The most intense clashes for years rocked Tripoli for a second night and continued into Wednesday morning, witnesses in the Libyan capital said, after Monday’s killing of a major militia leader set off fighting between rival factions. The United Nations Libya mission UNSMIL said it was “deeply alarmed by the escalating violence in densely populated neighborhoods of Tripoli” and urgently called for a ceasefire. The latest unrest in Libya’s capital could consolidate the power of Abdulhamid al-Dbeibah, prime minister of the divided country’s Government of National Unity (GNU) and an ally of Turkey. Libya has had little stability since a 2011 NATO-backed uprising ousted longtime autocrat Muammar Gaddafi and the country split in 2014 between rival eastern and western factions, though an outbreak of major warfare paused with a truce in 2020. A major energy exporter, Libya is also an important way station for migrants heading to Europe and its conflict has drawn in foreign powers including Turkey, Russia, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates. Its main oil facilities are located in southern and eastern Libya, far from the current fighting in Triopli. While eastern Libya has been dominated for a decade by commander Khalifa Haftar and his Libyan National Army (LNA), control in Tripoli and western Libya has been splintered among numerous armed factions. Dbeibah on Tuesday ordered the dismantling of what he called irregular armed groups. That announcement followed Monday’s killing of major militia chief Abdulghani Kikli, widely known as Ghaniwa, and the sudden defeat of his Stabilization Support Apparatus (SSA) group by factions aligned with Dbeibah. The seizure of SSA territory in Libya by the Dbeibah-allied factions, the 444 and 111 Brigades, indicated a major concentration of power in the fragmented capital, leaving the Special Deterrence Force (Rada) as the last big faction not closely tied to the prime minister.

Nottingham Forest striker Taiwo Awoniyi has reportedly been placed into an induced coma following “urgent” surgery for a serious abdominal injury suffered during a Premier League match over the weekend. Awoniyi collided with the post during Forest’s 2-2 draw with Leicester City on Sunday but, despite being clearly hampered after the incident, remained on the pitch for the final 10 minutes of the game. Forest said in a statement on Tuesday that the Nigerian striker was “recovering well” following surgery on a “serious abdominal injury.” British media, including the BBC and Sky Sports, reported that Awoniyi had been placed in an induced coma in hospital as part of the recovery process. Awoniyi sustained his injury as he tried to connect with a cross from Anthony Elanga. The 27-year-old stretched to make contact with the ball in an attempt to score, but in his efforts, collided with the frame of the goal; it later turned out that Elanga had been offside but the sideline official didn’t raise their flag until after Awoniyi had struck the post. Awoniyi received lengthy treatment on the pitch afterwards but was deemed OK to continue – Forest made its final permitted substitution after Awoniyi signaled he was fit to remain playing – despite being in clear discomfort. According to Forest’s Tuesday statement, the decision to allow Awoniyi to remain on the pitch after evaluation from medical staff is what sparked a heated discussion on the field between the club’s owner, Evangelos Marinakis, and manager, Nuno Espírito Santo – an incident which had drawn criticism from pundits and social media – after the draw which left the club’s Champions League qualification hopes in the balance. Espírito Santo said after the match that Marinakis was enquiring about the decision from the club’s medical staff to allow Awoniyi to continue rather than anything related to the performance of the team. In Tuesday’s sternly-worded statement, Forest dismissed comments that Marinakis had confronted Espírito Santo as “fake news.” “The truth of the matter is there was no confrontation, with Nuno or with others, either on the pitch or inside the stadium,” Forest said. “There was only shared frustration between all of us that the medical team should never have allowed the player to continue. “We urge former coaches and players, and other public figures in the game, to resist the urge to rush to judgement and fake news online, especially when they do not have the full facts and context.” Forest called the reaction to Marinakis and Espírito Santo’s on-field discussion “baseless and ill-informed outrage for the purposes of personal social media traction.” Since joining Forest from Union Berlin in Germany in 2022, Awoniyi has scored 17 goals in 73 Premier League appearances for the club.