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Stocks surge as Trump announces 90-day tariff pause — but hits China harder

Beijing will face a higher rate of 125 per cent ‘effective immediately’
US politics
12 minutes ago
WILL PAVIA IN NEW YORK
Inside Wall St’s crazy ride as short-sellers bet big against Trump

David Elias, veteran trader and survivor of stock market crashes, describes the frenzy as Trump’s tariffs unleash a wild sell-off
US business
NEW
Hospitals to remove 300,000 patients from NHS waiting lists
Healthcare
King Charles III and Queen Camilla on a state visit to Italy.
UPDATED
King recalls Monty Python joke at state banquet in Italy

The King and Queen are on a state visit to Italy, where Charles became the first British monarch to address the Italian houses of parliament
Royal family
25 minutes ago
Busy Old Compton Street in London with outdoor restaurant seating.
NEW
‘Alfresco Soho’ could return this summer after City Hall backing
London
High-speed Eurostar train in motion.
NEW
Tickets to Europe could drop by third if Eurostar rivals get green light
Transport
Keir Starmer speaking at a Labour Party local election campaign launch.
Fiscal rules are ironclad and will not change, Starmer insists
Politics
Crash involving five police cars leaves seven officers in hospital
Crash involving five police cars leaves seven officers in hospital
Volodymyr Zelensky meeting with French and British defense chiefs in Kyiv.
Russia ‘doubles assaults’ against Ukraine in spring offensive
Russia-Ukraine war
Busy Old Compton Street in London with outdoor restaurant seating.
NEW
‘Alfresco Soho’ could return this summer after City Hall backing
London
Busy Old Compton Street in London with outdoor restaurant seating.
NEW
‘Alfresco Soho’ could return this summer after City Hall backing
London
High-speed Eurostar train in motion.
NEW
Tickets to Europe could drop by third if Eurostar rivals get green light
Transport
High-speed Eurostar train in motion.
NEW
Tickets to Europe could drop by third if Eurostar rivals get green light
Transport
Keir Starmer speaking at a Labour Party local election campaign launch.
Fiscal rules are ironclad and will not change, Starmer insists
Politics
Keir Starmer speaking at a Labour Party local election campaign launch.
Fiscal rules are ironclad and will not change, Starmer insists
Politics
Crash involving five police cars leaves seven officers in hospital
Crash involving five police cars leaves seven officers in hospital
Crash involving five police cars leaves seven officers in hospital
Crash involving five police cars leaves seven officers in hospital
Volodymyr Zelensky meeting with French and British defense chiefs in Kyiv.
Russia ‘doubles assaults’ against Ukraine in spring offensive
Russia-Ukraine war
Volodymyr Zelensky meeting with French and British defense chiefs in Kyiv.
Russia ‘doubles assaults’ against Ukraine in spring offensive
Russia-Ukraine war
Busy Old Compton Street in London with outdoor restaurant seating.
NEW
‘Alfresco Soho’ could return this summer after City Hall backing
London
High-speed Eurostar train in motion.
NEW
Tickets to Europe could drop by third if Eurostar rivals get green light
Transport
Keir Starmer speaking at a Labour Party local election campaign launch.
Fiscal rules are ironclad and will not change, Starmer insists
Politics
Busy Old Compton Street in London with outdoor restaurant seating.
NEW
‘Alfresco Soho’ could return this summer after City Hall backing
London
Busy Old Compton Street in London with outdoor restaurant seating.
NEW
‘Alfresco Soho’ could return this summer after City Hall backing
London
High-speed Eurostar train in motion.
NEW
Tickets to Europe could drop by third if Eurostar rivals get green light
Transport
High-speed Eurostar train in motion.
NEW
Tickets to Europe could drop by third if Eurostar rivals get green light
Transport
Keir Starmer speaking at a Labour Party local election campaign launch.
Fiscal rules are ironclad and will not change, Starmer insists
Politics
Keir Starmer speaking at a Labour Party local election campaign launch.
Fiscal rules are ironclad and will not change, Starmer insists
Politics
Crash involving five police cars leaves seven officers in hospital
Crash involving five police cars leaves seven officers in hospital
