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Foreign aid cuts hurt the most vulnerable in world’s largest refugee camp In recent months, healthcare in the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh has been badly affected by foreign aid cuts.

Foreign aid cuts have hurt the most vulnerable people in the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh including people with cognitive disabilities and those who have survived landmine explosions.

What do solutions to help look like?

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Farmers harvest a wheat field in Ukraine. Overlaid text reads: FT exclusive – The EU is set to impose much higher tariffs on Ukrainian imports

Diplomats said the move to abruptly end special trade arrangements — which allowed most Ukrainian goods to enter the EU duty free — came after Poland led a push to protect the bloc’s farmers. www.ft.com/content/8733...

EU eyes closer ties to transpacific bloc as Trump jolts trade order Brussels revives plan to forge strategic partnership with CPTPP to defend rules-based global system

EU eyes closer ties to transpacific bloc as Trump jolts trade order

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The $10bn India-Pakistan trade secret hidden by official data Informal trade between India and Pakistan is much higher than official figures say – but can it survive new hostilities?

The $10 BILLION India-Pakistan trade secret hidden by official data

Backdoor trade between India and Pakistan is much higher than official figures say – but can it survive the latest hostilities?

Latest for @aljazeeraenglish.bsky.social with Yashraj Sharma.

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Indian security forces are searching for the gunmen behind an attack on tourists in Pahalgam, Indian-administered Kashmir, that killed 26 people.

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Spain scraps €6.6m arms order from Israeli company after outcry Coalition allies of Pedro Sánchez said the purchase of millions of bullets jeopardised country’s efforts to hold Israel to account over war in Gaza

Spain scraps €6.6m arms order from Israeli company after outcry

#BREAKING Putin announces 'Easter truce' in Ukraine conflict: TV

‘We feel like we’re back in Senegal’: the Sufis helping migrants in the Canaries Part-school, part-social network, a Mouride circle on the Spanish island is helping teenage asylum seekers prepare for adulthood and navigate a challenging welfare system

Part-school, part-social network, a Mouride circle on the Spanish island is helping teenage asylum seekers prepare for adulthood and navigate a challenging welfare system.

Latest for @theguardian.com from Gran Canaria 👇🏽

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Why is X suing the Indian government as Musk woos Modi? X has filed a lawsuit alleging that New Delhi is unlawfully censoring content online.

X has filed a lawsuit alleging that New Delhi is unlawfully censoring content online. But will it hurt Musk’s interests in the country?

More 👇🏾 with insights from Apar G. and @Michael Kugelman.

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Duterte’s arrest gives ‘a sense impunity ends’, says Nobel peace prize winner Maria Ressa said rules-based order ‘can perhaps still exist’ but social media is being used to undermine democracy around the world The arrest of Rodrigo Duterte is a welcome sign that the rules-based order continues to hold, the Nobel laureate Maria…

Duterte’s arrest gives ‘a sense impunity ends’, says Nobel peace prize winner

Huawei targeted in new European Parliament corruption probe Chinese tech giant Huawei is at the centre of a new corruption case in Europe’s capital. On Thursday, Belgian police raided the homes of its lobbyists, Follow the Money and its media partners Le Soir ...

Around 15 Members of the European Parliament are “on the radar” of the investigation.

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The fallout from the US aid funding freeze continues. In Haiti, could this actually be a moment for optimism? What’s Unsaid is a podcast by The New Humanitarian, where we explore open secrets and uncomfortable conversations around the world’s conflicts and disasters. Listen: buff.ly/xcSogRG

What are smartphones stealing from us? When mine was taken away, I found out | Alexander Hurst As a Paris film extra, I surrendered my device and discovered the extraordinary connections I miss while staring at my screen

What are smartphones stealing from us? When mine was taken away, I found out | Alexander Hurst

Millions of young people in China are grappling with unemployment amid a prolonged economic slowdown. Increasing numbers are growing disillusioned as they navigate the country’s tough labour market. aje.io/chinajobs

🎉 No Other Land Wins the Oscar for Best Documentary! 🎉

Congratulations to +972 Magazine’s very own reporter, Yuval Abraham, and long-time contributor, Basel Adra, on winning the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for their powerful film, No Other Land.