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has unveiled his cabinet, promising "decisive action" on his ambitious economic agenda, amid a trade war with the US. The new cabinet of 28 ministers and 10 secretaries of state heralds some significant changes, including a new foreign minister to handle the US-Canada relationship. The reshuffle, two weeks after the election, brings some familiar names as well as political newcomers - a team "purpose-built for this hinge moment", Carney told reporters. There are 24 new faces in cabinet, including 13 first-time MPs. Several veterans of former PM Justin Trudeau's government, such as Melanie Joly and Chrystia Freeland, return to cabinet. Other holdovers from the Trudeau era include Anita Anand, Gary Anandasangaree, Sean Fraser and Dominic LeBlanc. But housing, immigration and energy - key departments for which the Trudeau government was heavily criticised - have been given to first-time ministers. Carney is also continuing Trudeau's policy of maintaining gender parity in his cabinet. A new US-Canada team "Canada's new ministry is built to deliver the change Canadians want and deserve," Carney said on Tuesday. He has made a number of changes to the core team of ministers handling the strained relationship with the US. It comes after Carney recently met Trump at the White House, after which he said the US leader was willing to negotiate a new trade deal. Veteran member of parliament (MP), Dominic LeBlanc, who has overseen a number of cabinet positions, most recently international trade, will now focus on Canada-US trade and breaking down internal trade barriers within the country - a key campaign pledge. Toronto-area MP Maninder Sidhu, takes over as minister of international trade. Carney has also named a new foreign minister, Anita Anand, who held a number of top roles in Trudeau's cabinet, including defence. Melanie Joly was shuffled out of foreign affairs and given the industry portfolio. Former justice minister Gary Anandasangaree now takes on the role of public safety, a department that will oversee border security, which Trump has cited as a key reason for imposing tariffs on Canada as well as Mexico. David McGuinty, who previously held that position, now oversees defence. Two prominent names have been pushed out of the cabinet - Bill Blair, who oversaw defence, and Jonathan Wilkinson, natural resources minister. Rookie MP Tim Hodgson, first elected in April, is taking over at natural resources. Carney worked with him at the Bank of Canada, where Hodgson served as a special adviser. Fresh faces in key roles The 10 secretaries of state will assist the senior ministers on key portfolios. Some notable names remaining in their roles include Francois-Philippe Champagne, who stays on as finance minister, a position he has held since March. Chrystia Freeland, the deputy prime minister under Trudeau and a former foreign affairs and finance minister in his government, stays in transport. Steven Guilbeault will continue to oversee Canadian culture and official languages. Federal cabinets in Canada by tradition balance representation of the country's regional, linguistic and ethnic diversity. The new cabinet includes representation from Canada's prairie provinces - a minister and secretary of state - where there are growing musings about separation amid a broader sense of western alienation from the power centre in Ottawa. Some of the new faces include former broadcaster Evan Solomon, who will be minister of artificial intelligence and digital innovation. Toronto MP Julie Dabrusin joins cabinet for the first time as environment minister after having served as parliamentary secretary for the file since 2021. Halifax MP Lena Metlege Diab is also new to cabinet in the role of minister for immigration. Vancouver's former mayor, Gregor Robertson, takes on a significant role overseeing housing. Carney has pledged to significantly ramp up construction amid a housing affordability crisis in Canada. Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre criticised Carney for keeping so many ministers who served in Trudeau's cabinet. "That isn't the change that Mr Carney promised," he said.

