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To many observers, the most puzzling aspect of Donald Trump's tariffs was that his list included some of the most remote and smallest territories and islands in the world. Places that, in some cases, have more penguins than people.

U.S. President Donald Trump extended a deadline by 75 days for Chinese technology company ByteDance to sell U.S. assets of popular short video app TikTok to a non-Chinese buyer or face a ban that was supposed to have taken effect in January under a 2024 law.

The worldwide sell-off for financial markets slammed into an even higher, scarier gear on Friday after China matched U.S. President Donald Trump's big raise in tariffs in an escalating trade war, with markets facing their worst crisis since the COVID crash. 

Sean (Diddy) Combs was hit with a new federal indictment on Friday charging the hip-hop mogul with five criminal counts, including racketeering and sex trafficking, court records showed. Combs, 55, had previously faced three criminal counts. He has pleaded not guilty.

Lesotho scrambled to put together a delegation on Friday to head to Washington to engage with the United States on tariffs that risk wiping out nearly half of its exports, its trade minister said, in what could be a death blow to its economy.

British police charged actor-comedian Russell Brand with rape and multiple counts of assault connected to a number of allegations between 1999 and 2005, a police statement on Friday said.

China announced Friday that it will impose a 34 per cent tariff on imports of all U.S. products beginning April 10, part of a flurry of retaliatory measures following U.S. President Donald Trump's "Liberation Day" slate of double-digit tariffs.

Almost exactly nine years after the Panama Papers were revealed, two dozen countries' tax agencies say they've recovered nearly $2 billion combined in tax arrears thanks to information in the leak about hidden bank accounts and offshore shell companies.

South Korea's Constitutional Court is set to rule on the impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol on Friday, either removing him from office or restoring his powers four months after the conservative leader threw the country into turmoil with an ill-fated declaration of martial law.

Mere hours after the devastating 7.7 magnitude earthquake hit central Myanmar last Friday, the head of the military junta controlling the country pleaded for international assistance. But numerous groups say the junta is blocking aid to those in Myanmar who need it most.

Several Asian nations reeled on Thursday as they were hit with some of U.S. President Donald Trump's heftiest tariffs, which now threaten the economies that have benefited from investment after Trump imposed levies on China during his first term.

Hundreds of thousands of fleeing Gazans sought shelter on Thursday in one of the biggest mass displacements of the war, as Israeli forces advanced into the ruins of the city of Rafah, part of a newly announced 'security zone' they intend to seize.

Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu applauded Hungary for its "bold and principled" decision to leave the International Criminal Court (ICC) as he visited Budapest on Thursday, in a rare trip abroad in defiance of an ICC arrest warrant.

A new study out of Wales has found those who received the shingles vaccine were 20 per cent less likely to develop dementia over the next seven years than those who did not receive the vaccine.

As the weekend deadline approaches for TikTok to find a non-Chinese buyer to avoid being banned in the U.S., bidders for the short-video social media site are piling up, including Amazon.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to arrive in Hungary's capital on Wednesday to meet with the country's prime minister, despite an international arrest warrant for the Israeli leader over the war in the Gaza Strip.

Val Kilmer, the brooding, versatile actor who played fan favourite Iceman in Top Gun, donned a voluminous cape as in Batman Forever and portrayed Jim Morrison in The Doors, has died. He was 65.