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Is Ivory Coast's red card politics an own goal for democracy?
Why ex-bank boss Tidjane Thiam has been barred from seeking the Ivorian presidency - and the potential fallout.
Published on: May 08, 2025 | Source:
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Forest home of ‘polar dinosaurs’ 120 million years ago in southern Australia recreated in detail for the first time
The new study shows what the polar regions might look like in the future as the planet warms.
Published on: May 08, 2025 | Source:Trump says he won’t soften China tariffs ahead of trade talks
President Trump said Wednesday he was not considering softening the 145 percent tariff on imports from China. Reporters in the Oval Office asked if the president would consider reducing levies on the foreign nation, to which he succinctly responded, “No.” In early April, the Trump administration announced reciprocal tariff exemptions on electronics such as phones,...
Published on: May 08, 2025 | Source:With FEMA Under Fire, Congress Asks Whether Agency Is Ready for Hurricane Season
With the Atlantic hurricane season only weeks away, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is facing an unprecedented level of turmoil and uncertainty. President Donald Trump has suggested he might eliminate the agency. Its staff has been cut and programs canceled, while its disaster relief fund faces a likely $8 billion deficit. On Wednesday the agency’s […]
Published on: May 07, 2025 | Source:Israeli Airstrike Kills 25 in Gaza’s Al-Rimal – Hamas Calls It a ‘Massacre’
An Israeli airstrike in Gaza’s Al-Rimal neighborhood killed 25, including civilians and a journalist, as Hamas condemns the attack as a “massacre.” Global calls for intervention intensify. Related: Dozens killed and injured as Israel targets school-turned-shelter in central Gaza 25 people were killed and dozens more wounded after an Israeli airstrike targeted Gaza’s Al-Rimal neighborhood […]
Published on: May 07, 2025 | Source:Joseph Nye, who coined the term ‘soft power’, dies aged 88
Former dean of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government served in two US presidential administrations
Published on: May 07, 2025 | Source:Putin’s 3-day ceasefire begins as Ukraine demands longer truce
It was not immediately clear if either side was observing the pause, as world leaders arrived in Moscow for Russia’s Victory Day parade.
Published on: May 07, 2025 | Source:GOP moderates send warning shot to Republican leaders
House GOP moderates are telling Republican leaders they will not walk the plank and vote for Medicaid cuts in the party’s “big, beautiful bill” only to see the Senate strip them out — their latest warning shot in the effort to enact President Trump’s legislative agenda. In the past, GOP leaders have corralled the conference around...
Published on: May 07, 2025 | Source:Bad Vatican deal with China may sink a papal conclave favorite
Update: The Cardinals on Thursday have chosen Robert Prevost of the United States, now known as Pope Leo XIV. This week, global media covering of the selection of a Roman Catholic Church leader to replace Pope Francis, who died April 21, mostly has focused on the contest between candidates who favor Francis’s relatively liberal outreach […] The post Bad Vatican deal with China may sink a papal conclave favorite...
Published on: May 07, 2025 | Source:'This will be the work of years': The medics identifying remains from Syria's mass graves
More than 100,000 men, women and children were reportedly forcibly disappeared by Bashar al-Assad's regime.
Published on: May 07, 2025 | Source:Almost 100 House Democrats sign letter urging Israel to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza
Almost 100 House Democrats sign letter urging Israel to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza At least 94 House Democrats have signed a letter urging Israel to immediately allow humanitarian aid into Gaza, saying it is “strategically counterproductive.” In the letter addressed to Israeli Ambassador Yechiel Leiter and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, they said: “As supporters of a strong US-Israel relationship, we write...
Published on: May 07, 2025 | Source:Trump administration taps wellness influencer for surgeon general
Trump picks Dr Casey Means, a close ally Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr for role.
Published on: May 07, 2025 | Source:Fed holds despite Trump
Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story Fed holds rates steady despite Trump calls The Federal Reserve’s interest rate setting committee held rates steady on Wednesday, its third rate hold in a row, despite calls from President Trump to lower borrowing costs. The...
Published on: May 07, 2025 | Source:Crockett asks witness to play 'Trump or trans' game in House hearing
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) asked a witness in a House hearing on transgender athletes Wednesday to play a game of “Trump or trans.” “This hearing has nothing to do with improving government efficiency,” Crockett said during the Delivering on Government Efficiency subcommittee meeting. “It’s another attempt by Republicans to distract from their demonic and disastrous...
Published on: May 07, 2025 | Source:US scraps Biden-era rule that aimed to limit exports of AI chips
Prospect of overhaul to planned regulation offers relief to semiconductor companies such as Nvidia
Published on: May 07, 2025 | Source:Soviet-era spacecraft likely to crash back to Earth
The spacecraft was meant to go to Venus but has been stuck in orbit for more than 50 years.
