News Dabba for 10 April 2025: Five stories for a balanced news diet

Aditi Singh brings you the daily updates that the internet is talking about through various news websites. Here's a glance through some of the National and International news updates, from the global trade war, geopolitics, to justice milestones for the 26/11 attacks.

US pauses higher tariffs for most countries after market havoc, but hits China harder reports BBC

The BBC reports that US President Donald Trump has announced a 90-day pause for countries hit by higher US tariffs but a trade war with China has escalated. In a dramatic change of policy, just hours after levies against roughly 60 of America's trading partners kicked in, Trump said he was authorising a universal "lowered reciprocal tariff of 10%" as negotiations continued. At the same time he increased tariffs on goods from China to 125%, accusing Beijing of a "lack of respect" after it retaliated by saying it would impose tariffs of 84% on US imports. Read the full report here.

Apple airlifts 600 tons of iPhones from India 'to beat' Trump tariffs, says Reuters

Reuters reports that Tech giant Apple chartered cargo flights to ferry 600 tons of iPhones, or as many as 1.5 million, to the United States from India, after it stepped up production there in an effort to beat President Donald Trump's tariffs, sources told Reuters. The details of the push provide an insight into the U.S. smartphone company's private strategy to navigate around the Trump tariffs and build up inventory of its popular iPhones in the United States, one of its biggest markets. Analysts have warned that U.S. prices of iPhones could surge, given Apple's high reliance on imports from China, the main manufacturing hub of the devices, which is subject to Trump's highest tariff rate of 125%. Read the full report here.

EU pauses countermeasures for 90 days after Donald Trump's pause on tariffs, reports Hindustan Times 

According to a report by Hindustan Times, the European Union on Thursday said it is putting on hold the countermeasures against US President Donald Trump's sweeping tariff it announced on Wednesday, for 90 days. The announcement was made by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, on Thursday. This comes after Trump halted the tariffs he imposed for a similar period. The EU had put tariffs on US goods worth €21 billion that are imported into the bloc, including soybeans from Louisiana, the home state of US House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson. It was in response to 25 percent tariffs on imports from Europe imposed by the Donald Trump administration last Wednesday. Read the full report here.

Macron says France could recognise Palestinian state, Al Jazeera

Al Jazeera reports, President Emmanuel Macron has signaled that France could recognise a Palestinian state “in the coming months”. Macron told France 5 television on Wednesday that he aimed to finalise the move at a United Nations conference on the Israel-Palestine conflict, which his country will co-chair with Saudi Arabia in June. Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said any “unilateral recognition” of a Palestinian state would be a “boost for Hamas”. Read the full report here.

Tahawwur Rana lands in Delhi as Pakistan distances itself from the 26/11 terror accused, The New India Express

The New India Express says, Tahawwur Rana, a 64-year-old Canadian national of Pakistani origin and one of the key accused in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, landed at Delhi’s Palam airport at 2:50 p.m. on Wednesday, after being extradited from the US. Rana's extradition marks a watershed moment in India’s 17-year pursuit of justice for the deadly 26/11 attacks that left 166 people dead. Rana's arrival, cloaked in a dense security blanket, comes just hours after Pakistan’s Foreign Office issued a carefully worded video statement distancing itself from him. Read the full report here.