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Author: The Associated Press, ABC News
Published on: 12/02/2025 | 05:15:02

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An estimated 30% to 50% of gang members are now children, according to UNICEF. Nearly two million people are on the verge of starvation in Haiti. More than one million children are estimated to be living in gang-controlled areas. Amnesty International says many of those interviewed “scoffed at the idea of reporting their attacks to authorities” a 16-year-old girl who was abducted and raped by several gang members said: “Are you kidding me? It’s not possible...There is no police...The only chief in town are the gang member.” The violence also led to injury and death. Amnesty International calls on the Haitian government to better support children, restore education, provide mental health services, and resume court proceedings against children suspected of ties to gangs. In 2023, 128 children were reported killed, according to the U.N.

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Author: Euronews
Published on: 12/02/2025 | 00:00:00

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SpaceX will switch capsules for upcoming astronaut flights in order to bring Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams home in mid-March instead of late March or April. Their prolonged stay at the International Space Station hit the eight-month mark last week after what was supposed to be a week-long journey. The test pilots should have returned in June on Boeing’s Starliner capsule, but the capsule had so much trouble getting to the space station that NASA decided to bring it back empty. SpaceX then delayed the launch of European Commission will consider concerns of appeals bodies. They gather complaints about content moderation of Facebook, TikTok and YouTube. They called for better cooperation with online platforms under the EU’s online platform rules. Commission will follow up on issues in technical meetings. Not every EU country has designated a regulator yet. Belgium was the last to officially approve its telecom regulator as the Digital Services Coordinator earlier this month.

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Author: Unknown
Published on: 12/02/2025 | 00:00:00

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Jordan’s foreign minister told Al Jazeera his country rejects the US president’s plan to take over Gaza and move Palestinians to neighbouring countries like Jordan and Egypt. Donald Trump discussed the issue with the King of Jordan at the White House.

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Author: NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press, ANDI JATMIKO Associated Press, ABC News
Published on: 12/02/2025 | 05:21:35

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan meets his Indonesian counterpart Prabowo Subianto. The two countries are holding their first High-Level Strategic Cooperation Council summit. Erdogan’s state visit to Indonesia was his second stop in a four-day visit. Subianto pledged to "elevate defense cooperation and other strategic fields for mutual benefit" Turkey and Indonesia plan to sign agreements on trade, investment, education and technology during Erdogan’s visit.

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Author: Peggy Corlin
Published on: 12/02/2025 | 00:00:00

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A majority of Europeans considers the US a “necessary partner” rather than “an ally”, according to a poll published on Wednesday by the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) The poll was conducted in 11 EU countries - including Germany, France, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Denmark, Estonia, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary – as well as Ukraine, Switzerland, and the UK. However, it also shows diverging opinion on Trump himself, with more apparent supporters in south-east Europe 22% of respondents were "euro-pessimists" believing the EU is not a power. The overall sample included 18,507 respondents.

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Author: Al Jazeera
Published on: 12/02/2025 | 00:00:00

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Elon Musk made a rare public appearance at the White House on Tuesday. Trump signed an executive order expanding Musk’s powers to continue downsizing the federal workforce. Musk defended DOGE’s work as “common sense” and “not draconian or radical” Tesla CEO pushed back at criticism over transparency. Musk said he expected to be held fully accountable. "I fully expect to be scrutinised and get, you know, a daily proctology exam, basically"

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Author: Al Jazeera
Published on: 12/02/2025 | 00:00:00

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Sara Duterte threatened to have President Ferdinand Marcos Jr assassinated. The Philippines’s National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) has recommended criminal charges be filed against the vice president. "We have finally recommended the filing of inciting to sedition and grave threats," NBI Director Jaime Santiago said. Duterte stepped down from her role as education secretary in June. As vice president, she remains Marcos’s constitutional successor. The case stems from comments she made in November suggesting she had ordered someone to kill Marcos. The date for that hearing is yet to be set, but it is expected to take place in June or July. Duterte said she is considering a run for the presidency during the general election in May.

