Trump says tariffs 'still in effect' after U.S. appeals court ruling
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that all tariffs he has imposed remain in effect, following a ruling by a U.S. Appeals Court that found mos...
President Macron visits cyclone-hit Mayotte, where Cyclone Chido left 100,000 homeless and 31 confirmed dead. Aid efforts intensify amid fears of disease and rising fatalities.
Thousands are feared dead, but officials in France's poorest overseas territory have only been able to confirm 31 fatalities more than five days after Chido struck, the worst storm to hit the islands in 90 years.
Many areas in the Indian Ocean archipelago remain inaccessible. Heavy rain in the capital Mamoudzou and other areas has compounded the turmoil for thousands of people whose shanty town dwellings were flattened.
Macron was due to bring four tonnes of food and medical aid, and is expected to fly over the islands to survey the damage, his office said.
The French leader, whose government has been accused by opposition politicians of neglecting Mayotte, will also visit a hospital and a neighbourhood and meet officials, the presidency added.
The French government authorised price controls on essential goods including bottled water and construction material on Thursday.
Health workers say they are bracing for a surge of disease as dead bodies lie unburied and people struggle to get clean drinking water.
Officials have warned it will be difficult to work out how many have died in a territory that is home to large numbers of undocumented migrants from Comoros, Madagascar and other countries.
Official statistics put the population at 321,000, but many say it is much higher. Some victims were buried immediately, in accordance with Muslim tradition, before their deaths could be counted.
The death toll in continental Africa, where the storm hit after passing through Mayotte, stood at 45 in Mozambique and 13 in Malawi, officials in those countries said.
A powerful eruption at Japan’s Shinmoedake volcano sent an ash plume more than 3,000 metres high on Sunday morning, prompting safety warnings from authorities.
According to the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), a magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck the Oaxaca region of Mexico on Saturday.
The UK is gearing up for Exercise Pegasus 2025, its largest pandemic readiness test since COVID-19. Running from September to November, this full-scale simulation will challenge the country's response to a fast-moving respiratory outbreak.
A Polish Air Force pilot was killed on Thursday when an F-16 fighter jet crashed during a training flight ahead of the 2025 Radom International Air Show.
Delta Air Lines has agreed to pay $79 million to settle a lawsuit stemming from a 2020 incident in which one of its planes dumped fuel over schools and neighborhoods near Los Angeles.
Volkswagen’s Brazil unit has been ordered to pay 165 million reais ($30.44 million) in damages for subjecting workers to slavery-like conditions on a farm during the 1970s and 1980s, labour prosecutors said on Friday.
Eight people, including Irish missionary Gena Heraty and a three-year-old child, have been released after nearly a month in captivity following a kidnapping at the Saint-Helene Orphanage in Kenscoff, near Haiti’s capital.
Britain, France, and Germany have confirmed that their proposal to extend the Iran nuclear deal and delay the reimposition of UN sanctions for 30 days “remains on the table,” UK Ambassador Barbara Woodward said on Friday at the United Nations.
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that all tariffs he has imposed remain in effect, following a ruling by a U.S. Appeals Court that found most of tariffs illegal.
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