The Tesla CEO is on a mission to block President Donald Trump’s tax bill after he tried – and failed – to convince Republican lawmakers to preserve valuable tax credits for electric vehicles.

When the US president launched his global trade war in April, South Korea was hamstrung, frozen by political turmoil. And a key industry was in the firing line.

The US president foreshadowed a Kremlin response to the weekend’s massive Ukrainian drone attacks on air bases that destroyed billions of dollars worth of equipment.

More than 20,000 people have been evacuated in the German city of Cologne, so authorities can defuse three unexploded bombs from World War II

Trade officials will be dispatched to Brussels within days to revive stalled free trade negotiations with the European Union, as escalating global trade tensions inject fresh urgency into finalising the long-delayed pact.