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Mexico and Canada vow levies and to ‘enhance relations’ with each other as China and Canada seek legal challengesDonald Trump’s imposed tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China have sparked retaliation from all three countries. Mexico and Canada have vowed levies of their own while China and Canada are seeking legal challenges.Canada’s department of finance has published a list of US products imported into Canada that it will target with a 25% retaliatory tariff starting on Tuesday. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/02/trump-tariffs-mexico-canada-china-retaliation Author : Léonie Chao-Fong and agencies Publish date : 2025-02-03 00:16:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the

Disaster funding activated for parts of Townsville and other affected areas. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastLabor names sites of more study hubs for regional uni studentsThe federal government has announced the sites of 10 additional study hubs, which operate to improve university accessibility to students living in regional Australia.Bringing university closer to where you live will encourage more people who otherwise might decide not to go to university at all to give it a crack. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/feb/03/australia-news-live-antoinette-lattouf-abc-case-federal-parliament-ad-campaigns-ntwnfb Author : Caitlin Cassidy Publish date : 2025-02-03 00:14:00 Copyright

The biggest night in music has so far seen wins for Sabrina Carpenter, Charli xcx, Kendrick Lamar and BeyoncéBeyoncé – BodyguardSabrina Carpenter – Espresso – WINNER Charli xcx – Apple Billie Eilish – Birds of a Feather Chappell Roan – Good Luck, Babe!The complete list of winners can be found on the official Grammys site Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/feb/02/grammy-2025-winners Author : Benjamin Lee Publish date : 2025-02-02 23:31:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

New commission led by Sajid Javid and John Denham aims to speak to millions following unrest over Southport attackA new cross-party commission chaired by former Tory and Labour community secretaries is aiming to speak to millions of people to try to improve cohesion after the Southport tragedy and riots.Led by Sajid Javid and John Denham, both former cabinet ministers, the commission will launch in the spring. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/feb/02/cross-party-commission-community-cohesion-riots-southport-sajid-javid Author : Rowena Mason Whitehall editor Publish date : 2025-02-02 22:30:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

PM wants to ‘see all allies stepping up’, saying Donald Trump’s threat of sanctions has rattled Vladimir PutinKeir Starmer has called on European leaders to put more economic pressure on Russia, saying Donald Trump’s threat of sanctions has left Vladimir Putin “rattled”.Before a meeting in Brussels on Monday, the prime minister said it was necessary to “see all allies stepping up – particularly in Europe” when it comes to inflicting economic harm on Russia, and argued it would help bring about peace by ending the Ukraine war sooner. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/feb/02/starmer-calls-on-european-leaders-to-put-more-economic-pressure-on-russia Author : Rowena Mason Publish date

Canadian NHL fans also booed Star-Spangled BannerApplause breaks out during Canadian national anthemFans at a Toronto Raptors game on Sunday continued an emerging trend of booing the American national anthem at sporting events in Canada.Fans of the NBA’s lone Canadian franchise booed the US anthem before the Raptors’ game against the Los Angeles Clippers at the Scotiabank Arena in downtown Toronto. Similar reactions broke out on Saturday night at NHL games in Ottawa and Calgary, where the Senators and Flames faced the Minnesota Wild and Detroit Red Wings respectively. Those games came hours after Donald Trump made his threat of

Secretary of state’s visit to Central American state greeted with protests at Trump’s demand to take back the waterwayThe US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, has held talks in Panama with its president, José Raúl Mulino, as protesters marched in opposition to Donald Trump’s demand for ownership of the Panama canal to be returned to the US.The US’s top diplomat told Mulino in the talks that the US president has determined China’s influence threatens the Panama canal and that immediate changes were needed or the US would act. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/02/marco-rubio-holds-talks-with-panama-president-jose-raul-mulino-amid-us-claims-to-canal Author : Mat Youkee in Panama

After standoff, Doge members gained control over access system, letting them to lock out workers and read emailsUSAid has put two senior security officials on administrative leave after a tense standoff with members of Elon Musk’s department of government efficiency (Doge) seeking access to sensitive data from the agency, four current and former USAid officials have told the Guardian.USAid director of security John Voorhees and a deputy have been put on administrative leave after they blocked efforts by Doge members to physically access restricted areas, the people said. The demands led to a tense standoff during which a senior deputy

