Putin appeared open to a cease-fire with Ukraine
President Vladimir Putin of Russia yesterday appeared to voice preliminary help for a cease-fire, however made it clear he was in no hurry. He mentioned he needed to proceed negotiating with President Trump, however informed reporters in Moscow that Russia was in favor of a 30-day truce — with quite a few circumstances.
Among the many questions he hopes to deal with, Putin mentioned, is whether or not Kyiv would proceed getting arms shipments throughout the truce, and the way the cease-fire can be monitored and enforced. He mentioned that Ukrainian forces occupying land within the Kursk area wouldn’t be allowed to peacefully withdraw. Kyiv may as an alternative get them organized “to easily give up.” He didn’t repeat his demand that Kyiv cede land from 4 areas in trade for a cease-fire.
Trump mentioned yesterday that the U.S. and Ukraine had been discussing land that Kyiv must surrender as a part of an settlement to finish the warfare, and informed reporters that “plenty of the small print of a last settlement have really been mentioned.”
Quote: President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine mentioned that Putin solely needed to proceed the warfare and had set so many preconditions “that nothing will work out in any respect or that it’ll not work out for so long as potential.”
Trump threatened Europe with a 200% alcohol tariff
President Trump escalated his commerce warfare with the E.U. yesterday, asserting he would “shortly place” 200 p.c tariffs on European wine and champagne if the bloc didn’t reverse its personal U.S. tariffs deliberate for April 1.
The S&P 500 fell 1.4 p.c, slipping into correction territory and underscoring traders’ souring temper over Trump’s insurance policies.
European leaders have made it clear that they might somewhat make a cope with Trump than enact tariffs. In an interview yesterday, Howard Lutnick, the U.S. commerce secretary, warned different nations towards retaliating. “For those who make him sad, he responds sad,” Lutnick mentioned of Trump.
What’s subsequent: The E.U. commerce commissioner could have calls along with his U.S. counterparts in Washington right this moment, a spokesman mentioned.
Vineyards: A 200 p.c tariff “would kill the enterprise completely,” mentioned an proprietor of a small Champagne home that exports 10 to 12 p.c of its annual manufacturing to the U.S.
For a lot of Syrians, a return house is a return to nothing
Throughout 13 years of civil warfare, greater than six million Syrians left the nation and a few seven million have been displaced inside its borders. After President Bashar al-Assad was ousted final yr, the interim chief has mentioned thousands and thousands can return. However after greater than a decade of combating, rubble is all that’s left of hundreds of properties.
Some folks have chosen to dwell of their properties, regardless of how broken. Many others have determined to stay exterior Syria in the intervening time, together with in camps in Turkey and Jordan. They watch as latest sectarian violence performs out on the nation’s coast.
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Japan held a uncommon public sale this week, however not for artwork or vintage vehicles. On the desk have been practically 150,000 metric tonnes of rice from the federal government’s emergency stockpile, bought off to drive down costs throughout a nationwide scarcity. No person is kind of certain what brought about the issue, however specialists assume that speculators could also be hoarding the grain in anticipation of rising costs.
An official referred to as the disaster “really unthinkable.”
Lives lived: James Cause, a British professor who grew to become an authority on the psychology of human error via his Swiss cheese mannequin for failure, died at 86.
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The bone hunters of Siberia
Mammoths and different ice age creatures as soon as roamed the Yakutia area of Russia, and the freezing local weather has saved their fossils hidden underneath permafrost for hundreds of years. Now, explorers are diving within the ice-covered Adycha River for skulls and tusks which are hundreds of years previous.
Temperatures can attain brutal lows, and success is unpredictable. Generally the river provides so much, and typically nothing.
“The world underneath the water is so unusual and mysterious,” one diver mentioned. “It appears to be like like this historical cemetery.”
