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Friday, July 24, 2026 · 4 stories
Indian activist Sonam Wangchuk ended a 26-day hunger strike on Friday that helped galvanize a youth movement that's become one of India's largest protests in recent years, but demonstrators vowed to continue until the education minister resigns.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who met with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov, said that President Trump was committed to the work "if conditions and factors have changed to make that possible.
William Bain said the EU has a 10% all-inclusive deal for tariffs on its goods, while the UK is facing 10% universal tariffs on top of any duties imposed on individual goods. On Thursday, the Office of the US Trade Representative said the latest tariffs were being imposed on partners "for their failure to impose and effectively enforce a prohibition on the importation of goods produced with forced labour". The office said Trump had made adoption of a ban on imports produced with forced labour a "critical" part of reciprocal trade agreements with other nations.
Wangchuk (centre) ended his fast last night in the presence of federal ministers The hunger-striking engineer demanding education reforms in India CJP protest: The youth movement India's Modi didn't see coming While Modi did not address the protests directly, he said he was "well aware that the issue. Thousands of protesters are demanding Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan's resignation Representatives of India's Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) will hold talks with the government on Friday as thousands of people continue to protest day and night demanding the education minister's resignation.