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Bessent told Reuters on September 1 he was preparing a legal brief for the US solicitor general, who will oversee the government's appeal to the Supreme Court, that will underscore the urgency of addressing decades of trade imbalances and stopping the flow of deadly fentanyl into the United States.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has expressed confidence that the Supreme Court will uphold President Donald Trump's use of a 1977 emergency powers law to impose sweeping tariffs on most trading partners, but said the administration has a backup plan if it does not.
US: Bessent expects Supreme Court to uphold legality of Trump's tariffs but eyes Plan B www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
The actions underscored Trump's desire for influence in sectors normally seen as independent from overt political control and could have major implications for financial markets, health policy and public trust in institutions.
Over three days this week, the Republican president moved to terminate Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Susan Monarez and railroad regulator Robert Primus.
US President Donald Trump is pushing for more control over everything the federal government and its agencies do, and a string of firings will test how far he might be able to take his quest. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
"Voter I.D. Must Be Part of Every Single Vote. NO EXCEPTIONS! I Will Be Doing An Executive Order To That End!!!," Trump said on Truth Social. "Also, No Mail-In Voting, Except For Those That Are Very Ill, And The Far Away Military," he added.
US President Donald Trump said on Saturday (August 30) that he would issue an executive order to require voter identification from every voter. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Tensions between the United States and Venezuela have risen in recent weeks amid a large US naval buildup in the Southern Caribbean and nearby waters, which US officials say aims to address threats from Latin American drug cartels.
The United States is seeking a regime change in his country with a naval deployment in the Caribbean, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on Monday (September 1) in a rare press conference. www.reuters.com/world/americ...
The case grabbed global attention after US President Donald Trump denounced it as a "witch hunt" against his ally and retaliated by imposing a 50% tariff on many Brazilian goods.
Brazil's Supreme Court will on Tuesday (September 2) begin hearing closing arguments in the trial of former President Jair Bolsonaro, who faces charges of plotting a coup to remain in power after he lost the 2022 election. www.reuters.com/world/americ...
Opinion: We Ran the CDC: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
The warning, laid out in a guest opinion essay in the New York Times, comes days after the Trump administration fired Susan Monarez, less than a month into her tenure and four other directors resigned in protest, deepening disarray at the nation's main public health agency.
that the decisions made by US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F Kennedy Jr, culminating in the firing of the CDC's director, are putting Americans' health at risk.
Nine former directors of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) under Republican and Democratic presidents warned on Monday (September 1) …
US: Former CDC heads warn Kennedy is endangering Americans www.reuters.com/business/hea...
The IAGS is the world's largest professional association of genocide scholars and includes a number of Holocaust experts. Out of its 500 members, 28% took part in the vote and 86% of those who voted supported the resolution.
A resolution passed by the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) states that Israel's conduct meets the legal definition as laid out in the UN convention on genocide.
The world's leading association of genocide scholars has declared that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Xi told Putin that "China-Russia relations have withstood the test of international changes" - adding that Beijing was willing to work with Moscow to "promote the construction of a more just and reasonable global governance system".
Putin hailed relations between the countries, saying they were at an "unprecedented level". "Dear friend, both I and the entire Russian delegation are pleased to meet once again with our Chinese friends and colleagues," Putin told Xi, in a video published on the Kremlin's official Telegram app.
Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin have kicked off bilateral talks in Beijing, on the eve of a massive military parade in the Chinese capital. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Trump's comment coincides with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi attending the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation (SCO) summit in Tianjin (天津), where he met Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
US President Donald Trump says India has offered to cut its tariffs "to nothing" even as he called the current trade stalemate with the country "a totally one sided disaster". www.bbc.com/news/article...
The Tokyo Shimbun daily reported earlier that police in Fukuoka prefecture, Western Japan, have been conducting an investigation into whether supplements containing cannabis components had been sent to Niinami's home in connection with a man who was arrested in July.
Niinami, an outspoken business leader who has often served as the face of corporate Japan at Davos and other international events, told the company he purchased the supplement believing that it was legal, Suntory said in a statement.
Suntory Holdings CEO and Chairman Takeshi Niinami has resigned following a police investigation into his purchase of a potentially illegal supplement, the company said on Tuesday (September 2). www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
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However, groups of student protesters gathered in Jakarta as well as in Indonesia's cultural hub of Yogyakarta, and the cities of Bandung and Makassar, the site of the weekend's worst violence, in which at least four people were killed in arson and mob violence.
On Sunday (August 31), President Prabowo Subianto announced a cut in lawmakers' perks - a major concession to protesters - but warned that security forces would act firmly to control law and order. The heavy presence of military-led security led some organisers to postpone gatherings in Jakarta.
Hundreds of students gathered in major Indonesian cities on Monday (September 1), defying fears of a crackdown on protests after deadly riots on the weekend left eight dead in the worst violence in the Southeast Asian nation in over two decades. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
The Indonesia National Police arrested 3,195 people across the country, including 1,240 people in the capital Jakarta, government-run news agency Antara reported.
