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On Thursday, US President Donald Trump ordered his officials to develop reciprocal tariffs on imports to the United States, keeping to an “eye for an eye” election campaign promise in world trade. “I have decided for purposes of fairness, that I will charge a reciprocal tariff, meaning whatever countries charge the United States of America, we will charge them. No more, no less,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. The announcement is the latest in a line of tariff announcements by the president, including a new 10% tariff on imports from China that took effect last week and the prospect of new…

Around three-quarters of the world’s tigers now live in India, despite rapidly growing urbanization and human populations. From 2010 to 2022, tigers in India more than doubled from an estimated 1,706 to nearly 3,700, according to a new study published in Science. The improved situation for tiger populations is due to conservation and environmental protection methods safeguarding them from habitat loss and poaching. The researchers believe it offers key lessons for other big cat conservation programs around the world. “Creating human-free protected areas allowed tigers to establish breeding populations from which they dispersed to occupy multi-use forests,” said lead author Yadvendradev Vikramsinh Jhala, a…

“It isn’t uncommon for things to get going in late January,” said Rene Lötzsch, who owns the Fichtelberg cable car service in eastern Saxony. He’s trying to remain optimistic. Ordinarily, at this time of year, the lift would be shuttling scores of winters sports enthusiasts up to the top of Fichtelberg, eastern Germany’s tallest mountain. But due to this year’s mild temperatures the snow-free slopes are deserted. That said, Lötzsch still hopes “things will pick up eventually.” Skiing is out of the question For weeks, temperatures in this part of Germany have been unusually balmy. The little snow that did…

On Wednesday, US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin spoke on the phone for an hour and a half. It was a conversation that Sergei Naryshkin, the chief of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service would later describe as “deep and meaningful.” The same day, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth briefed NATO partners on the cornerstones of the US’ new Ukraine policy. This come on the heels of a leak by the Ukrainian online news outlet strana.today, that last week published the details of what it claimed was a US “100-day peace plan” for Ukraine. The plan has not been officially confirmed. But how does Trump’s…

The TikTok app returned to the Apple App Store and Google Play Store in the United States on Thursday. It comes weeks after President Donald Trump delayed banning the app until at least April 5. The Trump administration has reportedly assured companies responsible for app stories that they would not be fined for distributing or maintaining the Chinese app. TikTok did not immediately comment on the move. Trump optimistic about TikTok The Biden administration had required TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to find an approved buyer for its US operations or face a ban by January 19. However, shortly after Trump was sworn…

Its name alone has become a verb: Missed the latest viral phenomenon? Just YouTube it. Somehow 21st-century life without YouTube seems unthinkable, no? And yet it began as a quirky idea by three former PayPal employees — Jawed Karim, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen — who activated their domain on Valentine’s Day 2005, hazy about its direction. At his University of Illinois commencement speech back in 2007, the German-born Karim explained, “We didn’t even know how to describe our new product. To generate interest, we just said it was a new kind of dating site. We even had a slogan for…

Two British citizens have been detained in Iran, the government has said.Both are being supported by the UK Foreign Office, according to a spokesperson. It comes following reports of the detention from Iranian state media yesterday.A spokesperson said: “We are providing consular assistance to two British Nationals detained in Iran and are in contact with the local authorities.”Iranian state media said on Wednesday that a man and woman were in custody in Iran’s southeastern city of Kerman on security-related charges. The Foreign Office warn that people are at risk of “arrest, detention and a death sentence” if they travel to…

Just a few years ago, Portugal, Italy, Spain, and especially Greece were considered the problem children of the European Union (EU), especially within the group of 20 countries that form the so-called eurozone. This has fundamentally changed, with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez recently emphasizing at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos that the EU’s southern periphery could also “contribute solutions to common problems.”Prime Minister Sanchez even asserted he would make Spain ‘the best economy in the world’Image: JAVIER SORIANO/AFP More than a decade after the European sovereign debt crisis brought the four countries close to financial collapse, robust…

What you need to know Reported gonorrhea infections across Europe are at an all-time high according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) Condom use is declining, making it easier for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) to spread Sexually transmitted infections continue to rise across European nations, according to annual data released by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. The most recent release, published on Monday, covers data from 2023. It shows rates of bacterial infections, such as gonorrhea and syphilis, rose again across the European Union and European Economic Area (EU/EEA). Almost 100,000 new cases of gonorrhea…

“It’s not five to 12, it’s five past 12,” Markus Waldner said a few weeks ago. The chief race director of the World Ski Federation (FIS) was commenting on the high number of serious crashes in the Alpine Ski World Cup and the numerous, often serious injuries that have occurred this winter. Several top skiers have been forced out of the season’s highlight, the Alpine World Ski Championships, which run until the weekend in Saalbach-Hinterglemm, Austria – due to injury. Their absence has been particularly noticeable in the high-speed disciplines, the downhill and super-G. Serious injuries to Kilde, Sarrazin and Shiffrin Alexander Aamodt Kilde,…