US President Donald Trump will travel to China from March 31 to April 2 for a highly anticipated meeting between the leaders of the world’s two biggest economies, a trip announced as the Supreme Court overturned Trump’s sweeping tariffs on imported goods.

If the 15 percent rate replaces the 19 percent reciprocal tariff finalised for Bangladesh under the trade deal, Bangladesh’s effective tariff for exports to the US would stand at 31.5 percent.

President Donald Trump raised the global duty on imports into the United States to 15 percent yesterday, doubling down on his promise to maintain his aggressive tariff policy a day after the Supreme Court ruled much of it illegal.

Move comes a day after the Supreme Court largely struck down his sweeping duties

State Department distances itself, stressing policy rests with Trump and White House

The gathering drew attention from tourists and locals alike, with many stopping to watch and record the moment on their phones

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun condemned the overnight Israeli strikes on the Sidon area and towns in Bekaa

The attack occurred in the night of Thursday into Friday in the remote village

Twenty migrants were rescued by a commercial vessel

Government passed a law in 2016 to take control of the dilapidated building

A deadly virus and bacterial infection have killed at least 72 tigers at a private animal park in Thailand's north in recent weeks

Iran and the United States are sliding rapidly towards military conflict as hopes fade for a diplomatic solution to their standoff over Tehran’s nuclear programme

US forces on Friday launched a strike against alleged drug traffickers in the Eastern Pacific, killing three people

Donald Trump imposed an additional 10 percent tariff on imports into the United States after the SCstruck down many of his sweeping and often arbitrary duties

Discussions on Gaza’s future must begin with a total halt to Israeli “aggression”, Palestinian movement Hamas said after US President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace met for the first time.

President Donald Trump said on Thursday he would direct federal agencies to begin releasing government files related to aliens and unidentified flying objects, pointing to what he described as strong public interest in the issue.

Kyiv said yesterday that 10 people were arrested in Ukraine and Moldova on suspicion of planning to assassinate senior Ukrainian political figures on Moscow’s orders, with payouts of up to $100,000.

A UN panel on artificial intelligence will work towards “science-led governance”, the global body’s chief said yesterday as leaders at a New Delhi summit weighed their message on the future of the booming technology.

At least 50 people were killed, and several women and children were abducted after armed men attacked a village in Nigeria’s northwestern Zamfara state, a state lawmaker told Reuters yesterday.

British police were searching the former mansion of King Charles’ younger brother Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor yesterday after a photograph of the royal emerging from a police station was splashed on newspapers around the world.