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US ambassador attends Netanyahu trial to show support from Trump
US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee visited the corruption trial of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday and backed US President Donald Trump's call for the legal proceedings to be thrown out or for the Israeli leader to be pardoned. Huckabee told reporters in Tel Aviv that his unusual decision to be present for the trial was "a matter of representing what the president [Trump] has said repeatedly". "The president has made his position very clear. He has not intervened in the proceedings or in the outcome," Huckabee said. "He recognises that has to go its own way. But it's a personal thing for him. He considers the prime minister a friend." Huckabee described the bond between Netanyahu and Trump "extraordinary", adding that it was strengthened by the Israeli leader's recent visit to Washington. Netanyahu was indicted in 2019 on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust in three separate cases — all of which he denies. Israel's prime minister has painted the trial against him as a deliberate left-wing witch-hunt. Trump has urged Israel to drop the case or "pardon" Netanyahu, claiming the trial could hinder the Israeli's leader ability to negotiate with the Palestinian militant group Hamas. In a post on Truth Social last month, Trump called the case against Netanyahu a "witch hunt," a phrase he often used to describe investigations into his own legal troubles in the US, adding: "This travesty of justice cannot be allowed." In response, Netanyahu thanked Trump "for your moving support for me and your tremendous support for Israel". Although Netanyahu's have allies welcomed Trump's comments, Israel's main opposition leader Yair Lapid said the US president should avoid interfering in a foreign trial. "With all due respect to Trump, he should not interfere in a legal process in an independent country," he told domestic media. Among the charges against Netanyahu, he and his wife are accused of accepting more than $260,000 (€223, 797) in luxury goods — including pink champagne and cigars — in return for political favours. In two other cases, Netanyahu is accused of attempting to exchange regulatory favours with media owners in Israel for positive media coverage in two Israeli news outlets. The Israeli leader has requested multiple postponements to the trial since it began in 2020, citing the need to deal with Israel's war in Gaza and the fallout of the deadly 7 October Hamas attack.
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Polish factory in Ukraine targeted by Russian drones, Poland says
Russia's latest overnight drone strikes on Ukraine hit a Polish factory in the central city of Vinnytsia in what Poland's foreign minister described on Wednesday as a targeted attack. Russian aerial bombardment overnight pounded four Ukrainian cities, injuring at least 15 people in attacks that mostly targeted energy infrastructure, officials said. In a post on X, Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski wrote that the director of the Barlinek Group's factory in Vinnytsia had said drones hit the plant from three directions and that the attack was "intentional". "There are injuries, including two severely burned," Sikorski wrote on X, saying that Ukrainian authorities and the Polish consulate were responding to the incident. "Putin's criminal war is coming closer to our borders," he added. The Vinnytsia factory is the Barlinek Group's first overseas branch. It was opened in October 2007 and manufacturers floorboards and panels. The Barlinek Group belongs to Michał Sołowow, who is estimated to be the richest man in Poland. According to Forbes, his net worth is $13.8 billion (€11.9bn), making him the 187th richest person on earth. Euronews has reached out to the Barlinek Group's spokesperson for comment. Russia ramps up aerial attacks In the latest overnight attack, Russia launched 400 Shahed and decoy drones, as well as one ballistic missile, the Ukrainian air force said. The strikes targeted northeastern Kharkiv, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's hometown of Kryvyi Rih in central Ukraine, Odesa in the south and Vinnytsia. Russia's escalating aerial campaign against civilian areas comes amid a 2 September deadline set by U.S. President Donald Trump for the Kremlin to reach a peace deal in the three-year war, under the threat of possible severe Washington sanctions if it doesn't. Trump on Monday pledged to deliver more weapons to Ukraine, including vital Patriot air defence systems, and threatened to slap additional sanctions on Russia. It was Trump's toughest stance toward Russian President Vladimir Putin since returning to the White House nearly six months ago. But some US lawmakers and European government officials expressed misgivings that the 50-day deadline handed Putin the opportunity to capture more Ukrainian territory before any settlement to end the fighting. Other US ultimatums to Putin in recent months have failed to persuade the Russian leader to stop his full-scale invasion of neighbouring Ukraine. Tens of thousands of soldiers have been killed in the war, many of them along the more than 1,000-kilometre (620-mile) front line, and Russian barrages of cities have killed more than 12,000 Ukrainian civilians, the United Nations says.
