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US President Donald Trump has handed carmakers a one-month reprieve on tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada, and we look at how a few billionaire elites struck a multibillion-dollar port deal within weeks. German borrowing costs surged by the most in 28 years on Wednesday, and the Liberal party in Canada will hold a leadership vote this weekend to replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
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Donald Trump hands carmakers one-month reprieve from tariffs
German borrowing costs soar by most since 1997 on ‘historic’ debt deal
Donald Trump revives Canada’s Liberals in electoral turnaround
The billionaire elite who answered Donald Trump’s call on Panama Canal
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