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Good morning. This is Sen 7 World News in 7 minutes. I'm Steven Deonzi. Today is Tuesday, the 8th of April 2025. [Music]
Starting in Europe today, the European Union has offered the United States a zero-for-zero tariffs rate. According to European Commission President Ursula Vanderellayan, European stock markets continued to fall yesterday as a result of US President Donald Trump's recent announcement of a 20% tariff on all products from the EU and 25% on steel, aluminum, and cars. Vanderlayion also said that if a deal could not be reached, then the EU would impose reciprocal tariffs. Nonetheless, we stand ready to negotiate with the United States. Indeed, we have offered zero-for-zero tariffs for industrial goods, as we have successfully done with many other trading partners, because Europe is always ready for a good deal. So we keep it on the table, but we are also prepared to respond through countermeasures and defend our interests.
Stock markets all around the world continued falling yesterday in response to Trump's announcement of tariffs on almost all of the world's countries. The price of oil has also fallen to its lowest price in four years. Financial services company JP Morgan has estimated that there is a 60% chance that the US will enter into a recession. Speaking on his airplane, President Donald Trump said that there would be some economic pain before things get better, saying, "Sometimes you have to take medicine." I don't want anything to go down, but sometimes you have to take medicine to fix something.
Swedish authorities have accused a Danish couple of tax evasion and leaving behind human waste in the countryside. Fleming Hunen and Meta Halbeg attracted people to their collection of 16 wooden cottages in rural southern Sweden. But a few months ago, an investigation by two Swedish newspapers found that the couple had abandoned their business and, in the process, had left behind some animals and 158 barrels of human [Music] waste.
Africa. In Nigeria, at least 52 people have died over the last few days in violence in the central state of Plateau. The exact cause of the fighting is not clear. However, there is often interethnic violence in this region, which is made up of both Muslims and Christians who are mostly farmers and cattle herders. President Bola Tinubu said that the attackers would face severe punishment. Algeria has banned flights to and from Mali. There has been a diplomatic crisis between Algeria and Mali since last week when Algeria shot down a Marian drone, which it said had entered its airspace. But Marley said that the wreckage of the drone landed in Mali. In Kenya, five government officials have been released after being kidnapped 2 months ago. Islamist jihadist group al-Shabaab are believed to have abducted the officials in February and taken them into Somalia, and no information has been made public about how they were [Music] released.
America's. In Argentina, mortgages are being taken out at their highest rate since 2018. Data from the province of Buenocidis shows that five times more people took out a mortgage in February 2025 compared to February 2024, with some analysts saying that this is a sign of more confidence in the market. Over the last few years, Argentina has had the highest inflation in the world, but it is now at its lowest rate since 2020. In the United States, a second child has died of measles in Texas. The measles outbreak started in January in Gaines County, where only 82% of people are vaccinated against measles, much less than the goal of 95% intended to help the small group of people who cannot be vaccinated. The two children and one adult who have now died in this outbreak were all unvaccinated. US Health Secretary RFK Jr. has been known for spreading antivaccine misinformation in the past. However, he has said over the last few days that the most effective way to stop the spread of measles is to take the MMR vaccine.
Asia. In Palestine, journalists in Gaza have said that a tent housing journalists was hit by an Israeli air strike yesterday, killing two people and injuring eight others, mostly journalists. The journalist's tent was outside the NASA hospital in Carunis. In Myanmar, there have been reports of fighting despite rebel groups announcing a temporary ceasefire because of the earthquake last week. The United Nations Human Rights Office has said that the Burmese military has carried out at least 14 attacks since the ceasefire was announced. The military has also accused rebel groups of breaking the ceasefire.
And Australia's opposition leader accidentally injured a cameraman by kicking an Australian football at his head. Liberal leader Peter Dutton was on the election campaign trail in the northern city of Darwin when he was playing Australian football with children and kicked the football that hit the cameraman. While a bandage was being placed on the cameraman's head, Dutton said that he would buy him a beer.
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