Trump Tariffs Live Updates: US stocks volatile while US dollar, govt bonds sink amid trade war
20:54 (IST) Apr 10Sri Lankan opposition parties and President Anura Kumara Dissanayake met here on Thursday to discuss the impact from the new Trump tariffs. The opposition demanded urgent government attention claiming that Sri Lankan exports would be hit by the US tariffs. Countries subject to the pause will now be tariffed at 10 per cent with the exception of China which faces a 125 per cent tariff. The opposition claimed the tariff would shut garments factories causing a severe impact on the island nation's economy. The president and the opposition share almost the same opinion on the issue," the opposition's main economic spokesman Harsha de Silva told reporters.
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April 11, 2025 08:49 UTC
Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Newcastle among clubs interested in Bournemouth defender Dean Huijsen - Paper Talk
The top stories and transfer rumours from Friday's newspapers... THE ATHLETICArsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Newcastle and Spurs have met or had discussions with the representatives of Netherlands-born Spain defender Dean Huijsen, ahead of a decision being made on the 19-year-old Bournemouth player's future. THE TIMESWest Ham are considering a summer move for Southampton and England goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdale, 26. DAILY MAILNewcastle are ready to make Matheus Cunha one of their top targets this summer. Manchester United fans have accused French police of tear-gassing them in Lyon following their 2-2 Europa League draw.
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April 11, 2025 07:37 UTC
All the times Princess Diana's 'mini-me' nieces paid homage to the people's princess
In her latest show of support for a treasured cause, Lady Amelia was Princess Diana’s mini-me as she shared a throwback photograph in honour of Great Ormond Street children’s hospital. Great Ormond Street Hospital, where Princess Diana served as patron, has been celebrating ‘School Photo Day’, with young patients receiving treatment at the London hospital having their portrait taken by lauded royal photographer Rankin. Like Diana, Amelia has expressed an interest in humanitarian work, particularly in areas related to children’s welfare and healthcare. Lady Amelia SpencerLady Amelia paid homage to one of her aunt's most famous looks at the 2024 Fashion Awards. She harnessed her late aunt’s timeless style with a leather dress that recalled the one Princess Diana wore to a 1995 screening of Apollo.
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April 11, 2025 06:18 UTC
Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A prophet for our own time?
A STATUE of a rather youthful Dietrich Bonhoeffer by the sculptor Tim Crawley is among those of the ten martyrs of the 20th century on the west front of Westminster Abbey. An anniversary of someone whose legacy has been taken up by so many causes, inevitably including some to which Bonhoeffer himself would have strongly objected, raises the question, What we are to do with Bonhoeffer today? Yet, Bonhoeffer recognised and articulated the danger ensuing from the Nazi movement very early on (both before and after Hitler’s rise to power). Like the saints of other times, Bonhoeffer was a complex character (as recent biographies have sought to explore). Yet, like the saints of old, this 20th-century German pastor, theologian, and ecumenist asks challenging questions of us today.
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April 10, 2025 23:33 UTC
Viewpoint with Andrew Brown: What, exactly, is the point of a leader column?
ONE way or another, I have written leaders at least once for every broadsheet newspaper in London, except the Financial Times. For younger readers, “broadsheet” was a style of printing newspapers on large sheets of paper, now represented only by the FT and the Telegraph. To write leaders is a bit like manufacturing a cryptocurrency: they have value only to the extent that people believe that they do. But this was nonsense even in the days when people got their news from physical papers rather than their phone screens. The warrant for thoughtful and well-informed discussions is now no longer the surrounding daily newspaper, but the writer’s byline.
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April 10, 2025 23:32 UTC
Book review: Preaching for the Planet: Sermons on creation and climate by Jenny Wilson
Jenny Wilson dwells with the earth in this book and finds that, through that lens, new perspectives are found, and the preaching imagination is transformed. Besides drawing deeply from the scriptures, Wilson refers to prophetic voices who also speak up for the earth: St Francis of Assisi, Pope Francis, Sir David Attenborough. Each sermon is attentive to a planet that groans in pain from exploitation and climate catastrophe, longing for rest and renewal. She is preaching here for all things loved by God, who creates, redeems and sanctifies the planet as also humanity. Preaching for the Planet: Sermons on creation and climateJenny WilsonSacristy Press £14.99(978-1-78959-355-6)Church Times Bookshop £13.49
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April 10, 2025 23:32 UTC
Andrew Tate Is Accused of Rape and Threatening a Woman With Gun in U.K. Lawsuit
Andrew Tate, the online influencer known for his misogynistic views, has been accused of raping two women and threatening one of them with a gun, in a claim filed in Britain’s High Court. The accusations are part of a civil suit filed by the two women, and two others, last June against Mr. Tate. The four British women are suing Mr. Tate for alleged abuse relating to a period when he was living in England, between 2013 and 2015. All four women accuse him of choking them, and two of them, one of whom was working for him at the time, accuse him of rape. One woman who worked for Mr. Tate’s webcam business in 2015, said in the claim that Mr. Tate, a former kickboxer, raped her and beat her with a belt.
