Xi’s absence from official engagements, state media coverage, and high-profile diplomatic meetings coincided with a wave of top-level purges in PLA and mounting economic challenges
Donald Trump said the 90-day pause on tariffs will end July 9, with no plans for an extension. Countries without trade deals with the US will soon receive letters, he said.
Trump had earlier terminated trade negotiations with Ottawa, citing Canada’s Digital Services Tax and adding that Ottawa will learn of their tariff rate within a week.
A sniper targeted firefighters responding to a blaze in US state of Idaho, leaving two dead and several injured. The governor called it "heinous direct assault" on firefighters.
Trump said Iran's nuclear programme had been "obliterated like nobody's ever seen before" by Israeli and US strikes and reiterated that Tehran cannot have a nuclear weapon.
Iran's Parliament has banned the use of Starlink, a satellite internet service owned by Elon Musk's SpaceX, following the end of US intervention in the Israel-Iran conflict.
