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Since returning to the White House, US President Donald Trump has touted corporate and foreign US investment announcements as proof he is ushering in “the golden age of America”.

On January 21, Trump said that before he’d finished the “first full business day” of his second term, the United States had “already secured nearly $3 trillion of new investments”.

On April 2, he said, “It looks like we’re going to have about $6 trillion of investments”. Six days later, Trump…

The victims were mostly children and elderly people, with an additional 28 injured.

Heavy overnight floods have washed away several villages in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing more than 100 people, according to local officials, in a nation suffering war and mass displacement.

The floods were triggered by torrential rains and surged through the Kasaba village, in South Kivu province, during the night of Thursday into Friday, regional official Bernard Akili told news agency AFP on…

Kylian Mbappe scores all Real Madrid’s goals in a 4-3 defeat as Barcelona place one hand on the LaLiga title.

Barcelona have overcome a two-goal deficit and a Kylian Mbappe hat-trick for Real Madrid to claim a 4-3 win in El Clasico, edging them closer to the LaLiga title.

Brazilian forward Raphinha scored twice for Barca on Sunday in response to a flying start by the visitors – which saw them storm to a two-goal lead after 14 minutes – at the Catalan club’s temporary home at the Lluis…

Arsenal earn a draw at Liverpool, recovering from being 2-0 down, but are yet to secure Champions League qualification.

Arsenal gave champions Liverpool a reminder of why they were the only team to challenge them in their romp to English football’s Premier League title as they hit back from two goals down to draw 2-2 at Anfield.

Liverpool were dominant in the first half on Sunday, with a header by Cody Gakpo and Luis Diaz’s tap-in in the space of 90 seconds putting them 2-0 ahead.

Arsenal…

GAZA, (PIC)

Amid the ongoing blockade and collapse of the healthcare sector, thousands of Palestinian families in the Gaza Strip face a severe malnutrition crisis, one of the most dangerous silent health disasters, which poses a threat to their children’s lives and futures.

As food and medical supplies diminish, the health situation worsens day by day, amid international silence and a failure of humanitarian responsibility.

Alarming figures pointing to imminent health…

GAZA, (PIC)

The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor said the Israeli occupation army killed an average of 21.3 women per day since it began committing genocide in October 2023, equivalent to approximately one Palestinian woman every hour, not counting other women who have died as a result of the crimes of siege, starvation and denial of medical care, which are not documented in the statistics.

The Euro-Med Monitor said in a press statement on Sunday that the shocking and…

AL-KHALIL, (PIC)

A number of students suffered from teargas inhalation on Sunday after Israeli occupation forces (IOF) stormed a school complex in the town of Halhul, north of Al-Khalil, while firing teargas canisters.

Bassam Jaber, director of education in northern Al-Khalil, told the Palestinian news agency, WAFA, that IOF stormed the vicinity of the school complex in the center of Halhul and fired a large number of tear gas canisters at the schools while students were inside,…