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The world's second biggest economy has announced additional tariffs of 34 percent on US goods.

Sources said the purge also included more than a dozen staff at the White House national security council.

Sean 'Diddy' Combs has been hit with an expanded federal indictment, charging the hip-hop mogul with more counts of racketeering and sex trafficking.

A snap election must be held within 60 days of the ruling.

The flat 10 percent duty being applied to US imports will apply on top of any existing tariffs, but there are some exceptions.

American Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov tried to sneak in a restricted territory carrying a can of Diet Coke .

The sweeping 'Liberation Day' tariffs have sent a shock through markets around the world.

Writers chanted "Meta, Meta, book thieves, with one carrying a placards reading "I'd write a sign but you'd steal it".

While in Brussels US Secretary of State Marco Rubio dismissed doubts by European allies about the future of NATO as 'hysteria'.

The search for the Malaysian Airlines flight, which mysteriously disappeared in 2014, will only resume at the end of the year.

Here is what some governments said about what they would - and would not - do in response.

Global stocks slumped, government bonds jumped and safe-haven gold touched a record high.