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  • Trump rattles investors with new tariffs on pharmaceuticals, trucks and kitchen cabinets – business live | Business

    Trump rattles investors with new tariffs on pharmaceuticals, trucks and kitchen cabinets – business live | Business

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    Truck maker shares hit by tariffs

    Shares in some European truckmakers have fallen in early trading, after Donald Trump announced a 25% tariff on imports of all heavy-duty trucks.

    Daimler Trucks, the major commercial vehicle manufacturer, has dropped by around 4%.

    The Traton Group, whose brands include Scania, MAN, International, and Volkswagen Truck & Bus, are down 2.1%.

    Neil Shearing, group chief economist at Capital Economics, says Mexico could be most affected by the new tariffs:

    The US sources 78% of heavy truck imports from Mexico and 15% from Canada, so a key question is whether there will be exemptions for USMCA-compliant products.

    This is unclear at present, but it’s worth noting that most product-specific tariffs (with the exception of auto parts) have not had USMCA exemptions. If there’s no USMCA exemption, then Mexico will be most heavily affected by the large truck tariffs.

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  • Israeli strikes kill 9 in Yemen’s capital: Houthis – Business Recorder

    1. Israeli strikes kill 9 in Yemen’s capital: Houthis  Business Recorder
    2. Israeli strikes pound Yemen’s capital as Houthi leader decries Gaza war  Al Jazeera
    3. Israeli strike on Yemen’s Houthis reportedly kills eight  BBC
    4. Several wounded after drone fired from Yemen hits Israel, medics say  Euronews.com
    5. At least 8 killed, dozens injured as Israel launches fresh airstrikes on Yemeni capital  Anadolu Ajansı

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  • Asian Stocks to Fall as US GDP Clouds Rate Outlook: Markets Wrap – Bloomberg.com

    1. Asian Stocks to Fall as US GDP Clouds Rate Outlook: Markets Wrap  Bloomberg.com
    2. Donald Trump announces 100% tariff on branded pharmaceutical products  Financial Times
    3. Trump announces new tariffs on drugs, trucks and kitchen cabinets  BBC
    4. A 100% tariff on some imported drugs is coming October 1, Trump says  CNN
    5. Trump slaps new US tariffs on drugs, trucks and furniture  Reuters

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  • Super Typhoon Ragasa rampages through Taiwan, Hong Kong and southern China | Extreme weather

    Super Typhoon Ragasa rampages through Taiwan, Hong Kong and southern China | Extreme weather

    Super Typhoon Ragasa pounded Taiwan, Hong Kong and China before moving into Vietnam on Thursday night, though as a much-weakened storm.

    At its peak Ragasa had mean wind speeds of 165mph as it moved to the south of Taiwan, where it brought significant heavy rain resulting in 17 deaths as a barrier lake burst.

    The storms then moved westwards just to the south of Hong Kong, before making landfall on Wednesday in the Guangdong province of China, with mean wind speeds of 150mph – equivalent to a category 4 hurricane.

    This brought significant disruption as 90 people were injured in Hong Kong as the storm brought 197mm of rain across Tuesday and Wednesday, while in China millions had to evacuate in the cities of Shenzhen, Chaozhou, Zhuhai, Dongguan and Foshan.

    Meanwhile, another storm, named Bualoi, has developed across the western Pacific and is forecast to strengthen into a typhoon on Friday before moving into the southern end of the Philippines’ largest island, Luzon. Widespread flooding and landslides are possible and as a result schools have been shut and flights cancelled in the region. This storm will come just days after Ragasa moved to the north of the country, resulting in the death of nine people in the archipelago.

    On the other side of the world, the Atlantic hurricane season has finally become more active with tropical storm Humberto, now situated to the north-east of the Caribbean, named on Thursday, while Gabrielle remains a hurricane with mean wind speeds of 85mph.

    Humberto is expected to rapidly strengthen as it gradually moves north-eastwards, and will probably become a hurricane this weekend over the tropical south-east Atlantic.

    Meanwhile, Gabrielle moved over the Azores on Thursday night, bringing hurricane conditions to the islands with heavy rain, strong winds and a dangerous storm surge likely as a result.

    A third system, just to the north of the Dominican Republic, is also expected to develop in the coming days.

