🚢 Around 20,000 #seafarers are trapped because of events in the #StraitofHormuz, the head of the UN's International Maritime Organization has told the BBC
#Iran #IranWar #shipping #trade @IMOHQ
MORE DETAILS 👇
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6...
🇺🇸 “Likely sometime this week” the US will increase its global tariff on imports from the existing 10% to 15%, says @SecScottBessent
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
⏲️ A #tariff timeline..
🇺🇸 It's been a busy weekend for the global economy with sweeping new 15% #USA #tariffs from President Trump, so here's a useful reminder of how we got here...
🤔And a look at what might be next
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
🇺🇸 US Supreme Court striking down a raft of #Trump #tariffs is massive story for the global economy
💡 A few quick thoughts about what the point of them is and if they've worked
Plus all the latest reaction 👇
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c0...
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is the most senior UK royal to be arrested since Charles I in 1647
The mere arrest really is unprecedented, and historic
The 8th in line to the throne has always denied wrongdoing in relation to Jeffrey Epstein
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
🎙️Countless business & political leaders have told me how influential @bbcworldservice was in shaping their perspective on the world
It's vital that continues
📻It's completely editorially independent but that UK govt funding matters more now than ever
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...
Despite the prevailing narrative of a Chinese supply stranglehold, “the United States has immense quantities of rare earths and other critical minerals sitting in thousands of mining waste sites,” Julie Klinger writes.
The business of war.
A truly glaring example of how private companies are having increasingly influential impacts on the way wars are fought
@elonmusk has turned off #starlink internet access for #Russia on the #Ukraine frontline
www.kyivpost.com/post/69509
🇺🇲🏦 Will Trump's pick of Kevin Warsh to lead US central bank get him the change he wants for the world's biggest economy?
#KevinWarsh #FederalReserve #UnitedStates
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When BBC News asked one well placed EU source for a response to President Trump saying he wouldn't go ahead with the tariffs, the response was simply an eye-rolling emoji 🙄
#Trump #tariffs #Greenland #Davos2026
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🇪🇺🇺🇸 It’s not clear if President Trump’s row back on #Greenland #tariffs against EU partners will be enough to save the #trade deal the two agreed last July.
@berndlange tells me "we have to look what this so-called solution would mean"
#Davos2026
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cj...
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🇪🇺🇺🇲 The European Parliament is planning to suspend approval of the US trade deal agreed in July
MEP @berndlange says there is "no alternative" because of #Trump's #tariff threats over #Greenland. A subject dominating ##Davos26
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Agree that it's complex. But can only fit so much in one article!
#BREAKING
🇪🇺🇺🇸EU US #trade deal to be suspended by European Parliament, sources tell me
🇬🇱It comes in light of #Trump #tariff threats over #Greenland that are dominating #Davos26
⛳️The golf course deal is off. #EU could impose tariffs on US
MORE 👇
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx...
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⛳️It goes back to the golf course
🇺🇸🇬🇱With #Trump threatening Europe with #tariffs over #Greenland how might #Brussels respond?
🇪🇺I've been look at the state of #EU #USA #trade relations and what might come next w/@dervj & @Theothebald
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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🇮🇷 Here's a bit of an explanation of the economic crisis that prompted the protests in #Iran that I've written with colleagues
🌍 It also looks at what #Trump's threat of 25% #secondarytariffs could mean for the global economy
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
🇮🇷 If #Trump goes ahead with #secondarysanctions on #Iran will be ripples across the global economy
🇨🇳 #China would be the main target
💰And it won't be easy to achieve the intended aim of choking of #Tehran's foreign income
READ MY LATEST ANALYSIS 👇
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cj...
🇮🇷 The dire economy is a key reason behind #IranProtests2026 and it's set to get worse
Latest @WorldBank forecast predicts...
🔻1.1% GDP fall in year to 20/3/26
🔻1.5% GDP fall in the next Persian year
READ MY LATEST ANALYSIS 👇
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cj...
📅TODAY potentially a HUGE day for global trade
Could get..
🇺🇸 US Supreme Court deciding a raft of President #Trump's #tariffs are illegal
🇪🇺🌎 #EU approving a deal with 4 #SouthAmerican countries that's 25+ years in making
My look at #trade in 2026👇
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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🌎How tariff disruption will continue reshaping the global economy in 2026
🚢#USA #China #Asia #Europe #LatinAmerica and more face continued uncertainty from President #Trump's #tariffs
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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🇰🇭🇨🇳P erhaps the world's most wanted billionaire Chen Zhi has been extradited from #Cambodia to #China
💰#ChenZhi is accused of making billions from scam call centres
📻 MY @bbcworldservice REPORT 👇
MORE of the extraordinary background here..
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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🇲🇾#Malaysia's High Court has convicted former prime minister Najib Razak for abuse of power and money laundering
🪙He's always denied wrongdoing in the #1MDB scandal
❓Plenty of questions remain unanswered
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
youtu.be/BWlCospWF-I
🇦🇺✡️"If I'm not going to speak out, who is?
If not now, when?
If not me, who?"
Profoundly moving, powerful and heartfelt words from #Australia's former Treasurer @JoshFrydenberg as he confronts government over #antisemitism in wake of #bondiattack
youtu.be/Bsm3Z0Ml928?...
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📽️ #WarnerBros board urges shareholders to reject $108bn takeover bid from #Paramount, questioning if the money is real
📺Instead it says $72bn #Netflix bid for less of the company offers better value
🍿Watch out for a #Hollywood sequel
📻LISTEN or READ 👇
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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🇺🇸🇨🇳Progress on #USA #China trade welcomed by @USChinaBusiness after Trump & Xi meet
@sean_stein says reduction of fentanyl #tariffs + easing #rareearth export controls are the most significant outcomes
w/ @BBCLBicker @awzurcher @floradrury
MORE👇
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
🇺🇲🇨🇳 Round 5 of #USA #China #trade talks have led to a framework for President Trump & President Xi to discuss
❓️Big Q.. will the leaders meeting make lasting progress?
🤝 Deals not sticking so far led to #RareEarths restrictions, export controls etc
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Venezuela sells the bulk of its oil to China, gets paid in crypto and then funnels some of the revenue back into its economy through crypto exchanges. This has turned Venezuela into arguably the first nation to manage a large share of its public finances in crypto.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/w...
❓Problem is the #EU is still buying some #oil from #Russia
#Tariffs haven't yet worked on #India and would come with a lot of risk re #China as I explained on @BBCRadio4
📻LISTEN 👇
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🇺🇦 Is it all about the money?
🇺🇸The #USA is threatening more #tariffs as President Trump tries to stop the fighting in #Ukraine
🇪🇺🛢️🇷🇺He wants #EU support to stop #oil purchases funding #Russia's war effort
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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🇺🇸#FederalReserve governor #LisaCook has filed her lawsuit against her dismissal by President Trump
📺WATCH 👇my first glance at details of a case drawing attention to independence of one of world's most important financial institutions
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFDt...
