Category: 3. World

  • Conflict and climate drive record global hunger in 2024, UN says

    Conflict and climate drive record global hunger in 2024, UN says

    Children die as USAID aid cuts snap a lifeline for the world’s most malnourished


    DIKWA, Nigeria: Under the dappled light of a thatched shelter, Yagana Bulama cradles her surviving infant. The other twin is gone, a casualty of malnutrition and the international funding cuts that are snapping the lifeline for displaced communities in Nigeria’s insurgency-ravaged Borno state.

    “Feeding is severely difficult,” said…

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  • Children die as USAID aid cuts snap a lifeline for the world’s most malnourished

    Children die as USAID aid cuts snap a lifeline for the world’s most malnourished

    DIKWA, Nigeria: Under the dappled light of a thatched shelter, Yagana Bulama cradles her surviving infant. The other twin is gone, a casualty of malnutrition and the international funding cuts that are snapping the lifeline for displaced communities in Nigeria’s insurgency-ravaged Borno state.

    “Feeding is severely difficult,” said Bulama, 40, who was a farmer before Boko Haram militants swept through her village, forcing her to flee. She and about 400,000 other people at the…

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  • Pakistan conducts second missile test since renewed India standoff

    Pakistan conducts second missile test since renewed India standoff


    WEST PALM BEACH, Florida: President Donald Trump is circumspect about his duties to uphold due process rights laid out in the Constitution, saying in a new interview that he does not know whether US citizens and noncitizens alike deserve that guarantee.

    He also said he does not think military force will be needed to make Canada the “51st state” and played down the possibility he would look to run for a third term in the White House.

    The comments in a…

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  • Indigenous Catholics hope the next pope shares Francis’ approach to Native people

    Indigenous Catholics hope the next pope shares Francis’ approach to Native people


    WEST PALM BEACH, Florida: President Donald Trump is circumspect about his duties to uphold due process rights laid out in the Constitution, saying in a new interview that he does not know whether US citizens and noncitizens alike deserve that guarantee.

    He also said he does not think military force will be needed to make Canada the “51st state” and played down the possibility he would look to run for a third term in the White House.

    The comments in a…

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  • Ukraine says it shot down 42 drones from Russia but two regions hit

    Ukraine says it shot down 42 drones from Russia but two regions hit


    WEST PALM BEACH, Florida: President Donald Trump is circumspect about his duties to uphold due process rights laid out in the Constitution, saying in a new interview that he does not know whether US citizens and noncitizens alike deserve that guarantee.

    He also said he does not think military force will be needed to make Canada the “51st state” and played down the possibility he would look to run for a third term in the White House.

    The comments in a…

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    News Source: www.arabnews.com

  • France, EU leaders spearhead effort to lure US scientists

    France, EU leaders spearhead effort to lure US scientists

    PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron and EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen host a Paris conference Monday to attract US researchers ready to relocate because of President Donald Trump’s policies.
    EU commissioners, scientists and ministers for research from member countries will discuss, among other things, financial incentives at the gathering to lure disgruntled American scientists across the Atlantic.
    Paris’s Sorbonne university is hosting the conference, called…

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  • Former Vice President Pence defends US Constitution after getting Profile in Courage Award

    Former Vice President Pence defends US Constitution after getting Profile in Courage Award


    WEST PALM BEACH, Florida: President Donald Trump is circumspect about his duties to uphold due process rights laid out in the Constitution, saying in a new interview that he does not know whether US citizens and noncitizens alike deserve that guarantee.

    He also said he does not think military force will be needed to make Canada the “51st state” and played down the possibility he would look to run for a third term in the White House.

    The comments in a…

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  • Trump brands his opponents as ‘communists,’ a label loaded with the baggage of American history

    Trump brands his opponents as ‘communists,’ a label loaded with the baggage of American history

    Indigenous Catholics hope the next pope shares Francis’ approach to Native people


    SIMOJOVEL: At a recent service in the remote southern Mexican community of Simojovel, Catholic and Mayan symbolism mingled at the altar as the deacon — his wife beside him — read the gospel in his native Tsotsil and recalled Pope Francis’ teachings: work together for human rights, justice and Mother Earth.

    The scene in the small…

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  • Trump, in a new interview, says he doesn’t know if he backs due process rights

    Trump, in a new interview, says he doesn’t know if he backs due process rights

    Indigenous Catholics hope the next pope shares Francis’ approach to Native people


    SIMOJOVEL: At a recent service in the remote southern Mexican community of Simojovel, Catholic and Mayan symbolism mingled at the altar as the deacon — his wife beside him — read the gospel in his native Tsotsil and recalled Pope Francis’ teachings: work together for human rights, justice and Mother Earth.

    The scene in the small…

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  • Trump says ordering ‘100 percent tariff’ on all movies produced abroad

    Trump says ordering ‘100 percent tariff’ on all movies produced abroad

    WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump said Sunday he was ordering new tariffs on all films made outside the United States, claiming Hollywood was being “devastated” by a trend of US filmmakers and studios working abroad.
    The announcement comes as the White House is coming under mounting criticism over its aggressive trade policies that have seen Trump impose sweeping tariffs on countries around the globe.

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