Schools shut as precautionary measure and people told to avoid shoreline after hundreds of seismic tremorsGreek authorities have dispatched special forces, rescue teams, tents and drones to the island of Santorini after hundreds of seismic tremors were recorded in the area.Amid fears of a bigger earthquake that could cause a tsunami, people were advised to avoid the shoreline and derelict buildings, to empty swimming pools and to refrain from gathering in large numbers in enclosed spaces. The civil protection ministry said schools would be shut as a precautionary measure on Monday. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/02/greece-sends-rescue-teams-to-santorini-amid-fears-of-big-earthquake Author : Helena

Move comes as one-two punch for group already reeling from last week’s decision to rescind 18-month extensionThe Trump administration has stepped up its attack on Venezuelans living in the US under temporary deportation protections, revoking the right to stay of more than 300,000 people.The move, first reported by the New York Times, comes as a one-two punch for Venezuelans who were already reeling from last week’s decision to rescind an 18-month extension of temporary protected status (TPS) that had been introduced in the final days of the out-going Biden administration. Reversing the extension was a blow that affected more than

Kristi Noem instead says government will use all available facilities under law for detention center expansion plansThe head of the US Department of Homeland Security on Sunday declined to say whether migrant women, children or families would be included in Trump administration expansion plans for the infamous Guantánamo Bay detention center, saying instead the federal government would utilize all available facilities under the law.Donald Trump last week said he was expanding a detention facility at the US naval base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to hold 30,000 people. His White House border czar, Tom Homan, has said he hopes to start

Fears grow for global trade, with major indices likely to plunge as US trading partners quickly retaliate, raising chance China and EU will follow suitCanada and Mexico hit back after Trump signs order for tariffsEconomic news updates – US politics liveInvestors are bracing for stock market falls after Canada and Mexico hit back against trade tariffs imposed by Donald Trump this weekend.Trading on the brokerage IG’s weekend markets indicated shares were likely to fall on Monday after the US president signed an order on Saturday to bring in sweeping tariffs this week, a move that could prompt a trade war

Ahmed al-Sharaa in Riyadh on trip that highlights reset of regional alliances after end of Iran-backed Assad regimeSyria’s transitional president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, met the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, in Riyadh on Sunday in his first foreign trip as Syrian leader, in a sign of the major shifts under way in regional alliances.Sharaa assumed power as transitional president last week, after leading a rebel campaign that ousted the longtime Iran-backed leader Bashar al-Assad, whose ties with the rest of the Arab world were strained throughout the nearly 14-year Syrian war. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/02/syrian-leader-lands-in-saudi-arabia-for-first-foreign-visit-since-toppling-assad Author : Reuters

Makyle Bayley, 22, Eva Darold-Tchikaya, 21, Anthony Hibbert, 24, and Daljang Wol died at scene on SaturdayFour Essex students who were killed when their car crashed into a building in Colchester in the early hours of Saturday morning have been named.Police said Makyle Bayley, 22, Eva Darold-Tchikaya, 21, Anthony Hibbert, 24, and Daljang Wol, 22, were inside the vehicle and died at the scene of the crash. All four were students at University of Essex and three were keen basketball players. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/feb/02/police-name-four-students-killed-in-colchester-car-crash Author : Donna Ferguson Publish date : 2025-02-02 17:40:00 Copyright for syndicated content

Trump’s treasury secretary gives the world’s richest person entry to one of the most sensitive US government databasesElon Musk’s government-slashing crew, the “department of government efficiency”, has been given access to the federal payment system, exposing the sensitive personal data of millions of Americans as well as details of public contractors who compete directly with Musk’s own businesses, an influential US senator has confirmed.Ron Wyden, a Democratic senator from Oregon and the ranking member of the Senate finance committee, posted on Bluesky that sources had confirmed to him that the Treasury’s highly-sensitive database had been opened up to the tech

Federal investigators are still working to piece together the events that led to the crash that killed 67 peopleFamilies of victims of the deadliest US air disaster in nearly 25 years visited the crash site on Sunday amid a swirl of ongoing questions on what caused the mid-air collision between a passenger jet and a military helicopter at an airport just outside Washington DC.Dozens of people walked along the banks of the Potomac River near Reagan National airport, close to where an American Airlines jet and an Army Black Hawk helicopter crashed into each other on Wednesday, killing all 67

Senate File 125 could limit access to any treatment that ‘causes harm’ to the heart, lungs, brain and other organsIn an effort to restrict abortion access, Wyoming Republicans authored a bill that could choke access to a host of life-saving medical procedures, from chemotherapy to heart surgery.State judge Melissa Owens overturned Wyoming’s abortion bans in November 2024, citing the state’s constitutionally guaranteed right to healthcare. The Republican state senator Cheri Steinmetz and the bill’s eight co-sponsors took issue with the ruling, and sought to draw up a definition of healthcare that excludes abortion. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/02/wyoming-republicans-anti-abortion-bill Author

