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The trade fight widened yesterday as the E.U. and Canada announced billions of dollars in retaliatory tariffs<\/a> on U.S. exports, hours after President Trump\u2019s levies on steel and aluminum imports took effect.<\/p>\n Europe<\/strong><\/p>\n The E.U. said that tariffs would take effect on April 1<\/a>, a response to about $26 billion in tariffs applied by the U.S. But bloc officials emphasized that they were ready to strike a deal.<\/p>\n Their response will come in two parts. A tariff suspension implemented under President Joe Biden will be allowed to lapse, raising tariffs on billions of euros\u2019 worth of products that include boats, bourbon and motorcycles. The second step will be to place tariffs on about 18 billion euros\u2019 worth of additional products, a list of which has yet to be finalized.<\/p>\n Canada<\/strong><\/p>\n The Canadian government said that it would impose new tariffs on $20 billion worth of U.S. imports. This round is centered on steel and aluminum but also applies to tools, computers, sporting goods and cast iron.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Here\u2019s a breakdown<\/a> of all the tariffs so far.<\/p>\n Other allies<\/strong><\/p>\n Britain has chosen not to retaliate<\/a>, as Prime Minister Keir Starmer looks to sign a long-term trade deal with the U.S. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of Australia said his country would not impose reciprocal tariffs because they would hurt domestic consumers.<\/p>\n Lawyers for a pro-Palestinian activist and legal U.S. resident who was detained by federal immigration authorities last weekend have been unable to hold private conversations with him<\/a>, a court hearing revealed yesterday. The Trump administration is trying to deport<\/a> the activist, Mahmoud Khalil, who has not been charged with a crime.<\/p>\n Khalil, who is married to an American citizen, has been a leader of pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University, from which he recently graduated. The Trump administration has justified his detention with a little-used statute that allows deportation proceedings against people whose presence is deemed \u201cadversarial\u201d to U.S. foreign policy. Trump said this week that Khalil\u2019s case was the first of \u201cmany to come.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Quote:<\/strong> \u201cThis is not about free speech,\u201d Secretary of State Marco Rubio said. \u201cThis is about people that don\u2019t have a right to be in the United States to begin with. No one has a right to a student visa. No one has a right to a green card.\u201d<\/p>\n What\u2019s next: <\/strong>The judge said that he would order the government to let Khalil\u2019s lawyers speak with him. He also told a government lawyer to be prepared to address a 2004 Supreme Court opinion that could allow Khalil\u2019s lawyers to keep his case in New York.<\/p>\n Armed groups and foreign fighters linked to the Syrian government were behind the sectarian violence<\/a> in the coastal region over the past week, a war monitoring group based in Britain found. The tensions have threatened efforts to unify the country.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n The violence \u201cincluded extrajudicial killings, field executions and systematic mass killings motivated by revenge and sectarianism,\u201d the Syrian Network for Human Rights said in a report released on Tuesday. The Times could not confirm the findings.<\/p>\n Background: <\/strong>Hundreds of civilians were killed in Latakia and Tartus provinces, areas dominated by the Alawite religious minority. The ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad was an Alawite, and some fellow members enjoyed privileged status under his rule.<\/p>\n Conflict: <\/strong>Turkey kept bombing armed Kurdish insurgents<\/a> in Iraq and Syria, even after the militants\u2019 leader urged them to disband and their group declared a cease-fire.<\/p>\n A 17-acre expanse in the Bahamas has been acquired by an unlikely developer: the Royal Caribbean cruise line. It\u2019s building an exclusive beach club with the world\u2019s largest swim-up bar, causing alarm among locals, who say they\u2019re being priced out of their homes. Bahamian businesses have been promised lucrative contracts, but islanders are shocked by how the land has been razed<\/a> for tourism.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Every season brings its share of books to look forward to, and this one is no different. The Times has picked dozens of its favorite page turners for you.<\/p>\n A \u201cHunger Games\u201d prequel follows Katniss Everdeen\u2019s eventual mentor at the 50th Hunger Games. Ocean Vuong\u2019s new novel traces the relationship between a Vietnamese man and a widow in a fictional Connecticut town. Read the full list here<\/a>.<\/p>\n In nonfiction, \u201cNotes to John,\u201d a posthumous work by Joan Didion, features descriptions of her therapy sessions in journal entries addressed to her husband. And a new biography aims to demystify and defend Yoko Ono. Here are our nonfiction picks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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