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Facebook Tweet Email Link President Donald Trump isn’t going to bulldoze China on trade like he did Europe. Two days after the EU agreed to a framework trade deal with the White House that some of the bloc’s national leaders regard as a capitulation, Trump’s negotiators left talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping’s team in Sweden with no breakthrough. Following a flurry of trade deal announcements celebrated by the administration, China and the US are expected to carry on talking. But the lack of significant progress was a blunt reminder of China’s power, the stakes it sees in standing up…

Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing our planet, together with the solutions. Rolex’s Perpetual Planet Initiative has partnered with CNN to drive awareness and education around key sustainability issues and to inspire positive action.Millions of years ago, Grand Cayman Island rose from the depths of the Caribbean Sea, and in the same epoch, its shores became home to giant blue reptiles. Fast forward to today, and with its spiny crest, prehistoric features and striking blue scales, the Grand Cayman blue iguana appears to have lumbered out of a lost world.…

Facebook Tweet Email Link Gaza City, Gaza  —  It’s a long and dangerous walk to the point through which trucks carrying aid into Gaza are expected to pass. Um Khader and other women who live in the tents neighboring hers are huddled next to a car in the dark, surrounded by a large crowd of men. Not many women can be seen around the bonfires dotting the horizon near Gaza City on this night in June, captured on video. The sole providers for their children, this group of mothers sticks together for protection. The most dangerous part of their journey…

Facebook Tweet Email Link President Donald Trump told a story on Monday about how he “made a correct prediction” about the outcome of the United Kingdom’s 2016 Brexit referendum while he was visiting his golf course in Scotland “the day before the vote.” “You remember?” he asked reporters. They couldn’t have remembered. It didn’t happen. Trump actually visited Scotland the day after the Brexit referendum, not the day before it. And while he did say about three months prior that he thought the UK would end up leaving the European Union, he made no public predictions in an interview the…

Facebook Tweet Email Link A sea of birch trees and Baltic pines sways in the wind as the road goes deeper into the forest. Here in the peaceful depths of western Lithuania’s Žemaitija National Park, an area of idyllic lakes, wetlands, old villages and forests 30 miles inland from the Black Sea, Soviet missile operators once waited in secret, poised for the destruction of Western Europe. Today, the once-classified complex known as Plokštinė Missile Base is the park’s most-visited attraction, the Cold War Museum. In 2024, 35,000 people from all over the world came to explore this eerie underground world,…

Facebook Tweet Email Link President Donald Trump is ratcheting up the pressure on India, calling into question the prospects of a deal with a key US trading partner just days before his tariff deadline. Trump, in a pair of social media posts Wednesday, sharply attacked India’s trade barriers and directly targeted India’s sustained reliance on Russian oil purchases and military equipment. He doubled down on his threat to impose 25% tariffs on all Indian imports and threatened an additional “penalty” in response to India’s energy purchases. “Remember, while India is our friend, we have, over the years, done relatively little…

Facebook Tweet Email Link The 2026 midterm elections should, by all rights, be good for Democrats. That’s because midterms are almost always good for the party that doesn’t hold the presidency; that party has gained House seats in all but four midterms since the Civil War. It’s also because President Donald Trump has been a remarkably unpopular president; Gallup last week found he now owns both the lowest early-first-term and early-second-term approval ratings since at least John F. Kennedy. (Independents, in particular, have turned sharply against Trump.) However, there is a sizeable “but” that comes along with that right now.…

Facebook Tweet Email Link Reuters  —  The co-founder of a pro-Palestinian campaign group on Wednesday won her bid to bring a legal challenge against the British government’s decision to ban the group under anti-terrorism laws. Huda Ammori, who helped found Palestine Action in 2020, asked London’s High Court to give the go-ahead for a full challenge to the group’s proscription, which was made on the grounds it committed or participated in acts of terrorism. Earlier this month, the High Court refused Ammori’s application to pause the ban and, following an unsuccessful last-ditch appeal, Palestine Action’s proscription came into effect just…

Facebook Tweet Email Link Mourners gathered in Manhattan’s Bryant Park Tuesday evening to honor the four people killed in a shooting in a Midtown skyscraper, as investigators work to understand exactly how and why the shooter carried out the attack. Twenty-seven-year-old Shane Devon Tamura walked into 345 Park Avenue on Monday evening carrying an M4 assault-style rifle and opened fire, police said, killing four people and injuring another before he died by suicide. The attack is now the deadliest event recorded in New York City since at least 2013, according to data from the Gun Violence Archive. The victims included…

Chilean authorities said evacuations are underway along parts of the country’s coast due to the threat of a tsunami after the large earthquake off Russia’s far eastern coast overnight. In social media posts on Wednesday, Chile’s national disaster response agency SENAPRED said evacuations had begun along the coasts of seven regions in northern Chile: Arica and Parinacota, Tarapacá, Antofagasta, Atacama, Coquimbo, Valparaíso, and O’Higgins. Videos from social media geolocated by CNN show shrill sirens echoing among the port city of Iquique’s waterfront high-rises. After each round of sirens, an automated voice says “emergency” in Spanish. On Easter Island, residents were…