live U.S. to impose measures "never seen before" on Iran, Treasury secretary says
The U.S. will impose unprecedented measures on Iran in order to economically isolate the country, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has said...
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U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has imposed new tariffs on 60 countries and the European Union over claims they fail to stop forced labour. The duties of either 10 per cent of 12.5 per cent target key trading partners, including China, Canada and the UK. The new levies have been criticised by some of the countries, including Brazil, Australia and China.
The U.S. military has completed its 13th night of strikes on Iran. Four people were killed in a U.S. missile strike near southwestern Iranian city of Ahvaz, according to Iranian media. Following a resurgence of conflict between Washington and Tehran, shiptracking data showed tanker traffic in the Strait of Hormuz falling to the lowest levels since May. The escalation has pushed global oil prices higher, with Brent crude rising above $100 a barrel amid fears of disruptions to key shipping routes and energy markets.
Power is being restored in stages in Georgia after a nationwide blackout early on Friday, the country’s state-owned electricity operator said. The cause of the outage is still being investigated, the Georgian State Electrosystem added. Some residents took to social media to share photos of the blackout and speculate on what may have caused it.
President Donald Trump has conditioned a deal signed by the U.S. and Saudi Arabia, which would allow the Gulf kingdom to build nuclear reactors, on Riyadh establishing diplomatic relations with Israel. Saudi Arabia has long refused normalisation without the existence of a clear pathway for Palestinian statehood.
Sweden has announced the relaxation of rules for new mines to cut its dependence on China for rare earth minerals. The issue is a source of tension with the country’s indigenous Sami people, who say the expansion of mining will cut off reindeer migration routes they’ve followed for thousands of years.
Disruption in the Strait of Hormuz has increased the strategic importance of Bab al-Mandab, raising fears that instability in both waterways could trigger a wider global energy and trade crisis.
Flights at Catania airport in Sicily will remain suspended until early Friday as ash from Mount Etna continues to disrupt air travel, following hundreds of cancellations and diversions over the past week.
Iran says the Strait of Hormuz remains under its control, rejecting U.S. President Donald Trump’s claim of “total control” over the strategic waterway and insisting it will not reopen until Washington fulfils its commitments under an interim deal.
Iran and the United States remain at loggerheads over efforts to agree a permanent end to the war in the Gulf, according to a senior Iranian source who said there had been no progress in talks to revive the interim deal agreed in June and define a timeframe to implement it.
Russia has accused Ukraine of threatening global grain supplies after recent strikes on Black Sea agricultural infrastructure, while Moscow carried out a new overnight attack on Ukraine’s major Danube port of Izmail.
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Hundreds of flights have been cancelled or rerouted at Catania Airport over the past week as ash from Mount Etna’s ongoing eruption continues to disrupt air travel in Sicily.
Record rainfall in Japan’s Chiba Prefecture has killed four people and left thousands stranded overnight at Tokyo’s Narita Airport, as torrential rain disrupted rail, bus and texi services across the prefracture and left more than 20,000 households without power.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) Ebola outbreak has spread to a sixth province. A man died of the virus in Bas-Uélé in the north, the African Union’s health agency said.
At least 437 civilians were killed and 2,610 injured in Ukraine last month, according to UN investigators, marking the highest monthly civilian casualty toll since March 2022.
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