deputy governor Charlie Bean has said. He believes an aggressive strategy is needed to combat the fallout from … Read more
South Korea will hold a presidential election on 3 June, the country’s acting president said on Tuesday, after predecessor Yoon Suk Yeol was impeached and removed from office over a disastrous declaration of martial law. The government “is to set June 3 as the date for South Korea’s 21st presidential election”, prime minister Han Duck-soo … Read more
A giant quilt made to remember people who died of Aids in Britain is to be publicly displayed later this year at Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall in London. The UK Aids Memorial Quilt was created in the 1980s at the height of the epidemic to raise awareness of the disease and humanise the people who … Read more
An ambitious €350m (£300m) plan to connect electricity grids across the island of Ireland is heading for the high court after a challenge brought by campaigners claiming Northern Ireland was being used as a “whipping boy” to feed the republic’s energy-hungry datacentres. An estimated 150 landowners representing 6,500 residents have called on the Northern Ireland … Read more
(1) Waqf Amendment Bill passes Parliament A Bill to improve the functioning of the Waqf Board and streamline the process of donating waqf properties passed both Houses of the Parliament on Saturday (April 5, 2025) after several hours of debate in the Lok Sabha. The controversial Bill was accused of allowing the government to interfere … Read more
Orhan Karakaya has been in and out of hospital his entire adult life living with ulcerative colitis. Never in that time has he seen doctors in the state take strike action, but with a drip in his arm, Karakaya came out to support the rally outside Westmead Hospital. Tuesday is the first of three days … Read more
A Belgian prince has lost a legal battle to claim social security benefits on top of his royal allowance, with a court ruling his claim – the first of its kind in the country’s nearly 200-year history – “unfounded”. Prince Laurent, the youngest of three children of the former king and queen, had argued that … Read more
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Trump rejects EU ‘zero-zero’ tariff proposal The European Union said on Monday it had offered “zero-for-zero” tariffs to the US weeks before Trump’s tariff announcement and was in negotiations with the administration. But Donald Trump didn’t appear keen on the offer, … Read more