Some students and civil society groups called off their protest on Monday (September 1), citing fears of heightened security measures imposed after deadly riots across the country on the weekend, Reuters reported.
Indonesia’s worst wave of violent protests in years seems to have come to a pause for now after the government ordered the military and police to take stern action against rioters and looters. edition.cnn.com/2025/09/01/a...
By the end of the week, things had boiled over into violence. On Thursday (28 August) night, following escalating clashes between demonstrators and authorities, police in Jakarta ran over and killed 21-year-old motorcycle rideshare driver Affan Kurniawan.
Mass demonstrations, fuelled by cost-of-living woes and public frustration with the political elite, first erupted in Jakarta on 25 August to condemn what many viewed as excessive pay and housing allowances for parliamentarians.
Protesters have been killed, buildings torched and politicians' houses looted as anti-government unrest spreads across Indonesia - and the authorities respond with force. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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The leaders' milestone meeting in the Chinese capital also raises the prospect of a new trilateral axis building on the mutual defence pact signed between Russia and North Korea in June 2024 and a similar alliance between Beijing and Pyongyang.
while Trump's threats, sanctions and tariff-driven diplomacy strain long-standing US alliances, geopolitical analysts say.
The gathering of Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Beijing this week is testament to the Chinese president's influence over authoritarian regimes intent on redefining the Western-led global order …
In a show of solidarity with the aggressors in Europe's worst war in 80 years, China's Xi Jinping will convene with his Russian and North Korean counterparts for the first time as Donald Trump and other Western leaders watch on. www.reuters.com/business/aer...
Kim is expected to attend the military parade in Beijing on Wednesday (September 3), joining Chinese President Xi Jinping and other leaders, including Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un crossed the border into China on his special train early on Tuesday (September 2) to attend China's celebration of the formal surrender of Japan in World War Two, North Korean state media said on Tuesday. www.reuters.com/world/china/...
This week, we discussed how the denial of a Bloomberg journalist’s visa reignited concerns over Hong Kong’s unexplained rejections, including those affecting other reporters. A Ming Pao analysis showed the government is holding fewer – and shorter – public consultations.
Another journalist denied visa in Hong Kong; Government consultations shrink (30 August) hongkongfp.com/2025/08/30/h...
Hong Kong declined to extend the visa of Bloomberg journalist Rebecca Choong Wilkins without explanation, according to a post from the Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents' Club (FCC) which Wilkins confirmed as accurate to Reuters on August 23.
Bloomberg said on 23 August that it was working to resolve the situation of a correspondent in Hong Kong whose visa renewal application was turned down by authorities in the Asian financial hub.
Bloomberg working to resolve visa denial for Hong Kong journalist (August 23) www.reuters.com/business/med...
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Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in Northeast Africa. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudan
The movement has appealed for humanitarian assistance from the United Nations and other regional and international organisations.
Days of heavy rain triggered the landslide on Sunday (31 August), which left just one survivor and "levelled" much of the village of Tarasin, the group said in a statement.
A landslide has killed at least 1,000 people in the remote Marra Mountains in western Sudan, according to the rebel group The Sudan Liberation Movement/Army. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker said on Sunday (August 31) that such a move would be an “invasion” and that he has had no communication with the Trump administration about reported plans to send National Guard troops to Chicago.
US: Officials in Chicago are bracing for a major federal immigration enforcement operation that could begin as soon as this week, with the city’s mayor signing an order over the weekend aimed at resisting the Trump administration’s planned crackdown. edition.cnn.com/2025/09/01/p...
A 43-year-old man was arguing with an unidentified man who then pulled out a gun and fired multiple shots at the victim before fleeing. The victim was hit in the left shin and was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center in good condition.
In the first shooting of the weekend, Police responded to the 7400 block of South Eberhart Avenue shortly after 10:30 pm on Friday (August 29) for a call of a person shot.
US: At least seven people were killed and 48 others were hurt in shootings across Chicago during Labor Day weekend, according to police. The ages of the victims range from 14 to 50. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
Chants of “Trump must go now!” echoed outside the president’s former home in New York, while protesters gathered outside a different Trump Tower in Chicago, yelling “No National Guard” and “Lock him up!” Large crowds also gathered in Washington DC and San Francisco.
Demonstrations in Chicago and New York were organized by One Fair Wage to draw attention to the struggles laborers face in the US, where the federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour.
Protesters took to the streets in multiple US cities on Labor Day to criticize President Donald Trump and demand a living wage for workers. apnews.com/article/prot...
Nestle said Freixe's departure follows an investigation overseen by Chairman Paul Bulcke and Lead Independent Director Pablo Isla into an undisclosed romantic relationship with a direct subordinate, which breached the company's code of business conduct.
The maker of products ranging from KitKat to Nesquik said that it had appointed veteran insider Philipp Navratil, who had headed the Nespresso coffee unit, as Freixe's successor with immediate effect.
