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Author: Christina Anderson and Lynsey Chutel
Published on: 05/02/2025 | 00:00:00

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The authorities said that at least 11 people were killed and that the suspect was believed to be among the dead. With Sweden in mourning, the authorities had yet to establish a motive or identify who was involved. On Wednesday morning, the police said in a statement that 11 people had been killed. At least six adults were wounded. Sweden has been grappling with one of the highest per capita rates of gun violence in the European Union. Sweden has strict gun laws, but licenses require hefty application fees. Families of the dead and wounded gather outside the educational center in Orebro. The shooting appeared to more closely resemble school shootings in the United States. Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson visited the makeshift memorial.

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Author: Elian Peltier and Guerchom Ndebo
Published on: 05/02/2025 | 00:00:00

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Volunteers buried those who died during a week of clashes in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo. “We have days of mass burials ahead of us,” says Myriam Favier, head of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Gomas. Millions have died in the past 30 years in Congo, where ethnic tensions and fighting over access to land and mineral resources have erupted into several wars. The fighting between M23, a rebel group that the U.N. Says More than 2,800 additional Congolese have been wounded, nearly two thirds of them civilians. The ongoing conflict has already drawn in mercenaries from Eastern Europe. U.N. Peacekeepers who have been deployed in eastern Congo for a dozen years have been accused by both sides of not doing enough to end the fighting. On Wednesday, M23 broke a unilateral cease-fire it had declared days earlier. Jean de Dieu Balezi, known as Kibomango, was killed by a stray bullet. M23 has ordered locals to clean Goma’s streets, but they remain littered with military uniforms abandoned by Congolese soldiers. Two of their sons were wounded by bullets when they were in their courtyard.

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Author: Suhasini Raj
Published on: 05/02/2025 | 00:00:00

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Migrants Are Deported to India on U.S. Military Plane. It appeared to be the first use of an American military aircraft to deport people to India. More than 1,000 Indians were sent back to the country last year on commercial flights. Indians are among the migrants from around the world who have illegally entered the United States through Mexico in growing numbers in recent years. Last year, more than 25,000 Indians were arrested while trying to cross the southern border illegally, according to U.S. Government data. Government websites have been taken down, as federal agencies rush to heed Trump’s orders targeting diversity initiatives and “gender ideology” .

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Author: Paul Sonne
Published on: 05/02/2025 | 00:00:00

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Foreign Strongmen Cheer as Musk Dismantles U.S. Aid Agency Leaders in Russia, Hungary and El Salvador welcomed the Trump administration’s assault on U. S.A.I.D. The Kremlin was, too. Democracy initiatives amounted to $1.58 billion of U.S.A.I.D. Funding in 2023, a sliver of the agency’s annual budget. But they can attract outsize attention. Mr. Orban — who met in December with Mr. Trump and Mr. Musk — and other foreign officials have persisted in asking the government to end such programs. In 2023, the agency provided more than $1.9 billion in food aid. The agency also delivers vaccines, H.I.V. Treatment and childbirth care, and combats malaria, tuberculosis and other diseases. Mr. Trump signed an executive order ordering a halt to aid so that the government could review programs. A withdrawal of U.S. Aid would benefit the Kremlin, some analysts say. Elsewhere in the world, particularly in nations where Washington and Beijing have been competing, China could fill the void. The Trump administration has portrayed U. S.A.I.D. Programs as an example of liberal culture run amok, and of government waste. Iranian state media have labeled these funds and groups as “C.I.A. Operatives” to discredit them. Some of Mr. Musk’s comments were indistinguishable from those that Vyacheslav Volodin, chairman of the lower house of the Russian Parliament, made on Telegram on Wednesday. The broadside against the agency in Washington has led some to wonder if European governments or private donors will step in to pay. Paul Sonne is an international correspondent, focusing on Russia and the varied impacts of President Vladimir V. Putin’s domestic and foreign policies. The Dark Side of a Lobster Fight: As Canada wrangles an epic, decades-long saga of who can fish for lobster, and when emerging threats are heating up the conflict in Nova Scotia. Where Divinity and Politics Meet: The Maha Kumbh Mela is a powerful marketing tool for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his allies.

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Author: Michael D. Shear, Peter Baker and Isabel Kershner
Published on: 04/02/2025 | 00:00:00

