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Assange Assurances: An Australian Response 2024-04-24
Consortium News

The Australian government has been relatively quiet on the U.S. assurances on Julian Assange. CN Live! speaks to an Australian senator, lawyer and former diplomat for their views....

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US top diplomat Blinken visits China amid escalated tensions over Taiwan 2024-04-24
Al Jazeera

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has arrived in China for a three-day trip, following Senate approval of a foreign aid package that will provide billions of dollars in assistance to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. Blinken, who landed in Shanghai on Wednesday, is expected to meet business leaders in...

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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

Musk v Australia heats up as church stabbing raids target network of allegedly radicalized teens 2024-04-24
CNN

In one camp is a tech billionaire with more than 181 million followers on his own social network. In the other, political leaders representing a country of just 26 million people. Insults have been hurled for days by both sides in an increasingly bare-knuckled fight between X owner Elon Musk and the...

photo: AP / Matt Rourke, file

US banning TikTok? Your key questions answered 2024-04-24
Wtop

No, TikTok will not suddenly disappear from your phone. Nor will you go to jail if you continue using it after it is banned. After years of attempts to ban the Chinese-owned app, including by former President Donald Trump, a measure to outlaw the popular video-sharing app has won congressional...

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UNRWA chief calls for probe into attacks on staff, premises 2024-04-24
The New Arab

The head of the United Nations agency for Palestinians hit back at Israel on Tuesday as he called for a Security Council probe into the "blatant disregard" for UN operations in Gaza after hundreds of staff members were killed and buildings razed. Philippe Lazzarini's comments came a day after the...

photo: UN / Loey Felipe

UN: Guns fueling rape of children, women in war zones 2024-04-24
Voa News

UNited Nations — Actor and U.N. Goodwill Ambassador Danai Gurira told diplomats Tuesday that finding a child to sexually abuse in a conflict zone can cost less than one dollar. She urged policymakers to curb the illicit flow of weapons as one way to prevent these crimes. “Eighty cents. When was the...

photo: UN / Eskinder Debebe

Germany arrests far-right MEP’s aide amid suspicions of spying for China 2024-04-23
Al Jazeera

German police have arrested an aide to a far-right Member of the European Parliament on suspicion of spying for China. Prosecutors announced on Tuesday that Jian G is believed to have repeatedly passed information on the workings of the European Parliament to China’s Ministry of State Security...

photo: AP / Michael Probst

‘Forced’ move: Rwandans grapple with own fears over UK asylum seeker plan 2024-04-23
Al Jazeera

Kigali, Rwanda – Lush hills draped in verdure belie the controversies surrounding two locations in Kigali that may soon host hundreds of people who had no plans of ever living in Rwanda. In northern Kigali, Hope Hostel sits on a hill overlooking the capital.Keep reading list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3UK...

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Sleepless night in Taiwan as island rattled by cluster of aftershocks 2024-04-23
Al Jazeera

Taiwan has been rattled by a cluster of dozens of earthquakes that caused buildings to sway and that the government said were aftershocks from the huge quake that hit the island more than two weeks ago. The strongest of the latest earthquakes, which the United States Geological Survey measured at a...

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