Trump issued similar letters to countries including Bangladesh, saying he would slap duties on their products ranging from 25 percent to 40 percent.

Trump's threat on Sunday night came as the US government prepared to finalize dozens of trade deals with a range of countries before his July 9 deadline for the imposition of significant "retaliatory tariffs."

Pakistan rescuers have concluded a three day-long rescue operation, recovering 27 bodies from a building that collapsed in the mega port city of Karachi, officials said yesterday.

President Donald Trump on Sunday called Elon Musk’s plans to form a new political party “ridiculous,” launching new barbs at the tech billionaire and saying the Musk ally he once named to lead Nasa would have presented a conflict of interest given Musk’s business interests in space.

Hamas and Israel resumed indirect ceasefire talks in Qatar yesterday, a Palestinian official said, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu travelled to Washington to meet President Donald Trump, who has pushed for a “deal this week” between the foes.

Pakistan’s army chief Field Marshal Asim Munir yesterday rejected New Delhi’s allegation that his military received active support from longtime ally China in its conflict with India in May.

Rescuers in Texas yesterday searched for bodies swept away by flash floods that killed almost 90 people, including 27 girls and counsellors at a summer camp that was destroyed by torrents of water.

Heavy fighting in war-torn Myanmar has forced nearly 4,000 people to flee into India in the last four days, Indian officials in the northeastern state of Mizoram said yesterday.

Dozens of residents have evacuated remote islands in southern Japan that have been shaken by nearly 1,600 quakes in recent weeks, the local mayor said yesterday.

Israel struck Houthi targets at three Yemeni ports and a power plant, the military said early yesterday, in its first attack on Yemen in nearly a month.

Russia said yesterday it captured its first village in Ukraine’s central Dnipropetrovsk region after grinding towards the border for months, dealing a physchological blow for Kyiv as its worries mount.

US President Donald Trump has said he will send letters to select trade partners facing tariff hikes as early as Monday, piling pressure on countries to strike a deal with Washington before a new August 1 deadline.

Nearly 450,000 Afghans have returned from Iran since the start of June, the UN’s refugee agency said yesterday, after Tehran ordered those without documentation to leave by July 6.

President Donald Trump on Sunday called Elon Musk’s plans to form a new political party “ridiculous,” launching new barbs at the tech billionaire and saying the Musk ally he once named to lead Nasa would have presented a conflict of interest given Musk’s business interests in space.

In near-identically worded letters to the Japanese and South Korean leaders, Trump said the tariffs would apply from August 1

Investors raise concerns over Musk's political involvement

Moscow launched a fresh large-scale drone and missile barrage before the announcement, including on Ukraine's army recruitment centres

Investigators say his body was found inside his car in Moscow suburb

Campers are among the victims

Here's the state of play for several US trading partners facing deadlines this week