President Donald Trump at the White House on Wednesday. REUTERS/Leah Millis |
- A US trade court blocked most of President Donald Trump's tariffs in a sweeping ruling that found the president overstepped his authority by imposing across-the-board duties on imports from US trading partners.
- Elon Musk is leaving the Trump administration after leading a tumultuous efficiency drive, during which he upended several federal agencies but ultimately failed to deliver the generational savings he had sought.
- Chinese students with offers from US universities expressed despair after Washington promised to start "aggressively" revoking Chinese student visas and ordered US missions abroad to stop scheduling new student visa appointments.
- The US will impose visa bans on foreign nationals it deems to be censoring Americans, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said, and he suggested the new policy could target officials regulating US tech companies.
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- A United Nations warehouse in war-torn Gaza was broken into by "hordes of hungry people" as aid trickles into the Palestinian enclave on the brink of famine and the United States readies new terms for a possible truce between Israel and Hamas.
- NATO will ask Germany to provide seven more brigades, or some 40,000 troops, for the alliance's defense, sources told Reuters, under new targets for weapons and troop numbers.
- The army was deployed and rescue specialists were airlifted in to search for a man still missing after a huge chunk of glacier crashed down a mountain in Switzerland, burying much of a picturesque Swiss Alpine village.
- Manitoba declared a state of emergency and urged thousands of people in northern and eastern parts of the province to evacuate, as wildfires spread in Central and Western Canada.
- As South Koreans begin turning out in record numbers for early voting in the country's snap presidential polls, we look at how a Gen Z gender divide is reshaping democracy.
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- The legal roadblock on Trump's tariffs drew early cheer from markets, but the risks of extended policy and economic paralysis cast a deeper shadow for investors worried about the longer term. Tune in to the Reuters World News podcast for more on what might lie ahead.
- The United States has ordered a broad swath of companies to stop shipping goods to China without a license and revoked licenses already granted to certain suppliers, said people familiar with the matter.
- Nvidia beat quarterly sales expectations as customers stockpiled its AI chips before fresh US curbs on China exports took effect, but the same restrictions will slice off $8 billion in sales from the company's current quarter.
- Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek released an update to its R1 reasoning model, stepping up competition with US rivals such as OpenAI.
- Japan's Nissan has started offering buyouts to US workers and has suspended merit-based wage increases worldwide, internal emails reviewed by Reuters showed, as the automaker expands cost cuts.
- Indian auto production could grind to a halt within days due to Chinese export restrictions on rare earth magnets, according to company executives and documents from industry groups, which want the government to lobby Beijing to relax the curbs.
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Why a Peruvian farmer's court loss may be a win for climate justice |
Farmer Saul Luciano Lliuya stands by Lake Palcacocha in Peru. REUTERS/Angela Ponce |
A decade-long court battle between a Peruvian farmer and German energy giant RWE over the company's global emissions and its impact on his hometown finally came to an end. The court threw out the case without the possibility of appeal. Despite that, the farmer, his lawyers and environmentalists are hailing the ruling as an unprecedented victory for climate cases that could spur similar lawsuits. |
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Emotional scenes from the Scripps Spelling Bee |
Enzo Singsong Paylaga, 14, reacts to correctly spelling his word. REUTERS/Nathan Howard |
Our photographers have been capturing the joy, shock and disbelief as word whizzes compete in the annual Scripps National Spelling Bee, which celebrates its 100th anniversary this year. |
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