Russia’s latest strikes in Ukraine kill four in Kharkiv after Sumy attack The strikes in eastern Ukraine follow an attack in Sumy that killed more than 30 people, sparking condemnation. Ukrainian emergency services work to extinguish a fire in a food warehouse after a drone attack in Kharkiv on April 14, 2025 [Sergey Bobok/AFP] Published…
EXPLAINER Did Trump really ‘exempt’ Chinese phones, chips from tariffs? Trump only rolled back tariffs imposed since April 2. Laptops, phones and semiconductors still face hefty levies. Fromo top, a screen shows the Shanghai composite index, Shenzhen component index and Hang Seng Index in the Jing’an district of Shanghai on April 9, 2025 [Hector Retamal/AFP]…
Sudan war to enter third year as RSF assaults in Darfur intensify Rights groups urge protection of civilians and aid access as millions of people are displaced and many face famine. A displaced Sudanese woman at Zamzam camp in North Darfur on August 1, 2024 [File/Mohamed Jamal Jebrel/Reuters] By Al Jazeera StaffPublished On 14 Apr 202514…
It is time Liberia enacts legislation banning FGM Years of symbolic bans by traditional chiefs have done nothing to curb the harmful practice. Dounard Bondo Liberia-based lawyer and journalist Published On 14 Apr 202514 Apr 2025 It is estimated that more than 50 percent of Liberian women have undergone FGM [File: Rebecca Blackwell/AP] In 2022,…
Can China use US debt in its tariff war against Trump? China is the second largest holder of US debt and could, theoretically, dump it to devalue the dollar. President Donald Trump, left, and China’s President Xi Jinping are thick in a trade war [File: Susan Walsh/AP Photo] By Andy HirschfeldPublished On 14 Apr 202514 Apr…
Video shows the aftermath of US air strikes targeting a factory in Yemen’s Sanaa province, that killed seven people.
A space tourism rocket carried an all-female crew of six to the edge of space and back.
Greek police probe hardline group claims on bombing attacks Revolutionary Class Struggle asserts attacks on railway operator and a ministry dedicated to ‘the Palestinian people’. A hardline group claims responsibility for planting a bomb near the headquarters of Hellenic Train, Greece’s main railway company, on April 11, 2025 [Yorgos Karahalis/AP Photo] Published On 14 Apr…
EXPLAINER Germany wants to deport four pro-Palestine activists: What you should know The US citizen and three European nationals who face expulsion have not been convicted of any crime. Protests in Germany against deportation of pro-Palestinian activists By Jad SalfitiPublished On 14 Apr 202514 Apr 2025 Berlin, Germany – Germany is being accused of silencing pro-Palestinian…
Peru mourns death of literary giant Mario Vargas Llosa The writer was a leading light in the 20th-century Latin American literature boom and has won a Nobel Prize. Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa stands in front of the Peruvian flag during the ceremony to invest him with the ‘Order of the Arts and Letters’ by…