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Trump orders new 15% tariff on key material for solar panels and microchips
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The Guardian · World

Trump orders new 15% tariff on key material for solar panels and microchips

Move to raise levy on goods made with polysilicon aims to protect domestic US supply chains from China, the major producerDonald Trump has ordered a new 15% tariff on imported products made of polysilicon, an important ingredient in microchip manufacturing that is primarily produced by China.The new...

Lauren Almeida and Alicia Chen in Taipei
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Trump faces calls for windfall tax on big oil’s profits from Iran war
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The Guardian · World

Trump faces calls for windfall tax on big oil’s profits from Iran war

US president’s complaint industry ‘making too much money’ comes after his policies boosted corporationsDonald Trump’s statement that oil companies have made “too much money” from the Iran war has angered environmentalists, who say that his policies were designed to benefit those very corporations. I...

Dharna Noor
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Thailand school shooting: seven killed including suspected attacker, police say
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The Guardian · World

Thailand school shooting: seven killed including suspected attacker, police say

At least 15 other people injured after student ⁠opened fire at Debsirin Nonthaburi school, north of BangkokThailand school shooting – latest updatesA Thai teenager killed at least six people and himself at a school outside Bangkok, after fatally shooting his grandparents, in the country’s worst mass...

Natasha May in Bangkok
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Rail passengers face second day of chaos across north-west England
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Rail passengers face second day of chaos across north-west England

Disruption after power failure at regional signalling centre likely to continue until noon with many crews and trains in wrong locationsBusiness live – latest updatesRail passengers are facing a second day of travel disruption across parts of north-west England, after a power failure hit the signall...

Lauren Almeida
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Colombia on the brink: ELN guerrilla group prepares for return to war
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Colombia on the brink: ELN guerrilla group prepares for return to war

As Abelardo de la Espriella takes office as president vowing a new military offensive, the country’s last leftwing rebels are getting ready to fight backAs the boat approached the riverbank, camouflaged figures watched from the tree line.Behind them, in the dim understory of the jungle, a commander...

Thomas Graham in Chocó; Photography by Santiago Mesa
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Primary schools to be told to identify children at risk of future unemployment
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The Guardian · World

Primary schools to be told to identify children at risk of future unemployment

Exclusive: Neet crisis review to call for teachers to be asked to spot those at risk of leaving education jobless at 16What can Dublin teach us? Milburn goes on quest to learnPrimary schools in England should be required to identify children at risk of leaving education at 16 without finding a job,...

Richard Partington Senior economics correspondent
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Meet the offenders cleaning canals in the West Midlands as an alternative to prison
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Meet the offenders cleaning canals in the West Midlands as an alternative to prison

With the debate over prison overcrowding and what to do about it raging, one initiative offers an alternative solutionAs the prison overcrowding crisis shows no sign of abating and the debate rages over early releases, an initiative in the West Midlands offers an alternative to custodial sentences.T...

Tom Pilston and Haroon Siddique
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Alan Jones trial: complainant wants to ‘humiliate’ broadcaster by revealing intimate details of alleged assaults, defence tells court
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The Guardian · World

Alan Jones trial: complainant wants to ‘humiliate’ broadcaster by revealing intimate details of alleged assaults, defence tells court

Barrister alleges ‘account of penis wiggling is an attempt to humiliate’ broadcaster who has pleaded not guilty to 22 charges of indecent assault and sexual touchingFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAlan Jones’s defence b...

Amanda Meade
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Extreme heat breaks temperature records in central and eastern Europe
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The Guardian · World

Extreme heat breaks temperature records in central and eastern Europe

Slovakia reaches new high of 42C as authorities in Poland forced to shut down Kozienice and Połaniec power plantsTemperature records have been broken in several countries across central and eastern Europe as the extreme weather that has caused wildfires and droughts across the continent continues.Co...

Matthew Taylor and Ajit Niranjan
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