Fri 18 April 2025: Zimbabwe is the only country to have suspended tariffs on US imports so far. Long-frozen relations between the United States and Zimbabwe may be thawing after the Southern African nation slashed all taxes on US goods flowing into the country and announced it has begun to pay compensation to white farmers […]
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Fri 18 April 2025: Rising demand for clean energy technologies to fight climate change is shaping the future with investments in critical minerals, whose demand is set to triple by 2040, according to the International Energy Agency’s Global Critical Minerals Outlook report. Increasing geopolitical competition led critical minerals to become not only an economic but also strategic priority to […]
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Fri 18 April 2025: Reported death toll marks one of the deadliest attacks by the US military on Yemen. Air strikes by the United States on Yemen’s Ras Isa oil port have killed at least 38 people in what is one of the deadliest attacks on the country by US forces, Houthi-affiliated media report. Al Masirah […]
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Fri 18 April 2025: The US State Department on Thursday accused a Chinese firm, Chang Guang Satellite Technology, of directly supporting attacks on US interests by Iran-backed Houthi fighters and called this “unacceptable”. Earlier, the Financial Times cited US officials as saying that the satellite company, linked to China’s military, was supplying Houthi rebels with imagery to […]
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Fri 18 April 2025: The United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, on Wednesday, denied media reports they were involved in talks with the US over a possible land offensive by military factions in Yemen against the Houthi group that controls much of the country, Anadolu Agency reports. A senior UAE official dismissed the reports, calling them unsubstantiated, […]
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Thu 17 April 2025: Saudi Arabia’s Defense Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman met with Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran on Thursday, delivering a letter from King Salman, Saudi and Iranian state media reported. During the meeting, Khamenei expressed support for closer ties between the two countries. “We believe that relations between the […]
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Thu 17 April 2025: More than 120,000 people in Israel have signed 43 petitions demanding an end to the war on Gaza and a prisoner exchange, according to the “Restart Israel” website. The platform allows Israelis to review and sign petitions electronically. As of Thursday, 120,522 people had signed calls urging the return of hostages […]
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Thu 17 April 2025: Russia’s Supreme Court on Thursday suspended the country’s ban on the activities of the Taliban movement, the court’s press service announced. The Taliban has been designated a terrorist organization by Russia, but the ruling effectively suspends that label, though it remains under international UN sanctions. A representative of the Taliban was […]
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Thu 17 April 2025: Canadian academics are being advised against all non-essential travel to the United States, the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) said in a travel advisory to its members on Tuesday. Given the rapidly evolving political landscape in the United States and reports of individuals encountering difficulties crossing the border, CAUT strongly […]
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Thu 17 April 2025: Millions flooded Kozhikode Beach in Kerala on Wednesday evening to protest the Union government’s newly passed Waqf Amendment Act, 2025. Organised by the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), the rally saw a sea of people from across the state, with organisers claiming a turnout of over two hundred thousand calling it […]
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