World News LIVE Updates: Donald Trump Announces 50% Tariff On Brazil Over Bolsonaro Trial
President Donald Trump slapped a hefty 50% tariff on imports from Brazil Wednesday, straight-up connecting the decision to Brazil’s legal pursuit of ex-president Jair Bolsonaro.
This isn’t the usual spiel about trade deficits or protecting American jobs—Trump basically said it’s about Bolsonaro getting prosecuted. Honestly, it’s a clear sign that personal connections are steering U.S. trade policy just as much as dollars and cents right now.
Here are all the LIVE updates:
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich is reportedly furious after Israeli negotiators presented new maps on Thursday outlining a partial troop withdrawal during a proposed 60-day ceasefire—an apparent concession after both Hamas and the US rejected Israel’s original deployment plan.
Sources familiar with the talks said that when Israel first shared its troop deployment map, US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff told Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer that the proposal was unacceptable and would derail the negotiations.
Palestinian authorities reported that Israeli forces killed a 55-year-old man in the northern occupied West Bank on Thursday. According to the Ramallah-based health ministry, coordination officials informed them that soldiers shot and killed the man in Rummanah, near Jenin, earlier that morning.
The Israeli military stated that troops stationed in the village “neutralised” the man after he stabbed and moderately injured a soldier.
After nearly 40 years of bitter hostilities, the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan are meeting in Abu Dhabi to finalise a historic peace agreement—something once thought impossible until Russia’s war in Ukraine reshaped regional dynamics.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev are set to hold talks on Thursday in the UAE capital, their offices confirmed, as they work to chart a peaceful future side by side.
A senior Israeli official told Times of Israel that Israeli intelligence shows Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile remained at the three nuclear sites, Fordo, Natanz, and Isfahan, when they were targeted by the US last month during Israel’s 12-day conflict with Iran, and that the material has not been relocated since.
The official added that while the Iranians might still have access to the Isfahan site, extracting any of the uranium from there would be difficult.
South Korea’s ousted former president Yoon Suk Yeol was detained for a second time on Thursday over his imposition of martial law, as investigators expanded their probe into allegations of insurrection.
Yoon triggered a political crisis on December 3 last year when he attempted to undermine civilian rule by deploying armed soldiers to parliament in a failed bid to stop lawmakers from rejecting his martial law declaration.