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Donald Trump’s tariff struggle has plunged deeper into chaos after a cupboard official floated a plan for brand new levies on semiconductors – an important element in digital items – simply days after the Trump administration exempted computer systems and smartphones from tariffs.
Trump’s commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, advised NBC the tariff exemption on a number of digital gadgets was momentary, and that new duties would are available “a month or two”. Semiconductors could be focused, he stated.
The president stated he would lay out the brand new tariffs on Monday and that any reduction for the electronics business could be short-lived. “NOBODY is getting ‘off the hook’,” he wrote on his Truth Social platform, including: “Particularly not China which, by far, treats us the worst!”
EU international ministers meet after lethal Palm Sunday assault by Russians on Ukraine
EU international ministers are meeting in Luxembourg this morning to debate the important thing challenges dealing with the bloc in international affairs, with Ukraine prime of the pile.
Reeling from the shock of Russia’s assault on Palm Sunday on Sumy, in north-eastern Ukraine, which killed not less than 34 and injured greater than 100, the ministers will talk about what extra they will do to assist Kyiv deter Russian aggression.
There have been robust political reactions already on Sunday. The French president, Emmanuel Macron, blamed Moscow for “blatant disregard for human lives, worldwide regulation, and the diplomatic efforts of president Trump”.
Chatting with reporters final evening, Trump stated the assault on Sumy was “horrible” however added he was “advised it was a mistake”. He then blamed Joe Biden for the Russian invasion of Ukraine, including: “This isn’t my struggle.”
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What has the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, stated? He issued a dramatic plea to Trump telling him: “Earlier than any type of selections, any type of types of negotiations, come to see individuals, civilians, warriors, hospitals, church buildings, kids destroyed or lifeless.”
Excessive ranges of poisonous chemical compounds present in paper receipts utilized by US retailers
Paper receipts from main retailers within the US are so laden with bisphenol S that holding one for 10 seconds could cause the pores and skin to soak up sufficient of the extremely poisonous chemical to violate California’s security threshold, research has found.
The findings are getting used as proof in authorized motion aimed toward pressuring retailers to cease utilizing receipt paper handled with bisphenol S, or BPS, which is linked to most cancers and reproductive issues.
The Middle for Environmental Well being (CEH) non-profit has despatched violation notices to about 50 main retailers alerting them to the exceedance of California’s Proposition 65 limits for BPS.
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Which firms have acquired notices? Among the many firms to which notices had been despatched for the allegedly unlawful ranges of BPS of their receipts are Burger King, Chanel, Greenback Common, AMC Theaters, GameStop, Subway, Foot Locker and Ace {Hardware}.
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Aimee Lou Wooden has described a sketch on the US comedy present Saturday Night time Stay (SNL) which mocked her look as “mean and unfunny”. Within the skit, the SNL forged member Sarah Sherman impersonated her, showing in exaggerated prosthetic enamel.
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The Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa, one of many pivotal figures who ignited a worldwide growth in Latin American literature, has died aged 89. The writer of The Time of the Hero and Dialog within the Cathedral died peacefully at dwelling, his household stated.
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In an election seen as a referendum on his “struggle on medication”, Ecuador’s properwing president, Daniel Noboa, won yesterday’s presidential runoff, defeating the leftist candidate Luisa González.
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A house explosion in Austin, Texas, destroyed the residence and broken 24 close by properties, injuring six individuals – together with two firefighters. A type of injured was in a vital situation and the opposite in a severe situation.
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Police say an individual is in custody after a suspected arson fire on the Pennsylvania governor’s mansion. Josh Shapiro and his household had been evacuated after somebody set fireplace to the constructing.
Don’t miss this: The rise of finish instances fascism
Our opponents know full effectively that we’re coming into an age of emergency, however have responded by embracing deadly but self-serving delusions, write Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor. Having purchased into varied apartheid fantasies of bunkered security, they’re selecting to let the Earth burn. Our task is to build a wide and deep movement, as religious as it’s political, robust sufficient to cease these unhinged traitors. A motion rooted in a steadfast dedication to 1 one other, throughout our many variations and divides, and to this miraculous, singular planet.
… Or this: ‘Invasion’ barges, subsea cable cutters and shock naval drills – how China is testing Trump
Within the house of simply 5 weeks, China has held live-fire drills on the doorsteps of Australia, Taiwan and Vietnam, writes Angela Dewan. It examined new touchdown barges on ships that would facilitate an amphibious assault on Taiwan. And it unveiled deep-sea cable cutters with the flexibility to change off one other nation’s web entry – a instrument no different nation admits to having. China has been flexing its maritime muscle within the Indo-Pacific to ship a message of supremacy to its regional neighbours, consultants say. Nevertheless it’s additionally testing the pondering of a much bigger rival farther afield: Donald Trump.
Final Factor: ‘Twister tortoise’ reunited with its household a month after lethal US storms
A pet tortoise displaced from its human household’s dwelling throughout a lethal outbreak of tornadoes in Mississippi in March was recently reunited with its people. The reunion – which went viral on corners of the web devoted to uplifting information tales – occurred after the Central Mississippi Turtle Rescue group requested its social media followers on 6 April for assist in discovering the tortoise’s homeowners, after the animal was delivered to the group to be handled for accidents.
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