A bomb blast tore through the lobby of a luxury Moscow apartment block, killing a pro-Russian paramilitary leader from eastern Ukraine, Russian media reported Monday. Armen Sargasyan, whom Ukraine has long accused of aiding Russia’s war effort in the country's eastern Donetsk region, died in hospital after he was critically injured, Russia’s Kommersant said. One of his security guards died, and three more people were injured in the explosion, the newspaper reported, citing Moscow's health department.
Mexico's Claudia Sheinbaum and Canada's Justin Trudeau posted on social media about plans to police their borders. New tariffs on goods from China went into effect.
President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs announced over the weekend — as well as the promise of more punishing measures leveled against some of Washington’s closest trading partners— have alarmed allies and spooked markets about what some fear may spiral into a global trade war. While most world leaders have been circumspect about the levies against Canada, Mexico and China, economists say consumers around the world will face spiraling prices as the supply chains that move goods among countries become more exposed to political risk and therefore costlier.
President Donald Trump’s tariffs against China, Canada and Mexico target a trade provision that helped fuel the explosive growth of budget online retailers, including Temu and Shein. Trump on Saturday signed executive orders imposing tariffs on the country’s top three trading partners. Goods imported from Canada and Mexico will be slapped with a 25% tariff, while goods from China will be charged a 10% tax. Energy resources from Canada will have a lower 10% tariff. The duties are expected to take effect on Tuesday.
The leaders of Canada and Mexico threatened retaliatory tariffs, while China said it will file a lawsuit with the World Trade Organization.
A deadly insurgency is sweeping the Democratic Republic of Congo, a country three times the size of Texas that is estimated to hold trillions of dollars’ worth of minerals essential to smartphones, computers and electric vehicle batteries. The rebel group M23 is vying to expand its control by pushing south from Goma in the most dramatic escalation in the decades-old conflict for 13 years. The United Nations has warned that the conflict is at risk of spiraling into a war in a region that’s no stranger to bitter fighting.
The Israeli military destroyed almost two dozen buildings in Jenin, a city in the occupied West Bank, as Israel turned to the territory since it withdrew some of its troops during the ongoing ceasefire across the border in Gaza. Video captured by Reuters showed a series of explosions tearing through the city, sending towering plumes of smoke into the sky. In a statement Sunday, the Israel Defense Forces said it demolished 23 buildings in Jenin that were “used as terrorist infrastructure.”
A small girl in a pink sweater waved goodbye through the smudged window of a bus as it prepared to depart Gaza on Saturday, packed with 37 ill and injured patients, most of them children with cancer, in need of medical treatment that Gaza's war-ravaged hospitals cannot provide. It was the first time in nine months that medical evacuees have been able to leave Gaza by the Rafah border crossing, and outside Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, weary mothers held their sick and listless children wrapped up in coats, anxiously waving their documents at officials to confirm their place.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order issuing tariffs on goods coming into the U.S. from Canada, Mexico and China, raising the risk of a trade war with America’s closest trading partners and threatening to drive up prices on everything from cars to avocados. The only products exempt from the tariffs are Canadian energy products, which would have a lower tariff rate of 10% to "minimize any disruptive effects we might have on gasoline and home heating oil prices," said the senior administration official.
Chinese exporters say they are considering moving manufacturing to different countries, passing on higher costs to U.S. consumers or leaving the U.S. market altogether.