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Author: Al Jazeera
Published on: 12/02/2025 | 00:00:00

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Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations condemns the "reckless and inflammatory statements" Trump suggested stopping Iran from developing nuclear weapons could be achieved either “with bombs or with a written piece of paper” Trump’s latest threats came amid renewed tensions after he reinstated his “maximum pressure” policy against Iran over concerns the country was seeking to develop nuclear weapons.

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Author: Tamsin Paternoster
Published on: 12/02/2025 | 00:00:00

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Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warns Hamas that Israel will end the ceasefire in Gaza. HamaS says it will postpone the scheduled release of three Israeli hostages on Saturday. Israel has repeatedly denied claims that it was jeopardising the truce. ADVERTISEMENT The sides have carried out five such swaps since 19 January. The war could resume in early March if no agreement is reached on the more complex terms of the ceasefire's second phase. In meantime, Israel has allowed thousands of displaced Palestinians to return to Gaza. Trump said his administration was having “very serious” conversations with Russia about the war. There was no immediate comment from Moscow about Fogel’s release on Tuesday.

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Author: Al Jazeera Staff
Published on: 12/02/2025 | 00:00:00

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Trump’s tariffs on steel and aluminium imports kick in this week. We look at why the price of the yellow metal has soared in recent days. Gold exports pointing to a desire for a safe asset. Spot gold rose by 0.3 percent to $2,916.37 per ounce as of 07:01 GMT. By March of that year, gold prices spiked to $2,070 per ounce, from $1,910 the month before. Trump signed proclamations late on Monday, reinstating a 25 percent tariff rate on steel from all countries. He also eliminated tariff exclusions on products that use both metals. Canada is also the largest exporter of aluminium. The US imports roughly a quarter of the steel it uses. Countries and experts have pointed to the economic volatility caused by Trump’s actions and words. China had hit back at Trump’s previous tariffs by adding their own on a range of US imports, including coal and crude oil. Al Jazeera’s Katrina Yu, reporting from Beijing, says these latest tariffs likely won’t start a trade war, but they are a step in that direction.

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Author: Al Jazeera
Published on: 12/02/2025 | 00:00:00

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North Korean state media accuses the US of “slaughter and robbery” over Trump’s proposed plan to occupy the Gaza Strip and expel its population of more than two million Palestinians. The White House’s Gaza proposal was evidence of the US’s “hegemonic, invasive” ambition for world dominance, it said. North Korea has been an outspoken critic of the situation in Gaza. A US Navy fast-attack nuclear submarine docked in a port in Busan, South Korea. North Korea’s Ministry of Defence described the presence of the US nuclear submarine on the Korean Peninsula as a “clear expression of the us invariable hysteria for confrontation”

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Author: The Associated Press, ABC News
Published on: 11/02/2025 | 21:06:37

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Marc Fogel was arrested in August 2021 and is serving a 14-year prison sentence on drug charges. He was designated by President Joe Biden’s administration as wrongfully detained in December. His release follows a massive prisoner swap last August that resulted in the release of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and corporate security executive Paul Whelan. Russian media reported that his name matches a U.S. Citizen interviewed in 2020 who said he was born in the Perm region in 1991 and adopted by an American couple at age 2. An engineer from Texas, Barnes was arrested in 2022 while visiting his sons in Russia, where their mother had taken them. He was convicted in June 2024 in Vladivostok of stealing and making threats against his girlfriend. Tater has been in custody awaiting trial on assaulting a law officer. At a September court hearing, he claimed he came to Russia to seek political asylum.

