The US and China on Friday launched tit-for-tat tariffs on each other’s imports, the opening shots in what Beijing called “the largest trade war in economic history” between the world’s top two economies. At the stroke of midnight Washington time, the US pulled the trigger on 25-percent duties on about ...
The bitter fight between Qatar and its Gulf neighbors took a new twist Friday as three Middle Eastern countries asked the UN’s top court to resolve a dispute with Doha over sovereign airspace. Bahrain, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates on Thursday requested the International Court of Justice to quash ...