Donald Trump’s “reciprocal tariffs” are calculated by dividing the US’s trade imbalance by its imports from that country.

Trump’s ‘reciprocal tariffs’ look to be a hoax. Here’s how you can tell

For weeks,the US president has insisted it would be a matter of “whatever they charge us,we charge them”. But it has become clear that isn’t what’s going on.

  • Michael Koziol

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President Donald Trump unveils the reciprocal tariffs.

Donald Trump’s dumb war just got much,much dumber

Donald Trump has just announced the most self-destructive set of policies in modern American economic history.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
US President Donald Trump displays the signed executive order after his tariff announcement.

Five countries worst hit by Trump’s tariffs

Trump’s tariffs mean Australian exports to the US will attract a 10 per cent charge. Goods from these countries won’t get off so lightly.

  • Millie Muroi
Far-right leader Marine Le Pen poses prior to an interview on the evening news broadcast of French TV channel TF1,after the court decision.

French hard-right leader Le Pen banned from presidential run following conviction

In a ruling that potentially reshapes the European political landscape,a court has convicted the National Rally leader of embezzling European Union funds.

  • Rob Harris
US Vice President J.D. Vance speaks at the US military’s Pituffik Space Base in Greenland on Friday.

Vance attacks Denmark in ‘aggressive’ visit to Greenland

President Donald Trump has repeatedly said the US should take over Greenland and has not ruled out the possibility of using military force to do so.

  • Benedict Smith
Is it time for Australians to follow in Europe’s footsteps and have a 72-hour emergency survival kit packed and ready to go? Experts say it’s always been time.

Europeans have been urged to prepare a 72-hour emergency kit. Do Australians need to?

With climate,cyber and geopolitical emergencies on the rise,an EU commission has called for citizens to be ready for anything.

  • Bronte Gossling
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Volodymyr Zelensky,Ukraine’s president (left);Keir Starmer,UK’s prime minister;and Emmanuel Macron,France’s president,embrace after meeting on Sunday.

Britain quit the European Union. Now it’s trying to lead it

Five years after Brexit,Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s intense diplomacy on Ukraine has put Britain back in a familiar role on the global stage.

  • Mark Landler andStephen Castle
Donald Trump is threatening to defund research projects that contravene his ideological agenda.

Trump doesn’t want to ‘hurt Ireland’,but he probably will

Ireland and the US have a longstanding relationship. But the trade war has changed everything.

  • Ronan McDonald
President Donald Trump shakes hands with Bernard Arnault,chief executive of LVMH,during a ribbon cutting ceremony at the Louis Vuitton Workshop Rochambeau in Alvarado,Texas,Thursday,Oct. 17,2019. At left is Michael Burke,chairman and chief executive officer of of Louis Vuitton - LVMH. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Even Trump’s friends are in firing line as president targets French champagne

Donald Trump says he will impose a 200 per cent retaliatory tariff on European alcohol should the EU target American whiskey.

  • Aamer Madhani andJosh Boak
Trump admires Vance’s socks in the Oval Office.

‘What’s with these socks?’ Vance distracts Trump during Oval Office meeting

The vice president made headlines when he intervened during a meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky,but his input was more muted when Irish leader Micheal Martin found himself in the hot seat.