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14 Apr 2025, 06:15 GMT+10
China urges U.S. to cancel "reciprocal tariffs": commerce ministryThe U.S. side should completely cancel the wrong practice of "reciprocal tariffs" and return to the right path of resolving differences through mutual respect and equal dialogue, China's Ministry of Commerce said on Sunday.The U.S. side has released a memorandum exempting certain products such as computers, smartphones, semiconductor manufacturing equipment and integrated circuits from "reciprocal tariffs." China is assessing the related impact of this move, a spokesperson with the ministry said.It should be noted that this is a small step for the U.S. side to correct its wrong practice of unilateral "reciprocal tariffs," which hasn't solved the United States' problems but seriously undermined the international economic and trade order, disrupted the normal production and operation of enterprises, and affected people's daily consumption, the spokesperson said.13 injured in U.S. airstrikes on outskirts of Yemen's capitalThe death toll from fresh U.S. airstrikes on the western outskirts of Yemen's capital Sanaa has risen to six, with 13 others injured, Houthi-run health authorities said in an updated statement on Sunday.The strikes targeted a ceramic factory in the Bani Matar district, said residents and the health authorities. The roar of fighter jets was reportedly heard across Sanaa before and after the airstrikes.Separately, U.S. warplanes carried out two additional strikes in the northern provinces of Marib and Al-Jawf, according to Houthi-run al-Masirah TV. It noted that the latest air raids have brought the total number of U.S. airstrikes across northern Yemen throughout the day to 25.21 killed in Russian ballistic missile attack on Ukraine's SumyAt least 21 people were killed on Sunday morning in a Russian ballistic missile attack on the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy, Ukraine's Prosecutor General's Office said in a statement.The attack also left other 34 people injured, including five children, the statement added.The Sumy Regional Military Administration said that two ballistic missiles launched by Russian forces struck the city center, damaging residential and non-residential buildings.3 IS militants killed, 3 arrested in IraqThree Islamic State (IS) militants were killed in an airstrike in Iraq's Salahuddin province, and three others were arrested in separate counter-terrorism operations, a security source and the Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS) said on Sunday.Iraqi security forces carried out an airstrike on two IS hideouts in Salahuddin, killing those inside and destroying their equipment, logistical materials, and communication devices, according to a statement from the Security Media Cell, a media outlet affiliated with the Iraqi Joint Operations Command.Mohammed Khalil al-Bazi from Salahuddin provincial police command told Xinhua that the airstrike was conducted on Sunday evening and killed three IS militants.Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema elected Gabon's presidentGabon's transitional leader Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema has been elected president following Saturday's vote, the Interior Ministry announced on Sunday.Nguema secured 90.35 percent of the total votes cast in the election, Interior Minister Hermann Immongault said.Nguema has served as Gabon's transitional president since leading the 2023 coup that ousted former President Ali Bongo Ondimba.
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