Trump threatens extra 50% tariff on China unless it drops retaliatory levy
Donald Trump threatens China with additional 50% tariffs if Beijing does not withdraw its 34% retaliatory tariffs on the US
It comes as US markets drop sharply again on opening, after another day of worldwide market turmoil sparked by Trump's tariffs
Trump calls for patience, and tells people not to be "weak" or "stupid"; he also says tariffs - which are a tax on imports - are "bringing in billions of dollars a week"
In London, the FTSE 100 fell to its lowest level in a year - down by 6% at one point
Meanwhile, European share prices plunge and Asian stocks see their worst drop in decades
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Keir Starmer says tariffs are a "huge challenge", as he tells car firm Jaguar Land Rover "we are going to back you to the hilt"
Summary
Trump threatens China with further tariffs
US President Donald Trump says he will impose additional tariffs on China, from Tuesday, if Beijing does not withdraw its 34% retaliatory tariffs on the US.
The additional tariffs on Beijing would be of 50%, Trump says.
As a reminder, China announced on Friday that it would be imposing such tariffs on Washington after the White House said that from 9 April it'd put 34% levies on all goods from Beijing.
Israel military razed Gaza perimeter land to create ‘kill zone’, soldiers say
Combatants’ testimonies describe how areas were destroyed to create ‘a death zone of enormous proportions’
Israel military razed Gaza perimeter land to create ‘kill zone’, soldiers say
Combatants’ testimonies describe how areas were destroyed to create ‘a death zone of enormous proportions’
Israel’s military razed huge swathes of land inside the perimeter of Gaza and ordered troops to turn the area into a “kill zone” where anybody who entered was a target, according to testimony by soldiers who carried out the plan.
Israeli combatants said they were ordered to destroy homes, factories and farmland roughly 1km (0.6 miles) inside the perimeter of Gaza to make a “buffer zone”, with one describing the area as looking like Hiroshima.
The testimonies are some of the first accounts by Israeli soldiers to be published since the latest war started in October 2023 after Hamas’s attack on Israel. They were collected by Breaking the Silence, a group founded in 2004 by Israeli veterans who aim to expose the reality of the military’s grip over Palestinians. The Guardian interviewed four of the soldiers who corroborated the accounts.
Germany: Schools closed over extremist right threats
Classrooms in the western German city of Duisburg have been closed after extremist threats linked to several schools. Officials said the measure was precautionary.
Several schools in the German city of Duisburg remained closed on Monday as a precaution after warnings that they would be targeted with criminal actions.
The messages contained "threatening and right-wing extremist statements," police in the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia said.
From Black Thursday to Trump's tariffs: A look at the worst market crashes since 1929
Global markets tumbled on Monday in the wake of sweeping tariffs announced by US President Donald Trump. The falls are amongst some of the most dramatic in history, with experts fearing the trade war could spark a recession.
Monday's stock market collapses in Asia and Europe after China retaliated to steep US tariffs revived memories of similar market turmoil after the Covid pandemic and the last global financial crisis.
Analysts called the falls "historic" and some even described it as a "bloodbath", recalling previous collapses since the start of the last century.
Suicide of weary 7-Eleven worker recognized as work-related
By KEIICHI KITAGAWA/ Staff Writer
April 7, 2025 at 18:27 JST
The suicide of a manager at a 7-Eleven convenience store in Oita Prefecture who worked for six straight months without taking a day off has been ruled a work-related accident.
The industrial accident certification was dated Nov. 6, 2024, The Asahi Shimbun learned. The half-year is considered an exceptionally long period of continuous work for a certification case.
In July 2022, the 38-year-old man committed suicide, leaving a note that said such things as: “Long hours with no breaks are the norm,” “No matter how hard I work to fill shifts, it’s just too hard for me,” and “Being a convenience store manager is simply another way of being taken advantage of.”
Palestinian Bedouins say Israeli settlers terrorising them off their land
Israel claims Bedouins don’t have hometowns and they can just move. But these people don’t want to leave their land.
When Israel began bombing Gaza on October 7, 2023, Fayez Atil sensed his community in the occupied West Bank would soon come under attack too.
Atil is from the Palestinian village of Zanuta, a traditional herding community in the Jordan Valley.
Settlers from illegal Israeli settlements had harassed and attacked his village for years. Still, the violence escalated sharply after Israel launched what many describe as a “genocidal” war on Gaza.
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