Tue 08 April 2025: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday rebuffed a proposal by US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to relocate the people of Gaza to other countries, calling it a violation of international law, Anadolu Agency reports. In response to Anadolu’s question about their widely denounced plan, Guterres said: “Palestinians must […]
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Tue 08 April 2025: Average global temperature in March was 1.6C higher than in pre-industrial times, threatening that international climate goals are moving out of reach. Global temperatures hovered at historic highs last month, and Europe experienced its warmest March, suggesting international climate goals could be moving out of reach. The average temperature in March […]
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Tue 08 April 2025: Rwanda began a weeklong commemoration Monday marking 31 years since the 1994 genocide against the ethnic Tutsi population. President Paul Kagame and first lady Jeannette Kagame, joined by the dean of the diplomatic corps in the capital Kigali and representatives of genocide survivors, laid wreaths at the Kigali Genocide Memorial, where […]
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Tue 08 April 2025: On Tuesday, China dismissed US President Donald Trump’s latest proposal to slap an additional 50% tariff on Chinese goods, with state-run Xinhua reporting that the nation “will fight to the end.” Beijing’s Commerce Ministry declared its strong opposition to Washington’s tariff hikes and promised retaliatory actions to protect its interests. “China […]
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Tue 08 April 2025: Tech billionaire Elon Musk made personal appeals to US President Donald Trump to reverse tariffs over the past weekend, according to a report by The Washington Post. Trump has announced a baseline tariff of 10% on all imports to the US and even higher “reciprocal” tariffs on other trading partners, including […]
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Mon 07 April 2025: A team of lawyers in the UK plans to file a war crimes complaint today against 10 British citizens who took part in Israel’s war in Gaza, reports The Guardian. The complaint accuses the Britons of involvement in “indiscriminate attacks on civilian areas” and “coordinated attacks on protected sites including historic […]
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Mon 07 April 2025: Britain said it would consider closing dozens of arms-length government agencies, as it looks to reform the state to make cost savings and improve productivity in what it called “a new era of global instability”. Britain has over 300 so-called quangos, or agencies and public bodies which are funded by taxpayers […]
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Mon 07 April 2025: It was yet another unwelcome development for Mark Zuckerberg’s technology titan Meta, the parent company of Facebook. The High Court of Kenya has found that the US-based entity can be sued over its alleged role in disseminating content that incited violence in neighbouring Ethiopia. While the case can be heard in Kenya, the […]
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Mon 07 April 2025: Several powerful Iranian-backed militia groups in Iraq are prepared to disarm for the first time to avert the threat of an escalating conflict with the US Trump administration, ten senior commanders and Iraqi officials have told Reuters. The move to defuse tensions follows repeated warnings issued privately by US officials to the […]
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Mon 07 April 2025: US President Donald Trump described tariffs as “medicine” for addressing the country’s trade deficit with many countries. “I don’t want anything to go down, but sometimes you have to take medicine to fix something,” Trump told reporters Sunday while flying on Air Force One from Florida to Washington, DC, saying he […]
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