In a Truth Social post on Wednesday, US President Donald Trump paused the global trade war he launched last week, giving nearly every country a 90…
Eduardo Ramon
Judging by the limited success US President Donald Trump has achieved to date with his recent peace efforts in Gaza and Ukraine, there can be no…
Lebanese filmmaker Myriam el Hajj was only seven when warring factions agreed to end her country’s 15-year civil war. It was not before time. Around…
Egypt will unlikley cave into US pressure to "repay" it for bombing the Houthis in Yemen, despite suggestions by Trump administration officials that…
In the summer of 2024, during a campaign stop in West Palm Beach, Florida, Trump addressed his ‘beautiful’ Christians. He assured them that he too…
Myanmar quake, anti-Trump protests and more
REUTERS
A damaged Buddhist statue is pictured inside a pagoda following a strong earthquake in Mandalay, Myanmar, on April 3, 2025.
REUTERS / Daniel Cole
Dan Didi takes part in a 'Hands Off!' protest against US President Donald Trump and his adviser Elon Musk in Los Angeles, California, on April 5, 2025.
Idhir BAHA / AFP
Smoke billows behind the Sacre Coeur Basilica as a "major fire" broke out in the nearby 17th arrondissement, in the north of Paris, firefighters announced, without specifying the affected buildings, on April 7, 2025.
REUTERS / Mahmoud Issa
A boy looks at a damaged wall as Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli air strike on an UNRWA-run clinic where displaced people shelter in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on April 2, 2025.
HAZEM BADER / AFP
A Palestinian man walks past a closed shop during a general strike demanding an end to the Gaza war in the old city of Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on April 7, 2025.
Ludovic MARIN / AFP
Girls ride to school behind a man driving on a motorcycle along the Nile corniche in Cairo's central Garden City district on April 7, 2025.
HIMANSHU SHARMA / AFP
Farmers thresh wheat crops at a village on the outskirts of Ajmer in the Indian state of Rajasthan on April 4, 2025.
Jospin Mwisha / AFP
Kimbanguist Church members march during a Mass celebration at the Kimbanguist Church in Goma on April 6, 2025. A Christian religion born in the Belgian Congo, the Kimbanguist Church celebrated its 100th anniversary on April 6, 2021.
Piero CRUCIATTI / AFP
A general view shows “The Amazing Plaza” installation designed by Mad as part of the Fuorisalone 2025 event on the eve of the Milan Design Week in Milan on April 7, 2025.
MAURO PIMENTEL / AFP
A Brazilian Indigenous Tupinamba man gestures as he performs during the first day of Free Land Camp (ATL-Acampamento Terra Livre) in Brasilia on April 7, 2025.
Following a hiatus of more than two years, former Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi has returned to Baghdad at the invitation of the current…
Sectarianism is firmly embedded in Syria's social fabric. While some try to look past it, others work to reinforce it, as seen most recently in March…
Global financial markets are being rocked by the shockwaves from the White House’s trade war, leaving global investors holding onto hope for respite…
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Assad to be tried in absentia
