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The $10bn Trump-approved sale to Taipei triggers Beijing sanctions against firms such as Boeing and Northrop GrummanChina’s foreign ministry has hit US defence companies, including Boeing, with sanctions after Donald Trump approved a large package of arms sales to Taiwan.The ministry said on Friday that the measures – against 10 individuals and 20 US firms including Boeing’s production hub at St Louis in Missouri – freeze any assets the companies […]

Air attacks follow separatists' refusal to withdraw from eastern provinces seized earlier this month.Source: www.aljazeera.comRead full article

Attacks by unknown assailants entering Tajik territory appear to target Chinese businesses and workers.Source: www.aljazeera.comRead full article

Exclusive: Imran Ahmed says US companies are ‘corrupting the system’ of politics by seeking to avoid accountabilityA British anti-disinformation campaigner told by the Trump administration that he faces possible removal from the US has said he is being targeted by arrogant and “sociopathic” tech companies for trying to hold them to account.Imran Ahmed, the chief executive of the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), is among five European nationals barred […]

Pete Hegseth says ‘more to come’ as Nigerian minister confirms his country provided intelligence for first waveUS politics live: latest news updatesThe US defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, has warned of new strikes against Islamic State targets in north-western Nigeria, hours after the US military took action against militant camps in what Donald Trump has characterised as efforts to stop the killing of Christians.Hegseth wrote on X: “The president was clear […]