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WHO WILL BE THE NEXT POPE? HERE ARE SOME OF THE CONTENDERS
Dust off the history books and there are papal conclaves with international intrigue, royal rigging and even riots, a checkered past
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DAVOS GATHERING FOUNDER KLAUS SCHWAB QUITS AS WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM CHAIR
Reuters – April 21, 2025 Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum, whose annual gathering of business and political leaders in the Swiss mountain resort of Davos became a…
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POPE FRANCIS, EVERYMAN LEADER OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, DIES AT 88
abc7 – Monday, April 21 VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis, whose time as head of the Catholic Church was noted for an everyman humility and outreach efforts to people of disparate…
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PEOPLE ‘GETTING A LITTLE BIT YIPPY’: TRUMP’S PAUSE ON TARIFFS AND WHAT HAPPENS IN 90 DAYS
For weeks, President Donald Trump has plowed ahead with plans to impose steep new tariffs on imports despite warnings that the
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TRUMP TARIFFS ARE “NEGOTIATING STRATEGY,” TREASURY CHIEF SCOTT BESSENT SUGGESTS AS PAUSE ANNOUNCED
The sweeping tariffs President Trump announced last week were a "negotiating strategy," Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent suggested Wednesday as the president announced a 90-day pause on most of those tariffs.
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DONALD TRUMP’S TARIFFS IN BRIEF: UNIVERSAL LEVIES AND TARGETED RETALIATION
Donald Trump announced sweeping new tariffs on US imports on Wednesday, taking the global economy into a new era of trade competition
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STATEMENT BY IMF MANAGING DIRECTOR KRISTALINA GEORGIEVA
Washington, DC: Today, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva issued the following statement on yesterday’s announcement of U.S. tariffs: “We are still assessing the macroeconomic implications of the announced tariff measures,…
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SRI LANKA’S NO. 1 EXPORT TO THE US FACES A POTENTIAL 20% HIT UNDER TARIFFS
On 2 April, US President Donald Trump imposed a 44 percent tariff on Sri Lankan exports to the United States
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AMERICAN CONSUMERS SET TO BE THE BIGGEST LOSERS IN TRUMP’S TRADE WARS
On Wednesday, President Donald Trump announced
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EU HAS ‘STRONG PLAN’ TO HIT BACK AT US TARIFFS IF NEEDED, EU CHIEF SAYS
The European Union has a "strong plan" to retaliate against tariffs imposed, and set to be imposed
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