The United Nations mission in Libya called for de-escalation Monday after fighting erupted in the North African nation’s capital. The UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) is “alarmed by the unfolding security situation in Tripoli with intense fighting with heavy weaponry in densely populated civilian areas,” it said in a post on X late Monday. “The Mission calls on all parties to immediately cease fighting and restore calm, and reminds all parties of their obligations to protect civilians at all times,” UNSMIL added. “Attacks on civilians and civilian objects may amount to war crimes.” Gunfire was heard in Tripoli as reports emerged that a prominent commander, Abdulghani Kikli of the Support Force Apparatus SSA, one of the capital’s most powerful armed groups, was killed, Reuters reported. The Support Force Apparatus SSA is a state-backed security institution affiliated with the Presidential Council, according to its website. Libya has been embroiled in a political conflict since long-time dictator Moammar Gaddafi was overthrown in 2011, leading to the emergence of several armed groups. While a 2020 ceasefire brought some peace, the country remains fragile and divided, with the internationally recognized Government of National Unity (GNU) ruling in Tripoli and the northwest and the Government of National Stability ruling in Benghazi in the east. Armed clashes have occasionally been reported, with major factions vying for control over Libya’s substantial oil and gas reserves. Amid reports of violence, the GNU’s health ministry told local hospitals and medical centers in Tripoli to prepare for emergencies, according to a post on its Facebook account. The GNU’s interior ministry called on citizens in a short statement to stay at home “for their own safety,” according to Reuters. The University of Tripoli Presidency also announced on Facebook the suspension of all studies, exams, and administrative work until further notice. The latest instability comes as the Trump administration mulls plans to deport migrants to Libya from the United States. CNN first reported the administration was communicating with Libya to have the country take migrants from the US. The administration appeared to be moving forward with those plans as recently as Wednesday, when migrants believed to be bound for Libya sat for hours on a bus before abruptly being returned to a detention facility. The White House declined to comment on those flight plans.

BEIJING — Xi Jinping didn’t even have to mention Donald Trump by name to get his point across. The Chinese president was giving the hard sell to a room full of senior Latin American leaders on Tuesday. He promoted his country’s stability and fundamental reasonableness, providing a clear contrast between him and his U.S. counterpart’s erratic trade war. “Bullying and coercion only lead to isolation,” he said in Beijing at the China-CELAC, or Community of Latin American and Caribbean States Forum. The context was clear. The world’s two largest economies remain engaged in a trade war that has also engulfed nearly every country on earth, including more than 30 Latin American and Caribbean countries who sent heads of state and senior officials to Tuesday's forum. In his first public comments since the U.S. and China agreed to a 90-day pause on most of their levies in trade talks over the weekend, Xi said Beijing was ready to work with Latin American and Caribbean countries in the face of “rising geopolitical tensions and bloc confrontation, unilateralism and protectionism.” While Trump has allies such as El Salvador President Nayib Bukele and Argentinian President Javier Milei, he has alienated much of Latin America with his threats to “take back” the Panama Canal and his derogatory comments about immigrants, said Bárbara Fernández Melleda, an assistant professor in Latin American studies at the University of Hong Kong. “It seems that Donald Trump is certainly Latin American-adverse, and the way he’s been speaking about the Latin American community in the United States has been really sad for us,” she said. “What’s happening, not just in Latin America, is that countries are saying, 'Well, if these big countries are getting hostile, we should just find other partnerships.'” China played up those tensions in the lead-up to the forum, rejecting the idea of Latin American and Caribbean countries being in anyone’s “backyard.” “What the people of Latin America and the Caribbean seek are independence and self-determination, not the so-called new Monroe Doctrine,” Assistant Foreign Minister Miao Deyu was quoted as saying by Chinese state media, referring to the 19th-century U.S. approach to the region as its “sphere of influence” that Trump has been accused of trying to revive. The Cuban ambassador to China, Alberto Blanco Silva, told NBC News after Xi’s speech that he viewed China “as a factor of stability, balance and opportunity — not only for the world, but also for Latin America.” China is Latin America’s second-biggest trading partner after the United States, and Latin America is the biggest destination for Chinese outbound investment outside Asia. Last year, total trade between China and Latin America exceeded $500 billion for the first time, up from $12 billion in 2000. Beijing has also been cultivating Latin American ties with an eye on Taiwan, the self-governing island democracy it views as a breakaway province. Most of Taiwan’s few remaining diplomatic allies are in the region, and China peeled away one of them — Honduras — in 2023. Chinese influence in Latin America can be seen in the electric vehicles on its roads as well as massive infrastructure projects, such as the $1.3 billion Chancay port in Peru. While there are concerns and criticism around such projects, Latin American countries’ relationship with China “seems to be more symmetrical than we are used to,” especially when compared with the U.S. and former colonial rulers in Europe, Fernández Melleda said. Xi said Tuesday that China would import more from Latin America, encourage Chinese companies to increase investment and provide 66 billion yuan ($9.1 billion) in fresh credit to support Latin American and Caribbean financing. The Chinese leader also said he wanted to deepen Latin America’s involvement in Beijing’s Belt and Road infrastructure initiative. Colombian President Gustavo Petro, who in January agreed to accept U.S. deportation flights after Trump threatened him with sweeping tariffs, said Monday that his country would join Belt and Road.

