Israel launched airstrikes in Syria, targeting Syrian military headquarters. This act of aggression pressured the Syrian politicians to renew a ceasefire with Israel.
5 illegal immigrants from the US were supposed to be returned to their native countries. However, these countries did not want to accept these people because they were felons and had done bad things. Eswatini, a country in Africa, agreed to let their people into their country very hesitantly, and these felons were left on Eswatini’s border as of July 15th. Donald Trump wants to continue this wave of deportation of illegal immigrants and is resuming to raid workplaces.
Indonesia’s President Prabowo and Donald Trump agreed to a mutual tariff(taxes on products from one country to another) reduction from 32% to 19%.
Trump imposed a 30% tariff on all European goods. Europe politicians find that number to be very unrealistic for their economy and are trying to find a fair compromise on the tariffs.
France, the UK, and Germany talked together in a UN meeting, saying that if Iran doesn’t abandon their creation of nuclear weapons, they will enforce sanctions(boycotting goods) on Iran. Iran doesn’t think that this is a fair trade because they believe they should have the means to protect itself after a short war with Israel in June.
Canada is becoming stricter with its steel tariffs to increase domestic production. If importers don’t have a free-trade agreement with Canada, they will be able to import half of what they imported last year before incurring(getting) a 50% tariff.