Nestle has abruptly dismissed its CEO Laurent Freixe for failing to disclose a romantic relationship with a subordinate, the Swiss food giant said on Monday (September 1), a dramatic removal exactly a year after he took the reins. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Trump’s shift, rather than merely swapping one infatuation for another, demonstrates how his mindset and priorities have evolved.
Now he’s partial to the barrel-chested, unfailingly polite William McKinley, a champion of American expansionism as well as of tariffs, Trump’s favorite second-term policy.
US: In his first term, Donald Trump’s favorite president, other than himself, was Andrew Jackson, the hatchet-faced, self-made populist who relished turning Washington upside down. apnews.com/article/trum...
Some of his allies in the Maga wing of Trump's Republican Party have expressed anger and confusion. "I just don't understand it for the life of me," said Fox News host Laura Ingraham. "Those are 600,000 spots that American kids won't get."
He told the Daily Caller on Sunday (31 August) that it would be "insulting" to ban them, and said his move would benefit smaller universities. The president is reversing the hard line his administration has taken on this for months, as trade talks with China continue.
US President Donald Trump has defended his decision to issue 600,000 Chinese student visas, despite a backlash from some supporters. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Speaking at the summit, Putin said the West had tried to bring Ukraine into the West's orbit and then sought to entice the former Soviet republic into the US-led NATO military alliance.
On the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) meeting in Tianjin, Modi held Putin's hand as they walked towards Chinese President Xi. All three smiled as they spoke, surrounded by translators.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, after talking with China's Xi Jinping and India's Narendra Modi, said on Monday (1 September) that the issue of NATO's eastward enlargement would have to be addressed for there to be sustainable peace in Ukraine. www.reuters.com/world/china/...
In an image designed to convey a mood of solidarity, Putin and Modi were shown holding hands as they walked jovially towards Xi before the summit opened. The three men stood shoulder-to-shoulder, laughing and surrounded by interpreters.
Xi was hosting more than 20 leaders of non-Western countries at a summit in the Chinese port city of Tianjin for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), a China-backed initiative given renewed impetus by the presence of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday (1 September) pressed his vision for a new global security and economic order that prioritises the "Global South", in a direct challenge to the United States, during a summit that included the leaders of Russia and India. www.reuters.com/world/china/...
The countries are concerned about measures that disrupt the stability of the global supply chain, and call for "dialogue and cooperation among all parties," the statement said.
Member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) oppose trade measures that violate WTO rules and principles, according to a joint statement on trade reached at an SCO summit released by China's official Xinhua news agency on Monday (1 September). www.thestar.com.my/aseanplus/as...
The meeting came after scenes of hand-holding between the pair as they were hosted by China's Xi Xinping for the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation (SCO) summit, which is being seen as a challenge to US President Donald Trump and US dominance on a global level.
The two leaders spent 45 minutes inside the Russian leader's car - after which Modi posted a picture of their journey alongside the compliment to Putin.
India's Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, says he has had an "insightful" exchange with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of a summit in China. www.bbc.com/news/article...
The "Victory Day" parade, which takes place on Wednesday (3 September), will see Kim rub shoulders with China's President Xi Jinping, Russia's Vladimir Putin and other world leaders - making it his first multilateral international meeting.
Kim left the North Korean capital on Monday (1 September) evening onboard his armoured train, which is said to include a restaurant car serving fine French wines and dishes like fresh lobster.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has left Pyongyang for China, where he will be attending a military parade in the capital Beijing, media reports say. www.bbc.com/news/article...
At least 812 people have been killed and 2,817 injured when an earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan, according to government spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid.
🔴Afghanistan earthquake live: Desperate search for survivors; over 800 dead www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
The disaster will further stretch the resources of the war-torn nation's Taliban administration, already grappling with crises ranging from a sharp drop in foreign aid to deportations of hundreds of thousands of Afghans by neighbouring countries.
One of Afghanistan's worst earthquakes killed more than 800 people and injured at least 2,800, authorities said on Monday (September 1), as rescuers struggled to reach remote areas due to rough mountainous terrain and inclement weather. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
Following a deadly earthquake, Paula Newton speaks to Sherine Ibrahim, Afghanistan country director for the International Rescue Committee, about the emergency response and the impact of US foreign aid cuts.
US aid cuts handicapping Afghanistan earthquake response, says NGO official (video) edition.cnn.com/2025/09/01/T...
Several of Hasssan's political opponents are not expected to run in the upcoming election, with some already disqualified or facing legal challenges.
Tanzania's incumbent president, Samia Suluhu Hassan, has told supporters that she plans to spend the next five years not only improving their health and their children's education, but also drafting a new constitution and fostering national reconciliation.
As Tanzania approaches election in October, divisions within the ruling party and a fragmented opposition could shape the country's political future. www.dw.com/en/tanzania-...