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China “will not enter another century of humiliation”: Vijay Prashad | TV Shows

Can BRICS countries challenge the US? Redi Tlhabi speaks with historian and journalist Vijay Prashad. Amid escalating global instability and a fractured Western alliance, nations in the Global South are reassessing their geopolitical alignments and economic strategies. The BRICS bloc, which includes Russia, Brazil, India, China, South Africa and other emerging economies, has emerged as […]

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US to screen social media of visa applicants who spent time in Gaza

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US State Department cable reveals that social media posts could lead to screening of visa applicants for national security threats. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has ordered the State Department to review the social media accounts of foreign applicants for United States visas who have visited the Gaza Strip in the past 18 years,

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US airstrikes on Houthi oil port in Yemen reportedly kill dozens | Yemen

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US airstrikes on Yemen’s Houthi rebels killed 33 people and wounded 80 others, Houthi-run media said early on Friday, which if confirmed would mark one of the deadliest days of a campaign launched under US President Trump that has involved hundreds of strikes since 15 March. The strikes hit the Ras Isa oil port and

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Who is being targeted by Trump and why? | TV Shows

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Universities threatened, NGOs and media outlets targeted, US overseas agencies shut. The Trump administration has taken drastic action against hundreds of organisations and companies. Why is this happening, and what does it mean for the US and its global standing? Presenter: Dareen Abughaida Guests: David Cay Johnston – Professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology

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Four dead in cable car crash south of Naples

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Four people have died after a mountain cable car cabin plunged to the ground near Naples in southern Italy, emergency services say. Another person was “extremely seriously injured” in the crash at Mount Faito and was being airlifted to hospital, officials said. Italian media outlets reported that one of the cables supporting a cabin higher

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Russia’s Supreme Court suspends ban on Afghanistan’s Taliban

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The group that seized power in Afghanistan in 2021 is removed from Russia’s list of banned ‘terror’ organisations. Russia’s Supreme Court has suspended its ban on the Taliban, which it had designated for more than 20 years as “a terrorist organisation”. The latest move is aimed at normalising ties with the de facto rulers of

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China says it will pay no attention to Trump’s ‘tariff numbers game’

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Beijing’s comments come after White House says Chinese exports could face duties of up to 245 percent. China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said it will pay no attention to United States President Donald Trump’s “tariff numbers game” after the White House suggested Chinese exports are facing tariffs of up to 245 percent. The White

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US to hold talks in Paris with Europeans

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Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff and top diplomat Marco Rubio will hold talks with European counterparts in Paris today to discuss efforts to end the war in Ukraine. The talks, which UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy will also attend, form the highest level of transatlantic engagement about the war since February. In recent months,

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At least 50 killed after boat catches fire, capsizes in DR Congo

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A motorised wooden boat with about 400 passengers caught fire and capsized near the town of Mbandaka. A boat has capsized after catching fire in the northwestern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), leaving at least 50 people dead and hundreds missing, a local official has said. The search for the missing was under way

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Live colossal squid captured on video in wild for first time ever | Marine life

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The colossal squid, the heaviest invertebrate in the world, has been filmed alive in the wild for the first time since it was identified a century ago. Growing up to 23ft (seven metres) long and weighing up to half a tonne, the squid, Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni, is the heaviest invertebrate on the planet. The individual captured

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