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Trump Reiterates Wish to Move Gazans to Egypt, Jordan

US President Donald Trump on Monday reiterated his desire to move Palestinians from Gaza to "safer" locations such as Egypt or Jordan, and said he would meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington "very soon." The president on Saturday floated the idea to "clean out" Gaza after more than 15 months of war between Israel and ...

Houthis Branded as "Terrorists": A Turning Point for Yemen?

US President Donald Trump's decision to re-designate Houthis as a foreign terrorist organisation could have deep implications for aid and the peace process in the war-shattered country. Already the Arabian Peninsula's poorest country before the war broke out a decade ago,Yemen is now suffering one of the world's worst humanitarian crises, with ...

Pentagon: The U.S. Military Will Maintain Its Support for "Mass Expulsions"

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Monday the military will keep assisting President Donald Trump's "mass" migrant deportations, as he arrived for his first formal day of work at the Pentagon. Hegseth -- confirmed by Republicans despite concerns over his inexperience, and alleged record of heavy drinking and domestic violence -- is one of ...

Nvidia Loses $500 bn in Value as Chinese AI Firm Jolts Tech Shares

US chip-maker Nvidia led a rout in tech stocks Monday after the emergence of a low-cost Chinese generative AI model that could threaten US dominance in the fast-growing industry. The chatbot developed by DeepSeek, a startup based in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou, has apparently shown the ability to match the capacity of US AI pace-setters ...

Palestinians Return to North Gaza after Breakthrough in Hostage Diplomacy

Palestinians began returning to the north of the war-battered Gaza Strip on Monday after Israel and Hamas said they had reached a deal for the release of another six hostages. The breakthrough preserves a fragile ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war, which has devastated the Gaza Strip and displaced nearly all its residents, paving the way for more ...

Asian stocks drop as tariff fears return, new AI program emerges

Asian markets mostly fell Monday on fresh trade fears after Donald Trump's threat to impose huge tariffs on Colombia in retaliation for its refusal to accept deportation flights from the United States. Traders were also assessing the impact of a new, cheaper Chinese generative AI programme amid claims it can outperform big-name rivals and worries ...

Kremlin Awaiting 'Signals' from US on Possible Putin-Trump Meeting

The Kremlin said Monday it was still waiting for "signals" from the United States about a possible meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and newly-inaugurated US counterpart Donald Trump. The leaders of both countries said last week they were ready for contact but neither side has indicated when or how. "So far, we have not received ...

Iran Deploys AI-Equipped missiles During Drills in Gulf

Iran's Revolutionary Guards have deployed missiles featuring artificial intelligence technology during military drills in the Gulf, state media reported Monday. The Guards' naval force "fired Ghaem and Almas missiles equipped with artificial intelligence from advanced Mohajer-6 and Ababil-5 drones", the IRNA state news agency said. The report ...

Colombia Caves on Deportations after Trump Threats

Colombia on Sunday backed down and agreed to accept deported citizens sent on US military aircraft, hours after President Donald Trump threatened painful tariffs to punish the defiance to his mass deportation plans. Colombia's leftist president, Gustavo Petro, had earlier said he would only take back citizens "with dignity," such as on civilian ...

Palestinians Denounce Trump's Idea Of Displacing Gazans

Both Hamas and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday criticised Donald Trump's proposal to move the inhabitants of Gaza to Egypt and Jordan in order, in his words, to ‘clean house’ in the territory, where a fragile truce has entered its second week. Israel and Hamas accused each other on Sunday of violating the terms of the ceasefire, ...

Trump Hints At Unblocking Delivery Of 2,000-Pound Bombs To Israel

US President Donald Trump said on Saturday that a ‘large number of things’ ordered by Israel from the US had now been delivered, in response to press reports that his administration had released a delivery of 2,000 pound (907kg) bombs. ‘A lot of things that were ordered and paid for by Israel, but not sent by Biden, are now on ...