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  • Taiwan rescuers battle thick mud to look for missing from Super Typhoon Ragasa – Reuters

    1. Taiwan rescuers battle thick mud to look for missing from Super Typhoon Ragasa  Reuters
    2. Super Typhoon Ragasa makes landfall in Philippines  Al Jazeera
    3. South China cleans up after powerful Typhoon Ragasa  Dawn
    4. ‘No warning’ – residents reel from deadly flood after typhoon bursts Taiwan lake  BBC
    5. Nearly 2 million evacuated as Ragasa slams into southern China, after killing at least 14 in Taiwan  CNN

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  • ‘Knows better than anybody’: Trump’s veiled jibe at Erdogan over ‘rigged elections’ in his presence – wat – Times of India

    1. ‘Knows better than anybody’: Trump’s veiled jibe at Erdogan over ‘rigged elections’ in his presence – wat  Times of India
    2. Four takeaways from Trump’s Washington meeting with Turkiye’s Erdogan  Al Jazeera
    3. EU to propose tariffs on Russian oil amid pressure from Trump  Euronews.com
    4. Trump urges Turkey to stop buying Russian oil as Erdogan chases deal on F-35s  BBC
    5. Trump administration latest: Former FBI Director Comey indicted  CNN

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  • Curfew imposed after Ladakh autonomy protests – Newspaper

    Curfew imposed after Ladakh autonomy protests – Newspaper

    A VEHICLE is set on fire during a protest demanding statehood for Ladakh and job quotas for locals.—Reuters

    LEH: Indian police patrolled the northern city of Leh on Thursday, a day after protests demanding gre­ater autonomy for the Himalayan territory of Ladakh turned deadly when security forces opened fire.

    At least five people were killed and about 100 wounded, including 30 police officers.

    The city — usually bustling with tourists — appeared deserted, with most main roads blocked by coils of razor wire and guarded by police in riot gear, a reporter said.

    A doctor at Leh’s SNM Hospital said they had treated about 100 injured people since Wednesday, some of them police. “We have ope­r­ated upon six injured people, three of them had bullet injuries and others internal bleeding in the ch­­est and broken ribs,” said the doctor, who asked not to be identified.

    Police deployed to guard BJP office, alongside the wreckage of a burned military vehicle

    Protests erupted on Wednesday, with crowds demanding greater autonomy in the sparsely populated, high-altitude desert region that is home to some 300,000 people and which borders China and Pakistan.

    India’s Ministry of Home Affairs said that an “unruly mob” had attacked police, reporting in a statement issued late on Wed­nesday that “more than 30” officers were injured.

    Protesters torched a police vehicle and the offices of Prime Min­ister Narendra Modi’s Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), while officers fired tear gas and used batons to disperse crowds. “In self-defence, police had to resort to firing, in which unfortunately some casualties are reported,” the statement said. It did not give any details about deaths. However, a police officer said that “five deaths were reported after the protests”.

    Thinley, 33, who runs an automobile spare parts shop in Leh, was shot in the leg. “We are exhausted by the government by not listening to our demands”, Thinley, who gave only one name, said from his hospital bed. Jigmet Stanzin, 23, said he was injured when he tried to throw back what he thought was a tear gas canister. “It exploded and shattered my hand,” he said.

    ‘Betrayed and angry’

    A police unit guarded the vandal­ised BJP office on Thursday, alongside the wreckage of a burned security vehicle. Paras Pandey, 27, an Indian tourist, walked alone along the highway out of Leh with a hea­vy backpack, looking for a ride out.

    “Everything is shut. I couldn’t get food since yesterday,” Paras said. “All I could see yesterday was chaos, smoke, and broken vehicles.” Around half of Ladakh’s residents are Muslim and about 40 percent are Buddhist.

    It is classed as a “Union Terri­tory” — meaning it elects lawmakers to India’s parliament but is governed directly by New Delhi.

    Wednesday’s dem­o­nstrations were org­a­n­ised in solidarity with prominent activist Sonam Wangchuk, who had been on hunger strike demanding either full federal statehood for Ladakh or constitutional protecti­ons for its tribal communities, land and fragile environment. New Delhi said the protests were “instigated by his provocative spee­ches” and pointed out that efforts were conti­n­uing to discuss its gover­n­­ance.

    Mo­­di’s government split Lad­akh off from Indian-occupied Kash­mir in 2019, imposing direct rule on both.

