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Middle East & North Africa Data

Current platform capacity in Egypt, Jordan & UAE.

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    Sharon Lokedi broke the marathon course record and fellow Kenyan John Korir joined his brother as a race champion on Monday as the city celebrated the 250th anniversary of the start of the Revolutionary War.

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Stocks Sink in Broad AI Rout Sparked by China's DeepSeek

U.S. stocks were mostly lower, with the Nasdaq leading declines as makers of AI infrastructure suffered steep falls, many in the double digits. Nvidia was down 16%. [...]

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Panic fueling the selloff of Nvidia, Broadcom and other tech giants is overblown. [...]

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Arabica coffee prices hit a record level, as traders digested the withdrawal of President Trump’s threats to impose tariffs and economic sanctions on Colombia. [...]

Swiss franc, Japanese yen Rise as DeepSeek News Boosts Safe Havens

The Yen and Swiss Franc were stronger against the dollar as investors sought safe havens after Chinese start-up DeepSeek’s new AI model hit U.S. tech stocks. [...]

Natural Gas Falls on Shifting Weather Forecasts

U.S. natural gas futures fell after weekend updates took some of the chill out of early February weather forecasts. [...]

Building-Products Distributor QXO Launches Hostile Bid for Beacon

QXO is taking its offer directly to shareholders after being rebuffed on several occasions. [...]

Sinopsis: China’s Dual-Use Infrastructure in the Pacific

CDT noted last month that recent Chinese naval exercises around Australia had sparked a spike in comments on Chinese social media advocating the conquest of Australia. While some may have been a joke, others appeared serious, and were taken seriously by commentators such as current [...]

Photo: Train-ing 3, Beijing, 20250319, by Gilbert Sopakuwa
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The first reaction by China’s state-media apparatus following the escalating U.S.-China trade war last week was to censor online commentary about the scale of tariffs. Now, it has responded with targeted messaging intended to not only rally the Chinese public around a nationalist defense, but [...]

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More than five years after the Wuhan lockdown and the death of COVID whistleblower Dr. Li Wenliang, many Chinese citizens continue to remember the events of the pandemic and to pay tribute to Dr. Li and other individuals who risked their lives and freedom to [...]

Reports Describe Expanding Digital Repression in Tibet

Recent reports detail ways in which the Chinese government has instrumentalized digital connectivity to enhance its repression of Tibetans on the plateau and in the diaspora. On Wednesday, Turquoise Roof and Tibet Watch published a report titled “A Long Shadow: The expansion and export of [...]

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Researchers have developed a new coronagraph that could make it possible to see distant exoplanets obscured by light from their parent stars. [...]

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Fifty years since its discovery, scientists have finally worked out how a molecular machine found in mitochondria, the 'powerhouses' of our cells, allows us to make the fuel we need from sugars, a process vital to all life on Earth. Scientists have worked out the [...]

How thoughts influence what the eyes see

A new study by biomedical engineers and neuroscientists shows that the brain's visual regions play an active role in making sense of information. [...]

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Scientists report adaptive divergence in cryptic color pattern is underlain by two distinct, complex chromosomal rearrangements, where millions of bases of DNA were flipped backwards and moved from one part of a chromosome to another, independently in populations of stick insects on different mountains. [...]

Lake deposits reveal directional shaking during devastating 1976 Guatemala earthquake

Sediment cores drawn from four lakes in Guatemala record the distinct direction that ground shaking traveled during a 1976 magnitude 7.5 earthquake that devastated the country, according to researchers. [...]

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Researchers posed a seemingly simple question: how wide are faults? [...]

Scientists probe the mystery of Titan's missing deltas

New research finds that despite large rivers and seas of liquid methane, Saturn's moon Titan seems mostly devoid of river deltas, raising new questions about the surface dynamics on this alien world. [...]

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Food scientists evaluated 11 commercially available yeast strains to identify their strengths based on chemical analysis and sensory panel opinions. Most of the yeasts that were tested are strains that have been developed or screened to not ferment maltose, the primary sugar created from malted [...]

New Israel-Gaza ceasefire plan proposed, Hamas source tells BBC
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Egyptian and Qatari mediators suggest a truce of up to seven years and a permanent end to the war. [...]

Palestinian Red Crescent says Israeli report into Gaza medics' killings 'full of lies'
Palestinian Red Crescent says Israeli report into Gaza medics' killings 'full of lies'

An Israeli military report said "professional failures" led to the killing of the 15 rescue workers. [...]