Volodymyr Zelensky meeting with French and British defense chiefs in Kyiv.
Russia ‘doubles assaults’ against Ukraine in spring offensive
Russia-Ukraine war
Busy Old Compton Street in London with outdoor restaurant seating.
NEW
‘Alfresco Soho’ could return this summer after City Hall backing
London
High-speed Eurostar train in motion.
NEW
Tickets to Europe could drop by third if Eurostar rivals get green light
Transport
Keir Starmer speaking at a Labour Party local election campaign launch.
Fiscal rules are ironclad and will not change, Starmer insists
Politics
Crash involving five police cars leaves seven officers in hospital
Crash involving five police cars leaves seven officers in hospital
Volodymyr Zelensky meeting with French and British defense chiefs in Kyiv.
Russia ‘doubles assaults’ against Ukraine in spring offensive
Russia-Ukraine war
Busy Old Compton Street in London with outdoor restaurant seating.
NEW
‘Alfresco Soho’ could return this summer after City Hall backing
London
Busy Old Compton Street in London with outdoor restaurant seating.
NEW
‘Alfresco Soho’ could return this summer after City Hall backing
London
High-speed Eurostar train in motion.
NEW
Tickets to Europe could drop by third if Eurostar rivals get green light
Transport
High-speed Eurostar train in motion.
NEW
Tickets to Europe could drop by third if Eurostar rivals get green light
Transport
Keir Starmer speaking at a Labour Party local election campaign launch.
Fiscal rules are ironclad and will not change, Starmer insists
Politics
Keir Starmer speaking at a Labour Party local election campaign launch.
Fiscal rules are ironclad and will not change, Starmer insists
Politics
Crash involving five police cars leaves seven officers in hospital
Crash involving five police cars leaves seven officers in hospital
Crash involving five police cars leaves seven officers in hospital
Crash involving five police cars leaves seven officers in hospital
Volodymyr Zelensky meeting with French and British defense chiefs in Kyiv.
Russia ‘doubles assaults’ against Ukraine in spring offensive
Russia-Ukraine war
Volodymyr Zelensky meeting with French and British defense chiefs in Kyiv.
Russia ‘doubles assaults’ against Ukraine in spring offensive
Russia-Ukraine war
Busy Old Compton Street in London with outdoor restaurant seating.
NEW
‘Alfresco Soho’ could return this summer after City Hall backing
London
High-speed Eurostar train in motion.
NEW
Tickets to Europe could drop by third if Eurostar rivals get green light
Transport
Keir Starmer speaking at a Labour Party local election campaign launch.
Fiscal rules are ironclad and will not change, Starmer insists
Politics
Busy Old Compton Street in London with outdoor restaurant seating.
NEW
‘Alfresco Soho’ could return this summer after City Hall backing
London
Busy Old Compton Street in London with outdoor restaurant seating.
NEW
‘Alfresco Soho’ could return this summer after City Hall backing
London
High-speed Eurostar train in motion.
NEW
Tickets to Europe could drop by third if Eurostar rivals get green light
Transport
High-speed Eurostar train in motion.
NEW
Tickets to Europe could drop by third if Eurostar rivals get green light
Transport
Keir Starmer speaking at a Labour Party local election campaign launch.
Fiscal rules are ironclad and will not change, Starmer insists
Politics
Keir Starmer speaking at a Labour Party local election campaign launch.
Fiscal rules are ironclad and will not change, Starmer insists
Politics
Crash involving five police cars leaves seven officers in hospital
Crash involving five police cars leaves seven officers in hospital
Volodymyr Zelensky meeting with French and British defense chiefs in Kyiv.
Russia ‘doubles assaults’ against Ukraine in spring offensive
Russia-Ukraine war
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Vladimir Putin meeting with Dmitry Ovsyannikov.
NEW
Putin ally given British passport convicted of breaching Russian sanctions
Crime
UPDATED
Prince Harry’s life ‘is at stake’ in security dispute, court told
Royal family
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World
Friedrich Merz and Markus Söder at a press conference announcing a German coalition government agreement.
UPDATED
Surge in AfD support overshadows Merz’s coalition deal