BEIJING — The U.S.-China tariff cuts, even if temporary, address a major pain point: Christmas presents. Nearly a fifth of U.S. retail sales last year came from the Christmas holiday season, according to CNBC calculations based on data from the National Retail Federation. The period saw a 4% year-on-year sales increase to a record $994.1 billion. “With the speed of Chinese factories, this 90-day window can resolve most of the product shortages for the U.S. Christmas season,” Ryan Zhao, director at export-focused company Jiangsu Green Willow Textile, said Monday in Chinese, translated by CNBC. His company had paused production for U.S. clients last month. He expects orders to resume but not necessarily to the same levels as before the new tariffs kicked in since U.S. buyers have found alternatives to China-based suppliers in the last few weeks. U.S. retailers typically place orders months in advance, giving factories in China enough lead time to manufacture the products and ship them to reach the U.S. ahead of major holidays. The two global superpowers’ sudden doubling of tariffs in early April forced some businesses to halt production, raising questions about whether supply chains would be able to resume work in time to get products on the shelves for Christmas. “The 90-day window staves off a potential Christmas disaster for retailers,” Cameron Johnson, Shanghai-based senior partner at consulting firm Tidalwave Solutions, said Monday. “It does not help Father’s Day [sales] and there will still be impact on back-to-school sales, as well as added costs for tariffs and logistics so prices will be going up overall,” he said. But U.S. duties on Chinese goods aren’t completely gone. The Trump administration added 20% in tariffs on Chinese goods earlier this year in two phases, citing the country’s alleged role in the U.S. fentanyl crisis. The addictive drug, precursors to which are mostly produced in China and Mexico, has led to tens of thousands of overdose deaths each year in the U.S. The subsequent tit-for-tat trade spat saw duties skyrocketing over 100% on exports from both countries. While most of those tariffs have been paused for 90 days under the new deal the U.S. and China announced Monday, the previously imposed tariffs will remain in place. UBS estimates that the total weighted average U.S. tariff rate on Chinese products now stands around 43.5%, including pre-existing duties imposed in past years. For running shoes produced in China, the total tariff is now 47%, still well above the 17% level in January, said Tony Post, CEO and founder of Massachusetts-based Topo Athletic. He said his company received some cost reductions from its China factories and suppliers, but still had to raise prices slightly to offset the tariff impact. “While this is good news, we’re still hopeful the two countries can reach an acceptable permanent agreement,” he said. “We remain committed to our Chinese suppliers and are relieved, at least for now, that we can continue to work together.” U.S. retail giant Walmart declined to confirm the impact of the reduced tariffs on its orders from China. “We are encouraged by the progress made over the weekend and will have more to say during our earnings call later this week,” the company said in a statement to CNBC. The U.S. retail giant is set to report quarterly results Thursday. China’s exports to the U.S. fell more than 20% in April from a year ago, but overall Chinese exports to the world rose 8.1% during that time, official data showed last week. Goldman Sachs estimated around 16 million Chinese jobs are tied to producing products for the U.S.

