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The EU's top official hit back Wednesday at Donald Trump, saying "trade wars are bad and easy to lose" as the bloc prepared to retaliate against the US president's planned steel and aluminium tariffs. SOUNDBITE
Images of the scene where a municipality worker was shot dead in Grenoble as he tried to arrest a drunken road accident offender who was fleeing the scene. IMAGES
Boeing's beleaguered Starliner returns to Earth on without the astronauts who traveled in it to the International Space Station, after NASA deemed the risk too great. The gumdrop-shaped capsule landed gently at the White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico at approximately 0401 GMT Saturday, its descent slowed by parachutes and cushioned by airbags, having departed the ISS around six hours earlier. IMAGES
Images from the town of Yufuin, in Japan's Oita Prefecture, as Typhoon Shanshan hits the country with torrential rain and strong winds. The typhoon is Japan's most powerful this year and one of the strongest at landfall in recent decades. IMAGES
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken leaves Joint Base Andrews as he heads back to the Middle East to push ahead a Gaza ceasefire deal, as cautious optimism rises. The top US diplomat, who is putting off vacation plans for his ninth trip to the Middle East since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, will fly to Tel Aviv ahead of expected meetings with the Israeli leadership. IMAGES