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Le Creuset recently cropped up on the first series of Meghan Markle’s Netflix show, With Love, Meghan.

From a French village to Meghan Markle’s kitchen: How Le Creuset became the Louis Vuitton of cookware

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Koji Sato, chief executive officer of Toyota Motor Corp., speaks during a news conference in Tokyo, Japan, on Thursday, May 8, 2025. Toyota Motor is bracing itself for a bumpy year, with the Japanese carmaker warning of a slump in profit as global manufacturers scramble to shield themselves from US President Donald Trump’s tariff turmoil. Photographer: Akio Kon/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Toyota forecasts a 35% drop in profits as Trump’s auto tariffs begin to bite

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Paramilitary soldiers stand guard outside the Government Health and Educational complex after Indian strikes in Muridke, about 30 kilometres from Lahore, on May 7, 2025. The death toll from Indian strikes on Pakistan has increased to eight, the country’s military spokesman said on May 7, as India fired missiles at Pakistani territory and Islamabad vowed to “settle the score”. (Photo by Arif ALI / AFP) (Photo by ARIF ALI/AFP via Getty Images)

India and Pakistan exchange artillery fire in major escalation of tensions as world leaders urge calm

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BEIJING, CHINA – MAY 07: Pan Gongsheng, governor of the People’s Bank of China, attends the China’s State Council Information Office’s (SCIO) press conference on the financial policy package aimed at stabilizing the market and expectations on May 7, 2025 in Beijing, China. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images)

China eases monetary policy to support an economy threatened by Trump tariffs—yet more stimulus may be needed

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US President Donald Trump speaks to the media while signing executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington, DC, on May 5, 2025. Trump signed several health care-related executive orders, according to a White House statement. (Photo by Alex Wroblewski / AFP) (Photo by ALEX WROBLEWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Australia, popular with Hollywood, pushes back against Trump’s 100% foreign film tariff threat

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TOPSHOT – US pop star Lady Gaga performs during a free concert at Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on May 3, 2025. (Photo by STRINGER / AFP) (Photo by STRINGER/AFP via Getty Images)

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Brazil police foil bomb plot at Lady Gaga gig on Copacabana beach attended by over 1 million people

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This court sketch made on April 28, 2025 shows defendants Aomar Ait Khedache (C, front), Francois Delaporte (R, up), Florus Heroui (2nd R, up) and Christiane Glotin (4th T, up) during the trial for the 2016 robbery and kidnapping of US celebrity Kim Kardashian at the Assize Court of Paris, on April 28, 2025. At the beginning of October 2016, the queen of influencers Kim Kardashian was robbed in her hotel room at the height of fashion week by elderly thugs who arrived on bicycles and disguised as police officers: the trial of this sensational nine million euro jewellery robbery opened in Paris on April 28, 2025. (Photo by Benoit PEYRUCQ / AFP) (Photo by BENOIT PEYRUCQ/AFP via Getty Images)

Kim Kardashian set to testify in trial for Paris ‘heist of the century’ where masked thieves stole $10 million of her jewelry after tying her up

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Hamburg, Germany – August 7, 2019: Unilever company office building in HafenCity Area of Hamburg.

Unilever to invest $1.5 billion in Mexico as the nation woos foreign firms amid Trump’s trade war

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TikTok Inc. offices in Culver City, California, US, on Wednesday, March 20, 2024. By passing a bill that could ban video-sharing app TikTok in the US, the House of Representatives took one of the most aggressive legislative moves the country has seen during the social media era. Photographer: Bing Guan/Bloomberg via Getty Images

TikTok fined $600 million after the illegal transfer of EU personal data to China—one of the largest fines ever imposed

By Peter Murphy, Clément Zampa, and others

Jean-Noel Barrot, France’s foreign affairs minister, at the London Sudan Conference in London, UK, on Tuesday, April 15, 2025. Civil war broke out in Sudan in April 2023 after the heads of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and Sudan’s army failed to agree to share power. Photographer: Chris J. Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images

EU to hit Russia with a new round of sanctions—and will not consider lifting them until Russian forces withdraw from Ukraine

By Leon Bruneau, Anne Lebreton, and others

MUNICH, GERMANY – FEBRUARY 15: Slovak diplomat Maros Sefcovic participates in a panel discussion at the 61st Munich Security Conference on February 15, 2025 in Munich, Germany. International defence and security leaders from around the world are gathering for the February 14-16 conference. (Photo by Johannes Simon/Getty Images)

The EU can solve the tariff showdown ‘very quickly’ by spending an extra $56 billion on American products

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Airbus’ CEO Guillaume Faury addresses European aircraft maker annual press conference to present the group’s 2024 results at the Airbus Leadership University event centre in Blagnac, south-western France, on February 20, 2025. (Photo by Valentine CHAPUIS / AFP) (Photo by VALENTINE CHAPUIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Airbus reports jump in Q1 profits and sticks to full-year forecasts despite Trump’s tariff onslaught

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CHICAGO, ILLINOIS – MARCH 28: A Tesla car is parked in front of a dealership on March 28, 2022 in Chicago, Illinois. Shares of Tesla jumped more than 8 percent today after the electric car maker announced a second stock split in less than two years. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

More bad news for Tesla as EV sales plunge 59% in France

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Anders Opedal, chief executive officer of Equinor ASA, during the Federation of German Industries (BDI) conference in Berlin, Germany, on Monday, June 24, 2024. Germany’s business outlook declined for the first time in five months a sign that the gradual recovery in Europe’s biggest economy faces headwinds. Photographer: Liesa Johannssen/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Energy giant Equinor slams Trump’s ‘unlawful’ halting of $2.5 billion wind project and says it’s ‘considering our legal options’

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Microsoft Vice-Chair and President Brad Smith delivers a speech during a talk on “digital resilience in a time of geopolitical volatility” at the Atlantic Council in Brussels on April 30, 2025. (Photo by Nicolas TUCAT / AFP) (Photo by NICOLAS TUCAT/AFP via Getty Images)

EU rules against U.S. Big Tech have offended Trump—but Microsoft pledges to protect the people of Europe amidst ‘geopolitical volatility’

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