Houthi prime minister killed by airstrike; Trump’s tariffs ruled illegal but stay for now, and more
The World in Brief from The Economist
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🗓️ 31 August 2025
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| 0:53.2 | Our top stories. An American Appeals Court found most of Donald Our Top Stories |
| 0:55.0 | An American Appeals Court found most of Donald Trump's tariffs to be unlawful. |
| 1:00.5 | It upheld an earlier court ruling that the Trump administration did not have the authority to use emergency powers to impose tariffs without the consent of Congress. |
| 1:09.5 | The appeal court's ruling will not come into |
| 1:11.3 | effect until October 14th, giving the Trump administration time to appeal to the Supreme Court. |
| 1:18.3 | The Houthis, an Iranian-backed militia, said that Ahmed al-Rahavi, the Prime Minister of the |
| 1:23.4 | rebel-controlled government in Yemen, had been killed by an Israeli air strike on Thursday. |
| 1:28.3 | The attack on Sana, the Yemeni capital, was another blow in a tit-for-tat conflict that seized |
| 1:33.2 | the Houthis attacking shipping in the Red Sea and firing missiles at Israel in support of the |
| 1:38.0 | Palestinians in Gaza. Overnight Russian attacks on southern and central Ukraine killed at least one person and injured 28 more. |
| 1:47.7 | The strikes used a combination of more than 500 drones and 45 missiles, most of which were shot down. |
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