Why China Welcomes Trump’s Energy Tariffs While Trump's proposed tariffs aim to contain China and compel better behavior, they are accidentally playing into ambitions of China. 12/20/2024 - 1:00 am | View Link
Trump is threatening to raise tariffs again. Here’s how China may fight back Here's a look at how the showdown between the world's two largest economies played out the last time Trump was in office and where things might be headed now. 12/11/2024 - 6:19 am | View Link
Trump is threatening to raise tariffs again. Here's how China plans to fight back What happened during Trump's first term? Trump kicked off a trade war in 2018 by imposing 25% tariffs on imports from China — including industrial machinery, cars, auto parts and television cameras. 12/9/2024 - 9:13 pm | View Link
China's exports slow sharply, imports shrink ahead of Trump tariffs China's exports slowed in November, imports unexpectedly fall Trump's tariffs on Chinese goods pose fresh trade risks China's trade surplus grew to $97.44 billion in November BEIJING, Dec 10 (Reuters) ... 12/9/2024 - 11:00 am | View Link
How and Where Trump’s Promised Tariffs Are Most Likely to Increase Import Prices A large part of the guesswork about the probable effects of Trump’s pledged tariffs is created by his own shifting comments about them. While campaigning last summer, the then-candidate initially ... 12/8/2024 - 10:59 am | View Link
Narges Mohammadi picked up Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid ‘s Tale while in prison. The activist had been sentenced to 16 years for challenging Iran’s enforcement of what Mohammadi terms gender apartheid—a system of dress codes, sexual subjugation, and coercive control enforced, as in Atwood’s book, by men who have taken power as a theocracy.
For the first time since 2005, the first night of Hanukkah will fall on the same day as Christmas.
The two winter holidays converge an average of five times a century, according to Rabbi Joseph Potasnik, Executive Vice President of the New York Board of Rabbis.
Since 1900, the first night of Hanukkah has fallen on December 25 five times: 1910, 1921, 1959, 2005, and now 2024.
(WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.) — First it was Canada, then the Panama Canal. Now, Donald Trump again wants Greenland.
The President-elect is renewing unsuccessful calls he made during his first term for the U. S. to buy Greenland from Denmark, adding to the list of allied countries with which he’s picking fights even before taking office on Jan.
(BETHLEHEM, West Bank) — The Nativity Store in Manger Square has sold handmade olive wood carvings and religious items to people visiting the traditional birthplace of Jesus since 1927. But as Bethlehem prepares to mark its second Christmas under the shadow of the war in Gaza, there are almost no tourists, leaving the Nativity Store and other businesses unsure of how much longer they can hold on.
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For the second straight year, Bethlehem’s Christmas celebrations will be somber and muted, in deference to ongoing war in Gaza.
The Philippines is known for its monthslong Christmas celebrations starting in September. The heavily Catholic country of nearly 120 million people is serious about the festive season. However, this time of year has recently taken a much more somber tone for many Filipino families.
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Estrella Pagarigan had decorated her home with recycled bamboo and plastic bottle parols for the holidays, but in early November, the house where she, her husband, and three children have lived for years was flattened overnight.