Hamas pressured from all sides as it weighs Trump's Gaza plan
A U.S.-sponsored ceasefire proposal for Gaza on Tuesday was hinging on Hamas's response to the 20-point plan which U.S. President Donald Trump has sai...
U.S. President Donald Trump said that pharmaceutical imports could face tariffs of up to 200%, with details expected by the end of July following an ongoing national security review.
Speaking at a Cabinet meeting at The White House on Tuesday, Trump said drugmakers would have a year to shift supply chains before facing steep tariffs.
“If they have to bring the pharmaceuticals into the country … they’re going to be tariffed at a very, very high rate, like 200%,” he said.
Trump also indicated new levies on imported semiconductors and other goods were being prepared, without giving precise timelines. A new tariff rate on copper was also announced during the meeting.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick later told CNBC that final decisions on pharmaceutical and semiconductor tariffs would come once ongoing studies conclude later this month. “The president will then set his policies,” he said.
The administration launched a formal investigation into pharmaceutical supply chains in April, arguing that foreign reliance on medicine production poses a national security threat. The Commerce Department is leading the review but has not yet released its findings.
The proposal, if enacted, would represent a significant shift in U.S. trade policy on health products and comes amid wider efforts to increase domestic manufacturing across strategic industries.
AnewZ has learned that India has once again blocked Azerbaijan’s application for full membership in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, while Pakistan’s recent decision to consider diplomatic relations with Armenia has been coordinated with Baku as part of Azerbaijan’s peace agenda.
A day of mourning has been declared in Portugal to pay respect to victims who lost their lives in the Lisbon Funicular crash which happened on Wednesday evening.
Video from the USGS (United States Geological Survey) showed on Friday (19 September) the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii erupting and spewing lava.
At least eight people have died and more than 90 others were injured following a catastrophic gas tanker explosion on a major highway in Mexico City’s Iztapalapa district on Wednesday, authorities confirmed.
A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula on 13 September with no tsunami threat, coming just weeks after the region endured a devastating 8.8-magnitude quake — the strongest since 1952.
A U.S.-sponsored ceasefire proposal for Gaza on Tuesday was hinging on Hamas's response to the 20-point plan which U.S. President Donald Trump has said was "beyond very close" to ending the two-year-old conflict in the region.
Volodymyr Z., a Ukrainian diver wanted by Germany over his alleged involvement in the Nord Stream explosions, has been detained in Poland, his lawyer said on Tuesday.
Vietnam's most devastating storm this year brought heavy rains that triggered floods across its north, disrupting flights and train services with the capital, Hanoi, where schools were closed and many homes inundated, authorities said on Tuesday.
Türkiye has joined Spain, Italy and Greece in monitoring an international flotilla carrying aid for Gaza that was sailing east across the Mediterranean Sea on Monday despite warnings from Israel to stop the mission, flight data show.
U.S. President Donald Trump and his Democratic opponents appeared to make little progress at a White House meeting aimed at heading off a government shutdown that could disrupt a wide range of services as soon as Wednesday.
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