Thu 13 March 2025: US President Donald Trump’s administration has abolished 83 percent of aid agency’s humanitarian programmes. Taipei, Taiwan – Until recently, Southeast Asia’s Mekong sub-region seemed to be on track to reach its goal of eliminating malaria by 2030. Named for the 4,900-kilometre (3,000-mile) river that runs from southwest China through Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, […]
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Thu 13 March 2025: Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said he takes full responsibility for his “war on drugs” as he braces for a legal battle at the International Criminal Court (ICC) over alleged crimes against humanity. In a video message posted on his Facebook account, and viewed 10 million times, Duterte said it will […]
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Wed 12 March 2025: US President Donald Trump said Wednesday that no Palestinians will be expelled from the besieged Gaza Strip even as he continues to pursue his plan to take over the coastal enclave. ❝No one is expelling any Palestinians❞ US President Donald Trump denies plans to expel Palestinians from Gaza, dismissing a Voice […]
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Wed 12 March 2025: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said that US representatives at the 18 February meeting in Riyadh expressed their desire to normalise relations with Russia, Anadolu has reported. Speaking to US bloggers in Moscow, Lavrov said that the American delegation also stressed the need to prevent conflicts from escalating into confrontation, especially military […]
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Wed 12 March 2025: African Union urges member states and international community ‘not to recognise any government or parallel entity’. The African Union says that the announcement of a parallel government in war-torn Sudan risks severing the country, already ravaged by nearly two years of fighting. The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has been locked […]
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Wed 12 March 2025: The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said yesterday that the severe water shortage in the Gaza Strip has reached critical levels, noting that nine out of ten people cannot access clean drinking water. Rosalia Bollen, a UNICEF official in Gaza, said 600,000 people who had regained access to drinking water in November 2024 […]
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Wed 12 March 2025: Baloch separatist group claims responsibility, says it has killed six security personnel as it holds hundreds hostage. Islamabad, Pakistan – Pakistan’s security forces say they have rescued 155 passengers from a train that was hijacked by a group of separatists as it was travelling on Tuesday from Quetta, the provincial capital of the southwestern […]
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Wed 12 March 2025: The US Department of Education announced Tuesday that it will cut nearly half of its workforce after President Donald Trump proposed to eliminate the agency entirely. “As part of the Department of Education’s final mission, the Department today initiated a reduction in force (RIF) impacting nearly 50% of the Department’s workforce,” […]
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Wed 12 March 2025: The United States has agreed to resume military aid and intelligence sharing with Ukraine after Kyiv expressed “readiness” to accept a 30-day ceasefire in its conflict with Russia. The Saudi official Al-Ekhbariya channel said on X late Tuesday: “The US-Ukrainian talks in Jeddah succeeded under Saudi diplomatic efforts.” “After 9 hours of US-Ukrainian […]
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Tue 11 March 2025: A new YouGov survey has revealed a sharp decline in the number of Britons who consider the US a “friend and ally,” with just one-third of respondents identifying America in this way. This marks a significant drop from the 42% recorded at the end of 2024 and highlights the growing strain in the so-called “special […]
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