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Blinken back in China seeking pressure but also stability 2024-04-24
Korea Times

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is greeted by at the Kong Fuan, Director General of the Shanghai Foreign Affairs Office, U.S. Ambassador to the People's Republic of China R. Nicholas Burns and U.S. Consulate General in Shanghai Scott Walker, upon his arrival in Shanghai, China, April 24,...

photo: AP / Mark Schiefelbein, Pool

Cost of doing business with Iran? US warns Pakistan of sanctions risk 2024-04-24
Al Jazeera

Islamabad, Pakistan – The United States has warned Pakistan of the risk of sanctions after it promised greater security and economic cooperation with Iran during a visit by President Ebrahim Raisi. The first Iranian president to visit the South Asian country in eight years, Raisi concluded his...

photo: AP / Iranian Presidency Office

‘Absolute power’: After pro-China Maldives leader’s big win, what’s next? 2024-04-24
Al Jazeera

Very few expected Maldivian President Mohamed Muizzu’s party to win Sunday’s parliamentary elections, that too by a landslide. For this was a man whose triumph in the presidential poll last year came by a fluke. Back then, the 45-year-old mayor of the capital Male entered the presidential race only...

photo: AP / Rafiq Maqbool, File

Inside the White House’s monthslong push for Ukraine aid 2024-04-24
CNN

The Senate’s vote on Tuesday to approve new aid for Ukraine capped off six months of public pressure and private overtures by the White House to build support, including the not-insignificant task of winning over House Speaker Mike Johnson. For months, President Joe Biden and his team pressed the...

photo: White House / Erin Scott

US approves $95bn aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan 2024-04-24
RTE

The US Congress has given final approval to a $95 billion aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, with President Joe Biden quickly vowing to sign the long-delayed bill. The package of legislation also contains text that would ban TikTok in the United States if the popular social media app does...

photo: AP / Mayor of Odesa Hennadii Trukhanov via AP

Post-1948 order ‘at risk of decimation’ amid war in Gaza, Ukraine: Amnesty 2024-04-24
Al Jazeera

The world is facing the collapse of the 1948 international order established in the wake of World War II, amid the brutal wars in Gaza and Ukraine, while authoritarian policies continue to spread, Amnesty International has warned. The report accused the world’s most powerful governments, including...

photo: AP / Efrem Lukatsky

India elections don’t inspire much hope in Kashmir 2024-04-24
Asiatimes

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is favored to win a third term in office in the country’s massive general election, ongoing in stages since April 19. While there are many questions about what another Modi term could mean for the country, residents in the Muslim-majority northern region of...

photo: AP

Pro-Palestinian protests sweep US colleges after Columbia mass arrests 2024-04-23
Naharnet

Columbia canceled in-person classes, dozens of protesters were arrested at New York University and Yale, and the gates to Harvard Yard were closed to the public Monday as some of the most prestigious U.S. universities sought to defuse campus tensions over Israel's war with Hamas. More than 100...

photo: AP / Stefan Jeremiah

EU nations reluctant to share Patriot systems with Ukraine 2024-04-23
Press Telegram

By Lorne Cook | Associated Press BRUSSELS — European Union countries possessing Patriot air defense systems gave no clear signal on Monday whether they might be willing to supply them to Ukraine, which is desperately seeking at least seven of the missile batteries to help fend off Russian air...

photo: AP

Over 18,000 who faced Rwanda removal are now having cases dealt with in UK 2024-04-22
The Observer

More than 18,000 asylum seekers threatened with being sent to Rwanda are now having their cases processed in the UK instead. Freedom of information data obtained by the Guardian reveals that between January 2021 and June 2023 about three-quarters (18,078) of those who previously received notice of...

photo: AP / Matt Dunham, File