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US to lift
whiskey tariff
DOONBEG, Ireland (AP) -- President Donald Trump says he plans to remove a 10% tariff on Irish whiskey. Trump said Sunday during the trophy ceremony for the Irish Open that he’d been asked about the issue by everyone, including some of the golfers.
He said, “Everybody’s been bugging me” to do it. “And I said, ‘On behalf of the United States of America, I am going to take the tariffs off'” of Irish whiskey.
Irish whiskey currently faces the standard tariff imposed by Trump on most imports from the European Union, which was reduced from 15% to 10% in July.
Iranian cargo
ship is struck
CAIRO (AP) -- State-run media in Iran say an Iranian commercial vessel has been struck off Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz, with one person killed and four wounded. There was no immediate statement from the U.S. military, which has previously struck Iranian-flagged vessels as part of its blockade of Iranian ports.
After the attack, a plan by Tehran to brief countries in the region on its contested efforts to manage shipping in the strait was postponed. The foreign minister of Oman, which was going to host the talks, said on X late Sunday that the meeting had been postponed “in the interests of consensus.”
Attacks add to
fuel shortages
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) -- U.S. President Donald Trump has called on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to halt strikes on Russian diesel fuel infrastructure, saying attacks are causing a global shortage.
Trump spoke on Sunday on the sidelines of the Irish Open after diesel prices in the U.S. hit record highs. His comments came hours after large-scale drone strikes overnight killed and injured civilians in Russia and Ukraine.
Ukrainian drones killed two people near an oil and industrial hub in Russia’s Tatarstan, according to local officials, while Ukrainian authorities reported on Russian drones pummeling the Black Sea port of Odesa and starting a fire near a border crossing with Poland.
Ferry overturns
in Java Seas
BANJARMASIN, Indonesia (AP) -- Indonesian rescuers say about 129 passengers and crew are missing after a ferry carrying more than 240 people overturned in bad weather in the Java Sea.
At least 108 people were rescued and the bodies of six passenger were recovered Sunday as the search operation expanded in waters around the vessel’s last known position.
Authorities say the vessel lost contact around 2 a.m. after encountering rough seas and waves up to 10 feet high. The ferry had departed Surabaya on Saturday and was due to arrive in Banjarmasin on Sunday afternoon.