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Singapore’s Prime Minister Lawrence Wong gives a press statement following his meeting with Indonesia’s President Prabowo Subianto at the presidential palace in Jakarta on November 6, 2024. (Photo by BAY ISMOYO / AFP) (Photo by BAY ISMOYO/AFP via Getty Images)

Singaporeans will go to the polls on May 3, as Trump tariffs threaten the ‘era of rules-based globalization’

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Doctors hands removing embryo samples from cryogenic storage, Fertilized embryos are stored in liquid nitrogen filled tanks to keep them as new if patients require them at a later date. (Photo by Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Australian IVF clinic admits embryo mix-up that led to a woman giving birth to someone else’s baby

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Ruby chocolate, a new pink chocolate obtained without adding berries, flavors or colorants, is presented to the media at the Barry Callebaut Belgium factory in Lebbeke-Wieze on September 18, 2017.<br />
Barry Callebaut, the world leader in cocoa, presented Ruby (pink) chocolate as the fourth category, along with dark chocolate, milk and white, in the name of a cocoa bean of the same name. This discovery kicked off the search for years of experience in the group’s workshops in France and Belgium, to understand how to exploit the properties of the ruby bean and then set up a manufacturing process. / AFP PHOTO / EMMANUEL DUNAND (Photo credit should read EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP via Getty Images)

Cocoa crunch for world’s top chocolate supplier Barry Callebaut as ‘perfect storm’ puts profits and shares in freefall

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France s President Emmanuel Macron waits to welcome Serbia s President Aleksandar Vucic before a working lunch at the Elysee Presidential Palace in Paris on April 9, 2025. (Photo by Magali Cohen / Hans Lucas / Hans Lucas via AFP) (Photo by MAGALI COHEN/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images)

’90 days of uncertainty’: Macron presses Europe for swift response to Trump’s tariff gambit

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BRUSSELS, BELGIUM – APRIL 10: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen stands in front of the press prior to a meeting with Ukraine’s Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal at the EU headquarters on April 10, 2025 in Brussels, Belgium. The meeting between President of the European Commission (EC) Ursula von der Leyen and Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal comes after the EC announced it had disbursed an additional €1 billion ($1.09 billion) of its Macro-Financial Assistance (MFA) loan to Ukraine. Von der Leyen said the funds are “an investment in a shared common future,” as the EU seeks to “support a just and lasting peace [with Russia]on Ukraine’s terms.” (Photo by Omar Havana/Getty Images)

Europe to focus on ‘diversifying its trade partnerships’ after Trump’s tariff meltdown

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An overview shows employees gather as they attend a rally of the metalworkers’ union IG Metall in front of German car maker Volkswagen (VW) headquarters, during a warning strike at the company’s main factory in Wolfsburg, northern Germany, on December 9, 2024. (Photo by Martin Meissner / POOL / AFP) (Photo by MARTIN MEISSNER/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Wolfsburg on edge: Volkswagen’s hometown workers fear ‘idiocy’ of America’s trade war

By Raphaelle Logerot and AFP

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – APRIL 04: People shop at an Apple store in Grand Central Station on April 04, 2025 in New York, New York. U.S. President Donald Trump declared a U.S. economic emergency and announced sweeping tariffs of at least 10% and with rates even higher for 60 countries or that have a high trade deficit with the U.S. The tariffs will affect electronics, automobiles, clothing and shoes, wines and spirits, and swiss watches. In retaliation, China announced that they will impose 34% tariffs on the U.S. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

U.S. consumers in ‘survival mode’ cut spending while others flood stores to buy iPhones and cars to prepare for tariff hits

By Myriam Lemetayer, Thomas Urbain, and others

A man walks past a screen showing Chinese stock market movements at a securities company in Beijing on April 8, 2025. Shares in Hong Kong rose at the open on April 8, clawing back some of the massive losses suffered the day before after China retaliated against US tariffs, though Shanghai dropped further. (Photo by GREG BAKER / AFP) (Photo by GREG BAKER/AFP via Getty Images)

How China is trying to ‘tariff-proof’ its economy as the trade war with U.S. heats up

By Mary Yang, Luna Lin, and others

Traders, brokers and clerks gesture on the trading floor of the open outcry pit, also known as The Ring, at the London Metal Exchange Ltd (LME) in London, on March 11, 2025. In the age of high-frequency and online trading without human intervention, dozens of traders in suits continue to rant and rave every day on Europe’s last open outcry trading market in London. (Photo by BENJAMIN CREMEL / AFP) (Photo by BENJAMIN CREMEL/AFP via Getty Images)

Landlines and leather benches: The curious survival of London’s metals market that time forgot

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MILAN, ITALY – APRIL 07: People visit the Library of Light installation by Es Devlin during the Milan Design Week 2025 on April 07, 2025 in Milan, Italy. (Photo by Alena Zakirova/Getty Images)

Italy’s luxury furniture industry faces fresh crisis as Trump tariffs threaten a third of their exports: ‘We always find a solution’

By Brigitte Hagemann and AFP

FELIXSTOWE, ENGLAND – APRIL 07: Container ships load and unload at Felixstowe Port on April 07, 2025 in Felixstowe, England. In an op-ed over the weekend, British PM Keir Starmer wrote that his government would use industrial policy to mitigate the impact of the Trump Administration’s tariffs, which include a baseline 10% levy on most all goods imported to the US and 25% on automobiles. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Growing global trade war threatens to undermine maritime emissions-cutting talks in London

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BANGKOK, THAILAND – 2024/11/28: Singapore’s prime minister Lawrence Wong inspects the guard of honor during a welcoming ceremony at Government House in Bangkok. Singapore’s prime minister Lawrence Wong is on an official visit to Thailand that aim to strengthen ties between the two nations. (Photo by Peerapon Boonyakiat/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Singapore says it’s ‘disappointed’ by Trump’s tariffs: ‘These are not actions one does to a friend’

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French economist Thomas Piketty takes part in a press conference on the theme “Taxes on multinational companies : a revolution for tomorrow ?”, on September 19, 2019 in Paris. (Photo by JACQUES DEMARTHON / AFP) (Photo credit should read JACQUES DEMARTHON/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump is ‘using the rest of the world as a scapegoat’ for America’s problems, but it’s not going to work, says bestselling French economist

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EU Commissioner for Trade and Economic Security, Interinstitutional relations and Transparency, Maros Sefcovic talks to journalists prior to a Foreign Affairs council in Trade format at the EU Council building in Luxembourg on April 7, 2025. (Photo by Jean-Christophe VERHAEGEN / AFP) (Photo by JEAN-CHRISTOPHE VERHAEGEN/AFP via Getty Images)

EU leaders split over hitting U.S. services sector in retaliation to Trump trade tariffs

By Camille Camdessus, Raziye Akkoc, and others

Priests hold a ceremony beside coffins of victims of the crashed accident of Ethiopian Airlines during the mass funeral at Holy Trinity Cathedral in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on March 17, 2019. – The crash of Flight ET 302 minutes into its flight to Nairobi on March 10 killed 157 people onboard and caused the worldwide grounding of the Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft model involved in the disaster. (Photo by Samuel HABTAB / AFP) (Photo credit should read SAMUEL HABTAB/AFP via Getty Images)

Boeing starts to face first civil trial over 2019 Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX crash that killed 157

By AFP