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"The U.S. Will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it too," Mr. Trump said at a news conference. "We’ll own it and be responsible" for disposing of unexploded munitions and rebuilding Gaza into a mecca for jobs and tourism. Mr. Trump vows to extract America from the region after the Iraq war. He did not address the fact that forcible removal of a population violates international law and decades of American foreign policy consensus in both parties. Netanyahu told Mr. Trump that Palestinians would quickly warm to his idea. He suggested nations in the region could finance the resettlement of Gazans to new places. Israel retaliated with an unrelenting military operation that killed 1,200 people. In the weeks since a cease-fire that President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s administration negotiated came into effect, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who were repeatedly displaced throughout the war have returned to their homes in Gaza. Mr. Trump said it would take 10 to 15 years to reconstruct. Mr. Trump said the resettlement of Palestinians would be akin to New York real estate projects he built his career on. “I do see a long-term ownership position” for the United States. Mr. Netanyahu’s summit was his first in-person meeting with another world leader since his return to power two weeks ago. Saudi Arabia reiterated support for an independent Palestinian state on Tuesday. Advisers to Mr. Trump told reporters on Tuesday morning that the president and Mr. Netanyahu were united behind the idea that Hamas should not be allowed to remain in power. Analysts expect the Israeli prime minister to try to delay moving toward a permanent cease-fire. Michael D. Shear Peter Baker is the chief White House correspondent for The Times. He is covering his sixth presidency and sometimes writes analytical pieces that place presidents and their administrations in a larger context and historical framework. More about Peter Baker Isabel Kershner has been reporting on Israeli and Palestinian affairs since 1990. Government websites have been taken down, as federal agencies rush to heed Trump’s orders targeting diversity initiatives and “gender ideology” .

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Author: The New York Times
Published on: 05/02/2025 | 06:29:02

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President Trump proposed moving all Palestinians out of Gaza and making it a U.S. Territory, a brazen idea that met with almost immediate resistance from the Palestinians as well as Saudi Arabia on Wednesday. Gaza has been devastated by Israel’s military campaign against Hamas, following the militant group’s Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel. The politically explosive offer also appeared to have no takers among the Palestinian delegation to the United Nations. Ally in the Middle East reiterated its support for a Palestinian state and said it would not establish diplomatic ties with Israel without one. Mr. Trump has floated the idea of Palestinians leaving Gaza multiple times in recent days, including a proposal to move them to Egypt and Jordan. That was rejected last week by a broad group of Arab nations, including Saudi Arabia. During Mr. Trump’s first term, the United States brokered the Abraham Accords. Before the war in Gaza began in 2023, Saudi Arabia appeared close to setting up diplomatic relations with Israel without meeting the precondition of a Palestinian state. Saudi statements since then have indicated such a deal is a long way off. President Trump discarded decades of U.S. Diplomacy in the Middle East. In a day, Mr. Trump replaced that notion with a completely different idea. Hamas called the idea of relocating close to two million people a recipe for creating chaos and tension. Netanyahu agreed on Monday to send a team to Doha, Qatar. Hamas leadership has insisted they will remain in control of Gaza after the war ends. Logistical questions went unaddressed. Trump has threatened to use military and economic force to return control of the Panama Canal to the United States. He has repeatedly said that Canada should be made America’s 51st state. There has already been strenuous opposition to each of those ideas. The proposal to take over Gaza seemed certain to generate even more controversy. Enclave devastated by 15 months of war between Israel and Hamas could be redeveloped and turned into “the Riviera of the Middle East” Mr. Mansour said Palestinians should be allowed to reclaim what were once Palestinian homes in Israel. He added that Palestinians wanted to rebuild Gaza themselves. A former Republican congressman from Michigan compared Mr. Trump’s proposal to ethnic cleansing. On Saturday, a broad group of Arab nations had rejected an earlier suggestion that Gazans to be moved to Egypt and Jordan. Arab nations said such a plan would risk further expanding the conflict in the Middle East. "Gaza belongs to the Palestinian people, not the United States," Mr. Awad says. Israel’s far-right finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, appeared to delight in Mr. Trump’s proposal. In Hebrew, next to emojis of the Israeli and American flags, Mr.Smotrich added, "Together, we will make the world great again" Senator Tom Cotton, Republican of Arkansas, said in a statement about the legislation. He called for the United States to “stop using the politically charged term West Bank” opponents of annexation say it is the term Judea and Samaria that reflects a political agenda. Representative Claudia Tenney, another sponsor of the bill, also announced the recent creation of a congressional group. Since Israel seized control of the West Bank, hundreds of thousands Israeli civilians have settled there with both tacit and explicit government approval. The growing number and size of the settlements have steadily eroded the land accessible to Palestinians. In 2019, the previous Trump administration declared that the United States did not consider Israeli settlements in the west Bank illegal, reversing longstanding American policy under Democrats and Republicans. Israel’s far-right finance minister welcomed Mr. Trump’s reversal as an expression of the president’s “deep connection to the Jewish people and our historical right to our land” On Sunday, Mr. Netanyahu called Mr. Smotrich “a lover of Israel” on social media and said, “We must strengthen our grip and sovereignty over the homeland in Judea and Samaria.” Republican support for the settler movement and changes to the language of the discussion surrounding their effort have some pro-Israel lobbyists in Washington worried about Some experts fear that much of it will be dumped into the environment without controls. A broad group of Arab nations rejected a suggestion by President Trump to “clean out” Gaza.

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Author: Unknown
Published on: 05/02/2025 | 00:00:00

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Trump’s predecessor, Joe Biden, supported Israel in its war on Gaza, as well as its invasion of Lebanon, but his administration’s occasional misgivings about Israel’s genocide in Gaza made parts of the Israeli public unhappy. Diplomacy Trump's diplomatic moves reflect his unwavering support for Israel. He wants the US ambassador to Israel to be Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee. In 2017, Trump said all of Jerusalem was the capital of Israel. He also moved the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Under Trump, the US cut all funding for UNRWA in 2018. The Trump administration was silent on construction to expand the illegal settlement at Givat Hamatos near Jerusalem. In 2020, Trump presented the “Peace to Prosperity Plan”, ostensibly a peace plan. It also envisioned Israel annexing large portions of the West Bank. The plan was rejected by Palestinians.

