Dozens of countries scramble to cope with latest wave of Trump trade tariffs
Trump’s latest blitz triggered a wave of market jitters and fears for jobs in some of the poorest countries, as tariff rates were signed off ranging from 50% to 10%. The new rates, which Trump sees as benefiting US exporters, create uncertainty for dozens of countries, including longtime US allies. The deadline for a tariff deal with Mexico was extended by another 90 days. The EU’s 15% tariff rate as a single all-inclusive rate was confirmed in the executive order. For goods already in transit or warehoused for consumption before 8 August, the previous tariff rate (10% + MFN rate) will apply until 5 October 2025.
Source:The Guardian
August 02, 2025 14:30 UTC
The full list of Trump’s tariffs – from India to Taiwan
The US president, Donald Trump, has signed an executive order imposing “reciprocal” tariffs ranging from 10% to 41% on imports from dozens of countries and foreign locations, shortly after extending the deadline for a tariff deal with Mexico by another 90 days. Brazil received a 10% “reciprocal” tariff, but an executive order on Wednesday imposed a 40% additional levy from 1 August linked to the prosecution of the country’s former president Jair Bolsonaro, taking the total to 50%. Canada’s higher total rate of 35% was ordered to come in from 1 August. The Guardian has a searchable table of the countries and the new tariff levels they face. The rates can be found in the table below.
Source:The Guardian
August 01, 2025 21:55 UTC
Wall Street falls as Trump tariffs and weak jobs report hit global markets – as it happened
But the big shock comes in the latest revisions to payrolls, with previous estimates for both May and June being revised sharply lower. The Bureau of Labor Statistics now estimates that just 19,000 new jobs were created in May, 125,000 fewer than the 144,000 previously estimated. June’s data has been revised down too - showing that just 14,000 new jobs were created, not the 147,000 reported a month ago. That means 258,000 fewer jobs were created in May and June than previously thought. This surprisingly weak data may be a sign that Donald Trump’s trade wars, and the associated uncertainty, have cause more damage to the US economy than previously thought.
Source:The Guardian
August 01, 2025 21:49 UTC
Ukraine war briefing: Kremlin says it has ‘immunity’ to US sanctions as Trump deadline looms
The Kremlin said on Wednesday it continued to monitor statements by US president Donald Trump regarding sanctions against Moscow, but that Russia had acquired immunity to such measures thanks to long experience. Trump said on Tuesday the US would start imposing tariffs and other measures on Russia in 10 days if Moscow showed no progress towards ending its more than three-year-long war in Ukraine. “We have been living under a huge number of sanctions for quite a long time, our economy operates under a huge number of restrictions,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters. “While Geneva hosts war criminals Matvienko, Tolstoi and Slutsky, Russian troops continue to launch missile strikes on Ukrainian cities. Given the delay in verifying deaths, the UN says the true number is likely to be much higher.
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August 01, 2025 06:14 UTC
Wednesday briefing: Facing the reality of Gaza’s ‘unfolding’ famine
In Gaza City, the acute malnutrition soared from 4.4% in May to 16.5% in the first half of July, reaching the famine threshold. View image in fullscreen Mohammed al-Mutawaq with his mother, Hidaya, in the al-Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City. But Checchi, and other leading experts on the topic, are confident there is now a famine in Gaza. And I don’t think that governments such as the UK are unaware that what is happening is a famine,” Checchi said. The front pagesView image in fullscreen Photograph: GuardianThe Guardian leads with “UK to recognise state of Palestine unless Israel commits to ceasefire”.
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July 30, 2025 21:32 UTC
Switzerland pulls off dazzling high-wire act as Euro 2025 delivers to the last
Twelve hours before Euro 2025 reached its crescendo the Uefa executive director of football, Giorgio Marchetti, addressed a hall of delegates in Basel. Those fan marches, replicated by several nations’ fanbases across the month, were evidence of a women’s football supporter culture that has grown in shape and identity here. Uefa wanted to learn more about the sport’s audience, its habits and its mores, at Euro 2025 and has been presented with compelling answers. Euro 2025 achieved that in greater concentration than any of its past equivalent tournaments. Euro 2025 built firmly on existing foundations and, for all the challenges that await, set out Marchetti’s vision for a far more durable beast.
Source:The Guardian
July 30, 2025 07:28 UTC
The shocking hit film about overworked nurses that’s causing alarm across Europe
With Late Shift, Volpe aimed to shine a light on the frontlines of the looming healthcare catastrophe through the eyes of the dedicated, exhausted Floria. The looming workload suddenly grows exponentially, compounding the stress and driving up the likelihood she will make a fateful mistake. But she notes it was rare in TV medical dramas to see nurses and their everyday feats front and centre. “I wanted real nurses not to be able to tell the difference between me and a professional,” she says. Franziska Aurich, 28, who works on a cancer ward at Berlin’s Charité hospital, also found the film “very close to reality”.
Source:The Guardian
July 30, 2025 06:47 UTC
From Canada to Finland, a US neo-Nazi fight club is rapidly spreading across the globe
“No blood for Israel.”While this type of scene with masked men chanting is a relatively common occurrence in the US, this incident in Canada illustrated the underbelly of a surging global movement: neo-Nazi “active clubs”, American-born neofascist fight clubs, are rapidly spreading across borders. But the arrival of an active club, which has also shown itself in other nearby towns and cities like Toronto (the country’s largest metropolitan area), is a relatively new development. Beirich described how members of Patriot Front “often work closely with Active Club chapters” including participating in their mixed-martials training. On Telegram, active club chapters regularly share Patriot Front propaganda. “Join Patriot Front if you are in America,” one active club adjacent account posted on Telegram, with nearly three thousand views.