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Author: Al Jazeera
Published on: 12/02/2025 | 00:00:00

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Fogel, 63, had been detained in Russia since August 2021. He was handed a 14-year prison sentence for possession of about 17 grams of marijuana. Fogel's release was secured after United States President Donald Trump and special envoy Steve Witkoff "negotiated an exchange"

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Author: Al Jazeera
Published on: 12/02/2025 | 00:00:00

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Ukrainian Security and Defence Council official said attack targeted oil refinery. No casualties were reported. Russian military said its forces have taken control of Yesenove settlement in eastern Ukraine. Russian bomb disposal experts defused a French-made SCALP cruise missile in the Kursk region. Politics & Diplomacy US President Donald Trump said in an interview with Fox News that he wants the “hundreds of billions of dollars” spent by the United States on Ukraine to be secured regardless of whether Ukraine may or may not lose its sovereignty to Russia. Trump also claimed that Kyiv had “essentially agreed” to provide $500bn worth of rare earth minerals to the US in exchange for Washington’ Washington said this was a sign that things were moving in the right direction to end the war in Ukraine. Kremlin Spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters that a significant population in Ukraine “wants to be Russia” just hours after Trump suggested Ukraine may or may not become part of Russia. The European Court of Human Rights ruled that Russia has imposed “systematic and widespread” restrictions on reporting and called out Moscow for its coordinated efforts to suppress dissent.

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Author: Al Jazeera
Published on: 12/02/2025 | 00:00:00

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China’s military has accused the United States of engaging in risky behaviour in the Taiwan Strait. The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) said it had monitored the movements of the USS Ralph Johnson, a naval destroyer, and the USNS Bowditch as they moved through the waterway between Monday and Wednesday.

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Author: Al Jazeera
Published on: 12/02/2025 | 00:00:00

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Salman Rushdie told jurors at the trial of his alleged attacker, Hadi Matar. Matar is accused of stabbing Rushdie about 10 times with a 6-inch (15cm) blade. As he did on the trial’s opening day, Matar said, “Palestine will be free” as he was led into court. New York-based British-American Rushdie, now 77, was rescued by bystanders. Venue employee Jordan Steves told the court how he launched himself with his shoulder. Prosecutors will seek to present the case as “open and shut”. One of Matar’s lawyers said police had made assumptions about Matar. Iran denied any link to the attacker and said only that Rushdie was to blame for the incident.

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Author: SONIA PÉREZ D. Associated Press, ABC News
Published on: 11/02/2025 | 23:36:04

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Julio Arrivillaga and Catalina Pérez Molina boarded a bus with other residents in Santo Domingo Los Ocotes. On Tuesday, families began saying goodbye to their loved ones amid a three-day period of national mourning. A day earlier, the Public Ministry said 53 people had died at the site of the crash and two more at a hospital.

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Author: Al Jazeera Staff
Published on: 12/02/2025 | 00:00:00

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Noboa gave an interview to Ecuador’s Radio Centro in which he expressed scepticism about the results, though he failed to offer proof of any malfeasance. Independent election observers quickly fired back that there appeared to be no discrepancies with the voting tally. The OAS sent a mission to observe Sunday’s election. Noboa entered the crowded race to replace Lasso as a dark horse. The frontrunner at the time was Gonzalez, the protege of former President Rafael Correa. Gonzalez received 52 percent of the vote to Gonzalez’s 48. Gonzalez blasted Noboa's implication that her votes were won through criminality. She highlighted the fact that noboo had failed to tamp down on Ecuador’s rising crime rates.

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Author: Euronews
Published on: 12/02/2025 | 00:00:00

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Marc Fogel was arrested in August 2021 and serving a 14-year prison sentence. His family and supporters said he had been traveling with medically prescribed marijuana. He was designated by former US President Joe Biden’s administration as wrongfully detained in December. Estonia switched off from the Russian grid and hooked up to the European system. Since then, the price of electricity in Estonia has started to climb. The price of gas has reached a record high of the last couple of years on the Dutch TTF.

