Trump warns China ‘not getting off the hook’ on US tariffs for electronics The US president says there are no tariff exemptions for electronic items, but that they fall under a separate category. Tit-for-tat exchanges have seen US levies imposed on China rise to 145 percent, and Beijing setting a retaliatory 125 percent tariff on…
Sudan’s RSF claims control of famine-hit Zamzam camp in Darfur The paramilitary group says it ‘liberated’ the camp from the control of the army after launching ground and aerial assaults on Friday. Zamzam is among five areas in Sudan where famine has been detected [File: AFP] Published On 13 Apr 202513 Apr 2025 Sudan’s paramilitary…
Trump to meet Bukele as US deports more immigrants to El Salvador The White House is set to welcome El Salvador’s president as Washington faces backlash over immigrant removals. Prison guards transfer deportees from the United States, alleged to be Venezuelan gang members, to the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador [File/El Salvador presidential…
Israel’s attack on al-Alhi Hospital in Gaza City draws global condemnation Qatar says strike was ‘horrific massacre’ and the UK calls for end to Israel’s ‘deplorable attacks’, which WHO also condemns. Israel claims it struck a Hamas command and control centre at the al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza, City without providing evidence [Jehad Alshrafi/AP] Published On…
Inside Story Will elections in Gabon lead to change? The leader of a 2023 coup, Brice Oligui Nguema, wins in a landslide victory in Gabon. General Brice Oligui Nguema has just won Saturday’s election in Gabon, and will lead the country for the next seven years. Gabon is among seven west and central African countries…
Gaza City, Gaza – Yousef Abu Sakran was dozing next to his injured child and wife, Iman, in a tent ward at al-Ahli Arab Hospital when the sounds of people running and shouting woke him up. He stepped into the hospital courtyard well before dawn on Sunday to ask what was happening but found no clear…
News Convalescing Pope Francis greets Palm Sunday crowds in person The head of the Catholic Church has appeared publicly for the second time since being discharged from hospital after a pneumonia diagnosis. Pope Francis meets with the faithful during the Palm Sunday Mass in St Peter’s Square at the Vatican [Handout/Vatican Media via Reuters] Published…
News China says US tariff exemptions ‘small step in correcting wrong practice’ Beijing calls on Washington to ‘completely cancel’ its reciprocal tariffs amid an escalating trade war. The Trump administration granted exclusions from steep tariffs on electronics, imported largely from China [File: Peter Parks/AFP] Published On 13 Apr 202513 Apr 2025 China has welcomed the…
Video Duration 28 minutes 10 seconds play-arrow 28:10 Talk to Al Jazeera Namibia’s first female president: From freedom fighter to reformer? President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah on rising to power as Namibia’s first female leader and whether real change is possible. Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has made history as Namibia’s first female president. But after decades as a senior…
Video Duration 28 minutes 00 seconds play-arrow 28:00 Talk to Al Jazeera Myanmar military government defends rule minutes before deadly quake hits Moments before Myanmar’s deadliest quake in a century, General Zaw Min Tun defended military rule, dismissed war crimes claims, and spoke on the Rohingya. Just before a magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck central Myanmar,…