Source:The Guardian
July 24, 2025 07:25 UTC
‘Total infiltration’: How plastics industry swamped vital global treaty talks
It’s a high-vigilance, high-stress environment.”These are examples of what numerous sources say is a “total infiltration” of the plastics treaty negotiations by vested industrial interests and corporate lobbyists. ‘Distorting knowledge’The plastics treaty negotiations resume in August in Geneva, Switzerland, having failed to reach agreement at the fifth round of talks in December. These include the US Plastics Industry Association, Plastics Europe and national plastic industry groups from the UK, Australia, New Zealand, India, Brazil, Colombia, Malaysia and Korea. Ninety-five nations issued a “wakeup call for an ambitious plastics treaty” on 10 June at the UN Ocean Conference. But I think we can expect chaos and fireworks.”She recalled another incident of harassment at one of the plastics negotiations.
Source:The Guardian
July 23, 2025 14:31 UTC
Mokie, world’s oldest horse once owned by film star Burt Reynolds, dies at 40
Guinness World Records’s oldest living horse – who was once owned by legendary actor Burt Reynolds – has died shortly after attaining the title, the organization announced recently. World's oldest horse, once owned by Hollywood legend Burt Reynolds, dies at age 40https://t.co/m6D2n4ycpw — Guinness World Records (@GWR) July 21, 2025Dzama added that Mokie instead demonstrated “what a horse can do with just their magic”. Dzama began looking after Mokie while the owner who acquired the horse from Reynolds was out of town. That second owner “enjoyed many years riding all over” the US with him, Dzama told the records organization. “He was just a really special guy.”Before Mokie, Guinness World Records recognized Echoquette the Arabian mare as the oldest living horse.
Source:The Guardian
July 23, 2025 14:20 UTC
QPR’s Julien Stéphan: ‘The Championship is probably the most difficult league in the world’
But Stéphan insists they must live in the present to have a chance of escaping what he describes as “probably the most difficult league in the world”. “Only work, work, work and work,” he says. after newsletter promotionView image in fullscreen Julien Stéphan celebrates a goal with his Rennes team against PSG in 2019. And to be honest, at the beginning, I thought that I could do that all my career with the young players. “But it’s difficult to compare the young players of the academy at QPR with these kinds of players: Ousmane Dembélé, Eduardo Camavinga, Desiré Doué.
Source:The Guardian
July 20, 2025 22:38 UTC
Spain 2-0 Switzerland: Women’s Euro 2025 quarter-final – as it happened
View image in fullscreen Switzerland players applaud their fans after their defeat to Spain. Photograph: Piroschka Van De Wouw/Reuters Share Updated at 22.12 BST18h ago 21.51 BST Full time: Spain 2-0 Switzerland Spain get the job done but it was far from easy. Share19h ago 21.03 BST Back underway: Spain 0-0 Switzerland Can the hosts hold on and push this to extra time? Share19h ago 20.47 BST Half-time: Spain 0-0 Switzerland Switzerland are putting on a defensive masterclass and have stopped Spain’s lethal attack from pulling the trigger. Share19h ago 20.43 BST 43 min: Spain win a corner and Pina is over the set piece again.
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July 19, 2025 14:20 UTC
Spain see off stubborn Swiss to reach semis despite two missed penalties
“We lost the game but we’ve won a positive attitude for women’s football,” said their manager, Pia Sundhage. View image in fullscreen Mariona Caldentey can’t bear to look after missing a penalty inside the first 10 minutes for Spain. Wälti was magnificent for the Swiss, tirelessly shifting between the midfield and defence as they chased and harried and frustrated their opponents. “Football is important for society and women’s football is important for society,” said Sundhage. “Women’s football has changed Switzerland a little bit.”
Source:The Guardian
July 19, 2025 14:20 UTC
Ukraine war briefing: US moving ‘with haste’ to enable weapons shipments to Kyiv, says Washington
Nato’s supreme commander in Europe said separately that preparations were under way to ship the first Patriot systems to Ukraine under the scheme. The Swiss government, meanwhile, said delivery of US Patriot systems to Switzerland would be delayed as Washington reprioritised to provide more support to Ukraine. Trump on Monday set a 50-day deadline for Moscow to reach a ceasefire or face sanctions, while also promising more weaponry for Kyiv. The Russian defence ministry report named the three captured settlements as Kamianske in the south-eastern Zaporizhzhia region, Dehtiarne in north-eastern Kharkiv region and Popiv Yar in Donetsk region. More than 5,000 entries are on the list, including webpages, political slogans, books, artworks and music albums.
Source:The Guardian
July 18, 2025 22:23 UTC
Preparations to deliver Patriot missile systems to Ukraine under way, Nato’s top Europe commander says – as it happened
He said that Patriot systems already in Europe can be quickly moved to Ukraine, and later backfilled from the production line in the US. Share Updated at 09.48 BST1d ago 17.08 BST Closing summary Jakub Krupa … and on that note, it’s a wrap! Elsewhere, Farmers and nature campaigers have led the opposition to the proposed new EU budget , warning about the impact of changes proposed to the way it is structured (16:24). There is also a €100bn fund for Ukraine, described by the EU budget commissioner Piotr Serafin as “our most strategic partner”. Share1d ago 14.04 BST And in the last few minutes, Andrii Sybiha has been retained by parliament as Ukraine’s foreign minister.
Source:The Guardian
July 18, 2025 05:07 UTC