Published on: May 07, 2025 | Source:Moving NHS ‘from analogue to digital’ will cost £21bn
Health Foundation says government will have to go beyond existing budget to fund ‘big shift’ in care
Published on: May 07, 2025 | Source:Iberdrola secures £600mn loan from UK state fund to upgrade power grid
National Wealth Fund helps finance plan to develop electricity network between Scotland and England
Published on: May 07, 2025 | Source:UK government on course to breach its fiscal rules, says think-tank
National Institute of Economic and Social Research says targets have become a drag on growth
Published on: May 07, 2025 | Source:Mining town locals say politicians should 'keep talking' about nuclear
With their town earmarked for the most complex of the Coalition's proposed reactors prior to the election, some residents of Collie in Western Australia remain open-minded about nuclear.
Published on: May 07, 2025 | Source:HKMA keeps base rate steady in lockstep with Fed’s defiance of Trump’s push amid trade war
At a press conference after the announcement, Fed chairman Jerome Powell says there is no need to be in a hurry to change US monetary policy.
Published on: May 07, 2025 | Source:Pakistan vows retaliation after India launches air strikes
Pakistan's military says at least 31 civilians killed and 46 others wounded in India's attacks.
Published on: May 07, 2025 | Source:Trump Refuses to Lift China Tariffs: U.S. Trade War Escalates
President Trump refuses to reduce tariffs on China, hardening the U.S. stance in the ongoing trade war. With both nations imposing steep tariffs, global markets face rising uncertainty. Related: U.S.-China Tariff Meetings To Happen at the Right Time: Trump Trump Rejects Lowering Tariffs on China, Maintains Hardline Trade War Stance U.S. President Donald Trump made […]
Published on: May 07, 2025 | Source:Pharma warns tariffs mean less R&D
Presented by The Coalition to Strengthen America's Healthcare {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story PhRMA warns against tariffs The pharmaceutical trade group PhRMA has come out strongly against tariffs, warning that every dollar collected in tariffs means one less dollar invested in U.S. biopharmaceutical research and development. AP In a comment...
Published on: May 07, 2025 | Source:US judge blocks plan to deport migrants to Libya
The order comes after lawyers expressed alarm that the US was planning to deport migrants to the North African country "immediately".
Published on: May 07, 2025 | Source:Pakistan calls Indian strikes an ‘act of war’ and vows to respond
Pakistan is vowing to avenge Indian missile strikes that Pakistan says killed more than 30 people. India says it targeted terrorist infrastructure in retaliation for a terrorist attack in Indian-administered Kashmir. Cross-border fire between the countries continues and there are concerns of an escalation. Nick Schifrin reports.
Published on: May 07, 2025 | Source:Pakistani ambassador, Indian advisor share perspectives on recent attacks and retaliation
Tensions between Pakistan and India are soaring after Indian missile strikes that Pakistan is calling an act of war. Amna Nawaz has views on the conflict from Pakistan's Ambassador to the U.S. Rizwan Saeed Sheikh and India’s perspective from Vikram Singh, a senior advisor to the U.S.-India Strategic Partnership Forum.
Published on: May 07, 2025 | Source:WATCH LIVE: World watches for smoke from Sistine Chapel on Day 2 of papal conclave
With the conclave underway, PBS News has a live video of the chimney on the Sistine Chapel as the world waits for white smoke that signals a successful vote for a new pontiff.
Published on: May 07, 2025 | Source:News Wrap: Ukrainian drone attacks disrupt flights at Moscow’s main airports for 3rd day
In our news wrap Wednesday, Ukrainian drone attacks disrupted flights at Moscow's main airports for a third day, Russian strikes on Ukraine killed two people in Kyiv, hospital officials in Gaza say Israeli airstrikes killed at least 92 people and for the second time in two weeks, a U.S. Navy fighter jet from the U.S.S. Truman fell off the aircraft carrier and into the Red Sea.
Published on: May 07, 2025 | Source:Trump says US won’t lower tariffs on China imports to kick-start trade talks
Separately, Commerce Department says it will simplify some restrictions on the export of advanced semiconductor chips.
Published on: May 07, 2025 | Source:Pope Francis backed him when he took on a president. Now he's voting in the conclave
"Not even in my wildest imagination did I think this would happen," Cardinal David tells the BBC.
Published on: May 07, 2025 | Source:As the conclave begins, a look at difficult issues the next pope will face
Black smoke poured from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday, signifying that the cardinals did not elect a new pope on the first ballot. The cardinals are considering difficult and divisive issues as they choose the next pontiff. Geoff Bennett discussed the conclave and the controversies surrounding the Catholic Church with Philip Shenon, author of "Jesus Wept."
Published on: May 07, 2025 | Source:How Peter Dutton's heartland lost him Australia's election
It was the opposition leader's home state that delivered Labor its win, with the red wave taking out his own seat.
Published on: May 07, 2025 | Source:Trump offers to help resolve conflict between India and Pakistan
President Donald Trump called the tensions between India and Pakistan following the massacre in Kashmir "terrible."
Published on: May 07, 2025 | Source:Examining Trump’s latest hardline immigration policies and legal battles around them
To increase its deportation numbers, the Trump administration is planning to send immigrants to Libya on U.S. military planes. That’s according to multiple reports citing unnamed officials. But when asked about it in the Oval Office, President Trump didn’t seem to know what his administration was planning. White House correspondent Laura Barrón-López reports on the president’s deportation agenda.
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