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By Mera Aladam Published date: 14 July 2025 11:50 BST | Last update:~08:00 EDT

India's aviation regulator has ordered the country's airlines to inspect fuel control switches in Boeing aeroplanes, after their reported involvement in a fatal Air India crash that killed 260 people in June.

The U.S. government said Monday it is immediately placing a 17% duty on most fresh Mexican tomatoes after negotiations ended without an agreement to avert the tariff.

China ended the first half of 2025 with a record trade surplus of about US$586 billion

By MEE staff Published date: 14 July 2025 21:05 BST | Last update: ~17:00 EDT

Shuaib Almosawa and Murtaza Hussain Jul 13, 2025

Jeremy Scahill Jul 14, 2025

Edit: Internal headline on the page: The 'strongman' PM who inspired Trump's playbook - but now finds his power crumbling

President Trump said the U.S. would impose 100 percent secondary tariffs on countries that trade with Russia if Moscow does not agree to a ceasefire in Ukraine in the next 50 days.

The European Union has warned that its trade with the United States could be effectively wiped out if Washington makes good on its threat to slap a 30% tariff on goods imported from the bloc.

Neha Madhira July 3 2025, 6:00 a.m.

Pelicot's landmark case led to reforms in France's rape laws after she bravely testified about enduring a decade of sexual abuse.

Her latest report, ‘From Economy of Occupation to Economy of Genocide,’ submitted to the UN Human Rights Council on July 3, marks a seismic intervention. It unflinchingly names and implicates companies that have not only allowed Israel to sustain its war and genocide against Palestinians, but also confronts those who have remained silent in the face of this unfolding horror.

Indian Foreign Minister Jaishankar said during a visit to Beijing that India supports China's SCO leadership. It comes after New Delhi indicated it wanted to permanently resolve a Himalayan border dispute.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The search for those missing after Yemen’s Houthi rebels sank a ship in the Red Sea has ended as at least four people are presumed dead and 11 others remain unaccounted for, the private security firms involved said Monday.

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Clashes between local militias and clans in Syria’s Sweida province have killed more than 30 people and injured nearly 100, and government forces were being sent to the area to restore order, authorities said.

By David Hearst Published date: 12 July 2025 14:39 BST

PANNONHALMA, Hungary (AP) — Tens of thousands of centuries-old books are being pulled from the shelves of a medieval abbey in Hungary in an effort to save them from a beetle infestation that could wipe out centuries of history.

French president says bloc should be ready for trade war after 30% tariff threat but other EU leaders call for calm

By Fayha Shalash in Ramallah, occupied Palestine Published date: 12 July 2025 15:49 BST

from +972 Magazine [published in Israel]

Ten people, including six children, have been killed in an Israeli air strike while waiting to fill water containers in central Gaza on Sunday, emergency service officials say.

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Russia’s foreign minister warned the U.S., South Korea and Japan against forming a security partnership targeting North Korea as he visited his country’s ally for talks on further solidifying their booming military and other cooperation.

YouGov survey suggests majority support idea of Britain returning to bloc – but not on same terms it once enjoyed

Australia will not commit troops in advance to any conflict, Defence Industry Minister Pat Conroy said on Sunday, responding to a report that the Pentagon has pressed its ally to clarify what role it would play if the U.S. and China went to war over Taiwan.

The official designation earlier this month of Palestine Action as a proscribed group under the Terrorism Act 2000 means that membership in the group and support for its actions are punishable by up to 14 years in prison

I’m not 100% sure this meets the “news” requirement as opposed to being investigative journalism. Is there a community that fits better?

Doubling down on his trade wars, Trump is threatening to raise taxes on many goods from Canada, hike his universal tariff on imports from around the world and punish Brazil for prosecuting his friend, the country’s former president.

The head of the French army, General Thierry Burkhard, on Friday said France was Russia’s “main enemy in Europe” as he held a rare press conference ahead of President Emmanuel Macron's annual address to members of the armed forces.

Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank have beaten to death a United States citizen in his early 20s, the victim’s family members and rights groups have said.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/43774518

Two Palestinians, one a dual US citizen, have been killed in an attack by Israeli settlers on a town in the north of the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian health ministry.

Farmers are seeking ways to fend off birds who are stirring up soil in flooded paddy fields in Ferrara province

Early investigation into accident in Ahmedabad in June also contains details of pilots discussing the switches

A federal judge in Los Angeles ordered the Trump administration to stop carrying out immigration sweeps in which she said federal agents have been indiscriminately arresting people across southern California without reasonable suspicion that they're in the country illegally.

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian authorities said Friday they captured an alleged leader of the Italian ’ndrangheta mafia in Latin America who is accused of overseeing cocaine shipments and managing illegal trafficking routes to Europe.