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Afghan refugees take rest at a transit station setup to facilitate Afghan refugees' deportations, outskirt of Chaman, a town on the Pakistan and Afghanistan border, Tuesday, April 8, 2025. (AP Photo)

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US restores urgent food aid but not in Afghanistan and Yemen, where millions need it

By SAMY MAGDY, RIAZAT BUTT AND ELLEN KNICKMEYER SAMY MAGDY, RIAZAT BUTT AND ELLEN KNICKMEYER - Associated Press
Wed,04/09/25-6:19AM, 301 Reads
CAIRO (AP) — The Trump administration has reversed sweeping cuts in emergency food aid to several nations but maintained them in Afghanistan and Yemen, two of the world's poorest and most war-ravaged countries, officials said Wednesday.
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Trucks line up to depart from a container terminal in Nanjing in east China's Jiangsu province on Tuesday, April 8, 2025. (Chinatopix Via AP)

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China raises its retaliatory tariff on the US to 84% as it vows to 'fight to the end'

By HUIZHONG WU HUIZHONG WU - Associated Press
Wed,04/09/25-3:57AM, 232 Reads
BANGKOK (AP) — China again vowed to “fight to the end" Wednesday in an escalating trade war with the U.S. as it announced it would raise tariffs on American goods to 84% from Thursday.
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Palestinians carry the bodies of their relatives who were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Shijaiyah neighborhood, as they brought to the Baptist Hospital in Gaza City on Wednesday, April 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

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Israeli strike on Gaza apartment building kills at least 23, officials say

By WAFAA SHURAFA AND SAMY MAGDY WAFAA SHURAFA AND SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press
Wed,04/09/25-5:50AM, 323 Reads
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli aircraft struck a residential block in war-ravaged northern Gaza on Wednesday, killing at least 23 people, health officials said, as the renewed fighting in the devastated Palestinian enclave showed n
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Iran's president insists Tehran does not seek a nuclear bomb and dangles US business opportunities

By NASSER KARIMI AND JON GAMBRELL NASSER KARIMI AND JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press
Wed,04/09/25-4:36AM, 331 Reads
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's president again pledged Wednesday that his nation is “not after a nuclear bomb” ahead of talks between Tehran and the United States, going as far as dangling the prospect of direct American investment in
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