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An employee prepares to cut a fabric next to Shein packaging at the Midnight Charm Garment lingerie factory in Guanyun county of Lianyungang, Jiangsu province, China November 25, 2024.

REUTERS/Florence Lo
4.6 billion: Last year, European consumers received 4.6 billion parcels shipped from abroad. Some 80% of them came from China. Amid growing protectionism towards Beijing, EU governments are weighing per-parcel customs fees. Earlier this year, the Trump Administration removed “de minimis” customs exemptions on small packages, which had enabled Chinese exporters to circumvent broader US tariffs.
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Palestinian children look at rubble following Israeli forces' withdrawal from the area, after Israel and Hamas agreed on the Gaza ceasefire, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, October 10, 2025.

REUTERS/Ramadan Abed

Gaza ceasefire deal takes effect

Israel approved the Gaza ceasefire deal on Friday morning, bringing the ceasefire officially into effect. The Israeli military must withdraw its forces to an agreed perimeter inside Gaza within 24 hours, and Hamas has 72 hours to return the hostages. Trump is on his way to the region this weekend, after revealing that a major factor for why Hamas agreed to the deal was because he personally guaranteed that the US would prevent Israel from abandoning the agreement and resuming war – as it did in March when it unilaterally broke a ceasefire. Part of that guarantee includes a US-led military task force to oversee the ceasefire, alongside Trump’s word on the line.

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We’re living in a time of record-high conflict, a level of violence not seen since World War II. The past four years have been marred by deadly battles in Ukraine, Gaza, Sudan, Myanmar, and beyond, with approximately 14% of the planet’s population now impacted by war.

While the more than 120 million people displaced by conflict have acute needs of safety, shelter, food, and education, there are needs unseen that too frequently go untreated.

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Israel's Netanyahu meets Ukrainian President Zelensky in Jerusalem

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It took longer than expected. The president had hoped to have the Israeli hostages held in Gaza home by his inauguration. But nine months into his second administration, President Donald Trump appears to have the first phase of his deal for an end to the conflict in Israel-Gaza. If he did not usher it in himself, he played an outsized role in willing it into a reality. In the end, after all the destruction between Israel and Hamas, escalation between Israel and Iran, operations against Hezbollah in Lebanon as well as the Houthis in Yemen, and a pivotal strike in Qatar last month, it was the Trump backstop – the threat of “all hell breaking loose” - that propelled negotiations forward.
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In these photos, emergency units carry out rescue work after a Russian attack in Ternopil and Prikarpattia oblasts on December 13, 2024. A large-scale Russian missile attack on Ukraine's energy infrastructure left half of the consumers in the Ternopil region without electricity, the Ternopil Regional State Administration reported.

60: Recent Russian airstrikes have disabled as much as 60% of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, as part of Moscow’s perennial attempt to knock out the country’s heating capacity ahead of winter. Kyiv has appealed to Europe for more shipments of natural gas. Here’s GZERO’s look at how one young Ukrainian woman faced the first winter of Russia’s invasion.
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U.S. President Donald Trump takes part in a welcoming ceremony with China's President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, November 9, 2017.

REUTERS/Damir Sagolj

China cracks down on critical minerals

China has implemented broad new restrictions on exports of rare earth and other critical minerals vital for semiconductors, the auto industry, and military technology, of which it controls 70% of the global supply. The restrictions come after China cut back its purchases of US soybeans, as Beijing seeks to strengthen its negotiating position ahead of trade talks between Xi Jinping and Donald Trump later this month.

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French President Emmanuel Macron as he poses for a picture as he welcomes Crown Prince and Princess of the Kingdom of Jordan for a meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris on October 8, 2025.

Photo by Raphael Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM

France is in crisis – again. On Monday, Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu resigned after just 27 days in office, making him the shortest-serving premier in the history of the Fifth Republic and the fourth to fall in 13 months. His government collapsed before it was even sworn in, unable to survive the toxic arithmetic of a deadlocked National Assembly that has made France virtually ungovernable.

The problem traces back to President Emmanuel Macron's catastrophic decision to call snap elections last year. That gamble, designed to head off the surging far right, instead entrenched a three-way parliamentary deadlock between the left, the center-right, and Marine Le Pen's National Rally. No bloc commands anywhere near the 289 seats needed for a majority. Worse, Macron’s far-right archrival emerged with just enough seats to topple any government by joining forces with the left on no-confidence votes. The Fifth Republic was designed to concentrate power in the presidency and avoid chronic instability, but the system depends on either a clear presidential majority or a clear opposition willing to govern in cohabitation. Any government emerging from such a deeply splintered National Assembly was destined to be fragile.

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