Most of these attacks have involved aerial and artillery strikes, including in areas impacted by the earthquake

China also said it would "ignore" further tariff hikes

Stocks and the dollar tumbled while gold hit a fresh record high as panic gripped markets again Friday after Donald Trump admitted that his global tariff blitz could see "a transition cost".

Hundreds of thousands of people who are in the country illegally nevertheless have a US Social Security Number.

The US-China trade war intensified yesterday, sending the global economy into unknown territory and dampening relief after President Donald Trump’s earlier climbdown from a wider tariff onslaught against the rest of the world.

The US House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a budget plan that lays the groundwork for extending President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax cuts, despite opposition from all Democrats and two Republicans who worried that it does not cut spending sufficiently.

US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order lifting water-pressure restrictions on showerheads, a move the White House said would “make America’s showers great again”.

Several US senators have called for an investigation into whether President Donald Trump engaged in insider trading or market manipulation by encouraging people to buy stocks just before his dramatic reversal on global tariffs.

France plans to recognise a Palestinian state within months and could make the move at a UN conference in New York in June on settling the Israel-Palestinian conflict, President Emmanuel Macron said in an interview broadcast Wednesday.

A strike by paramilitaries on El-Fasher, the last city in Sudan’s Darfur region not under their control, has killed at least 12 people, both the army and local activists said.

The death toll after a roof collapsed at a crowded nightclub in the Dominican Republic has climbed to 218, the head of rescue operations said yesterday.

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth floated the idea on Wednesday of US troops returning to Panama to “secure” its strategically vital canal, a suggestion quickly shot down by the Central American country’s government.

Russia and the United States exchanged prisoners yesterday, the second such swap since US President Donald Trump returned to the White House as the two countries push for closer ties.

Trump's 90-day halt in fresh duties for dozens of countries has come into place, a White House order showed

Islamabad wants to deport 800,000 Afghans after cancelling their residence permits

The accusations came as Trump posted a few minutes after Wall Street opened that "IT'S TIME TO BUY".

The heightened tariffs against China took effect at the same time Thursday as retaliatory levies of 84 percent slapped on by Beijing on US imports.

Philippine Trade Secretary Cristina Roque believes the most effective ASEAN approach would be to pursue negotiations aimed at reducing the tariffs

Trump, since coming to power in January, has repeatedly claimed that China has too much influence over the canal

Trump has long complained about inadequate water pressure in American bathrooms