Wed 26 March 2025: Sudan’s army has recaptured Khartoum airport from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), “fully securing it”, according to military sources. Soldiers also encircled areas surrounding the airport in the Sudanese capital on Wednesday, a key development in a two-year-old conflict between the armed forces and rival RSF. Troops “surrounded the strategic […]
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Wed 26 March 2025: China is the top threat to American interests globally, according to a US intelligence report released Tuesday, which said Beijing was making progress in its military and cyber capabilities. Beijing’s “coercive pressure” against Taiwan and “wide-ranging cyber operations against US targets” were indicators of its growing threat to US national security, […]
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Tue 25 March 2025: Building tension and violence threatens to unravel the peace deal that halted ethnic conflict in 2018. South Sudan is on the brink of a renewed civil war as violence between rival factions escalates, the United Nations has warned. The situation in the country is “dire” said Nicholas Haysom, head of the UN Mission in South […]
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Tue 25 March 2025: The results of Monday’s Russian-US talks in the Saudi capital Riyadh are currently being analyzed and will not be made public, said a Kremlin spokesman. Speaking at a Tuesday press briefing in Moscow, Dmitry Peskov described the discussions as “technical in nature” and confirmed that further negotiations would take place. “These […]
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Tue 25 March 2025: US President Donald Trump said he believes Lee Harvey Oswald, the man charged with assassinating President John F. Kennedy in 1963, did not act alone, a press report said Sunday. In an interview with radio host Clay Travis, Trump was asked directly: “Do you think Oswald killed JFK personally?” He replied, […]
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Tue 25 March 2025: Iran said on Monday it was open to indirect talks with the United States, after President Donald Trump had demanded negotiations for a new nuclear deal. “The way is open for indirect negotiations,” Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said, dismissing the prospect of direct talks “until there is a change in the other side’s approach towards […]
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Tue 25 March 2025: The sudden halt to US foreign aid funding has been “devastating“, the UNAIDS chief said Monday, warning that without more funding, millions more will die and the global AIDS pandemic will resurge. The United States has historically been the world’s largest donor of humanitarian assistance, but President Donald Trump has slashed international aid […]
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Mon 24 March 2025: Voicing readiness to advance Ankara‘s relations with European countries, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Monday that Europe cannot ensure its security without Türkiye. “The heated debates over past weeks have shown that European security without Türkiye will not be possible,” Erdoğan said after a Cabinet meeting in the capital Ankara. “Europe‘s need for our country […]
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Mon 24 March 2025: U.S. President Donald Trump vowed on Monday that more countries will be added to the Abraham Accords, the series of normalization that his administration negotiated between Israel and some Gulf countries during his first term. Trump, speaking to reporters at a Cabinet meeting at the White House, said more countries want to join the accords. The White […]
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Mon 24 March 2025: Buddhists across the country have joined protests after monks at the Mahabodhi Temple were forcibly removed by police. Bodh Gaya, India — As he stood in a queue outside a makeshift tent kitchen for breakfast, 30-year-old Abhishek Bauddh could not help but reflect on the throngs of people around him in Bodh […]
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