US President Donald Trump's administration on Wednesday (local time) hosted a Critical Minerals Ministerial event to counter China's dominance in the industry. Officials from the Trump administration ...

U.S. seeks price floors and tariffs to counter China’s grip on critical minerals Washington announced new bilateral critical minerals agreements with 11 countries. A new "Forege" partnership aims to ...

The Trump administration is seeking to form a critical minerals "preferential trade zone" with allied nations that will seek to push back on efforts to flood domestic markets with heavily subsidized ...

External affairs minister S. Jaishankar on Wednesday highlighted the challenges of “excessive concentration” of critical minerals and the importance of de-risking supply chains through structured ...

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Chinese Defence Minister Dong Jun urged closer strategic coordination between Beijing and Moscow and bolstering joint capacity to respond to risks and challenges in a video call with his Russian ...

Three people have been charged with offences linked to incidents at addresses in Cambridge and Chesham in Buckinghamshire. The matters are being investigated by detectives from Counter Terrorism ...

EU leaders will convene an emergency summit this week to consider how to push back against US president Donald Trump’s ambitions to take over Greenland and hit allies with fresh tariffs. A sudden ...

The long-discussed Taiwan-US tariff negotiations have finally concluded, agreeing on US$500 billion investment and reciprocal tariffs aligned with those of the EU, Japan, and South Korea without ...

U.S. soldiers deployed to Europe had a busy November testing out counter-drone systems that the service hopes to get into the hands of more NATO allies, as well as with units and allies as far away as ...

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