The Bangladesh Anti-Corruption Commission has threatened Tulip Siddiq with an Interpol Red Notice this week if she doesn’t show her face in court: “Now, if the accused Ms. Siddiq does not turn up and surrender before the court, ACC will follow the global practice of taking assistance from Interpol through Bangladesh Police and Ministry of…
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Chinese President Xi Jinping is staging a charm offensive in the region while US President Donald Trump inflicts massive tariff pain.Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Cambodia on Thursday for the last leg of his week-long tour of Southeast Asia, which included earlier stops in Vietnam and Malaysia. Although his visit was scheduled months ago, it fell at an opportune moment for Beijing, with the international trade system in disarray because of the actions of US President Donald Trump. On April 2, Trump launched his tariff onslaught, unveiling steep “reciprocal” duties on goods coming into the US from most of its trading partners, including 49% tariffs on products from Cambodia, 46% on those coming from Vietnam and between 20%-30% on most other Southeast Asian countries. The tariff turmoil has hit trade and investment flows as well as financial markets. Most countries, including in Southeast Asia, are currently predicting a major global economic downturn. Several agencies have cut their growth forecasts
The comments from the Russian Foreign Ministry come after Germany’s presumptive next Chancellor Friedrich Merz said he was open to delivering the long-range missiles to Ukraine.The Russian Foreign Ministry on Thursday issued a stark warning to Germany over the possibility of long-range Taurus missiles being deployed in Ukraine. Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said that Russia would treat Taurus missile strikes on its “critical transport infrastructure” as “direct” German involvement in the Ukrainian conflict. Germany’s presumptive next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, of the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, said this past weekend that he is open to delivering the Taurus missiles to Ukraine provided it is done with coordination with European partners. European officials such as Dutch Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp and Polish Prime Minister Radoslaw Sikorski welcomed Merz’s comments on Taurus deliveries during a meeting in Luxembourg on Monday. The Taurus KEPD-350 is capab
Russian authorities have removed the Taliban from their list of terrorist organizations. The Kremlin can now sign agreements with Afghanistan — and also improve its relations with the transitional government in Syria.In a closed session on April 17, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation “temporarily” lifted Russia’s ban on the Taliban. The request came from the office of the prosecutor general. This motion was based on a decree President Vladimir Putin had issued a year ago, making it possible for the Taliban, an ultraconservative political and religious movement in Afghanistan, to be removed from Russia’s list of terrorist organizations. The Taliban regained power in Kabul in 2021 after the withdrawal of international coalition forces from Afghanistan. According to Russian law, any Taliban member entering Russia must be arrested and could face up to 20 years in prison on charges of engaging in terrorist activity. In practice, though, no Taliban member has been detained on entering Russia since 2016. Th
Colombian President Gustavo Petro has sought to end conflict with armed groups in the country since taking office in 2022. But the suspension of a ceasefire agreement with former FARC dissidents makes peace tricky.Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Thursday suspended a ceasefire with a faction that once belonged to the armed Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrilla group. The faction broke with FARC when it signed a peace pact in 2016 with the government to bring an end to five decades of fighting. FARC fighters laid down their arms as part of the pact, but some older rebel groups, as well as new ones that emerged later, didn’t demobilize. Peace talks to continue despite suspension of ceasefire with FARC dissident faction The ceasefire between the government and the FARC dissident group expired earlier this week. An extension was expected to be agreed upon, but could not be closed in time. Petro said in a statement he did “not extend the bilateral and temporary ceasefire with respect to the c
France heralded positive momentum after talks that brought together US, Ukraine and European officials in Paris. Further meetings could help Ukraine’s European allies shape the course of peace negotiations with Russia.Top US, French and Ukrainian met in Paris on Thursday for talks that could see sidelined European officials reinsert themselves into the sluggish US-led negotiations to end the Ukraine war. French President Emmanuel Macron personally received US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, who recently met personally with Russian President Vladimir Putin as the Trump administration tries to thrash out a deal to bring the three-year war to a close. A French government source described the talks as “positive and constructive” and announced there would be further discussions involving key European, Ukrainian and US officials in London next week. “I believe the Americans see the interest in working in this format,” the source told reporters after a day of back-to-back talks o
President Donald Trump told reporters on Thursday that he expects to reach a trade deal with the European Union but is not hurrying to finish it, after talks with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. “There’ll be a trade deal,” Trump said at the start of the White House meeting. “I fully expect it, but it’ll […]
Japan’s finance minister Katsunobu Kato warned on Thursday that U.S. President Donald Trump’s new “reciprocal” tariffs could shake trade and financial markets and threaten Japan’s economic recovery. “We’re deeply concerned the recent U.S. tariff measures affect various industries and heighten uncertainty,” Kato told Reuters in Tokyo hours after the talks began. “They could affect Japan’s […]
TLDR ECB cuts interest rates by 0.25% to 2.25%, marking seventh cut in a year Cut comes amid concerns about US tariffs and their potential impact on EU economy European inflation at 2.2% in March, approaching ECB’s 2% target Trump criticized Fed Chair Jerome Powell for not cutting US rates similarly Italian PM Meloni heading […] The post ECB Slashes Rates Again While Trump Blasts Powell for Standing Still appeared first on MoneyCheck.
15:56, april 17Author: Asia-Plus The Chairman of the Majlisi Milli (Tajikistan’s upper chamber of parliament), Rustam Emomali, who is also the Mayor of Dushanbe, flew to St. Petersburg Thursday morning to participate in the 58th plenary session of the CIS Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (IPA CIS), according to the Dushanbe City Hall.