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After a call with top executives at GM, Ford and Stellantis, president approves one-month exemption from tariffsUS politics live – latest updatesDonald Trump has temporarily spared carmakers from sweeping US tariffs on goods from Canada

Lt Gen Eyal Zamir says that mission to defeat Hamas is ‘not accomplished’ amid deadlock over ceasefire negotiationsAn Israeli rights group says Israel demolished a record number of Palestinian homes in annexed East Jerusalem last

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