President Trump announced 100% tariffs on imported generic pharmaceutical drugs, targeting a sector that supplies 90% of US prescriptions. The move, set for August 2028, is already drawing fierce industry pushback over patient costs.
Iran’s IRGC claims it fired 14 cruise missiles at Amazon’s main data centre in Bahrain and struck US air defence systems. Bahraini, American and Amazon officials have all stayed silent.
Europe’s carbon pricing debate has fractured into five rival political blocs, each with competing demands that threaten to reshape the EU’s emissions trading system. The outcome will determine whether Europe’s main climate tool survives intact or gets diluted beyond recognition.
Mary Honeyball, who served as a Labour MEP for London for nearly two decades, says Andy Burnham brings something British politics has been missing for years. She calls it, simply, optimism.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards claimed to have destroyed a US radar system in Kuwait as explosions lit up the skies over Bahrain’s capital Monday night. Gulf air defenses scrambled across the region in one of the most dramatic escalations in months.
From a fresh political crisis in Paris to record-breaking summer heat sweeping the Mediterranean, July 19th is already shaping up to be a defining news day. Here’s everything you need to know at midday.
Tanatswa Amanda Chikaura lost a classmate to suicide and turned grief into action. Now she’s demanding Zimbabwe fund the mental health services its youth desperately need.
The UN’s human rights chief has appealed for calm in Pakistan-Administered Kashmir as election tensions spill into the streets. This week’s global briefing also covers a worsening Ebola outbreak, new migration data on women, and the 12th anniversary of the MH17 disaster.
The White House has defended Argentina’s World Cup team over a Falklands banner, refusing to back Britain’s calls for a FIFA investigation. The move risks deepening a diplomatic row that has already prompted London to summon the Argentine ambassador.
The ICC briefed the Security Council on Wednesday on escalating atrocities in Darfur, even as US Secretary of State Marco Rubio launched a campaign to dismantle the Court. The session laid bare deep divisions over international accountability for Sudan’s devastating war.