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President Trump: Pharma tariff is coming, Indonesia deal sealed
US President Donald Trump announced that Washington had sealed a trade deal with Indonesia on Tuesday. The tariffs on imports from the Asian country will now be 19%, Trump said on his Truth Social platform, significantly below the previously threatened 32%. 'They are going to pay 19% and we are going to pay nothing,' said Trump to reporters about the agreement, before boarding the presidential helicopter on Tuesday. He claimed that American goods sent to the Southeast Asian country would face no tariffs. In a separate social media post, Trump said, 'Great deal, for everybody, just made with Indonesia'. He added that he dealt with the country's president directly. 'As part of the agreement, Indonesia has committed to purchasing $15 billion in US Energy, $4.5 billion in American Agricultural Products, and 50 Boeing Jets, many of them 777s,' said the US President in his Truth Social post. The Indonesian government has yet to confirm this agreement. Trump also said Indonesia was 'very strong' on copper. But it was unclear what role copper played in any agreement, as he has separately taxed the commodity at 50% starting on 1 August. How Big Pharma is about to be tariffed Trump also said he would "probably" announce tariffs on pharmaceutical drugs at the end of the month, and that levies on semiconductors could come soon as well. The president said he would start at a lower tariff rate and give pharma companies a year to build domestic factories before they face higher import tax rates. Trump said computer chips would face a similar style of tariffs. As the EU is negotiating a deal with the US, the pharmaceutical sector is eagerly watching every move that might impact the industry in the bloc, as more than one-third of EU pharma exports are sent to the US. US tariffs of over 10% on smaller nations, including those in Africa and the Caribbean President Donald Trump told reporters on Tuesday that he also plans to place tariffs of over 10% on smaller countries, including nations in Africa and the Caribbean. "We'll probably set one tariff for all of them," Trump said, adding that it could be "a little over 10% tariff" on goods from at least 100 nations. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick interjected that the nations with goods being taxed at these rates would be in Africa and the Caribbean. These are countries that generally do relatively modest levels of trade with the US and would be fairly insignificant for addressing Trump's goals of reducing trade imbalances with the rest of the world. This month, the president has been posting letters to roughly two dozen countries and the European Union, outlining tariff rates to be charged starting 1 August. The countries targeted so far have generally been threatened with tax rates close to the 2 April levies announced by the US president. The initial announcement of historically high US import taxes caused financial markets to panic and led to the creation of a 90-day negotiating period that was set to expire on 9 July, before an extension into August. US launches investigation into Brazil's trade practices Meanwhile, this week, the United States has launched an investigation into trading practices by Brazil, labelling them as "unfair". The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) said in a statement that Brazil's approach was harming American companies, particularly in the fields of digital trade and electronic payment services. The White House has accused Brazil of harming US exports by offering more preferential tariffs to 'certain globally competitive trade partners'. The probe is also looking into the country's anti-corruption measures, intellectual property protection and illegal deforestation, and tariffs on US ethanol exports. 'Brazil has walked away from its willingness to provide virtually duty-free treatment for US ethanol and instead now applies a substantially higher tariff on US ethanol exports,' said the statement. These accusations follow Washington's threat of a 50% tariff on goods imports from Brazil from 1 August, if there is no agreement on a trade deal. In his letter, informing the country about the new tariff rate, the US President also accused the government of the country of undertaking a 'witch hunt' against former far-right President Jair Bolsonaro. Bolsonaro is currently on trial for allegedly attempting a coup to overturn the 2022 election results. Brazilian President Lula da Silva warned of retaliatory tariffs on the US if Trump imposes a 50% levy, risking a trade war.
