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Mali crisis: Who are the key leaders to know about?
30 April 2026Armed violence has intensified in Mali since Saturday after an al-Qaeda-linked armed group working with separatists atta...
Hormuz effect? How US, China are ramping up tensions over the Panama Canal
30 April 2026The Panama Canal has emerged as the latest maritime flashpoint, with the United States and China exchanging barbs in rec...
Has the US Supreme Court weakened the Voting Rights Act
30 April 2026The United States Supreme Court has voided a key provision of a landmark civil rights law by ruling that the electoral m...
Indonesian soldiers accused of acid attack. What happened and why?
30 April 2026The trial of four Indonesian soldiers accused of carrying out an acid attack on an activist who had campaigned against t...
Israel kills nine people in southern Lebanon despite ‘ceasefire’
30 April 2026Israel’s attacks on southern Lebanon have killed at least nine people, according to the country’s National News Agen...
Tunisia’s jailed opposition leader Ghannouchi rushed to hospital
30 April 2026Jailed Tunisian opposition leader Rached Ghannouchi has been urgently transferred to a hospital after a sharp deteriorat...
Civilians or Hezbollah: Who did Israel hit on Lebanon’s ‘Black Wednesday’?
30 April 2026Beirut, Lebanon – On April 8, Ahmad Hamdi, 22, was sitting on his couch at home in Beirut’s Tallet el Khayat neighbo...
Press freedom worldwide falls to its lowest level in 25 years
30 April 2026Freedom of the press around the world has fallen to its lowest level in a quarter of a century, according to the leading...
Environmental disaster fears grip Russia as Ukraine targets oil refineries
30 April 2026When cleanup volunteer Sergei Solovev arrived in the town of Tuapse, on Russia’s Black Sea coast, an unpleasant odour ...
Myanmar’s blanket prison term reduction trims Aung San Suu Kyi’s sentence
30 April 2026News|Aung San Suu Kyi Myanmar President Min Aung Hlaing has cut all prisoners’ sentences by one-sixth, a blanket measu...
