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US President Donald Trump has said he will raise tariffs on $200bn of Chinese goods because talks on a US-China trade deal are moving "too slowly". The US president tweeted that tariffs of 10% on certain goods would rise to 25% on Friday, and $325bn of untaxed goods could face 25% duties "shortly". The Â鶹ԼÅÄ’s Chris Buckler has the latest from Washington.

Tariffs aren’t the only thing on President Trump’s mind going into the week. Monday is the deadline for the Treasury Department to decide whether or not to release six years’ worth of the President’s tax returns, at the request of the congressional House Ways and Means Committee. President Trump has emphatically said he will not release the returns. Jessica Levinson is a law professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles and describes the legal positions on both sides.

On Monday the Arctic Council will hold a meeting in Finland. The council is an intergovernmental forum, made up of member countries with territory in the Arctic as well as observer countries, to manage issues in the region. Items on the agenda for this meeting include oil drilling, fish stocks, and China’s interest in the Arctic’s resources, as Dr. Victoria Herrmann of The Arctic Institute in Washington explains.

The recent kidnapping of an American tourist in Uganda has raised fears the abduction could deter holidaymakers from visiting the country's national parks. Safari tourism brings significant revenues for the Ugandan economy, and it is worried that news coverage of the kidnapping could undermine an important part of the nation's economy.

And finally, the English football club Everton continues its push into East Africa.