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Author: Euronews
Published on: 12/02/2025 | 00:00:00

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Europe will channel €200 billion into AI investments in a bid to catch up with the thriving tech ecosystems in the US and China. The price of gas has reached a record high of the last couple of years on the Dutch TTF but is expected to fall. From €126 per MWh last week, the new average electricity price will be €191. The EU was one of the first powers to enshrine comprehensive regulations around AI. But this strict regulatory environment will simply slow down any form of cooperation with the EU. The US and the UK have notably refused to sign the summit’s declaration.

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Author: Al Jazeera
Published on: 11/02/2025 | 00:00:00

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Missouri accuses Starbucks of using diversity, equity and inclusion as a pretext to discriminate based on race, gender and sexual orientation. Starbucks accused Starbucks of tying executive pay to company’s achieving racial and gender-based hiring quotas. Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey contended that Missouri consumers pay higher prices and wait longer for services at Starbucks. Trump has tried to shut down policies promoting diversity, equity and inclusion inside and outside the federal government. Goldman Sachs on Tuesday canceled a policy to take companies public only if they had two diverse board members. Google scrapped diversity-based hiring targets, while Amazon.com removed a reference to inclusion and diversity from its annual report.

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Author: Al Jazeera
Published on: 11/02/2025 | 00:00:00

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The motion to request a stay for 60 days marks the first clear effort to retreat from the SEC’s previous crypto enforcement under Democratic leadership. The SEC was expected to begin a review of existing court cases like those against Binance, where the regulator has argued the firms are listing crypto tokens that behave like securities. Paul Atkins has yet to be confirmed by Congress, but the SEC has already started shifting priorities under its existing Republican leadership. The SEC’s prior chair, Gary Gensler, had asked Congress to help the agency rein in the crypto “Wild West” On Tuesday, SEC noted that the comparison with the Wild West has “positive sides”.

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Author: Al Jazeera
Published on: 11/02/2025 | 00:00:00

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Real Madrid beat Manchester City 3-2 at the Etihad. Erling Haaland scored the winner in stoppage time. City now have a monumental task ahead to progress to the last 16. Valverde drilled inches wide before Bellingham should have scored when he shot low into the legs of Ederson. But it was City who got the third goal when Foden was brought down by Ceballos. By full-time, the Norwegian was a disconsolate figure as City’s poor campaign took another turn for the worse.

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Author: Al Jazeera
Published on: 12/02/2025 | 00:00:00

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The FBI has announced the discovery of thousands of records related to the assassination of John F Kennedy. The FBI said on Tuesday that searches had turned up about 2,400 "newly inventoried and digitized records that were previously unrecognized" the announcement comes after Trump last month ordered the declassification and release of all remaining files related to JFK’s assassainment. In a 2023 Gallup poll, 65 percent of Americans said they did not believe the Warren Commission’s conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in killing the president. In his first administration, Trump promised to release all remaining records on the assassination but ultimately only sanctioned the release of about 2,800 documents after bowing to pressure from the CIA and FBI to withhold thousands of files.

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Author: Abubakr Al-Shamahi
Published on: 11/02/2025 | 00:00:00

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Jordan’s King Abdullah II has become the first Arab leader to meet Donald Trump in the White House since the United States president’s second term began on January 20. Jordan and the US have historically had strong ties, but Trump has repeatedly pressured Abdullaha and his government to accept displaced Palestinians from war-torn Gaza. The US, meanwhile, has said it would “take over” and “own” a Gaza emptied of its residents. Israel has already killed more than 61,700 Palestinians since 2023. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has since echoed Trump’s threats. He warned that his military would recommence its bombing campaign in Gaza. Abdullah said he would do what was best for his country. He said Arab states would come up with their own plan for Gaza. Some observers believe Trump’s Gaza plan is a negotiating tactic. Trump described Gaza as potentially becoming a “diamond” in the Middle East. Critics say his vision for Gaza seems divorced from the politics of the region. On Tuesday, Trump once again emphasised that Palestinians would not want to stay in Gaza, seemingly ignoring their attachment to their land.

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