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April 10, 2025 23:26 UTC
UK weather: wildfire warning as hottest day of the year expected
The UK is set to record its hottest day of the year so far on Friday with temperatures expected to reach 24C in southeast England. Some areas in the southern half of the UK are expected to exceed 21C, while London and parts of the southeast could reach 23C. The London Fire Brigade (LFB) urged caution and warned against using barbecues, saying the wildfire risk was “heightened” due to low rainfall. Dan Stroud, a meteorologist at the Met Office, said the average temperature for this time of the year was about 13C, so temperatures on Friday were expected to be about ten degrees above average. “We’ve got high pressure at the moment which effectively acts like a force field,” he said.
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April 10, 2025 23:08 UTC
Times letters: Keir Starmer’s promise to give 16-year-olds the vote
Write to letters@thetimes.co.ukSir, The prime minister’s pledge on voting by 16-year-olds smacks of political desperation (“Starmer says 16-year-olds will definitely get vote”, news, Apr 8). Anyone who, like me, has taught this age group will know that they are great fun but not fully formed as adults and hardly to be entrusted with voting rights. I taught at an Oxford college where first-year students (usually aged 18) were regularly described by a colleague as “kiddies”. He was popular and highly respected by students; in no way perceived as condescending. These young people, however bright, are not yet adults and voting for the nation’s future is a serious matter.
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April 10, 2025 23:04 UTC
Bank of England halts £600m auction of UK government bonds
The Bank of England has halted an auction on long-dated government bonds, making it the first central bank to respond to market jitters caused by President Trump’s erratic tariff policy decisions. In a statement on Thursday, the Bank of England said that “in light of recent market volatility” it had postponed a sale of 30-year UK sovereign bonds that was due to take place on April 14. Instead, the Bank will offload £750 million of short-dated bonds rather than £600 million of long-dated bonds. The Bank of England and other central banks are in the process of unwinding their quantitative easing programmes — buying to stimulate economic growth — where they purchased vast sums of sovereign and corporate bonds during the 2008 financial crisis and
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April 10, 2025 20:13 UTC
UK bond yields fall sharply after Trump’s U-turn on tariffs
Britain’s long-term borrowing costs fell sharply from a 27-year high after President Trump paused his aggressive tariff policy in the face of global market turmoil. The yield on the 30-year UK government bond dropped 18 basis points to 5.404 per cent after two days of huge rises that pushed the yield up to its highest level since 1998. The rate on the benchmark ten-year UK government bond dropped by five basis points to 4.744 per cent. The pound strengthened by 0.48 per cent against the dollar to $1.28 and dropped by 0.22 per cent against the euro to €1.16. The downward move in UK bond
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April 10, 2025 17:21 UTC
The unlikely town set to become the UK’s answer to Orlando
Now with a moviecentric Universal Studios Great Britain set to be built on an abandoned brickworks just outside of the town, Bedford finally has the chance to become the main character. AdvertisementUniversal Studios Orlando GETTY IMAGESBut Bedford has been overlooked for too long. The opening of Universal Studios Great Britain could be the big break the town deserves. In the town centre, boutiques in the Arcade sell everything from records to upcycled furniture alongside Pop Studio4, a space where local artists work, exhibit and sell (thebedfordarcade.co.uk). The Embankment, running east along the River Great Ouse from the town centre to Russell Park in the Castle Quarter, is a masterpiece of Victorian design.
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April 10, 2025 17:07 UTC
Inside the STAR WARS that could push countries back to Edwardian times & would take ‘hundreds of years to recover’ from
Unfortunately, space currently resembles America's "Wild West" era, according to Turner, where the "first person to get there sets the rules". 5Orbital weaponryThere are all kinds of orbital weaponry currently being developed, from chemical lasers and particle beams to top-secret military space planes. Moscow is also reportedly developing a nuclear space weapon that could create a massive energy burst and destroy multiple satellites in one wave. Speaking at the 40th Space Foundation Space Symposium in Colorado on Tuesday, Whiting claimed that China had "accelerated their terrestrial and on-orbit space weapons, expanded their space-enabled kill chains and are moving at breathtaking speed". Andrew Turner CBEAnd because of the newfound accessibility of space, warfare is expected to elevate into orbit.
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April 10, 2025 17:06 UTC
Five times John Lydon proved he was a hypocrite
Five times John Lydon proved his hypocrisyFor as long as he continues to remain in the public eye as a culturally relevant figure, you can always count on John Lydon to make a quotable remark, whether for better or worse. His remarks may have lacked the intellectual nuance of some of his other punk peers, but he was often happy stating things that others were terrified to be so blunt about. However, this Rotten persona that he created for himself would eventually prove to be exactly this: a carefully crafted character who thrived on aggravating everyone around him by rallying against popular opinion. Here are five of the best (or worst) examples of Lydon being a duplicitous fraud. Five times John Lydon proved his hypocrisy:
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April 10, 2025 16:57 UTC