Mon 07 April 2025: US President Donald Trump described tariffs as “medicine” for addressing the country’s trade deficit with many countries. “I don’t want anything to go down, but sometimes you have to take medicine to fix something,” Trump told reporters Sunday while flying on Air Force One from Florida to Washington, DC, saying he […]
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Mon 07 April 2025: The operator of online encyclopaedia Wikipedia has challenged a New Delhi court’s order to remove statements from its page that the court said defamed a domestic news website, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter said on Monday. Last week’s Delhi High Court ruling came after Indian news agency ANI sued the […]
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Mon 07 April 2025: Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) start-up DeepSeek has introduced a new method for enhancing the reasoning abilities of large language models (LLMs), reportedly surpassing current approaches. DeepSeek developed a dual technique that combines generative reward modeling (GRM) and self-principled critique tuning in collaboration with researchers from Tsinghua University, the South China Morning […]
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Mon 07 April 2025: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will visit the White House on Monday, according to an Axios report Saturday confirmed by a US official, Anadolu reports. The meeting comes days after Donald Trump imposed 17% tariffs on Israeli goods amid escalating tensions over Gaza and Iran. The visit would mark the first direct […]
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Mon 07 April 2025: US Envoy Morgan Ortagus made the comments in an interview with Lebanese broadcaster LBCI at the end of a three-day visit to Beirut, where she met Lebanese President Joseph Aoun, PM Nawaf Salam, Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri and other officials and political representatives. Ortagus said Hezbollah and other armed groups […]
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Sun 06 April 2025: Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa said he will direct the government to suspend all tariffs on US imports. Mnangagwa posted on X on Saturday that this measure aims to boost American imports in Zimbabwe and promote Zimbabwean exports to the US. “This action underscores our commitment to a framework of equitable trade […]
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Sun 06 April 2025: Palestinian and UN bodies mark Palestine Children’s Day with ‘harrowing’ accounts of the toll Israel’s assault on Gaza has taken on children. The United Nations says at least 100 children have been killed or injured every day in Gaza since the strikes resumed on March 18, even as the United States underscores continued […]
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Illustration: Pariplab Chakraborty. Sun 06 April 2025: When the accused are Hindu and the place of worship attacked Muslim, bombs suddenly become ‘gelatin sticks’ and no properties linked to the accused are demolished. What would happen if there was a terror attack at a place of worship in India? It would be all over our […]
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At Camps Bay, Cape Town, wastewater is pumped out to sea. Steve Kretzmann/GroundUp Sun 06 April 2025: As the planet gets hotter and freshwater sources dry up, cities and towns will not be able to continue the global norm of using millions of litres of clean, drinkable water to flush toilets. South Africa’s Water Research Commission […]
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Sun 06 April 2025: Iran is pushing back against U.S. demands that it directly negotiate over its nuclear programme or be bombed, warning neighbours that host U.S. bases that they could be in the firing line if involved, a senior Iranian official said. Although Iran has rejected U.S. President Donald Trump‘s demand for direct talks, it wants to […]
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