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BERLIN, GERMANY – NOVEMBER 06: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz gives a statement to the media following the win of Donald Trump in U.S. presidential elections on November 06, 2024 in Berlin, Germany. Many people in Germany see the outcome with anxiety, fearing a negative impact for the German economy and its security. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

EU will respond firmly to US tariffs but still open to ‘compromise,’ German chancellor says

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Most affirmative action policies are illegal in France, which bans treatment based on origin, ethnic group or religion, though many large companies have sought to diversify their recruitment pools.

Most affirmative action policies are illegal in France, but US warns French companies against using DEI policies

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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz speaks during the Petersberg Climate Dialogue (PCD) conference, on March 26, 2025 at the Foreign Office in Berlin. The Petersberg Climate Dialogue is the first major COP30-related meeting of the year and is taking place from March 25 to 26, 2025. (Photo by RALF HIRSCHBERGER / AFP) (Photo by RALF HIRSCHBERGER/AFP via Getty Images)

Germany warns U.S. ‘nothing off table’ if auto tariffs aren’t withdrawn

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SHIJIAZHUANG, CHINA – MAY 15: A worker of of local meteorology bureau fires a cloud-seeding rocket in an attempt to make rain on May 15, 2021 in Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province of China. (Photo by Zhang Haiqiang/VCG via Getty Images)

Making it rain: How weather manipulation and geoengineering are fueling global tensions

By Emma Guillaume and AFP

Oxford Street, London, England, UK at Christmas. This is the outside of a Lloyds Bank at night with shoppers on the street.

U.K. banks may have to pay out billions of pounds over unlawful car loans

By Oliver Devos and AFP

WASHINGTON, DC – MARCH 04: U.S. Vice President JD Vance introduces his friend and President Donald Trump’s nominee to be under secretary of defense for policy, Elbridge Colby, during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on March 04, 2025 in Washington, DC. Vance later spoke to reporters about what he and President Donald Trump want Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to do in order to restart peace negotiations with Russia. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Greenland prepares for an uninvited guest as JD Vance set to visit Arctic island today

By Camille Bas-Wohlert and AFP

BEIJING, CHINA – MARCH 28: Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks during an international business meeting at The Great Hall Of The People on March 28, 2025 in Beijing, China. Chinese President Xi Jinping hosted the meeting with CEOs from global companies that participated in the China Development Forum held earlier this week. China is aiming to boost ties with global companies as the Trump administration continues imposing tariffs. (Photo by Ken Ishii – Pool/Getty Images)

Xi Jinping tells Ray Dalio, Samsung’s Lee Jae-yong and other business leaders that globalization is ‘unstoppable’

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TOPSHOT – Rescue teams are seen at a construction site where a building collapsed in Bangkok on March 28, 2025, after an earthquake. A powerful earthquake rocked central Myanmar on March 28, buckling roads in capital Naypyidaw, damaging buildings and forcing people to flee into the streets in neighbouring Thailand. (Photo by Lillian SUWANRUMPHA / AFP) (Photo by LILLIAN SUWANRUMPHA/AFP via Getty Images)

Powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake hits Myanmar, topples skyscraper in Bangkok

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Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba waits for a session of the House of Councillors Budget Committee to begin inside the Diet in Tokyo on March 14, 2025. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)

Japan’s prime minister calls Trump’s tariffs ‘difficult to understand’ after carmakers hit by new U.S. levies

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA – MARCH 28: Prime Minister of Australia, Anthony Albanese addresses the media at Parliament House on March 28, 2025 in Canberra, Australia. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was expected to call the federal election on Friday, following a delay caused by Cyclone Alfred and the presentation of the budget. The announcement will likely set the stage for a fierce campaign period, with Australians heading to the polls in the coming weeks to decide the country’s political future. (Photo by Hilary Wardhaugh/Getty Images)

Australia set for showdown over climate change, housing prices, as PM calls general elections for May 3

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman poses with his laptop during the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Summit, at the Grand Palais, in Paris, on February 11, 2025. (Photo by JOEL SAGET / AFP) (Photo by JOEL SAGET/AFP via Getty Images)

Startups and academics clash over whether superhuman AI is really ‘coming into view’

By Tom Barfield and AFP

This photograph taken on December 24, 2024 shows the trial of drug traffickers inside the People’s Court in Ho Chi Minh City. A court in Vietnam sentenced 27 people to death on December 27 after finding them guilty of trafficking more than 600 kilos of narcotics including heroin, ketamine and methamphetamine, state media reported. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

Vietnam seizes 1.4 tons of ketamine as police bust country’s biggest synthetic drug factory

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SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH – AUGUST 10: Utah Governor Spencer Cox welcomes U.S. President Joe Biden before he spoke at the George E. Wahlen Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center on August 10, 2023 in Salt Lake City, Utah. President Biden was celebrating the first anniversary of the PACT Act. (Photo by George Frey/Getty Images)

Google and Apple will have to verify kids’ ages when downloading apps under newly signed Utah law—and Meta is celebrating

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LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – MARCH 26, 2025: Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves leaves 11 Downing Street ahead of the announcement of the Spring Statement in the House of Commons in London, United Kingdom on March 26, 2025. (Photo credit should read Wiktor Szymanowicz/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

U.K. doesn’t want to retaliate against Trump’s 25% vehicle tariffs: ‘We’re looking to secure a better trading relationship’

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France’s President Emmanuel Macron speaks on the phone prior to greeting Hungary’s Prime Minister for a meeting at the Elysee Presidential Palace in Paris on March 5, 2025. Emmanuel Macron announced on March 5, 2025, that France will gather next week in Paris the chiefs of staff from countries ready to guarantee a future peace in Ukraine. (Photo by Ludovic MARIN / AFP) (Photo by LUDOVIC MARIN/AFP via Getty Images)

Phone exchanges between world leaders including Trump, Macron and Zelensky are creating a new wave of ‘mobile phone diplomacy’

By Francesco Fontemaggi and AFP