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Apr 24, 2025 - World

International aid workers fear for Palestinians who have fled their homes in search of safetyIsrael has quietly stopped designating areas of Gaza as humanitarian zones since it resumed strikes on the Palestinian territory last month.The move has heightened fears among aid workers for the safety of civilians sheltering in places previously deemed protected. Continue reading...

Apr 24, 2025 - World

President Donald Trump pleaded with Russian president Vladimir Putin to call off a bombing campaign against Ukraine.Russia launched its deadliest attacks against Kyiv in nine months Thursday morning, just hours after Trump accused Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskyy of undermining peace talks, but the U.S. president lashed out at Putin in response to the attacks."I am not happy with the Russian strikes on KYIV," Trump posted on Truth Social. "Not necessary, and very bad timing. Vladimir, STOP! 5000 soldiers a week are dying. Lets get the Peace Deal DONE!"ALSO READ: 'Dictatorship, not a town hall': Families 'distraught' as MTG disruptors tased and jailedAt least eight people were killed when Russia launched 70 missiles and 145 drones on Ukraine's capital, according to the besieged nation's Air Force, making it the deadliest attack since July, when 33 people were killed in an attack targeting a hospital and residential areas."It has been 44 days since Ukraine agreed to a full ceasefire and a halt to strikes," Zelenskyy recently posted on X. "This was a proposal from the United States. And it has been 44 days of Russia continuing to kill our people and evading tough pressure and accountability for its actions. It is extremely important that everyone around the world sees and understands what is really happening."

Apr 24, 2025 - World

Both sides say they have resolved to end conflict through peaceful means after ‘frank’ talks facilitated by QatarThe Democratic Republic of the Congo and a coalition of militias including the Rwanda-backed M23 have agreed to work toward a truce to end the fighting that has engulfed the eastern part of the country since January.In similarly worded statements released on Wednesday night, the government and Alliance Fleuve Congo (Congo River Alliance) said their representatives had held talks facilitated by Qatar and resolved to end the conflict through peaceful means. Continue reading...

Apr 24, 2025 - World

Brazil has been the world’s leading coffee producer due to the forced labour of enslaved Africans and Afro-Brazilians“John” was just days from turning 16 when he was allegedly recruited to work on a Brazilian coffee farm that supplies the global coffeehouse chain Starbucks.Soon after his birthday, he embarked on a 16-hour bus journey to the farm in the state of Minas Gerais – only to discover that none of what he had been promised would be fulfilled. Continue reading...

Apr 23, 2025 - World

The White House appears to have altered its messaging around the trade war with China, and it seems China views it as a "win" for them. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent spoke to the International Monetary Fund on Wednesday, saying that there should be a "de-escalation" of the tit-for-tat tariff increases.Bessent promised that "America First" didn't mean that the country was abandoning trade allies. It does not mean "America alone," he promised. “We’re going to have a fair deal with China,” Trump told reporters outside the White House. But the tough talk with China isn't working, Politico reported.ALSO READ: 'We’ve made a mistake': Trump’s trade war sends GOP into frenzy“If a negotiated solution is truly what the U.S. wants, it should stop threatening and blackmailing China and seek dialogue based on equality, respect, and mutual benefit,” the Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said Wednesday before Bessent's speech to the IMF. “To keep asking for a deal while exerting extreme pressure is not the right way to deal with China and simply will not work.”A CNN reporter said that this "U-Turn" from Trump shows "the U.S. blinked." Still, Bessent confessed that there isn't a solution coming any time soon. The report said he was "eyeing a two-to-three-year timeline for 'the full rebalancing' of the relationship between the U.S. and China." The goal is to reach a deal sooner, however. Bessent also promised that it "won't take years" to negotiate trade deals with other countries the way it did with renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement into the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement. In those negotiations, it took 18 months to agree. Bessent said the U.S. has a list of things that it wants in trade negotiations and that's why it will go faster. "We know what we want in terms of the non-tariff trade barriers,” he said. “The tariffs are easy. So I don’t think that this is an extended process at all, because, again, the alternative for the countries is going back to that maximum level from April 2, which I don’t think is an appealing alternative.”Read the full report here.