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Losses in US financial markets were estimated at more than $6 trillion since Trump unveiled his "Liberation Day" tariffs.
The civil defence agency said Israeli military operations across Gaza killed at least 30 people on Friday.
Trump's tariffs are almost certain to negatively impact this dynamic, say economists who see the levies lifting the price on everything from Gap t-shirts to the Apple iPhone to French wine.
European markets ended the day sharply lower, with Frankfurt and London sinking nearly five percent.
The plan coincides with TSMC's recent announcement that it will invest at least $100 billion in the United States to build cutting-edge manufacturing facilities.
"I really can't tell you how much I admired his work, how much I thought of him as a human being”.
Allies are pleading with Trump to stand strong against Moscow as he pushes for a partial ceasefire despite the warring sides trading accusations of ongoing strikes.
RFE/RL currently reaches almost 50 million people in countries with authoritarian regimes including Belarus, China, Iran or Russia, seeking to counter the official propaganda.
Authorities in the southern province of Daraa said nine civilians were killed and several wounded in Israeli shelling overnight near the town of Nawa.
The impact of the announced tariffs on the Swiss economy remains difficult to assess, but Parmelin said "one should not expect Switzerland to go into recession".
"When a State Party withdraws from the Rome Statute, it clouds our shared quest for justice and weakens our resolve to fight impunity”.
The panic came after the US president unveiled a blitz of harsher-than-expected levies aimed at countries he said had been "ripping off" the United States for years.
But critics say US businesses and consumers could bear the burden if importers pass on the cost, adding that the policy could increase risks of a recession.
Musk, the world's richest person, donated more than $270 million to Trump's 2024 presidential campaign.
After several weeks of ceasefire in Gaza, Israel resumed its bombardments on March 18.
He lashed out at Trump's radical cost-cutting policies that have seen his top advisor Elon Musk, the world's richest person, slash entire government programs without consent from Congress.
Tech baron and political provocateur Elon Musk, a close ally of President Donald Trump, poured money into the Tuesday election, hoping to secure a conservative win.
Kilmer was the youngest person ever accepted to the drama department at New York's fabled Juilliard school, and made his Broadway debut in 1983.
AFP journalists saw fighter jets circling over the island Pingtan, the closest point on the mainland to Taiwan and where there is a military base.
The Academy "condemns violence of this kind anywhere in the world" and its leaders "abhor the suppression of free speech under any circumstances," said the letter, seen by AFP.
