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  • Thursday, 10 July, 2025
    Mining
    Trump’s ‘intelligent’ copper tariffs will ‘wake people up’, says mining billionaire

    Ivanhoe Mines founder Robert Friedland welcomes 50% import levy and says domestic production is ‘fundamental’ to US security

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  • Thursday, 10 July, 2025
    The Big Read
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    The US president has stepped up his criticism of the central bank’s chair, prompting some to question how long it can remain above politics

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  • Thursday, 10 July, 2025
    Mohamed El-Erian
    The UK should press ahead with the inevitable on tax

    Delays in dealing with fiscal pressures risk further damage to household consumption, corporate investment and overall growth

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  • Thursday, 10 July, 2025
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    ICE dragnet strikes terror in US immigrant communities

    The enforcement agency has been empowered by Donald Trump’s push to deport undocumented migrants

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  • Wednesday, 9 July, 2025
    Trump tariffs
    Trump threatens to impose 50% tariff on Brazil

    US president accuses country of launching a ‘witch-hunt’ against its former leader Jair Bolsonaro

  • Wednesday, 9 July, 2025
    Harvard University
    Trump steps up pressure on Harvard with threat to accreditation

    Formal notification to regional education body is latest salvo in US president’s campaign against elite university

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  • Wednesday, 9 July, 2025
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    The Brics lose their clout

    The bloc of heavyweight emerging markets has grown bigger but less coherent

    Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, speaks at the Brics summit in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday
  • Wednesday, 9 July, 2025
    US-UK relations
    Trump set to visit Scotland this summer

    US president has no plans to meet King Charles when travelling to his golf course

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  • Wednesday, 9 July, 2025
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    Trump’s big, beautiful bill is downright ugly for health insurers Premium content

    The government has been driving insurers’ stock gains for years but the gold rush is over

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  • Wednesday, 9 July, 2025
    Pharmaceuticals sector
    Investors shrug off Trump’s 200% tariff threat on pharma

    Shares in drugmakers show little reaction to US president’s latest pronouncement

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  • Wednesday, 9 July, 2025
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    Trump’s political gift to the clean energy sector Premium content

    ‘Big, beautiful bill’ will weigh on jobs, power prices and industrial competitiveness

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  • Wednesday, 9 July, 2025
    Trump tariffs
    US copper prices rise to record high as Trump threatens 50% tariff

    President also says he will impose levies of up to 200% on drug imports after a transition period

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  • Wednesday, 9 July, 2025
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    What Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ means for corporate America

    Private equity cheers the legislation while Tesla and AI start-ups lose out

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  • Wednesday, 9 July, 2025
    US-China relations
    Trump administration looks to ban Chinese groups from buying US farmland

    US move prompted by concerns that purchases are undermining national security

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  • Wednesday, 9 July, 2025
    Floods
    Trump administration denies staff cuts hampered Texas flood alerts

    Senator Chuck Schumer calls for investigation as death toll surpasses 100 and more than 160 still missing

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  • Tuesday, 8 July, 2025
    Supreme Court allows Trump plan for mass government lay-offs to proceed

    Ruling blocks earlier order that froze reductions in federal staffing pending legal challenge

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  • Tuesday, 8 July, 2025
    FT live news
    Trade war as it happened: US announces steep levies on copper and pharmaceuticals; Trump says ‘no extension’ to new August 1 tariff deadline

    Trump floats 200% tariff on medicines, while threat of 50% levy on copper imports sent price of metal to record high

  • Tuesday, 8 July, 2025
    Cyber Security
    US state department tightens cyber security after Marco Rubio impersonation

    Imposter used artificial intelligence to pose as the secretary of state and contacted foreign ministers

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  • Tuesday, 8 July, 2025
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    Three surprises that might spook the markets

    New policies haven’t put a brake on stock prices . . . yet

  • Tuesday, 8 July, 2025
    Martin Wolf
    Trump’s assault on American greatness

    In just six months, the US president has made huge strides in advancing his agenda

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  • Tuesday, 8 July, 2025
    Abbas Araghchi
    Iran’s foreign minister: Israel’s war sabotaged diplomacy. The US can revive it

    Our commitment to acting responsibly to avoid a full-scale regional war should not be misinterpreted as weakness

    A damaged building that was hit by an Israeli air strike, in Tehran, Iran
  • Tuesday, 8 July, 2025
    White House Watch
    Inside Donald Trump’s latest tariff threats

    Also in today’s newsletter, White House pushes back on allegations that workforce cuts hampered Texas flood alert

    US President Donald Trump delivers remarks as he hosts Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for a dinner at the White House
  • Tuesday, 8 July, 2025
    Trump tariffs
    Trump tracker: the latest data on US tariffs, trade and economy

    As the president launches a trade war, follow the latest on tariffs and executive orders

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  • Tuesday, 8 July, 2025
    Space industry
    SpaceX, Blue Origin stand to gain from tax benefit in Trump bill

    Companies backed by Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos in line for lower financing costs through eligibility for tax-free bonds

    Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket lifts off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on its maiden flight on January
  • Tuesday, 8 July, 2025
    Middle East war
    No breakthrough on Middle East peace as Trump and Netanyahu meet

    US president hails ‘tremendous success’ with Israel and claims progress on plan to move Palestinians out of Gaza

    US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attend a dinner in the White House on Monday
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