Civilians in Sudan’s North Darfur’s capital, el-Fasher, and surrounding towns are starving.
The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have imposed a siege on them for about a year, yet they managed to forestall an invasion thanks to the…
Category: 3. Middle East
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US allies and adversaries react to Trump’s tariffs
Trump’s new global tariffs have shocked both allies and adversaries alike.
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Israeli FM says indirect US-Iran talks likely, hails 'common objective' with France
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said France shares the same concerns as Israel on the Iranian nuclear plan and predicted that Washington would soon launch indirect talks with Tehran.
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OPEC+ members boost output as Trump tariffs bring down oil prices
The US president has been calling on Saudi Arabia and other top oil producers to boost production and bring down prices.
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Gaza rescuers say Israeli air strikes in north kill at least 15
Gaza’s civil defence agency said Israeli air strikes in the north of the territory killed at least 15 people Thursday, as the military warned residents to leave the area.
Agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal said the strikes targeted several homes in…
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Gaza faces ‘largest orphan crisis’ in modern history, report says | Israel-Palestine conflict News
Over 39,000 children have lost one or both parents in Gaza, new report by the Palestinian statistics agency says.
Tens of thousands of Palestinian children have lost their parents since the start of Israel’s war on the besieged Gaza Strip, the…
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Trump’s tariffs: Which countries will hit back – and which likely won’t? | Donald Trump News
US President Donald Trump has unveiled his long-awaited “reciprocal” tariff plan, in a move that sent financial markets reeling amid growing fears of a global trade war.
On Wednesday, Trump announced a 10 percent “minimum baseline tariff”…
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Reverse reparations: Zimbabwe’s perfect trap, South Africa’s looming danger | Debt News
On February 7, the White House cut aid to South Africa, citing a nonexistent threat to white farmers from government land expropriation. To see what might lie beyond Trump’s executive order, South Africa need only look north. Zimbabwe’s…
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Condemnation of anime-style images from Israeli military
The Israeli army faced backlash for joining an online trend of using AI anime-style images to portray its forces.
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Trump imposes 50% tariff on Africa’s Lesotho, the highest among nations | Donald Trump News
The move deals a harsh blow to the small, impoverished state, which Trump mocked as a place ‘nobody has heard of’.
The Trump administration has imposed a steep 50 percent tariff on Lesotho, a small, impoverished African nation of two million…
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