Some US business leaders have reacted neutrally, while JP Morgan CEO says tariff threats can be used effectively US business leaders are offering a mixed reaction to steep trade tariffs that Donald Trump’s administration has imposed on Canada, Mexico and China, as the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal called it “the dumbest trade war in history”.Donald Trump hit Canada and Mexico with a 25% tariff on imports, and China with 10%, on Saturday in a move that launched a new era of trade wars between the US and three of its largest trading partners. The tariffs against Canada

Hadi Matar, 26, accused of stabbing author 10 times in case likely to draw world’s media to tiny upstate New York townA man accused of attacking Salman Rushdie as he was being introduced at a literary lecture in New York state in 2022 is going on trial this week in a case likely to create global headlines.The trial could upend life in the tiny upstate New York village of Mayville, whose population of less than 1,500 is not accustomed to finding itself at the center of a media circus covering the attempted assassination of one of the world’s most famous

Chuck Schumer leads charge against president’s tax plans on allies, saying sights should be set on competitors insteadTop Democrats have slammed Donald Trump’s plans to impose serious tariffs on America’s neighbors and allies, warning that they will hit working families and small businesses hard.Chuck Schumer, the minority leader in the US senate, led the charge by saying the president’s threatened tariffs would likely “hit Americans in their wallets”. “It would be nice if Donald Trump could start focusing on getting the prices down instead of making them go up.” Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/02/trump-tariffs-canada-mexico-democrats Author : Ed Pilkington in

Spanish football federation’s former president is accused of sexual assault and coercion over incident in 2023Spain’s former football chief Luis Rubiales will go on trial in Madrid on Monday over the unsolicited kiss he planted on the World Cup winner Jenni Hermoso, a gesture that stunned millions of TV viewers and unleashed a backlash against sexism in sport.Rubiales, 47, is accused of sexual assault as well as coercion after allegations that he tried to force Hermoso, 34, into publicly declaring that the kiss, which occurred as she celebrated her team’s victory in the 2023 World Cup in Australia, was consensual.

Fault caused major problems with payments for two days and reportedly disrupted house moves Barclays said it has fixed the IT glitch that left thousands of customers locked out of their accounts on Friday and Saturday, and promised to compensate them for any losses incurred.The bank said customers could use its payment apps and online services, although some still faced a wait on Sunday to check updated balances and whether payments had been processed. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/feb/02/barclays-says-it-glitch-that-locked-customers-out-of-accounts-is-fixed Author : Gwyn Topham Publish date : 2025-02-02 13:11:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Silver W196 R Stromlinienwagen sold at Stuttgart auction for highest amount ever made by a grand prix car A streamlined Mercedes raced by Formula One greats Stirling Moss and Juan Manuel Fangio in 1955 set a record for a grand prix car on Saturday, selling at auction for €51.155m (£42.7m).The sleek, silver W196 R Stromlinienwagen, one of only four complete examples in existence, was sold by RM Sotheby’s at the Mercedes-Benz museum in Stuttgart, Germany, on behalf of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS). Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/feb/02/mercedes-grand-prix-car-silver-w196-r-stromlinienwagen-stirling-moss-record-auction Author : Reuters in Stuttgart Publish date : 2025-02-02 12:38:00 Copyright

About 14.7 million egg-laying hens have been affected as wholesale price of eggs climbs as much as 40 cents a weekEgg prices in the US have risen steeply over the last several weeks. Experts say they are likely to climb further as an avian flu outbreak decimates flocks across the country.Though the avian flu has been in the US since 2022, the largest outbreak started in October and is still affecting millions of hens. About 14.7 million egg-producing chickens have been affected by the avian flu since the start of January, surpassing the number of hens affected in all of

Home secretary rules out return to full union with bloc as Keir Starmer prepares for talks in Brussels this weekKeir Starmer will seek to improve customs arrangements with Europe without returning to a full union with the bloc, the home secretary has said.As the prime minister heads to Brussels as part of his attempted reset with the EU, Yvette Cooper said it was still a red line that the UK would not be part of a customs union or single market. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/feb/02/uk-trade-eu-customs-union-yvette-cooper-keir-starmer Author : Rowena Mason Whitehall editor Publish date : 2025-02-02 11:52:00 Copyright for