Sat 26 April 2025: The US Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that $946 billion will be spent through 2034 to maintain and modernize the country’s current nuclear military power. On Thursday, the CBO released its biennial report titled “Projected Costs of US Nuclear Forces,” which was based on budget plans from the US Defense and […]
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Sat 26 April 2025: The deal could be announced during US President Donald Trump’s planned trip to the Middle East next month. The United States is poised to offer Saudi Arabia an arms package worth more than $100bn, the Reuters news agency reports, citing six sources familiar with the matter. The deal is reportedly in the works […]
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Fri 25 April 2025: Indian and Pakistani forces have exchanged fire along the Line of Control (LOC) separating the two countries as the UN calls for “maximum restraint” amid warnings of a wider military escalation following the latest deadly attack in Kashmir’s Pahalgam town. Indian army sources told Al Jazeera on Friday that the Pakistani side […]
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Fri 25 April 2025: West African regional bloc ECOWAS condemned an attack by suspected militants which killed 54 troops in northern Benin as a “barbaric and cowardly act”. After authorities previously gave a death toll of eight soldiers, the Benin government on Wednesday said suspected militants killed 54 troops last week in an attack on […]
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Fri 25 April 2025: More than 90% of homes in Gaza have been destroyed or damaged, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) announced, citing data from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), as Israel’s ongoing war on the enclave plunges civilians deeper into humanitarian catastrophe. “With nowhere safe to go, families […]
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Fri 25 April 2025: Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu from Sardinia, Italy, who was convicted of financial crimes in the Vatican, has expressed his intention to participate in the upcoming papal election. In 2020, Pope Francis requested Becciu to relinquish his cardinal privileges due to a financial scandal in the Vatican. Becciu had served as the “sostituto” (assistant) in the […]
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Fri 25 April 2025: Malaria killed nearly 600,000 people in 2023, with Africa accounting for the vast majority of cases and deaths, according to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) 2024 World Malaria Report. Published last December, the report estimated there were 263 million malaria cases globally in 2023, resulting in 597,000 deaths. To mark World […]
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Thu 24 April 2025: India and Pakistan have taken reciprocal measures, including the suspension of bilateral pacts and closing the only legally operating land border, after an attack in Jammu and Kashmir that killed 26 people, Anadolu Agency reports. New Delhi, on Wednesday, suspended its decades-old Indus Waters Treaty, under which two nuclear-armed neighbours regulate […]
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Thu 24 April 2025: Millions of people in Ethiopia are on the brink of starvation as the World Food Programme (WFP) prepares to suspend malnutrition treatment for 650,000 women and children by the end of April. The decision comes after the UN agency received less than half the funding it had secured in the previous […]
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The Indian security agencies Wednesday released the sketches of three men suspected to be involved in the terror attack that killed 26 people, mostly tourists, near Pahalgam in south Kashmir. Thu 24 April 2025: Founded in 2019, the little-known group has now taken centre stage in the conflict between India and the rebels. New Delhi, […]
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