Trump landed at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, shortly before 10 a.m. local time (3 a.m. ET), beginning his visit to the kingdom and the first planned trip of his second term. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman will greet Trump and escort him to a coffee ceremony. This is the second time Trump has chosen Saudi Arabia for his first planned overseas trip as U.S. president, and bin Salman was also the first foreign leader to hold a call with Trump this term. Trump will later travel to the Royal Court for an arrival ceremony with bin Salman, an introduction of the delegations, a coffee service in the ceremonial blue room, a lunch with business leaders, bilateral meetings and an agreement signing. The four-day Middle East trip will also take Trump to Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. In Trump’s vision, he’s set to usher in an American “golden age” in which the nation makes more of the world’s goods and sells more of its products. But when it comes to the president’s personal travel, he’s ready to ditch the old 747 known as Air Force One in favor of a luxe jet that the royal family of Qatar, a tiny yet rich Arab country nearly 7,000 miles away, wants to gift to the U.S. The image of the ‘America First’ president floating above the clouds in Qatari splendor doesn’t sit well with some of the MAGA faithful, much less the good government groups who warn the deal may run afoul of the constitutional clause that bars gifts from foreign nations absent congressional approval. “That’s a pretty strange offer,” Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis. said.

His surprise arrest by Philippine police at the request of the ICC caused outrage among his army of supporters, who called it a kidnapping at the behest of a foreign court. He has defended the anti-drug crackdown, and his legal team says his arrest was unlawful. The ICC maintains it has jurisdiction to prosecute alleged crimes committed before Duterte withdrew the Philippines from its founding treaty in 2019. Despite the ICC’s case also including alleged killings of criminal suspects by a “death squad” in Davao while Duterte was mayor — which he has denied — analysts have said his arrest has only hardened support for him and his family, in Davao and beyond. The former president’s two sons were also set to win posts on Monday, one re-elected congressman and the other winning the contest for Davao vice mayor and likely to serve in his father’s absence. The family’s political resilience and dominance in Davao could prove pivotal as Duterte’s popular daughter, Vice President Sara Duterte, faces an impeachment trial that could see her banned from politics for life if convicted, killing off any hopes of a presidential run. Asked earlier Monday about her father’s likely victory, she said plans would be made for him to be sworn in as mayor. “The ICC lawyer said once we get proclamation papers, we will discuss how he can take oath,” she said.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi warned Pakistan on Monday that New Delhi would target “terrorist hideouts” across the border again if there were new attacks on India and would not be deterred by what he called Islamabad’s “nuclear blackmail.” Modi’s first public comments since Indian armed forces launched strikes on what New Delhi said were “terrorist camps” across the border last week indicated a hardening of India’s position on ties with its neighbor, which were icy even before the latest fighting. Pakistan denies Indian accusations that it supports militants who attack it and says the locations hit by India last week were civilian sites. Modi was speaking two days after the nuclear-armed neighbors agreed to a ceasefire, announced by President Donald Trump. The truce was reached after four days of intense exchanges of fire as the old enemies targeted each other’s military installations with missiles and drones, killing dozens of civilians. The military confrontation began on Wednesday, when India said it launched strikes on nine “terrorist infrastructure” sites in Pakistan and Pakistani Kashmir following an attack on Hindu tourists by Islamist militants in Indian Kashmir last month that killed 26 men. Islamabad denied any links to the attack and called for a neutral investigation. “If there is a terrorist attack on India, a fitting reply will be given... on our terms,” Modi said, speaking in Hindi in a televised address. “In the coming days, we will measure every step of Pakistan... what kind of attitude Pakistan will adopt.” “India will strike precisely and decisively at the terrorist hideouts developing under the cover of nuclear blackmail,” he said, and listed New Delhi’s conditions for holding talks with Islamabad and lifting curbs imposed after the Kashmir attack. “India’s position is clear: Terror and talks cannot go together; terror and trade cannot go together. And water and blood cannot flow