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WASHINGTON: US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Friday (Aug 1) he believes Washington and Beijing are nearing a ...

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Friday that he believed that Washington has the makings of a deal with China ...

The Finnish capital has set a new global benchmark by recording an entire year with zero traffic-related deaths (the last one ...

U.S. President Donald Trump’s new tariff rates of up to 41% on U.S. imports from dozens of countries drew expressions of ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday placing tariffs on many U.S. trade partners — the next step in his ...

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said his government was disappointed by Trump’s move to raise the U.S. tariff on goods ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The clock is ticking closer to U.S. President Donald Trump's latest tariff deadline of Aug 1. And while ...

" China has consistently adhered to a nuclear strategy of self-defense, always maintaining its nuclear forces at the minimum level required for national security, and does not engage in an arms race," ...

The Stockholm meeting, following similar talks in Geneva and London, is set to extend a 90-day pause on those tariffs. During ...

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