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US President Donald Trump has ordered an investigation into France's planned tax on tech giants - a move that could result in retaliatory tariffs. His trade representative said the US was "very concerned" that the tax "unfairly targets American companies". On Thursday the French parliament is due to approve a 3% levy on revenue made by such companies as Google and Facebook inside the country.

Southern California was hit by its strongest earthquake in two decades on Thursday.

The epicentre of the 6.4 magnitude tremor was near the city of Ridgecrest, which is about 150 miles (240 km) north-east of Los Angeles.

Firefighters provided medical assistance and dealt with fires in and around the city on Friday.

People from the Mojave Desert to the Pacific coast reported feeling the quake, which hit on Independence Day.

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