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The United Nations’ World Food Program is closing its southern Africa office in the wake of the Trump administration’s aid cuts, a spokesperson said Monday. Tomson Phiri said in a statement emailed to The Associated Press that the UN food agency had launched a multiyear plan to streamline its
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US President Donald Trump has paused all military aid to Ukraine following his clash with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky last week, a White House official said on Monday. “President has been clear that he is focused on peace. We need our partners to be committed to that goal as well.
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A Philippine air force fighter jet with two pilots on board has gone missing during a night combat assault in support of ground forces who were battling insurgents in a southern province, and an extensive search is underway, officials said Tuesday. The FA-50 jet lost communication during the tactical mission
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Lebanese President Joseph Aoun has traveled to Saudi Arabia on Monday for his first trip abroad since taking office earlier this year, the presidency said. “President Aoun left Rafic Hariri International Airport heading to Riyadh,” the presidency said on platform “X”. Aoun will be accompanied by his country’s foreign
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France and Britain are proposing a one-month truce in Ukraine “in the air, at sea” after crisis talks in London, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Sunday. In an interview with France’s Le Figaro newspaper, he also suggested that European countries should raise their defense spending to between 3.
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A Russian drone struck a multi-story apartment building late on Sunday in Ukraine’s second largest city, Kharkiv, triggering a fire and injuring eight people, the city’s mayor said. Kharkiv resisted capture in the early days of Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine and has since been a
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US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered a pause on all of the country’s cyber operations against Russia, including offensive actions, multiple US media reports said on Sunday. The order was part of an overall reevaluation of US operations against Moscow, according to the New York Times, with the
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The Kremlin said on Monday that someone needed to force Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to make peace after a clash with US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office that showed just how hard it would be to find a way to end the war. “What happened at the White
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France and Britain have not agreed on a partial truce plan for Ukraine, a UK minister said on Monday, after French President Emmanuel Macron said it had been proposed by the two nations. Macron told France’s Le Figaro newspaper on Sunday that London and Paris are proposing a one-month
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From a Bond villain lair in the rugged heights overlooking Damascus, the all-seeing eye of a notorious Syrian military unit gazed down on a city it bled dry. Many of the bases of the elite Fourth Division formerly run by toppled president Bashar Assad’s feared younger brother Maher now
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The forces of Syria’s new authorities deployed Sunday in a Damascus suburb following deadly clashes with Druze gunmen, state media said amid tensions after Israeli demands to protect the minority group. Jaramana, a mostly Druze and Christian suburb of the capital, saw a fatal shooting at a checkpoint on
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India’s trade minister Piyush Goyal started on a trip to the United States on Monday to pursue trade talks, two government officials said, with weeks to go for President Donald Trump’s planned reciprocal tariffs. Goyal’s visit was sudden, as he departed after canceling previously scheduled meetings until
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Nearly 1,700 firefighters are battling Japan’s biggest forest fire in three decades, officials said Monday, as some 4,600 residents remain under an evacuation advisory. One person died last week in the blaze in the northern region of Iwate, which follows record low rainfall in the area and
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Paramilitary artillery shelling of a crowded market and nearby displaced people’s camp in Sudan’s Darfur region killed six people on Sunday, local health volunteers said. The camp, Abu Shouk, is on the edge of the North Darfur state capital, El-Fasher, which paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have besieged
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A stabbing attack at a transport station in the Israeli city of Haifa left one person dead and several wounded on Monday, medics said, in what police called a "terror attack" whose perpetrator was killed. It was the first fatal attack in Israel since a ceasefire took effect
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The UN rights chief on Monday expressed serious concern over the United States’ “fundamental shift” in direction “both domestically and internationally.” “Policies intended to protect people from discrimination are now labelled as discriminatory... Divisive rhetoric is being used to distort, deceive and polarize,” Volker Turk told the United Nations Human