Tariffs could raise game console prices by 69%

The Xbox Series X was one of several gaming devices from Microsoft that saw a price increase recently.

Game console prices could soar even higher, according to a recent report. The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) published a report by Trade Partnership Worldwide (TPW) that outlines how much prices could increase across several sectors.

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Strengthening Canada’s relationship with Taiwan is a crucial piece of our geopolitical puzzle

Open this photo in gallery: People enjoy sunset view of Taipei 101 on Elephant Mountain in Taipei, om April 17.Ann Wang/Reuters

Martin Green is a former senior intelligence and national security official.

Canada needs friends, and our brand requires polishing. Our relations with the United States, China, India, Russia and too many others are at a low point.

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Trump’s tariffs: ‘It feels like Covid 2.0. So many things are getting disrupted’

“In a lot of ways it feels like Covid 2.0. So many things are getting disrupted so quickly.” Like so many businesses across Donald Trump’s America, Matt Katase’s craft brewery, Brew Gentleman, is having to contend with a bafflingly uncertain trading environment.

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Revealed: online campaign urged far right to attack China’s opponents in UK

One morning last August, a troubling message appeared in a social media group for Hongkongers in the UK. It was already a tense time to be an immigrant. Rioters, propelled by false claims online that the man who had murdered children in Southport was an asylum seeker, were descending on hotels housing refugees, trying to burn them alive.

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Trump White House replaces Covid website with treatise on ‘lab leak’ theory

The Trump administration has replaced Covid.gov – a website that once provided Americans with access to information about free tests, vaccines, treatment and secondary conditions such as long Covid – with a treatise on the “lab leak” theory.

The site includes intense criticism of Dr Anthony Fauci, who helmed national Covid policies under Donald Trump and Joe Biden, the World Health Organization (WHO) and state leadership in New York.

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Deadly US airstrike on Yemeni oil port escalates Trump’s campaign against the Houthis

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A U.S. airstrike on an important oil port held by Yemen’s Houthi rebels killed more than 70 people and wounded many others, the Iranian-backed rebel group said Friday, marking a major escalation in the military campaign President Donald Trump launched against the faction last month.

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Deadly US airstrike on Yemeni oil port appears to escalate Trump’s campaign against the Houthis

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A U.S. airstrike on an important oil port held by Yemen’s Houthi rebels killed more than 70 people and wounded many others, marking a major escalation in the military campaign President Donald Trump launched last month against the Iranian-backed group.

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U.S. strikes kill 74, Houthis say

This satellite image from Planet Labs PBC shows the aftermath of U.S. airstrikes targeting the Ras Isa oil port in Yemen on Friday, April 18, 2025. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — U.S. airstrikes targeting an oil port held by Yemen’s Houthi rebels killed 74 people and wounded 171 others, the group said Friday, marking the single-deadliest known attack under President Donald Trump’s new campaign targeting the rebels.

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Deadliest U.S. strike in Yemen kills 74, Houthis say

Open this photo in gallery: Fire and smoke rise next to charred vehicles following a U.S. strike on the Ras Isa fuel port, Yemen, in this screengrab from a handout video released on April 18.AL-MASIRAH TV/Reuters

U.S. air strikes targeting an oil port held by Yemen’s Houthi rebels killed 74 people and wounded 171 others, the group said Friday, marking the single-deadliest known attack under President Donald Trump’s new campaign targeting the rebels.

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