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Author: Unknown
Published on: 05/02/2025 | 00:00:00

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The United States Postal Service (USPS) will accept parcels from China again. USPS said it will continue accepting “all international inbound mail and packages from China and Hong Kong Posts” effective as of Wednesday. The Trump administration imposed an additional 10-percent tariff on Chinese goods.

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Author: Unknown
Published on: 05/02/2025 | 00:00:00

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Trump declared that after Palestinians from the Gaza Strip are moved elsewhere, the US will “take over” The president also expressed his desire to transform the Israeli-occupied territory into the “Riviera of the Middle East”. Many of those who have been displaced and have managed to go back to their homes have found only ruins. Right to remain is particularly urgent in settler-colonial situations where colonisers actively displace the Indigenous population and try to replace them with settlers. The right to remain includes the ability of a people to determine their own destiny. It cannot be enough to be allowed to remain as an occupied inhabitant within besieged territory. Israeli denial of right to remain in Gaza Strip is far worse. As early as October 13, 2023, Israel issued a collective evacuation order to 1.1 million Palestinians living north of Wadi Gaza. In the following months, similar orders were issued repeatedly, ultimately displacing 90 percent of the Strip’s population. The ability to remain is precisely what Israel has been aiming to eradicate in 15 months of war. The razing of hospitals, schools, universities, mosques, shops and street markets, cemeteries and libraries was carried out in the service of mass killings. Thus it is not just that Palestinian homes have been destroyed but that the very existence of the population will also now be compromised for years to come.

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Author: Unknown
Published on: 05/02/2025 | 00:00:00

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A major trade war between the United States and Canada has been averted after Donald Trump agreed to hold off on imposing a 25 percent tariff for 30 days. But anger has erupted in Canada, with people calling for a boycott of US products, and some even calling to stop the export of oil to the country’s southern neighbour. Blocking crude oil flow to the US could inflict an enormous economic cost on Canada. In 1994, the US, Canada and Mexico signed the NAFTA deal. It removed most tariffs between the three countries and included provisions on energy cooperation. Geography also plays a role in how the pipelines are built. If Canada decides to cut off oil supply, there would also be a question mark over how the eastern parts of Canada would get their oil. It raises questions about whether the US would in turn prevent the flow of oil, which flows through US territory, to eastern Canada. Pipelines exported 89.6 percent of Canada’s crude oil. The rest was sent by rail and other networks. Canadian pipeline operator Trans Mountain said deliveries to Asia are likely to increase. In 2022, 79.2 percent of Canada’s refined oil came from the US. The US imports Canadian crude oil, which is refined in the Midwest of the US, and then sold back to Canada and the rest of the world.

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Author: Unknown
Published on: 05/02/2025 | 00:00:00

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Trump’s proposal for the United States to “own” Gaza after Palestinians are forced out of the enclave has drawn praise and rebuke in the US capital. Democrats Richard Blumenthal The Connecticut senator called the proposal “crazy”, stressing its implications for diplomatic ties between Israel and Arab states. Judy Chu The Connecticut senator dismissed Trump’s proposal, suggesting it may be a distraction. "What the people of America DO need: unelected billionaires to stop stealing our personal info and tax dollars," Swalwell wrote on X. Rick Scott The Florida senator falsely claimed that Hamas burned babies alive. Texas legislator portrayed Trump’s push as an effort towards peace. “President Trump is bringing peace to the Middle East, just as he promised,” he wrote on social media.

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Author: Unknown
Published on: 05/02/2025 | 00:00:00

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Israel has killed UN workers, banned UNRWA, barred UN representatives from entry, and repeatedly insulted the UN and its officials. Successive Israeli governments and their allies have also used all means possible to exert pressure on the International Criminal Court not to investigate Israeli crimes. Attacks on the court have only intensified after it issued arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant. Chilean legal scholar Alejandro Alvarez proposed a “new international law” some 70 years ago. He argued that the European legal tradition was inadequate to address legal questions in places like the Americas. In a series of dissenting opinions in cases he deliberated on, alvarez called for a new international law which accommodated the particular historical moment of the decolonisation across the world. If the US decides to cut funding to all of the UN, then there is a clear response. Move the UN outside of the US and fortress Europe to somewhere in the Global South. Relocating the UN Headquarters out of New York would drastically cut costs. It would do away with the dilemma of an international legal institution headquartered in a state that has proven to be the most consistent perpetrator of the crimes that the institution was created to prevent. The current moment of genocide, neocolonialism, climate crisis and sickening impunity imposes on us the duty to reimagine the status quo. Cynicism is something we cannot afford. We need to start laying down the foundation of a new international legal system that finds virtue in justice rather than power.

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