Germany’s next chancellor says the ‘future of Europe’ is at stake, as the hard right and a rebellion brewing in his party threaten his plans
Europe
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BERNARD LAGAN IN SYDNEY
Billionaire spends big on votes to ‘make Australia great again’
Australasia
Aerial view of a flooded homestead in Queensland, Australia.
New life blooms out of Australia’s devastating floods
Australasia
President Trump announcing reciprocal tariffs at a White House event.
NEW
INTERVIEW
‘Trump took my trade war model and changed it so everyone loses’
US news
52 minutes ago
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ANALYSIS
MARC BENNETTS ON RUSSIA
Putin sets sights on a new ‘western enemy’ — the devil
Russia-Ukraine war
Collage of Rembrandt paintings and a portrait of a man.
INTERVIEW
BRUNO WATERFIELD IN AMSTERDAM
How a billionaire New Yorker mastered the art of buying Rembrandts
Europe
Judith Godreche at the Cannes Film Festival.
NEW
French arts ‘riddled with sexual predators’, say MPs
Europe
51 minutes ago
President Trump announcing reciprocal tariffs at a White House event.
NEW
INTERVIEW
‘Trump took my trade war model and changed it so everyone loses’
US news
52 minutes ago
Illustration of a book cover of Mikhail Bulgakov's
ANALYSIS
MARC BENNETTS ON RUSSIA
Putin sets sights on a new ‘western enemy’ — the devil
Russia-Ukraine war
Collage of Rembrandt paintings and a portrait of a man.
INTERVIEW
BRUNO WATERFIELD IN AMSTERDAM
How a billionaire New Yorker mastered the art of buying Rembrandts
Europe
Judith Godreche at the Cannes Film Festival.
NEW
French arts ‘riddled with sexual predators’, say MPs
Europe
51 minutes ago
Collage of three men giving thumbs up, the Titanic, and Australian flags.
BERNARD LAGAN IN SYDNEY
Billionaire spends big on votes to ‘make Australia great again’
Australasia
Aerial view of a flooded homestead in Queensland, Australia.
New life blooms out of Australia’s devastating floods
Australasia

Comment
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JULIET SAMUEL This is the Sweeney Todd approach to tariffs

There’s a smarter way to correct global trade imbalances than threatening to feed the world economy into a meat grinder
Illustration of a band playing domestic politics.

Cartoon by Morten Morland

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EDWARD LUCAS We are wide open to Russia’s dirty tricks
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JANICE TURNER | NOTEBOOK Sweet, sticky, salty, nutty… but two squares are enough
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ROGER BOYES Does the US now see Iran as a soft target?
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ALICE THOMSON Laugh at the super-rich but keep them here
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EDWARD LUCAS We are wide open to Russia’s dirty tricks
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a man wearing glasses and a striped shirt smiles for the camera
a woman with blonde hair and blue eyes is wearing a blue jacket
a man wearing glasses and a blue shirt smiles for the camera
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Business & Money
Jerome Powell at a press conference.
Trump tariff panic hits government borrowing costs

Speculation of emergency Fed interest rate cut as sell-off in US Treasuries fuels global bond market rout
Economics
Patrick Hosking byline
Patrick Hosking When stress tests turn real, any hidden risks are revealed
a woman in a green shirt is smiling for the camera
Louisa Clarence-Smith Only Trump knows what’s coming next in his ‘America First’ agenda
The Bank of England in London.
UK at risk of economic shock, warns Bank of England
Economics
A GSK employee working on a Covid-19 vaccine packing line.
AstraZeneca and GSK shares dive as Trump threatens ‘major tariffs’
Companies
Traders on the S&P options pit at the Cboe Options Exchange.
ANALYSIS
Bonds sell-off strikes core of the financial system
Economics
People watching a news report about South Korean acting President Han Duck-soo and U.S. President Donald Trump on a TV screen.
What is the $1 trillion basis trade and how is it affecting markets?
US business
The Bank of England in London.
UK at risk of economic shock, warns Bank of England
Economics
A GSK employee working on a Covid-19 vaccine packing line.
AstraZeneca and GSK shares dive as Trump threatens ‘major tariffs’
Companies
Traders on the S&P options pit at the Cboe Options Exchange.
ANALYSIS
Bonds sell-off strikes core of the financial system
Economics
People watching a news report about South Korean acting President Han Duck-soo and U.S. President Donald Trump on a TV screen.
What is the $1 trillion basis trade and how is it affecting markets?
US business
Patrick Hosking byline
Patrick Hosking When stress tests turn real, any hidden risks are revealed
a woman in a green shirt is smiling for the camera
Louisa Clarence-Smith Only Trump knows what’s coming next in his ‘America First’ agenda

Sport
Mohamed Salah shirtless on a soccer field.
Salah closing in on new contract at Liverpool

