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Businesses count costs as India and Bangladesh impose trade restrictions
Relations between the countries have been sour for months but differences were mostly expressed verbally until now.
Why Australia's opposition is vying for votes on Chinese social media
Chinese Australians are a crucial group that deserted the conservative Liberal-National coalition in the last election.
Talks or no talks: who blinks first in US-China trade war?
It was news the rest of the world had been waiting to hear as astonishingly high tariffs - up to 245% on some Chinese exports ...
Apple braces for $900m blow from Trump tariffs
The levies will weigh on the iPhone maker, despite Trump's decision to spare key electronics from the new import taxes.
Two Gazan girls first to arrive in UK for medical treatment
Two Palestinian girls with serious health conditions have been brought to the UK for private medical treatment. The Gazan ...
Lynx could be first UK zoo-born cat freed into the wild
A lynx born in a zoo in Cornwall could become the first UK zoo-born cat to be successfully released into the wild. Animals ...
Israel fires largely controlled after mass evacuations
A national emergency was declared and events for Israel's Independence Day on Thursday were cancelled as the fires spread ...
Four ways the film Conclave sheds light on the secretive way popes are chosen
On Wednesday 7 May, life follows fiction when 134 cardinals begin the process of electing a successor to Pope Francis. As ...
BBC Studios to expand local offering in the Netherlands
BBC Studios has announced that it will be expanding its content offering for audiences in the Netherlands with the launch of ...