Tue 29 April 2025: Amnesty International on Monday slammed US President Donald Trump‘s first 100 days in office as a disaster for human rights. “President Trump’s first 100 days have been disastrous for human rights in the US and internationally,” Amnesty International Secretary General Agnes Callamard said during a meeting in Brussels before Tuesday’s launch of the group’s State of […]
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Tue 29 April 2025: More than 31,000 stolen Australian banking passwords are being traded online by cybercriminals, local media reported Tuesday. A probe conducted by cyber intelligence researchers revealed that login credentials for Australia’s four major banks are being circulated on the messaging app Telegram and the dark web, posing a significant risk of fraud, according to the Australian […]
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Tue 29 April 2025: A wave of incendiary music tracks is heightening Islamophobic hate, serving as the background score to violence against Muslims. Mumbai, India – Less than 24 hours after news broke of the April 22 attack, in which gunmen killed 25 tourists and a local pony rider in the Indian-administered Kashmir region, a new […]
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Mon 28 April 2025: Saudi Arabia and Qatar are to settle Syria’s outstanding arrears of around $15 million to the World Bank, both countries said in a joint statement, paving the way for the approval of millions of dollars in grants for reconstruction and to support the country’s paralysed public sector, Reuters reports. Reuters was first […]
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Mon 28 April 2025: _ The chip is in early development and will undergo a series of tests before it will be deemed ready for customer use. China’s Huawei Technologies is preparing to test its newest and most powerful artificial intelligence (AI) processor, as it hopes to replace some higher-end products of US chip giant Nvidia, […]
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Mon 28 April 2025: Since 2019, the Modi government has argued Kashmir was returning to ‘normalcy’. The attack exposed holes in its approach, analysts say. New Delhi, India — Addressing a rally of supporters in September 2024, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi confidently asserted that his Hindu majoritarian Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would create a new […]
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Mon 28 April 2025: Egyptian authorities have demolished the historic Mahmoud Pasha al-Falaky Mosque and are accelerating the destruction of Old Cairo’s cemeteries under the banner of urban development—sparking outrage among heritage advocates and locals. According to Mada Masr, in the early hours last Wednesday, bulldozers flattened the mosque’s dome and minaret, part of the 19th-century funerary complex […]
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Mon 28 April 2025: Rising risks around global trade, general policy uncertainty, and the sustainability of US debt topped the list of potential risks to the US financial system in a newly released Federal Reserve survey. The bi-annual Fed survey of financial risks was the first since Trump returned to office, and the impact of […]
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Pope Francis with Archbishop of Kinshasa, Fridolin Ambongo Besungu. Mon 28 April 2025: Some Africans are hoping one of their own could maybe become the first Black pope in modern history and add onto Francis’s legacy of championing the developing world, although the chances of that happening appear to be thin. A continent where religion […]
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Sat 26 April 2025: The World Food Program (WFP) said on Friday that it reached 4 million people in Sudan in March alone, the highest number since war broke out in April 2023, but warned that aid efforts still cover only a fraction of the population in dire need. “This includes 1.6 million people in […]
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