Fri 18 July 2025: Food intended to feed 27,000 starving children in Afghanistan and Pakistan will soon be incinerated in the wake of President Donald Trump’s closure of the United States’ aid agency. A senior US official on Wednesday said nearly 500 tonnes of high-energy biscuits, to be used as emergency food for malnourished young […]
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Fri 18 July 2025: Russia will face “very steep” tariffs if it does not agree to a ceasefire with Ukraine within 50 days, the White House said Thursday. “Well, in 50 days, as clearly laid out, if there is not a ceasefire agreement or a peace deal within that time frame, if Russia refuses to […]
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Fri 18 July 2025: The UN said Thursday that more than 737,000 people have been displaced in the Gaza Strip since an escalation of Israeli attacks in March, underscoring the scale of the humanitarian crisis facing the population. Citing the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), spokesperson Stephanie Tremblay reported at a news conference that “between the 8th and […]
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Thu 17 July 2025: Syrian state media reports that Druze anti-government militias have committed “massacres” against Bedouins in Sweida’s al-Maqous neighborhood, including killings of women and children and field executions, following the withdrawal of government forces on Thursday. The retreat came after days of violent clashes involving Druze, Bedouins, and forces loyal to President Ahmad […]
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Thu 17 July 2025: NoName057(16) had carried out thousands of attacks on Ukraine and its supporters. An international operation spanning North America and Europe has taken down a pro-Russian cybercrime group linked to thousands of attacks on Ukraine and its allies. In recent days, law enforcement working together in 19 countries jointly dismantled the operations […]
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Eswatini’s King Mswati III Thu 17 July 2025: The Trump administration has pushed third-party countries to accept deportees whose home countries allegedly will not accept them. The government of the tiny, landlocked African country of Eswatini has confirmed that it received five individuals deported from the United States under President Donald Trump. In a statement on […]
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Thu 17 July 2025: ‘A tragedy and a calamity have befallen us,” the Wasit province governor says. At least 61 people have been killed and several more are missing in a huge fire at a hypermarket in Kut city in eastern Iraq, according to Iraq’s Interior Ministry. The ministry said on Thursday that 14 charred […]
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Thu 17 July 2025: Residents in the nearby fishing town of Grindavik and guests at a luxury geothermal spa resort are evacuated. The Sundhnukur volcano has erupted near Iceland’s capital, Reykjavik, the 12th volcanic eruption in the North Atlantic island nation since 2021, the Icelandic Meteorological Office says. The agency said in a statement on […]
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Thu 17 July 2025: U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs on South Africa could cause around 100,000 job losses, with the agriculture and automotive sectors hardest-hit, central bank governor Lesetja Kganyago said on Wednesday. Kganyago told local radio station 702 that the impact of the 30% tariff, which Africa’s biggest economy faces from August 1, could […]
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Wed 16 July 2025: The Trump administration has faced a raft of legal challenges as it seeks to radically restrict immigration to the US. A United States federal judge has ruled that the administration of President Donald Trump cannot block approved refugees from entering the country under the guise of a wider travel ban. US District […]
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