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Sidi Ould Tah takes over from Adesina as AfDB President
Dr Sidi Ould Tah has been sworn in as the new President of the African Development Bank Group. Elected on May 29, 2025, in Abidjan by the bank’s governors, he succeeds Nigeria’s Akinwumi Adesina, whose ten-year mandate ended on a note of reforms and major achievements for the continent’s development. A renowned economist, Dr Sidi Ould Tah from the Republic…
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Xi and Putin stand shoulder to shoulder as China casts itself an alternative global leader
Chinese leader Xi Jinping made a veiled swipe at the United States on Monday as he criticized “bullying practices” and cast his country as a new leader of world governance, at a time when President Donald Trump’s “America First” policy is upending the globe. “The house rules of a few countries should not be imposed on others,” Xi told more…
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UK closes embassy in Cairo amid row over activist’s arrest
The UK has temporarily closed its embassy in Cairo after Egyptian authorities removed security barriers outside the building, amid a diplomatic row over the arrest of an activist. The UK Foreign Office said its main embassy building in the capital’s Garden City district would remain shut “while the impact of these changes is reviewed”, but added the embassy remained operational.…
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Xi and Modi talk friendship in a ‘chaotic’ world as Trump’s tariffs bite
Chinese leader Xi Jinping told India’s Narendra Modi the “right choice” is for their countries to be friends as the two met in China for first time in seven years – a new milestone in a nascent rapprochement between the world’s most populous nations accelerated by shared frictions with the United States. Xi and Modi’s highly-anticipated meeting Sunday, on the…
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China’s Xi rolls out the red carpet for Putin and Modi as Trump upends global relations
Autocrats, populists, friends and foes, a strongman waging a war in Europe and the leader of the world’s biggest democracy will all be hosted by Chinese leader Xi Jinping this weekend at a summit designed to showcase Beijing as a global leader capable of providing a counterweight to Western institutions. Heads of state and delegations from across Asia and the…
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Houthis confirm their prime minister killed in Israeli strike
Yemen’s Houthi rebel movement has confirmed that its self-proclaimed Prime Minister Ahmed Ghaleb Nasser al-Rahawi was killed in an Israeli air strike earlier this week. The Iran-backed group said several other senior officials were killed when the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) targeted Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, on Thursday. The IDF said Rahawi and other senior Houthi officials were “eliminated” when Israeli…
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Julia Roberts: We’re losing the art of conversation
US actress Julia Roberts has said “we’re losing the art of conversation in humanity”, as she premiered a new film about sexual assault which is likely to divide audiences. After The Hunt, which has just launched at the Venice Film Festival, follows a student at Yale University who accuses a college professor of rape. Neither the student’s nor teacher’s version…
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North Korean leader Kim promises ‘beautiful life’ for families of ‘martyrs’ killed in Russia
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un promised “a beautiful life” for the families of “martyrs” who perished fighting for Russia in the war against Ukraine, state media said on Saturday, praising the bereaved for the heroism of their sons and husbands. Kim on Friday hosted the families of soldiers and expressed “grief at having failed to save the precious lives”…
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US court rules many of Trump’s global tariffs are illegal
A US appeals court has ruled that most tariffs issued by US President Donald Trump are illegal, setting up a potential legal showdown that could upend his foreign policy agenda. The ruling affects Trump’s “reciprocal” tariffs, imposed on most countries around the world, as well as other tariffs slapped on China, Mexico and Canada. In a 7-4 decision, the US…
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Trump’s rebuke, Xi’s handshake, Putin’s oil: India’s foreign policy test
“This is a time for us to engage America, manage China, cultivate Europe, reassure Russia, bring Japan into play, draw neighbours in, extend the neighbourhood and expand traditional constituencies of support,” Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar wrote in his 2020 book The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World. For over a decade, India has styled itself as a key…
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