China said on Thursday it will halve punitive tariffs on $75 billion in US imports from February 14, a month after Beijing and Washington signed a truce in their long-running trade war. The reduction will apply to levies of five percent and 10 percent that were imposed on more than 1,700 items in September, according to the State Council Tariff Commission. Products that had been hit by the 10 percent ...
![Oksana Aslanova, 26, born in Tyumen region, the alleged ‘Black Widow’ suicide bomber behind the second Volograd attack on Dec. 29, 2013. [Russia Today]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/oksana-aslanova.jpg?itok=HN3Y24Mb "Oksana Aslanova, 26, born in Tyumen region, the alleged ‘Black Widow’ suicide bomber behind the second Volograd attack on Dec. 29, 2013. [Russia Today]")
![Head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation Ali Akbar Salehi [Getty Images]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/187646800.jpg?itok=kMyVWVIw "Head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation Ali Akbar Salehi [Getty Images]")
![US soldier walks around an inert Hellfire missile as he perform a pre-flight check on an MQ-1B Predator unmanned aircraft system. [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/us-sends-drones-missiles-iraq.jpg?itok=_0dJrtuw "US soldier walks around an inert Hellfire missile as he perform a pre-flight check on an MQ-1B Predator unmanned aircraft system. [AFP]")
![Beirut : Fire is seen at the site of a car bomb explosion that rocked central Beirut on December 27, 2013. [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/000_Nic6279144.jpg?itok=FrDee19h "Beirut : Fire is seen at the site of a car bomb explosion that rocked central Beirut on December 27, 2013. [AFP]")
![During the phone call, Kerry and Fahmy "agreed that there can be no place for violence in Egypt and that the Egyptian people deserve peace and calm," Psaki said. [Getty Images]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/451061697.jpg?itok=ElWMfXa1 "During the phone call, Kerry and Fahmy \"agreed that there can be no place for violence in Egypt and that the Egyptian people deserve peace and calm,\" Psaki said. [Getty Images]")
![Rescuers climb on the rubble of a destroyed building following an airstrike in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on December 24, 2013. Syrian warplanes have killed more than 330 people in a nine-day bombing campaign. [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Syria/000_Nic6278539.jpg?itok=M4krqibQ "Rescuers climb on the rubble of a destroyed building following an airstrike in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on December 24, 2013. Syrian warplanes have killed more than 330 people in a nine-day bombing campaign. [AFP]")