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What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.

‘We have nothing now’: Myanmar’s exiled media face existential crisis after Trump severs aid Organisations that take extreme risks to document atrocities, corruption and war crimes fear for their future after USAid cuts Each month Su Myat secretly crosses the border from Thailand into Myanmar to report on her conflict-ridden homeland, covering…

‘We have nothing now’: Myanmar’s exiled media face existential crisis after Trump severs aid

Thread - I've been thinking a lot about Walter Lippmann’s Public Opinion lately, especially in the context of Musk’s role in dismantling the federal workforce through DOGE. It’s a perfect example of what Lippmann warned about over a century ago.

Uncertainty grows among refugees and migrants as Germany heads to the polls Rights groups say migrants and refugees live in an atmosphere of fear amid a far-right resurgence.

Germany heads to the polls tomorrow, amid fears that far-right sentiment is rising while migration policies sit at the centre of political debate.

How are migrants and asylum seekers in the country reckoning with the new shift to the right?

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• The US and Russia compete to influence Germany’s election

• Trump’s turn on Zelenskyy is celebrated by media outlets in Moscow

• President Nayib Bukele’s media machine in El Salvador

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Commission trade spox Olof Gill at today's media briefing:

"As longstanding allies the EU and US have built a strong economic partnership based on strong values, mutual trust and cooperation.

Tariffs would put into question the spirit of cooperation that has long-defined Transatlantic relations"

‘Total chaos’: Monkey blamed for nationwide power cut in Sri Lanka Energy minister says monkey ‘came into contact with grid transformer’, causing hours-long outage in sweltering heat A countrywide power outage in Sri Lanka has been blamed on a monkey that clambered into a power station south of Colombo. The blackout,…

‘Total chaos’: Monkey blamed for nationwide power cut in Sri Lanka

Immigrant advocates file lawsuit challenging Trump asylum shutdown The Trump administration has claimed there is an “invasion” on the U.S.-Mexico border to justify summarily expelling migrants without giving them a chance to apply for asylum.

Immigrant advocacy groups filed the first major lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s claim that there is an “invasion” on the U.S.-Mexico border to justify summarily expelling migrants without giving them a chance to apply for asylum.

Bhutanese refugees in Nepal living in limbo, longing to reclaim their land - The World from PRX In the 1990s, many Nepali-speaking citizens of Bhutan fled their country to escape oppression under the country’s “One Nation, One People” law. After landing in temporary refugee camps in Nepal, many ...

After landing in temporary refugee camps in Nepal in the '90s, many of them resettled in third countries. But some remain in the camps more than 30 years later, holding out hope that they can reclaim the land they once owned.

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Have you ever wondered what happens to the land a person owns when they are forced to flee and seek refuge elsewhere?

This has been a question in the minds of many Nepali-speaking citizens of Bhutan who fled their country to escape oppression under the country’s “One Nation, One People” law.

Arab FMs have rejected the transfer of Palestinians from their land “under any circumstances or justifications”, presenting a unified stance against US President Trump’s call for Egypt and Jordan to take in residents of Gaza.

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The Westminster whistleblower: how my friend Sergei tried to expose the Kremlin plot against Britain Russian-born UK citizen and Tory party activist Sergei Cristo fought to make MI5 sit up and take notice of the Russian political interference operation now threatening democracy in Britain – and aroun...

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‘Voy! I’m coming!’: The blind footballers of South Sudan Against a backdrop of violence and hardship, a group of young men defy the odds.

“The Blind Football Premier League is a dream come true for both me and the teams.”

The blind footballers of South Sudan.

EU stays mum as Trump eyes Greenland and Musk courts far-right Told to cease ‘lecturing and moralising’, Brussels officials ready for ‘strong transatlantic agenda’ as they ‘defend’ trade interests.

Last yr, Trump team told EU officials to leave “lecturing and moralising” at the door if they want to do deals on tariffs & Ukraine

As Brussels makes "political choice" to keep quiet on Trump's threats & Musk courting the far right, that advice appears to have sunk in

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