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Canada's new tariffs on $20 billion of US goods took effect, and Trump threatened to ban Canadian planemaker Bombardier from the US market.
Taiwan is using its dominance in advanced computer-chip manufacturing as bargaining power against US and EU demands, while China increases military patrols near Taiwan's Pacific coast.
American envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner spent three hours talking with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, then flew on to Kyiv, Ukraine's capital.
The US, UK, France and Germany have drafted a plan to send Iran's nuclear program back to the UN Security Council, a move that could bring back international sanctions; no vote date has been set.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says Donald Trump's team will hold peace talks in both Kyiv and Moscow, the most direct American push yet to end Russia's war in Ukraine, though no date or place is set.
Iran attacked Kuwait on Thursday, the fifth country allied with the United States it has hit since an American bombing raid on Iranian sites earlier in the week, though Kuwait says it shot down the missiles and drones.
Iran and the United States began openly attacking each other's forces in the Gulf region after weeks of hidden conflict, and two sailors on a tanker died in the fighting, pushing oil prices above $90 a barrel.
Russia bombed Kyiv for a sixth straight night, killing at least nine people and prompting NATO, the Western alliance, to scramble jets.
The US Treasury says it will now sanction an Iran-linked bank every week, and President Trump claims a strike destroyed Iran's Kharg Island oil terminal, which normally handles about 90 percent of the country's oil exports — but no one has independently confirmed the claim, and Iranian state media hasn't reported it either.
Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant has had no outside power for over a week and is relying on backup generators, while Russia's military says it is preparing large strikes on Ukraine's power grid before winter.
A Russian strike on a weapons storage site near Kyiv killed at least 37 people, one of the deadliest single attacks of the war this year.
Six months into the confrontation with Iran, Washington and Tehran are discussing terms for reopening the Strait of Hormuz, a key oil-shipping route, while Donald Trump also threatens Chinese banks over Iranian oil money ahead of a summit with China's leader.