AstraZeneca cancels £450m Liverpool investment, blaming UK government funding cuts – as it happened
Pharmaceutical company says that it will not go ahead with investment at Speke, near Liverpool
Donald Trump’s White House will invoke emergency powers to introduce tariffs on Canada and Mexico, Reuters reports:
Two sources familiar with the matter said that Trump was expected to invoke the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) as the legal basis for the tariffs, declaring a national emergency over fentanyl overdoses that killed nearly 75,000 Americans in 2023 and illegal immigration.
The statute enacted in 1977 and modified after the 9/11 attacks in 2001 gives the president broad powers to impose economic sanctions in a crisis.
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