There is growing expectation that Egypt forward will extend Anfield stay after Premier League club’s breakthrough in negotiations with Van Dijk
Football
Sir Bradley Wiggins, covered in mud, after finishing the Paris-Roubaix cycle race.
PARIS-ROUBAIX
‘Hell of the North’ has brought only blood and poetic brutality for British men
Cycling
Collage of a brick ranch house and an elderly couple.
RICK BROADBENT
The only house at Augusta that golf’s millions couldn’t buy
Golf
Alexandre Lacazette and Nemanja Matic celebrating a goal.
EUROPA LEAGUE
Matic: Onana is one of the worst goalkeepers in United’s history
Football
Ange Postecoglou, Tottenham Hotspur manager, at training.
NEW
‘Turning gold into crap’ — Postecoglou rails against Spurs critics
Football
Collage of tennis players.
NEW
STUART FRASER
Djokovic struggling, Sinner back and test for Raducanu: clay season storylines
Tennis
47 minutes ago
Harry Brook, England's new white-ball captain, at a press conference.
NEW
Brook: No amount of franchise money would make me quit England
Cricket
Alexandre Lacazette and Nemanja Matic celebrating a goal.
EUROPA LEAGUE
Matic: Onana is one of the worst goalkeepers in United’s history
Football
Ange Postecoglou, Tottenham Hotspur manager, at training.
NEW
‘Turning gold into crap’ — Postecoglou rails against Spurs critics
Football
Collage of tennis players.
NEW
STUART FRASER
Djokovic struggling, Sinner back and test for Raducanu: clay season storylines
Tennis
47 minutes ago
Harry Brook, England's new white-ball captain, at a press conference.
NEW
Brook: No amount of franchise money would make me quit England
Cricket
Sir Bradley Wiggins, covered in mud, after finishing the Paris-Roubaix cycle race.
PARIS-ROUBAIX
‘Hell of the North’ has brought only blood and poetic brutality for British men
Cycling
Collage of a brick ranch house and an elderly couple.
RICK BROADBENT
The only house at Augusta that golf’s millions couldn’t buy
Golf
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Life & Style
Brad Falchuk and Gwyneth Paltrow at the premiere of Netflix's
SHANE WATSON
The good stepmother guide, according to Gwyneth Paltrow (and me)

Yes, it’s hard. Even when you’re not famous, says Shane Watson
Parenting
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Will Lyons Six cracking wines for Easter weekend
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REVIEW
GILES COREN
Prince Arthur/the Lavery review — polar opposites, but I love both
Food & Drink
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CAITLIN MORAN’S CELEBRITY WATCH
Hobo or moonshine vendor? Choose your role in the great Trump Depression
Celebrity
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FIRST PERSON
My teen son, the porn addict: ‘Please, Mum, can you help me’
Parenting
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REVIEW
GILES COREN
Prince Arthur/the Lavery review — polar opposites, but I love both
Food & Drink
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CAITLIN MORAN’S CELEBRITY WATCH
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My teen son, the porn addict: ‘Please, Mum, can you help me’
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Culture
Rose Gray in a black leather jacket.
INTERVIEW
Rose Gray: ‘My Brat moment will come’

The 28-year-old Londoner sounds like Madonna, and her A-list fiancé has just been cast as John Lennon
Music
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FIRST NIGHT
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Theatre & Dance
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TV & Radio
Anthony Roth Costanzo as Akhnaten in Philip Glass's opera.
INTERVIEW
We said pay what you want for opera — the audience changed overnight
Classical & Opera
Man holding a fish.
REVIEW
Bon Iver: SABLE fABLE — an endearing mix of anxiety and contentment
Music
Promotional photo of Samuel Edward-Cook lifting weights.
REVIEW
FIRST NIGHT
Inside the feverish mind of Raoul Moat — doomed killer on the run
Theatre & Dance
Nicola Walker as DI Annika Strandhed and Jamie Sives as DS Michael McAndrews in a scene from Annika, Series 2, Episode 3.
VIEWING GUIDE
What’s on TV and radio tonight — Annika
TV & Radio
a woman in a white dress is standing next to a man in a suit
UPDATED
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Travel
Illustration of Lufthansa Allegris First Class suite with a bed.
The new ‘ultra-first-class’ plane suite — yours for £14,500 return

Welcome to Lufthansa’s Allegris service, which offers a private space for couples, 7ft-long beds and a maximum of four people in the cabin. Is it worth it?
Advice
Cruise ship sailing through a Norwegian fjord.
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Panoramic view of Lublin, Poland's historic city center.
This lesser-known Polish city is also one of its prettiest
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Win a luxury Derbyshire break worth up to £1,200 at Wildhive Callow Hall
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