12-02-2025 BEIJING/ WASHINGTON/ After US President Donald Trump’s administration froze donations in January to Cambodia’s largest demining organization, which works to clear the countryside of deadly remnants of Washington’s past wars in Southeast Asia, the group announced new funding from China. Beijing has doubled its contributions over the past three …
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12-02-2025 STOCKHOLM/ OREBRO: Government offices, schools and workplaces fell silent in Sweden at midday on Tuesday in remembrance of the victims of a mass shooting at an adult education centre last week when a gunman killed 10 people before turning his weapon on himself. Swedes, grown reluctantly accustomed to gangland …
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12-02-2025 BERLIN: Germany’s trade surplus with the United States reached a record level, data from the statistics office showed, as countries wait to learn how US President Donald Trump will impose tariffs on imported goods. Germany’s trade surplus with the US expanded to 70 billion euros ($72 billion) in 2024, …
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12-02-2025 PARIS: Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered the inaugural address of the AI Action Summit in Paris. French President Emmanuel Macron, EU Commission president Urusula Von Der Leyen, and UN chief Antonio Guterres were also present. In his address, PM Modi called for investment in skilling and reskilling people for …
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12-02-2025 ADDIS ABABA/ KHARTOUM: The civil war in Sudan has created the “worst humanitarian crisis in the world”, the African Union has warned. The conflict between the Sudanese military government and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) is hampering the delivery of aid to a population suffering attacks and the threat …
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12-02-2025 PORT LOUIS: Slam poet Geraldine Baptiste pulls no punches when telling the story of her “Granpapa”, one of the 1,500-plus people ripped from a peaceful existence on the Chagos Islands by the British to make way for a United States military base, most shipped “kouma zanimo” (meaning “like animals” …
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12-02-2025 WASHINGTON: When a prominent Saudi Trans woman posted her suicide note on X, her friends and followers were devastated. The note, viewed by millions, said a lawyer in the US where she had been trying to claim asylum had persuaded her into returning home to a family and country …
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12-02-2025 CAIRO/ TEL AVIV: Hamas has brushed off President Donald Trump’s threat that “all hell” will break out if it does not release the remaining Israeli hostages held in the Gaza Strip by Saturday. Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said Tuesday that the dozens of hostages would only be returned …
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11-02-2025 PYONGYANG/ SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un criticized trilateral military cooperation among the United States, Japan and South Korea for raising tensions in the region and vowed countermeasures, including the further development of nuclear forces. Kim said US deployments of nuclear strategic assets, war exercises and military cooperation …
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11-02-2025 BEIJING: China’s top economic planning agency said on Sunday it was taking steps to scale back subsidies for renewable energy projects after a boom in solar and wind power installations. China broke its own records for new solar installations in 2024 with installed capacity up 45% from the previous …
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