together,” he said, referring to a water-sharing pact between the two countries that New Delhi has suspended. There was no immediate response to his comments from Islamabad. Hindu-majority India and Muslim Pakistan both rule part of the Himalayan region of Kashmir, but claim it in full. They have fought two of their three wars since independence in 1947 over the region and there have been several other more limited flare-ups, including in 2016 and 2019. The latest military conflict between the South Asian neighbors spiraled alarmingly on Saturday, and there were briefly fears that nuclear arsenals might come into play as Pakistan’s military said a top body overseeing its nuclear weapons would meet. But the Pakistani defense minister said no such meeting was scheduled. Military analysts said this might have been Pakistan’s way of hinting at its nuclear option as Islamabad has a “first-use” policy if its existence is under threat in a conflict. Modi’s address came hours after the military operations chiefs of India and Pakistan spoke by phone, two days after they agreed to the ceasefire. “Issues related to continuing the commitment that both sides must not fire a single shot or initiate any aggressive and inimical action against each other were discussed,” the Indian army said. “It was also agreed that both sides consider immediate measures to ensure troop reduction from the borders and forward areas,” it added. There was no immediate Pakistani readout of the military operations chiefs’ talks. In Washington, Trump said the leaders of India and Pakistan were “unwavering,” and the U.S. “helped a lot” to secure the ceasefire, adding that trade was a “big reason” the countries stopped fighting. “We are going to do a lot of trade with Pakistan... and India. We are negotiating with India right now. We are soon going to negotiate with Pakistan,” he said, just ahead of Modi’s speech. Pakistan has thanked the U.S. for brokering the ceasefire while India, which opposes third-party involvement in its disputes with Pakistan, has not commented on Washington’s role. In Beijing, the foreign ministry said China, which also controls a small slice of Kashmir, was willing to maintain communication with both its neighbors, and play a “constructive role in achieving a comprehensive and lasting ceasefire” and maintaining peace. India blames Pakistan for an insurgency in its part of Kashmir that began in 1989, but Pakistan says it provides only moral, political and diplomatic support to Kashmiri separatists.

SYDNEY, Australia — Wall Street stock futures climbed and the dollar firmed against safe haven peers on Monday as signs of progress in U.S.-China trade talks raised hopes that a global recession might be avoided, though specifics were still sorely lacking. Geopolitical tensions also looked to be easing as a fragile ceasefire held between India and Pakistan, while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he was ready to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Turkey on Thursday for talks. Over in Geneva, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent touted “substantial progress” in trade discussions, while Chinese officials said the two sides had reached “important consensus” and agreed to launch another new economic dialogue forum. A joint statement is expected later on Monday, though it was notable that neither side mentioned tariff rates specifically. “What we seem to have here, then, is a broad framework under which the two nations can conduct further talks, with the aim of reaching a broader trade agreement,” said Michael Brown, a senior research strategist at Pepperstone. “Not the worst-case outcome that was possible from this weekend’s talks, far from it, but not a concrete deal either,” he added. “Does this progress allow for any tariffs to be paused, reduced or rolled back, and if so for how long?” Investors are hoping the White House will soon scale back the 145% tariff on Chinese goods, even if only back to the 60% first flagged by President Donald Trump. Trump still seems wedded to keeping broad tariffs in place no matter what, which will drag on economic growth and push up prices, but any trade progress could help dodge a sharp downturn. Markets reacted by pushing S&P 500 futures up 1.2%, while Nasdaq futures rose 1.4%. EUROSTOXX 50 futures firmed 0.9%, while FTSE futures added 0.4% and DAX futures 0.7%. Japan’s Nikkei edged up 0.3%, while South Korea’s Kospi gained 0.4%. Chinese blue chips firmed 0.8%, though data over the weekend showed factory-gate prices posted the steepest drop in six months in April while consumer prices fell for a third month. The dollar added 0.4% on the safe haven yen to reach 145.90, though it was off an early five-week peak of 146.31. The euro dipped 0.2% to $1.1224 and the dollar index edged up 0.2% to 100.60. The dollar also dipped 0.2% on the offshore Chinese yuan to 7.2278, and back toward last week’s low of 7.1846.