Tue 29 April 2025: At least 65% of Palestinians killed in Israel’s ongoing military offensive on Gaza are women, children, and the elderly, according to Gaza local authorities on Sunday. In a statement, the Gaza-based Government Media Office confirmed that the Israeli forces have killed over 18,000 children and 12,400 women since Oct. 7, 2023, […]
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Tue 29 April 2025: Silence and compromise on the tariff war initiated by the US will “only embolden the bully,” China’s top diplomat Wang Yi has told the bloc of emerging economies at a summit in the Brazilian city of Rio De Janeiro. “The United States has been pursuing unilateralism, putting its own interests first, […]
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Tue 29 April 2025: Canadians voted Monday to give the incumbent Liberals another four years and trust that Prime Minister Mark Carney can handle the turmoil of US President Donald Trump’s tariffs and his fixation on annexing Canada. In his victory speech in Ottawa, Carney said: “President Trump is trying to break us so America […]
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Tue 29 April 2025: Defense expenditures have been on the rise in East Asia as China’s military buildup raises concerns among its neighbors, according to a report by a Swedish think tank. The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), in its annual report on world military expenditure published Monday, said the total world military expenditure […]
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Mon 28 April 2025: Senior diplomats from BRICS countries will meet on Monday in Brazil to present a united front in the face of threats emerging from US President Donald Trump‘s aggressive trade policies. The meeting comes at a critical moment for the world economy after the International Monetary Fund this week slashed growth forecasts over the impact of the American leader’s […]
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Mon 28 April 2025: Public hearings started on Monday at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague to examine Israel’s obligations in connection with its activities in the occupied Palestinian territory. The hearings will address a request for an advisory opinion on “the obligations of Israel in relation to the presence and activities […]
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Mon 28 April 2025: An explosion that rocked the Shahid Rajaee Port in the Iranian city of Bandar Abbas on Saturday may have been caused by the ignition of solid missile fuel, the New York Times reported. The paper quoted informed sources as saying that sodium perchlorate, a key component of solid missile fuel, was the substance […]
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Mon 28 April 2025: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un says troops sent to help Russia ‘annihilate’ Ukrainian forces under military pact with Moscow. North Korea has confirmed for the first time that it sent troops to Russia to support Moscow’s war against Ukraine, and that its forces had contributed to taking back Russian territory held by […]
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Sat 26 April 2025: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday said that his country’s position on its territories currently under Russian control remained “unchanged.” “Our position is unchanged. Only the Ukrainian people have the right to decide which territories are Ukrainian,” Zelenskyy told journalists in Kyiv. Zelenskyy’s remarks came as US President Donald Trump said […]
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Sat 26 April 2025: The funeral of Pope Francis, who died on Monday aged 88, has gotten under way at St Peter’s Square in the Vatican. Hundreds of thousands of Catholic faithful have packed the site to bid farewell to the pontiff. World leaders began arriving in Rome on Friday before Pope Francis’s weekend burial, a ceremony that, although more low-key […]
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