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Crete Overwhelmed: Migrant Arrivals Surge by 350%, Facilities at Breaking Point
Greek Reporter
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July 9, 2025
Migrants are being transferred to the port of Heraklion. Credit: AMNA/Nikos Chalkiadakis Crete is grappling with an unprecedented influx of migrants, with nearly 2,000 people arriving on the island in the past 48 hours alone, pushing existing...
World News | Trump Sends out Tariff Letters to 7 More Countries but Avoids Major US Trade Partners
Latestly
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July 9, 2025
Washington, Jul 9 (AP) President Donald Trump sent out tariff letters to seven smaller US trading partners on Wednesday with a pledge to announce import taxes on other countries later in the day. None of the countries targeted in the first batch...
Trump sends tariff letters to 7 more countries but avoids major trade partners
PBS Frontline
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July 9, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump sent out tariff letters to seven smaller U.S. trading partners on Wednesday with a pledge to announce import taxes on other countries later in the day. None of the countries targeted in the first batch of...
Trump unveils latest tariff rates for six countries
The Business Times Singapore
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July 9, 2025
[WASHINGTON] US President Donald Trump unveiled a new round of tariff demand letters on Wednesday (Jul 9) with levies set to hit in August on imported goods from partners who fail to reach agreements with the US. Trump said he would levy a 30 per...
Trump tariffs goods from Brazil at 50%, citing 'witch hunt' trial against Bolsonaro
Spectrum Bay News 9 - Florida
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July 9, 2025
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump singled out Brazil for import taxes of 50% on Wednesday for its treatment of its former president, Jair Bolsonaro, showing that personal grudges rather than simple economics were driving the U.S. leader's use of...
Emirati Eisa Al Dah, a backbone of boxing in Dubai, ready to resurrect own fight career
The National News
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DUBAI // Boxing in the UAE owes much to one man – Eisa Al Dah. The 36-year-old Emirati, who turned professional in 2007 and has won eight of his 10 bouts, will make a comeback to the ring in April, more than three years since his last fight. “I’ve...
Tech-free ‘cloisters’ can help young minds
The Times
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Sir, I share Niall Ferguson’s concern about the catastrophic effect of AI upon cognitive development (“AI’s great brain robbery — and how universities can fight back”, weekend essay, Jul 5). Founding, in 2007, the UK’s only screen-free school, we...
Trump issues new tariff notices as E.U. trade deal nears
Honolulu Star-Advertiser - Hawaii
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July 9, 2025
REUTERS/BART BIESEMANS A drone view shows containers stacked at the port of Rotterdam in Rotterdam, Netherlands, today. WASHINGTON/BRUSSELS >> President Donald Trump issued final tariff notices to seven minor trading partners today as his...
Trump Slaps Sri Lanka With 30% Tariffs, Warns Against Retaliatory Levies
myMotherLode - California
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In a post on Truth Social, President Trump said these tariffs on Sri Lanka will kick in from August 1 and warned the country against transshipping to evade the levies. President Donald Trump on Wednesday slapped 30% tariffs on goods exported from...
Trump issues tariff letters to seven more countries, avoids major U.S. trade partners
The Globe and Mail
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July 9, 2025
Open this photo in gallery:The Republican president started the process of announcing tariff rates on Monday.Jacquelyn Martin/The Associated Press U.S. President Donald Trump sent out tariff letters to seven smaller trading partners on Wednesday...
I’m Not A Ghost •Hajj Pilgrim Returns After Being Declared Dead
Daily Guide
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July 7, 2025
Hajia Fatima Kassim When unexpectedly Hajia Fatima Kassim of Madina Libya Quarters showed up on Tuesday after the Islamic funeral had being performed for her, some family members were scared and thought they had seen a ghost. Hajia Fatima...
Trump issues new tariff notices as EU pushes for US trade deal
Gulf Daily News Online
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WASHINGTON/BRUSSELS: US President Donald Trump issued final tariff notices to seven minor trading partners on Wednesday as his administration inched closer to a deal with its biggest trading partner, the European Union. Trump said in posts on his...
AP News: Trump tariffs goods from Brazil at 50%, citing 'witch hunt' trial against country's former president
EdGlenToday - Illinois
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump singled out Brazil for import taxes of 50% on Wednesday for its treatment of its former president, Jair Bolsonaro, showing that personal grudges rather than simple economics are a driving force in the U.S....
Jordan revamps rules of granting citizenship to foreign investors
The National News
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Jordan's move to revamp its Citizenship By Investment programme has opened up more pathways for foreign investors to obtain a passport, but it is unlikely to make an economic impact in the short term, analysts say. Amman will grant Jordanian...
Factbox-Trump's tariffs: What's in effect and what could be in store?
Yahoo Finance
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump has launched a global trade war with an array of tariffs that target individual products and countries. Trump has set a baseline tariff of 10% on all imports to the United States, as well as...
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India is not an enemy: A rebuttal to Tom Sharpe’s misinformed critique
Firstpost
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July 9, 2025
In a recent opinion piece titled “India is an enemy, not a friend or a neutral,” published in The Telegraph on July 1, 2025, former Royal Navy officer Tom Sharpe launched a scathing and provocative attack on India, accusing it of duplicity in its...
Trump tariffs goods from Brazil at 50%, citing ‘witch hunt’ trial against country’s former president
Associated Press
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July 9, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump singled out Brazil for import taxes of 50% on Wednesday for its treatment of its former president, Jair Bolsonaro, showing that personal grudges rather than simple economics are a driving force in the U.S....
EU eyes quick trade deal as Trump announces more tariffs
Deutsche Welle
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July 9, 2025
The European Union said Wednesday it could strike an outline trade deal with the United States within days — just as US President Donald Trump ramped up threats of new tariffs. Trump, widening a trade war that has unsettled the global economy,...
Famous Military Leaders Who Were Really Weird People
Grunge
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July 8, 2025
To lead armies to war is an extremely serious undertaking, requiring discipline, experience, and an understanding of both the relevant military objectives and what may be possible under the circumstances. Therefore, few charges are more serious...
The Unfinished Business of Nation Building in Ethiopia and the Conflicted Roles of Its Intellectuals and Scholars
Zehabesha
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Aklog Birara (Dr) February 4. 2022 “In broadening the debate about a country’s trajectory beyond the usual group of elite decision makers, national dialogues offer the potential for meaningful conversation about the underlying drivers of conflict...