White House confirms 245% tariff on some Chinese imports 

Astronomers at the University of Cambridge have uncovered fresh but inconclusive evidence suggesting the possible presence of life on a distant exoplanet orbiting another star.

Myanmar`s military government said Thursday it will release nearly 5,000 prisoners in an amnesty to mark the country`s new year festivities.

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Wednesday that his army forces will remain in “security zones” in the Gaza Strip in any "temporary or permanent situation."

Japan`s natural population change has marked its largest ever drop, according to estimates released by the government on Monday. The figure is calculated by subtracting the number of deaths from the number of births.

The White House budget office has proposed eliminating funding for United Nations peacekeeping missions, citing failures by operations in Mali, Lebanon and Democratic Republic of Congo, according to internal planning documents seen by Reuters.

South Korean and US forces conducted a combined naval exercise in waters near the southeastern coastal city of Pohang to enhance their joint mine warfare capabilities.

China on Wednesday unexpectedly appointed a new trade negotiator key in any talks to resolve the escalating tariff war with the US, replacing veteran trade tsar Wang Shouwen with the Chinese envoy to the World Trade Organization.

China`s President Xi Jinping called on Monday for stronger ties with Vietnam on trade and supply chains amid disruptions caused by US tariffs, as he attended the signing in Hanoi of dozens of cooperation agreements between the two communist-run nations.

United States President Donald Trump has advanced plans to introduce tariffs on semiconductors and pharmaceutical products, even as he floated the possibility of a reprieve from his duties on the auto industry.

Italy will host a new round of nuclear talks between the US and Iran, local media announced on Monday.

More than 70% of schools in the Gaza Strip have been directly hit by Israeli attacks since October 2023, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said on Monday.

Britain said on Sunday it will expand financing support for exporters by 20 billion pounds ($26 billion), including those affected by US tariffs, in an effort to give them stability and certainty in what it described as a new era of global trade.

US President Donald Trump said on Saturday that talks aimed at ending the war in Ukraine may be going OK, but "there`s a point at which you just have to either put up or shut up."

Delegates from the United States and Iran agreed to hold more talks next week after concluding “indirect” nuclear negotiations in the Omani capital, Muscat.

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) sounded the alarm on Saturday over a rapidly escalating humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip.

US and Russian delegations arrived on Thursday for talks in Istanbul on normalising the work of their diplomatic missions after the war in Ukraine triggered the biggest confrontation between Moscow and the West since the depths of the Cold War.