    Published in Dawn, September 26th, 2025

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  • Israeli strikes kill 19 displaced Palestinians in Gaza – Newspaper

    Israeli strikes kill 19 displaced Palestinians in Gaza – Newspaper

    PALESTINIANS displaced by Israeli bombardment take shelter in a tent camp in Zawaida, a town in central
    Gaza Strip.—Reuters

    GAZA STRIP: An Isr­aeli air strike on a home where displaced people had taken refuge in central Gaza killed 11 people on Thursday, the territory’s civil defence spokesperson said.

    Eight other people were killed in strikes elsewhere in Gaza Strip.

    Israel has intensified its offensive on the devastated Palestinian territory in recent weeks, forcing hundreds of thousands of people to flee.

    “Eleven people were killed and many are missing or wounded after an Israeli airstrike targeted a house… which was sheltering displaced people north of Al-Zawaida in the central Gaza Strip,” civil defence spokesman Mah­mud Bassal said.

    Several children were among those killed, the emergency services said, and their bodies were taken to a nearby hospital.

    Over nearly two years, Israeli military operations have killed at least 65,419 Palestinians, mostly civilians, according to the health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza, figures the UN considers reliable.

    Media restrictions in the territory and difficulties in accessing many areas mean media is unable to independently verify the details provided by the civil defence or the Israeli military.

    The US-backed offensive on Gaza City came as a United Nations probe accused Israel of committing “genocide” in the Gaza Strip, saying Prime Minister Benjamin Net­anyahu and other senior officials had incited the crime. Israel rejected the findings and slammed the probe as “distorted and false”.

    Large parts of Gaza have been laid to waste, and last month a body backed by the United Nations officially dec­lared famine in part of the territory.

    “We lost our children, our homes and our places,” Najia Abu Amsha, a Palestinian whose nephew was killed while waiting for aid, said. “We became beggars and sick.”

    700,000 flee Gaza City

    The Israeli military said on Thursday that 700,000 Palestinians have fled Gaza City since late Augu­st, as it presses an air and ground assault on the urban centre.

    The military said that “700,000 Palestinians have evacuated” from Gaza City, in the north, to the south of the Gaza Strip.

    The UN’s humanitarian agency, OCHA, on Thu­rsday said that 388,400 displacement movements had been recorded since mid-August, most of them from Gaza City.

    The United Nations estimated at the end of August that around one million people lived in Gaza City and its surroundings, where it has declared a famine.

    Israel launched a major air and ground offensive on the Palestinian territory’s main urban hub, in what it says is a bid to root out Hamas after nearly two years of devastating war.

    Published in Dawn, September 26th, 2025

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  • Trump will ‘not allow’ Israel to annex West Bank – Newspaper

    Trump will ‘not allow’ Israel to annex West Bank – Newspaper

    WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump said on Thursday he would not allow Israel to annex the occupied West Bank, after threats by some Israeli ministers to do so to kill any two-state solution.

    “I will not allow Israel to annex the West Bank,” the US president told reporters in the Oval Office. “No, I will not allow it. It’s not going to happen.”

    Trump’s response came after he was asked whether he had promised Arab leaders during a meeting at the United Nations this week that he would prevent any annexation.

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed not to allow a Palestinian state and far-right members of his cabinet have threatened to annex the West Bank in response to the recent recognition of a Palestinian state by several Western countries.

    Asked whether he had warned Netanyahu against such a move when they spoke earlier on Thursday, he said: “Yeah, but I’m not going to allow it.

    “Whether I spoke to him or not — I did, but I’m not allowing Israel to annex the West Bank. There’s been enough. It’s time to stop now.”

    Trump also expressed optimism about a Gaza deal amid a growing push to end the conflict.

    “We spoke with Bibi Netanyahu today, and we spoke to all the leaders in the Middle East who are great people, and we’re getting pretty close to having a deal on Gaza and maybe even peace,” Trump said.

    Netanyahu is due to visit the White House on Monday.

    Published in Dawn, September 26th, 2025

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  • Live: Netanyahu criticizes countries recognizing Palestinian state as 'sheer madness' – Reuters

    1. Live: Netanyahu criticizes countries recognizing Palestinian state as ‘sheer madness’  Reuters
    2. Does international recognition mean Palestine is going to be a state?  Al Jazeera
    3. European recognition of Palestinian state shows US still only power that counts  BBC
    4. With US backing, defiant Netanyahu vows response to countries recognizing Palestinian state  CNN
    5. What to know ahead of the UN summit on the Question of Palestine  UN News

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