US car tariffs increased the risk of a global trade war
President Trump’s plan, cars and share a tariff of 25 percent sent a shower through the global auto industry. The markets in Asia, Europe and the United States changed yesterday because the stock prices of the car manufacturers have dropped. Trump threatened aim at the EU and Canada When you join together to reciprocate.
The tariffs for all cars and some auto parts that are exported to the USA will come into force next Thursday. Mexico, Japan, South Korea and Canada make up about 75 percent of US vehicle imports. So large automotive companies will be affected.
The tariffs set Trumps Unorthodox trading theory for testing. For the president, tariffs encourage companies to move factories to the United States and create more American jobs. Economists say that their effects are more complicated and that they could cause considerable security damage.
Reactions: Mark Carney, Canada’s guide, said the United States was “no longer a reliable partner” and his country will announce retaliation duties next week. In Germany, whose auto industry is a great exporter in the United States, Minister of Economy Robert Habeck said that it was “crucial that the EU delivers a crucial reaction to the tariffs” and added: “It must be clear We won’t return. “”
A cloudy vision of post -war -Ukraine
Yesterday, the European leaders in Paris discussed a French proposal to send a “reassurance” to protect a later peace in Ukraine. But Emmanuel Macron, France’s leader, said the special features of such a force were still be ironed out. Russia described the proposal as unacceptable.
The meeting followed three days of US conversations in Saudi Arabia this week, in which business and Ukraine reserved business to stop attacks on the energy infrastructure and the fights in the Black Sea.
Russian aims: Moscow wants to relieve itself of restrictions on shipping, insurance and banking transactions that have complicated its agricultural exports. “Russia also wants sanctions against the state agricultural bank and that it will quickly be connected to the international payment system,” said my colleague Paul Sonne, Russia covers. “But that would require an agreement between European allies who were cut out of the conversations.”
In front: Journalists for the Times were embedded in the Ukrainian armed forces in eastern and southern Ukraine. In the middle of drones, mines and snipers, Peace talks seemed to be a world away.
Anti-Hamas protests grew in the Gaza
Have rare public protests in Gaza for an end to the rule of Hamas – and against war – Spread to a number of cities in the last three days. While most demonstrations were low, they represent the boldest challenge for the authority of Hamas since the beginning of the war in 2023.
Hamas has brutally clamped against protests in the past. This time, his security forces were largely missing, most likely due to the sensitive position of the group in the Gazans and the difficulty of mobilizing at the risk of Israeli air strikes.
City: “Hamas has to disappear,” said Ahmad al-Masri, who demanded the demonstrations. “If this is not the case, the bloodshed, the wars and the destruction will not stop.”
Israel: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus Coalition more power was to choose judgesA judicial revision that the country shared before the war.
Yemen: Experts of the Middle East said the supported by Iran Houthis would not be easily defeatedDespite the intentions that US officials have disclosed in their signal chat.
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Singing whales. Grunt fish. But sharks had silent our ears until the scientists in New Zealand recently heard a rig -shark that made a click noise, most likely by snaping his teeth together. Listen to a recording.
Life lived: David Childs, an architect that crowned the New York City skyline with the shimmering New 1 World Trade Center and replaced the twin towers destroyed on September 11th. died on Wednesday at 83.
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The remains of the Third Reich
Europe is scattered with human remains of two world wars in which tens of millions of people were killed. Many simply disappeared into rubble, while others were hastily buried in non -marked graves.
In Germany, where memory and forgetting are associated with great guilt, the question of how to deal with these remains is particularly stressed. The problem is introduced to the Volksbund, an organization that is commissioned to find the graves of every German who died in the many wars of the country and to give everyone a decent funeral. No matter who they were or what they did. ((Read in German.))
That’s it for today’s briefing. We’ll see you next week – and thanks to those who let us know that yesterday’s subject line wrongly suggested that it was Monday.
Happy Friday and have a nice weekend. – Natasha
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