Trump backs defence secretary after reports of second Signal chat leak
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The private messaging group included the US defence secretary's wife, brother and personal lawyer, sources tell US media. [...]

'Professional failures' led to killing of Gaza medics, IDF inquiry says
'Professional failures' led to killing of Gaza medics, IDF inquiry says

Fourteen emergency workers and a UN worker were killed when the Israeli military opened fire on a convoy of vehicles in Gaza last month. [...]

'It's really hard to have any hope': Gaza doctor describes daily struggle
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The BBC joins a GP in Gaza as she sees dozens of patients, struggling to treat them with a dwindling supply of drugs. [...]

Hopes for Iran nuclear talks tempered by threats and mixed messages
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Iranian and US officials agree to continue with a third round of high-stakes talks on a new nuclear deal. [...]

US strikes on Yemen oil terminal kill at least 74, Houthis say
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The US says the attack on the Red Sea coast aimed to restrict supplies and funds for the Houthis, who called it a war crime. [...]

Hamas formally rejects Israeli ceasefire offer
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The group says it wants a deal that would free all hostages in return for an end to the war. [...]

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An incoherent policy is speeding Beijing’s rise. [...]

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After Francis’s death, conservatives and liberals contest the papal legacy. [...]

Pope Francis Led Catholics Through a Time of Crisis
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The first pontiff from the global south has died, the Vatican announced Monday. [...]

How the United States Can Regain the World’s Trust
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Tariffs Aren’t Enough to Bring Back the Glory Days of U.S. Manufacturing
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Job security and economic benefits came about because of unions. [...]

Sudan’s Civil War, Two Years on
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What the forgotten war has revealed about the international system. [...]

U.S. Conducts Its Deadliest-Known Recent Strike on Houthi Oil Port
U.S. Conducts Its Deadliest-Known Recent Strike on Houthi Oil Port

This was the first time that the United States targeted an oil facility in Yemen, marking a major escalation in the conflict. [...]

A Nuclear Deal With Iran Is Possible—but Only if the U.S. Learns From History
A Nuclear Deal With Iran Is Possible—but Only if the U.S. Learns From History

A former Iranian diplomat outlines a path forward. [...]

Africa: Pope Francis Dies

[allAfrica] Pope Francis died on Easter Monday, April 21, 2025, at the age of 88 at his residence in the Vatican's Casa Santa Marta. [...]

Africa: All of Africa Today - April 21, 2025

[allAfrica] Africa Mourns Death of Pope Francis [...]

Africa: Risks Persist, Especially for Africa, With U.S. Tariff Pause, Says WTO Chief Okonjo-Iweala

[allAfrica] Geneva -- The head of the World Trade Organization says a temporary tariff pause by the United States mitigates current trade contraction, but substantial downside risks persist, which can heavily impact Africa. [...]

Benin: Al-Qaeda-Linked Jihadists Attack Military Posts in Benin Republic, Kill 70 Soldiers

[Premium Times] The Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM), an al-Qaeda affiliate in the Sahel said it killed 70 soldiers in an attack on two military posts in northern Benin. [...]

Ethiopia: Ethiopia Parliament Approves Controversial Media Law Amendment

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- The House of Peoples' Representatives on Thursday 17 April approved an amendment to Ethiopia's Mass Media Proclamation, granting the Prime Minister the authority to nominate the Director General of the Ethiopian Media Authority (EMA), a role that was previously reserved [...]

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[Liberian Observer] The Government of Liberia is calling on international donors to align their support with the country's (Agriculture, Roads, Rule of Law and Governance, Education, Sanitation and Health, and Tourism) Agenda in order to achieve long-term, sustainable development outcomes. [...]

Nigeria: Not Just a Woman's Job - Why Men Matter in Nigeria's Fight to Reduce Zero-Dose Children

[Nigeria Health Watch] When Chinedu (not his real name) walked into the Primary Health Centre (PHC) in Afikpo, a community in Ebonyi State, holding his one-year-old son, the nurses looked up in surprise. "Where is your wife?" one of them asked. [...]

Burkina Faso: Coup Rumours - Several Army Officers Arrested

[allAfrica] Dakar -- Several officers of the Burkinabe armed forces were arrested, and two of them reportedly relieved of their duties as corps commanders. Several junta supporters have suggested a coup attempt, pointing the finger at exiled military personnel. No further action was taken. [...]

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