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America continued its tariffs walkback by exempting electronic parts and devices,

including phones and computers, from its new levies on Chinese goods.

Donald Trump has roiled markets for days and worried America's tech giants,

who make many of their products in China.

Earlier this week, he paused reciprocal tariffs on most countries to 10% while raising

it on China to 145%.

Britain passed an emergency law giving the government control of a steel plant in Lincolnshire

in the East Midlands to prevent its

imminent closure. The plant's Chinese owners, Jinghe Group, had said that its blast furnaces were

financially unsustainable. It rejected a 500 million pound, $650 million rescue in March.

British officials said that nationalizing the plant was a probable next step.

America and Iran began talks about the Iranian nuclear program in Amman,

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