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President Trump\u2019s plan to impose a 25 percent tariff on cars and parts has sent a shudder through the global auto industry<\/a>. Markets in Asia, Europe and the U.S. wobbled yesterday as many automakers\u2019 share prices fell. Trump has threatened to target the E.U. and Canada<\/a> if they band together to retaliate.<\/p>\n The tariffs on all cars, and some auto parts, exported to the U.S. are set to take effect next Thursday. Mexico, Japan, South Korea and Canada account for about 75 percent of U.S. vehicle imports. Here\u2019s how major car companies will be affected<\/a>.<\/p>\n The tariffs put Trump\u2019s unorthodox trade theory to the test<\/a>. To the president, tariffs encourage companies to move factories to the U.S., creating more American jobs. Economists say their effects are more complicated and that they could cause significant collateral damage.<\/p>\n Reactions:<\/strong> Mark Carney, Canada\u2019s leader, said the U.S. was \u201cno longer a reliable partner\u201d and that his country would announce retaliatory tariffs next week. In Germany, whose auto industry is a huge exporter to the U.S., the economy minister, Robert Habeck, said it was \u201ccrucial that the E.U. delivers a decisive response to the tariffs,\u201d adding, \u201cIt must be clear that we will not back down<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n European leaders in Paris yesterday discussed a French proposal to send a \u201creassurance force\u201d to help safeguard an eventual peace in Ukraine. But Emmanuel Macron, France\u2019s leader, said the specifics of such a force were still being ironed out<\/a>. Russia has called the proposal unacceptable.<\/p>\n The meeting followed three days of U.S.-brokered talks in Saudi Arabia this week that yielded deals, with caveats, between Russia and Ukraine to halt attacks on energy infrastructure and fighting in the Black Sea.<\/p>\n Russian aims: <\/strong>Moscow wants relief from restrictions on shipping, insurance and banking that have complicated its agricultural exports. \u201cRussia also wants sanctions lifted on the state agricultural bank, and for it to be reconnected to the international payments system Swift,\u201d my colleague Paul Sonne, who covers Russia, said. \u201cBut that would require agreement from European allies who have been cut out of the talks.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n At the front: <\/strong>Journalists for The Times were embedded with Ukrainian forces in eastern and southern Ukraine. Amid drones, mines and snipers, peace talks seemed a world away<\/a>.<\/p>\n Rare public protests in Gaza for an end to Hamas\u2019s rule \u2014 and to the war \u2014 have spread to a number of towns over the past three days<\/a>. While most of the demonstrations have been small, they represent the boldest challenge to Hamas\u2019s authority since the war began in 2023.<\/p>\n Hamas has brutally clamped down on protests in the past. This time, its security forces have been largely absent, most likely because of the group\u2019s delicate position with Gazans and the difficulty of mobilizing under the threat of Israeli airstrikes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Quotable: <\/strong>\u201cHamas needs to go away,\u201d said Ahmad al-Masri, who helped call for the demonstrations. \u201cIf it doesn\u2019t, the bloodshed, the wars and the destruction won\u2019t stop.\u201d<\/p>\n Israel: <\/strong>Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s coalition gave itself more power to pick judges<\/a>, resuming a judicial overhaul that divided the country before the war.<\/p>\n Yemen:<\/strong> Middle East experts said the Iran-backed Houthis wouldn\u2019t be easily defeated<\/a>, despite the intentions disclosed by U.S. officials in their Signal chat.<\/p>\n Whales sing. Fish grunt. But sharks had been silent to our ears, until scientists in New Zealand recently heard a rig shark making a clicking sound, most likely by snapping its teeth together. Listen to a recording<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Lives lived: <\/strong>David Childs, an architect who crowned the New York City skyline with the shimmering new 1 World Trade Center, replacing the twin towers destroyed on 9\/11, died on Wednesday at 83<\/a>.<\/p>\n Europe is strewn with human remains from two world wars that killed tens of millions of people. Many simply vanished into rubble, while others were hastily buried in unmarked graves.<\/p>\n In Germany, where memory and forgetting are bound up with vast guilt, the question of how to handle these remains is especially fraught. Confronting the issue head-on is the Volksbund, an organization tasked with finding the graves of every German who died in the country\u2019s many wars and giving each a decent burial, no matter who they were or what they did<\/a>. (Auf Deutsch lesen<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n That\u2019s it for today\u2019s briefing. See you next week \u2014 and thank you to those who let us know that yesterday\u2019s subject line incorrectly suggested that it was Monday.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Happy Friday, and have a great weekend. \u2014 Natasha <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Reach Natasha and the team at <\/em>briefing@nytimes.com<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nA murky vision of a postwar Ukraine<\/h2>\n
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