2 April 2025
Ministry of Energy: Power outage across Syria due to several malfunctions.
Fox News, citing an informed source: Trump is upset with Putin and believes Russia is stalling on ceasefire talks with Ukraine.
Press secretary Karoline Leavitt says President Trump's tariffs will be "effective immediately" after he announces them tomorrow
Prime Minister Netanyahu and Finance Minister Smotrich officially announced: Israel has removed all tariffs imposed to date on products from the United States.
Chinese Foreign Minister: Raising tariffs on Chinese goods harms global markets, the trading system, and Washington's reputation.
Gas pipeline explodes in Puchong, Malaysia
Reuters: “China, Japan and South Korea agreed to jointly respond to U.S. tariffs, a social media account affiliated with Chinese state broadcaster CCTV said on Monday. The comments came after the countries held their first economic dialogue in five years”
Starmer: Britain expects to be hit by US tariffs this week
The US economy faces a growing risk of a recession as surging tariffs threaten to stunt growth, reignite inflation and lift unemployment, says Goldman Sachs. The Wall Street bank warned clients Sunday night it now sees a 35% chance of a recession in the next 12 months, up from 20% previously
Marine Le Pen has been sentenced to four years in prison, two of which are suspended, and a five-year ineligibility sentence with immediate provisional execution. The leader of the National Rally of the French National Party (RN) and eight MEPs were found guilty of misappropriation of public funds in the European parliamentary assistants case.
Customs duties: Jean-Noël Barrot "strongly hopes" that the United States will reconsider its decision. On the sidelines of a summit between European foreign ministers, the French minister recalled that "customs duties are taxes on the middle classes."
US Treasury: Sanctions target 5 individuals and 3 entities linked to Hezbollah
Ukrainian Natural gas company Naftogas says Russian army attacked gas extracting facilities4 day ago
Ukrainian Natural gas company Naftogas says Russian army attacked gas extracting facilities
Karim Saeed appointed governor of the Central Bank after receiving 17 votes in the Cabinet.
French Finance Minister: The only possible response at the moment to US tariffs is to raise our own tariffs
European Commission President: We deeply regret the US decision to impose tariffs on EU car exports.
The reciprocal tariffs will be on all countries, not just worst offenders, Trump said in Oval. But "we're going to make it very lenient" - in many cases less than the tariff they've been charging the US for decades, he said. "We're trying to keep it somewhat conservative." Those tariffs coming April 2, he said
Strong power outage recorded in Caracas and major regions of Venezuela
President Trump says he is imposing 25% tariffs on FINISHED cars and trucks that are shipped into the United States. This includes American brands. About 45% of the vehicles sold in the United States are imported
China protested after the U.S. added dozens of companies to its export control list, including more than 50 based in China that it says sought advanced knowhow in supercomputing, artificial intelligence and quantum technology for military purposes
A diesel fuel tank has been damaged at the occupied Zaporizhzhia NPP. According to Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman, the amount of spilled fuel could provide operation of the plant's emergency generators for 25 days
EU rejects Russian ceasefire demand for sanctions relief
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The Kremlin has named a list of Russian and Ukrainian facilities agreed upon with the United States that fall under the temporary moratorium on attacks on the energy system: These are oil refineries; oil and gas pipelines and storage facilities, including pumping stations; electricity generating and transmitting infrastructure, including power plants, substations, transformers and distributors; nuclear power plants; hydroelectric dams. The temporary moratorium is valid for 30 days, starting on March 18, 2025
White House: Washington will begin lifting agricultural sanctions on Russia.
Iran's currency dropped to a record low of 1,039,000 rial to the U.S. dollar on Tuesday, according to Iranian currency tracking website, losing more than half its value since President Masoud Pezeshkian took office in August
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Turkish central bank officials will meet with executives from the country's commercial lenders on Sunday amid market volatility triggered by the arrest of a key opposition politician, according to people with direct knowledge of the matter
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Two tankers subject to U.S. sanctions set to offload in Syria's Baniyas this month, LSEG data shows
U.S. reaffirms commitment to sanctions enforcement to limit North Korea ability to fund WMD, ballistic missile programs
Third fuel reservoir exploded at Naftatrans oil depot in Krasnodar Krai of Russia
The US has imposed sanctions on two Chinese petrochemicals groups for allegedly importing Iranian crude oil, in the latest salvo of President Donald Trump’s “maximum pressure” campaign on the Islamic republic.”