Xinhua
02 Apr 2025

EU vows strong retaliation if U.S. tariffs escalateThe European Union (EU) has a strong plan in place to retaliate against U.S. tariffs and will not hesitate to act if necessary, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Tuesday.Addressing the European Parliament in Strasbourg, von der Leyen said the EU "did not start this confrontation" but stood ready to defend its people and prosperity.3 killed in Israeli airstrike on BeirutAn Israeli airstrike at dawn on Tuesday killed 3 people and injured 7 others in Sfeir area in Beirut's southern suburbs, al-Mayadeen local TV channel reported.The local channel previously reported the airstrike targeting a building killed a member of Hezbollah.The strike destroyed the building and damaged nearby structures, said the report. The Lebanese army has arrived at the scene and set up a security cordon in the vicinity of the blast.Russia-U.S. talks on Ukraine continue amid difficulties: KremlinKremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Tuesday that Russia and the United States are continuing talks to resolve the Ukraine conflict, calling it a "complex issue.""We are continuing to maintain contact with the United States," Peskov said at a daily briefing, commenting on reported threats from the United States to impose additional sanctions on Russia's oil industry if ongoing peace talks fail to make substantive progress.Volcano erupts in southwestern IcelandA volcanic eruption began Tuesday on the Reykjanes Peninsula in southwestern Iceland, the Icelandic Meteorological Office announced.A magma outflow from the magma corridor began in the Sundhnukur crater area early Tuesday morning, and the volcanic eruption began several hours later. The town of Grindavik in the area was evacuated earlier as an eruption was anticipated.Icelandic Radio (RUV) reported that the Sundhnukur volcano is 42 km from the capital, Reykjavik. This is the eighth eruption on the Sundhnukur crater since the recent series began.S. Korea's constitutional court to rule on Yoon's impeachment on April 4South Korea's constitutional court will decide whether to impeach President Yoon Suk-yeol on April 4, the court said Tuesday.The ruling on Yoon will be delivered at 11:00 a.m. local time (0200 GMT) on Friday and it will be broadcast live, the court said in a statement.The police will issue the highest level of emergency order to deploy about 20,000 riot policemen of 338 units across the country for expected protests and crowd control on Friday.