G7 ministers criticise US tariffs and warn of trade war
US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin has faced sharp criticism from angry finance ministers of other G7 nations over America's imposition of new tariffs on steel and aluminium imports.
France's Bruno Le Maire warned a trade war could begin in "a few days".
Meanwhile US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross met Chinese Vice Premier Liu He in Beijing to try to ease trade tensions.
Afterwards China warned that all trade talks with the US would be void if Washington introduced sanctions.
State news agency Xinhua said China was willing to increase imports from many countries including the US.
What was the fallout from Fukushima?
When a tsunami hit the nuclear plant, thousands fled. Many never returned – but has the radiation risk been exaggerated
Shunichi Yamashita knows a lot of about the health effects of radiation. But he is a pariah in his home country of Japan, because he insists on telling those evacuated after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident that the hazards are much less than they suppose. Could he be right?
Yamashita was born in Nagasaki in 1952, seven years after the world’s second atomic weapon obliterated much of the city. “My mother was 16 years old when the bomb dropped and she was two miles away,” he told me at his office in the city, where he still lives with his mother, who is now 88.
After growing up in the traumatised city, Yamashita dedicated his life to researching the health of survivors of the Nagasaki bomb and other victims of nuclear atrocities and disasters. He has visited Ukraine more than 100 times since the world’s worst nuclear accident there, at Chernobyl in 1986. He believes that, apart from the 28 immediate deaths among firefighters and maybe 50 victims of untreated thyroid cancers, the death toll from radiation has been small.
Hooligans unlikely to run riot at Russia World Cup after Kremlin clampdown
Russian authorities have undertaken a major operation to stop organised violence during the tournament. That doesn't rule out spontaneous clashes
For anyone looking in from the outside, the Euro 2016 clashes between English and Russian football fans showed the Russian hooligan to be at the height of his influence.
With dozens hospitalised and one man paralysed, the world looked on in horror. But Russia sent out a defiant message that the men were heroes.
Influential Duma deputy Igor Lebedev tweeted, “Well done lads.” The deputy prime minister Vitaly Mutko described the violence as a “set up”. President Putin wondered “how 200 Russian fans” had managed to beat up 1,000 of their opposite number. And upon returning to Moscow, deported fans were greeted by a full regalia of state TV crews.
Roman Reality CheckItalian Trumpism Is No Less Dangerous than the Original
Members of the European Union need to send a clear message to the new Italian government: We will not allow you to destroy the eurozone.
A DER SPIEGEL Editorial by Michael Sauga
They view themselves as the executors of the true will of the people. They put their nation first, without any regard for international treaties. But, no, it's not Donald Trump and his supporters in the United States we're talking about here. It's Italy's new government, which is currently being formed and whose political intent could best be summarized as such: Italy first, reflection second.
For the European Union, though, the Italian version of Trumpism is no less dangerous than the original. The political platforms of the new populist coalition government in Rome are comprised primarily of huge tax cuts while at the same time increasing pensions and social welfare services -- which would push an already highly indebted nation even further into debt. It's an agenda that brings along with it the constant threat of suicide attack on Europe: Either you make concessions, or we'll blow up our country and the eurozone along with it.
Jordan protests snowball over IMF-backed austerity
Angry protests rocked cities across Jordan overnight against IMF-backed austerity measures including a new income tax draft law and price hikes, hours after the government and unions failed to reach an agreement to end the standoff.
Around 3,000 people faced down a heavy security presence to gather near the prime minister's office in central Amman until the early hours of Saturday morning, waving Jordanian flags and signs reading "we will not kneel".
Protests have gripped the country since Wednesday, when hundreds flooded the streets of Amman and demonstrated in other cities to demand the fall of the government.
Kim Jong Un’s leaked letter to Trump could foreshadow trouble at the summit
Both sides remain very far apart. The letter could reinforce that.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un wrote a letter to President Donald Trump — and apparently he didn’t say what Trump wanted to hear.
According to an unnamed foreign official who spoke to the Wall Street Journal on Friday morning, Kim wrote in a letter that he still wanted to meet with Trump. Kim Yong Chol, a top North Korean official considered Kim Jong Un’s right-hand man, hand-delivered the letter to Trump around 1 pm on Friday at the White House.
After the meeting, Trump announced that he would meet with Kim Jong Un on June 12 in Singapore. However, Trump told reporters he had yet to read the letter, saying he could be in “for a big surprise” once he looks at it.
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