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Russia releases US Russian ballerina Xenia Karelina
Updated on April 11th, 2025 – 11:40 p.m.Reading time: 8 min.
Russia has released a ballerina with American citizenship. The US President exposes all tariffs except against China. All developments in the news blog.
An activist in the USA may be delivered, even if he is not accused of a crime. A court approved the legal opinion of the Trump government. Read more about the case here.
The trade conflict, unleashed by US President Donald Trump, hits the carmaker Tesla, which is led by his supporter Elon Musk. The models S and X introduced from the USA can no longer be ordered on the Chinese Tesla website. After Trump increased the tariffs on imports from China to a total of 145 percent, the government in Beijing countered with a 125 percent dial. Read more about this here.
Against the background of an approximation between Washington and Moscow, the US specialist Steve Witkoff traveled to Russia, according to Russian state media. “Yes, I can confirm that he has arrived in Russia,” quoted the Russian news agency Ria Novosti Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskow on Friday. Asked about a possible meeting between Witkoff and Russian President Vladimir Putin said Peskow that the Kremlin would inform you when it came. Read more about this here.
The Chinese government increased its punitive tariffs on goods from the United States from 84 to 125 percent. The regulation should apply from April 12, as the Chinese Ministry of Finance announced on Friday. The trade conflict with the United States continues to escalate. Read more about this here.
The United States is allowed to station soldiers around the Panama Canal after an agreement with Panama. The Foreign Ministry of the Central American country announced a corresponding document on Thursday (local time). This gives US President Donald Trump an important concession for his demand for more influence from the United States on the important waterway. Trump claims that China controls the channel. Read more about this here.
Against the background of an 81-year-old water agreement, US President Donald Trump Mexico threatened to do tariffs and sanctions. “We will expand the consequences, including tariffs and maybe even sanctions until Mexico adheres to the agreement,” Trump explained on Thursday (local time) in the Truth Social online service. Mexico violated an agreement from 1944 and stealed farmers in Texas Wasser, Trump claimed.
The decade -old agreement concerns mutual water deliveries from the rivers Rio Grande and Colorado River. According to the border and water commission of the two countries, Mexico currently owes the United States more than 1.55 billion cubic meters of water.
A agreement made between the USA and Panama allows the stationing of US troops on the Panama Canal. The agreement concluded on Wednesday, which the Panamaic government published on Thursday, enables the United States to hold training courses, exercises and a number of other activities at Panama -controlled locations around the channel. The establishment of military base points is again excluded.
