The move, which was slammed by Biden, is the latest in a long-running campaign by Trump

It will go into effect on June 9, the White House said.

Moscow said yesterday that a Ukrainian attack on a bridge that links the annexed Crimean peninsula to Russia caused “no damage.”

Britain’s most hazardous building threatens to leak radioactive water until the 2050s unless the clean-up of a former nuclear power plant is quickened, UK lawmakers warned yesterday.

More than a million pilgrims participated in Islam’s most important rite under a scorching sun yesterday as the hajj pilgrimage began.

The US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation did not distribute any aid yesterday as it presses Israel to boost civilian safety beyond the perimeter of its distribution sites, a day after dozens of Palestinians seeking aid were killed.

Pakistan is “ready but not desperate” for talks with arch-rival India, its foreign minister said yesterday, in remarks that underline the lack of a thaw between the two nuclear-armed neighbours following their worst military conflict in decades.

Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said yesterday a US proposal for a nuclear agreement was against the national interest, amid sharp differences over whether Tehran can continue to enrich uranium.

US private sector hiring hit its lowest pace since early 2023 in May, according to data from payroll firm ADP on Wednesday

Singapore reported over 14,000 cases between Apr 27 and May 3

Israel's military said it was ready to "protect" the country's maritime space on Tuesday, after a boat organised by an international activist coalition set sail for Gaza aiming to deliver aid.

Millions of Afghans have poured into Pakistan over the past several decades, fleeing successive wars.

Twenty-seven people were killed in southern Gaza on Tuesday when Israeli troops opened fire near one of the centres operated by the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).

The number of births in Japan last year fell below 700,000 for the first time on record, government data showed Wednesday.

The decision on the number of children is now a decision for each individual couple, Vietnam News Agency said.

German automakers became the latest to warn that China's export restrictions threaten to shut down production and rattle their local economies

Trump late Tuesday signed an executive proclamation that puts into effect from Wednesday his surprise announcement last week that he was taking the tariffs on steel and aluminum imports that had been in place since March to 50% from 25%.

Lee's decisive victory in Tuesday's snap election stands to usher in a sea change in Asia's fourth-largest economy, after backlash against a botched attempt at military rule brought down Yoon Suk Yeol just three years into his troubled presidency.

At least 27 Palestinians were killed and dozens wounded by Israeli fire near a food distribution site in the southern Gaza Strip yesterday, local health authorities said, in the third day of chaos and bloodshed to affect the aid operation.

Mongolian Prime Minister Luvsannamsrain Oyun-Erdene resigned yesterday following weeks of anti-corruption protests in the country’s capital.