BRUSSELS (AP) – Rattled by U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats over Greenland, the European Union is readying countermeasures against the United States. As primarily a trading bloc, the EU’s toolkit is mostly financial instruments, from steep tariffs on U.S. goods to the so-called trade bazooka touted by French President Emmanuel Macron.
NEW YORK (AP) - U.S. stocks wobbled after feeling both the upside and downside of a surprisingly strong report on the U.S. job market. After initially rising toward its all-time high on Wednesday, the S&P 500 flipped between gains and losses before finishing with a miniscule drop of less than 0.1%. The Dow Jones slipped 0.1%, and the Nasdaq composite fell 0.2%.
NUUK, Greenland (AP) – President Donald Trump said Saturday that he would charge a 10% import tax starting in February on goods from eight European nations because of their opposition to American control of Greenland. Trump said that Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Finland would face the tariff.
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) – When Tarique Rahman, the son of a former prime minister of Bangladesh, returned to the country in December after 17 years of self-imposed exile, he declared to his supporters: “I have a plan.” Rahman returned at a time of upheaval. Bangladesh was seemingly adrift under an interim administration as it inched closer to a nationwide poll.
Iran eased some restrictions on its people and, for the first time in days, allowed them to make phone calls abroad via their mobile phones on Tuesday. It did not ease restrictions on the internet or permit texting services to be restored as the death toll from days of bloody protests against the state rose to at least 2,000 people, according to activists.
WASHINGTON (AP) – The House voted Wednesday to slap back President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canada, a rare if largely symbolic rebuke of the White House agenda as Republicans joined Democrats over the objections of GOP leadership.
HELSINKI (AP) – Thousands of tourists were stranded in northern Finland on Sunday after flights at Kittilä airport were canceled due to severe cold. The temperature at the airport dropped to minus 37 degrees Celsius (minus 34.6 degrees Fahrenheit) on Sunday morning, after several days of similar frigid weather, making de-icing of aircraft difficult.
Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad:
HELSINKI (AP) – The battle against fake news in Finland starts in preschool classrooms.
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