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China’s agricultural funding mainly goes to farm development, fisheries, irrigation, mechanisation, agricultural technology and rural infrastructure. Chinese invest less in agro-processing and storage. Southern African countries (Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Mozambique) receive the most in loans. They’re followed by east Africa (Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania) and west Africa (Nigeria and Ghana). Ch.
The premier said in a statement that the target was the head of Hamas's internal security apparatus in Gaza, and that he had been involved with Israeli hostages previously held there, without giving more details.
US President Donald Trump published a string of unhinged posts to his social media platform overnight Sunday and into Monday morning, including an artificial intelligence-generated video attempting to depict American forces bombing Kharg Island – Iran’s primary oil export terminal. The post, which drew mockery from Iranian officials and alarm from observers concerned about Trump’s increasingly err.
Cape Town stunt sparks major debate over safety risksAirlink insist flyby conducted passenger jets flying dramatically low over a stadium in South Africa drew huge cheers from the estimated crowd of around 56,000 people, but also sparked a major debate over safety risks.
Pedro Sánchez says two countries are cooperating after mass incursion by 70,000 people into north African enclave Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has insisted there was no evidence to suggest the Moroccan government was behind last month’s massive border crossing into Ceuta. As many as 141 people are thought to have died trying to enter the Spanish enclave at the end of July.
On the shores of Nkondo, in Uganda’s Kikuube district, the day begins before sunrise. Fishers enter the lake to fish, while families around Lake Albert rely on its waters for food, income and daily survival.
Police hunt two suspects after historic 200-carat piece is snatched from Austrian museum during opening hoursAustrian police are hunting two men alleged to have stolen a 200-carat platinum necklace encrusted with 673 diamonds that was on loan to a museum in Vienna and once belonged to Egyptian royalty.
A July roadmap sponsored by the Board of Peace has failed to overcome obstacles that have mired Gaza’s ceasefire deal ten months on. A mix of sustained pressure and diplomatic guarantees is needed to break the logjam and centre Palestinian agency in the strip's recovery.
Fuelled by wartime grievances, mob attacks and other forms of retribution threaten Syria’s transition. Damascus has done too little to deter such acts. It should ensure visible legal consequences for violence and broaden locally rooted policing to rebuild trust among vulnerable communities.
scans conflicts and crises around the globe every week and features some of the hotspots Crisis Group’s analysts are closely watching. Whether an under-reported trend or a headline-grabbing development, our field experts explain why it matters or what should be done.
Washington is negotiating an accord that would piece Libya’s divided national institutions back together. But its political aspects have sown fierce controversy. Rather than risk the country’s tenuous peace, U. S. mediators should seek broader buy-in, focusing on budgetary and military issues in the interim. Assessing the New U. Initiative for Libya.
Powerful nations interested in the Pacific have raced in recent years to shore up alliances among its leaders, intensifying a contest for influence between China and the U. S., Taiwan and forum members Australia and New Zealand.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Tuesday urged leaders of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) to help reshape global governance for a changing world, arguing that a more multipolar international order can strengthen multilateralism, advance fairness and better serve developing countries.
Victims of Afghanistan’s decades-long armed conflict continue to suffer profound physical, psychological, social and economic consequences, often without access to justice, reparation or formal acknowledgement of the harm done to them,.
The American response to Southeast Asia’s industrial-scale scam compounds has been vigorous, even theatrical at times, yet it remains strikingly incomplete. In April 2026, the Justice Department’s Scam Center Strike Force seized 503 domains designed to impersonate legitimate trading platforms, restrained roughly $702 million in cryptocurrency linked to the fraud and for the first time The post.
The latest US trade fight with Canada should matter far beyond North America. After negotiations collapsed in August, President Donald Trump imposed 50% tariffs on about $20 billion of Canadian goods. Ottawa answered with tariffs on roughly the same value of US imports. Trump then threatened 50% duties on Canadian cars, trucks and parts from The post Trump’s trade wars are making China’s Globa.
The confirmed death toll from Nepal’s catastrophic floods has surged to 903, with more than 4,200 still missing as rescue crews and humanitarian workers battle blocked highways to reach the hardest-hit areas, UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said on Monday.
Navigating app surpasses Google and Apple Maps on top-downloaded US chart after posting ‘we’re not changing it’A pioneering online mapping app that defied Donald Trump by refusing to rename Lake Ontario has become the most in-demand navigation tool in the US.
Claims that Trump and Rubio are trying to influence result have parallels with CIA intervention 64 years agoThe year was 1962 and the Kennedy administration was desperate to swing Brazil’s congressional elections against its leftwing president, João Goulart, as a way of countering the supposed communist threat sweeping a region the US considered its back yard.
Ukraine's top sanctions official arrived in Washington on August 31 seeking to keep alive a sweeping Russia sanctions bill that cleared the Senate with overwhelming bipartisan support but now faces a tougher test in the House of Representatives.
EU's foreign ministers gather in Ireland on September 1-2 for the traditional beginning of the autumn-term informal foreign affairs council, known in Brussels corridors as Gymnich after the German castle where the first of such meetings were held over 50 years ago.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he was briefed by US President Donald Trump’s special envoys following their latest trip to Moscow and said the two Americans were working on plans for a follow-up visit to Kyiv in the near future. Zelenskyy Briefed By Trump Envoys, While Russia Makes Surprise G20 Appearance In US.
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