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The UK would not hesitate to retaliate against US tariffs if needed, according to Downing Street sources., BBC reported.

Myanmar's military rulers let in hundreds of foreign rescue personnel on Saturday after an earthquake killed more than 1,600 people, the deadliest natural disaster to hit the impoverished, war-torn country in years, as reported by Reuters.  

At least 16 Naxalites were killed, and two security personnel sustained injuries in a major anti-Maoist operation in Chhattisgarh's Sukma district on Saturday, officials said, as reported by NDTV.

A United States federal appeals court on Friday ruled that billionaire Elon Musk and the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which he leads, is allowed to make further cuts to the US Agency for International Development (USAID), Deutsche Welle (DW) reported.

The death toll from a huge earthquake that hit Myanmar and Thailand has passed 1,000, as rescuers dug through the rubble of collapsed buildings in a desperate search for survivors, as reported by Al Jazeera.

Columbia University's interim president has resigned her role just one week after the Ivy League university agreed to change several policies to satisfy demands from the Trump administration, the BBC reported.

US President Donald Trump says the United States needs to take over Greenland for “world peace,” as he doubled down on his ambitions to annex the strategically placed, resource-rich Danish territory, Al Jazeera reported.

A strong earthquake was felt in Myanmar on Friday, according to reports. The tremors were measures to be of 7.2 magnitude on the Richter scale, the National Center for Seismology (NCS) said. 

World leaders have denounced United States President Donald Trump for unveiling a new tariff measure, this time aimed at the automobile industry, Al Jazeera reported.

After talks among close to 30 mainly European and NATO leaders in Paris on Thursday, French President Emmanuel Macron touted plans to deploy troops from "several" European countries to Ukraine should a lasting peace deal be established, Deutsche Welle (DW) reported.