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US President Donald Trump announced an additional 100 percent tariff on China Friday and threatened to cancel a summit with Xi Jinping, reigniting his trade war with Beijing in a row over export curbs on rare earth minerals. Trump said the extra levies, plus US export controls on “any and
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The tragedy is not the war itself. It is in those who exploit its blood to stage a theatre of counterfeit heroism. In London — once a mirror for Sudan’s democratic conscience — a group of pseudo-intellectuals now seeks to convene a symposium to market what can only be called “tragic
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Morocco’s GenZ 212 youth collective said Saturday it was temporarily suspending protests after two weeks of demonstrations calling for reforms in health and education. The weekend pause was “a strategic step to strengthen organization and coordination, so the next phase of the movement is more effective and influential,” the
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A magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck the Drake Passage, a stretch of water located between the southern tip of South America and Antarctica on Friday, prompting emergency authorities to issue a tsunami warning. The earthquake struck just before 5:30 p.m. local time (2030 GMT) at a depth estimated
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The United Nations’ rights chief on Friday called on Madagascan authorities to “desist from unnecessary force” against protesters, a day after several people were injured in clashes with police during protests in the capital Antananarivo. Several thousand anti-government demonstrators marched in Antananarivo Thursday in the latest demonstration in two weeks
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Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. She won “for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy,” the Norwegian Nobel Committee said in its citation.
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Syria’s foreign minister was in Lebanon on Friday for a first visit by a senior official since the ouster of longtime president Bashar al-Assad, as the two countries seek to reset ties. The Assad clan, ousted in December, exercised control over Lebanese affairs for decades and was accused of
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Turkiye has lifted its flight ban on an airport in Iraq’s semiautonomous Kurdish region, a restriction originally imposed in 2023 due to concerns over alleged Kurdish militant activity in the area. The decision to resume flights to Sulaymaniyah International Airport was announced by the office of Nechirvan Barzani, president
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The Trump administration on Thursday proposed banning Chinese airlines from flying over Russia on flights to and from the United States, saying the practice puts American carriers at a disadvantage. US airlines have long criticized the decision to allow Chinese carriers to fly over Russia on some flights because it
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Eleven candidates face off against Cameroon’s incumbent president, Paul Biya, in elections on Sunday, with the divided opposition having failed to unite behind a joint contender. The 92-year-old head of state, who has spent 43 years in power, made his first public appearance of the campaign on Tuesday just
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DR Congo President Felix Tshisekedi appealed to his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame to stop supporting insurgents in the DRC at a Brussels event attended by both leaders on Thursday, drawing a rebuke from Kigali that he was “completely mistaken” about the roots of the conflict. Tshisekedi, 62, issued the call
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Senegal has recorded 17 deaths from Rift Valley Fever, RVF, a health ministry official said Thursday, in a rare major outbreak of the viral disease in the West African country. With 119 cases reported so far, mostly in northern Senegal’s livestock-producing region, the outbreak is raising concerns about further
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An offshore earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.6 hit off a southern Philippine province Friday morning, sending people out of houses and buildings in panic, knocking out power and prompting officials to order villagers to evacuate from the coastlines of nearby provinces due to a possible tsunami. President
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After months of gridlock, President Donald Trump finally landed a long-sought Israel-Hamas ceasefire and hostage deal in Gaza — an agreement that only came together after a weekslong diplomacy blitz and a whole lot of help from some Arab and Muslim allies. The breakthrough is designed to bring about a pause
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Israel’s Cabinet early Friday approved President Donald Trump’s plan for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and the release of all the remaining hostages held by Hamas, a key step toward ending a ruinous two-year war that has destabilized the Middle East. A brief statement from Prime Minister
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The Ukrainian capital was plunged into darkness early Friday by what the air force called a “massive attack,” as Russia pummeled Kyiv’s infrastructure, cutting off water and energy supplies. The Kremlin has escalated aerial attacks on Ukrainian energy facilities and rail systems over recent weeks, mirroring similar campaigns launched