The Times of Israel is liveblogging Friday’s events as they happen.

A US federal appeals court has ruled that most of President Donald Trump’s tariffs, impacting numerous trading partners, are illegal — finding that he exceeded his authority in imposing them.

The decision marks a blow to the president who has wielded duties as a wide-ranging economic policy tool. But judges allow the tariffs to stay in place for now, while sending the case back to a lower court for further consideration.

The US visa ban on Palestinian officials who were planning to attend the United Nations General Assembly next month will cover Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas along with 80 other PA officials, a State Department official tells The Times of Israel.

The State Department announced that it would be implementing a visa ban on Palestinian officials earlier Friday but did not specify who specifically would be targeted.

The State Department has said it is following through with a July 31 decision to deny visas to Palestinian officials over purported violations of US law that tracks Ramallah’s adherence to the Oslo Accords and commitments to fighting terror. It has cited Ramallah’s “attempts to bypass negotiations through international lawfare campaigns, including appeals to the International Criminal Court and International Court of Justice, and efforts to secure the unilateral recognition of a conjectural Palestinian state.”

Donald Trump is still working on a peace meeting between the Russian and Ukrainian leaders, the White House says, after French President Emmanuel Macron warned the US president risked being “played” by Vladimir Putin.

“President Trump and his national security team continue to engage with Russian and Ukrainian officials toward a bilateral meeting to stop the killing and end the war,” a White House official tells AFP on condition of anonymity.

Human rights lawyers said on Friday they have filed a criminal complaint in Argentina’s federal courts seeking the arrest of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he sets foot in the country, amid reports of a possible visit in September that remains unconfirmed.

The criminal complaint filed in Argentina federal courts calls for Netanyahu’s arrest in the country and an investigation into the Israeli political and military authorities for an incident on March 23 in which 15 people were executed, among them several first responders helping victims of a bombing, according to the complaint reviewed by Reuters.

Netanyahu is expected to visit Argentina in September, according to media reports, but the........

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