Trump pledges U.S. military support to protect Qatar
U.S. President Donald Trump has signed an executive order pledging U.S. military support to defend Qatar if it comes under attack, following last mont...
The U.S. will impose a 15% tariff on imports from South Korea under a new trade deal that also includes a $350bn (about £264bn) South Korean investment in the U.S., President Donald Trump has announced.
The agreement was reached one day before a 1 August deadline for countries to avoid higher tariffs. South Korea had faced a 25% levy if no deal was struck.
The 15% rate will apply to cars and semiconductors, two of Seoul’s largest exports to the U.S., while steel and aluminium will continue to be taxed at 50% under a global tariff President Trump introduced earlier this year.
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung welcomed the deal, saying it put his country on “an equal or better footing” with key competitors such as Japan, which secured the same tariff rate earlier this week.
As part of the pact, Seoul will invest $350bn in the U.S., including $150bn to support shipbuilding, a sector where South Korea is the world’s second-largest producer after China. Much of the remaining investment comprises funds pledged under the Biden administration for car, semiconductor and battery production.
South Korea retained restrictions on U.S. rice and beef imports, avoiding concessions that had angered domestic farmers.
The agreement does not affect the military alliance with Washington, but further negotiations on defence costs are expected when President Lee visits The White House in two weeks’ time.
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.
Authorities in California have identified the dismembered body discovered in a Tesla registered to singer D4vd as 15-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, who had been missing from Lake Elsinore since April 2024.
U.S. President Donald Trump has signed an executive order pledging U.S. military support to defend Qatar if it comes under attack, following last month’s Israeli airstrikes on Doha that intensified regional tensions.
Qarabağ claimed their second win in the UEFA Champions League group stage with a 2-0 victory over Copenhagen at the Tofig Bahramov Republican Stadium in Baku on Wednesday.
Contact has been lost with several vessels in the Global Sumud Flotilla, organisers said on Wednesday evening, as the ships continued their attempt to reach Gaza with humanitarian aid.
French naval personnel have boarded a Russia-linked oil tanker suspected of being used to launch drone flights that disrupted airports in Denmark last month.
The foreign minister of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) Tahsin Ertugruloglu has strongly criticised the UN Security Council, accusing it of depriving the Turkish Cypriot people for six decades through failed negotiations on the Cyprus issue.
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