Wed 12 February 2025: Arab and Muslim nations have intensified contacts on the Gaza situation amid US President Donald Trump‘s plan to “take over” the besieged enclave and forcibly remove Palestinians. Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani spoke to Malaysian counterpart Anwar Ibrahim over the phone late Tuesday to discuss the latest situation in Gaza. The two leaders discussed the latest situation […]
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Wed 12 February 2025: The FBI discovered about 2,400 records tied to US President John F. Kennedy’s 1963 assassination, according to a report by Axios on Monday. The still-secret records are contained in 14,000 pages of documents the FBI found in a review prompted by President Donald Trump’s Jan. 23 executive order to release all […]
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Tue 11 February 2025: Pope Francis has criticised Trump’s push to carry out what the US president has called the largest deportation operation in US history. In a letter to US bishops, the pope affirmed the right of people to seek shelter and safety in other lands and said he was concerned with what is going on […]
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Tue 11 February 2025: South Africa – The uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MK Party) recently opened a treason case against AfriForum at the Cape Town Central Police Station, accusing the organisation of lobbying foreign powers to act against South Africa’s sovereignty and economic interests. The MK Party describes these actions as deliberate economic sabotage and betraying the […]
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Tue 11 February 2025: Following an executive order by US President Donald Trump aimed at the suspension of foreign aid, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) said food products worth $489 million are at risk of spoiling. “Recent widespread staffing reductions across the agency … coupled with uncertainty about the scope of foreign […]
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Tue 11 February 2025: Hundreds of farmers descended upon Parliament in London on Monday, driving their tractors through the city streets. They were protesting a proposed inheritance tax on family farms, announced last year, which has sparked widespread outrage. The farmers gathered to voice their opposition to the planned changes to inheritance tax laws, which […]
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Tue 11 February 2025: US President Donald Trump proposed the cancelation of the Gaza ceasefire between Israel and Hamas if all the hostages in the Strip are not released by Saturday at noon. “As far as I’m concerned, if all of the hostages aren’t returned by Saturday at 12 o’clock — I think it’s an […]
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Tue 11 February 2025: Tech firm Google officially changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America in its Maps app following a change instituted by US President Donald Trump. Google said that within the US, it follows the US Geological Survey’s Geographic Names Information System, which has formally adopted Trump’s […]
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Tue 11 February 2025: China on Monday warned US President Donald Trump that trade protectionism “leads nowhere,” urging him to avoid escalating tensions into a trade war, according to state media reports. “There are no winners in trade wars or tariff wars,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun told reporters in Beijing. Beijing’s comments came in […]
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Mon 10 February 2025: Sudan’s foreign minister said on Monday that the war is nearing its end amid military gains against the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group in the capital Khartoum. “We insist on the implementation of the Jeddah Declaration as a condition for engaging in any future negotiations with the RSF,” Ali Yusuf […]
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