What is Donald Trump’s plan for Iran? Is he about to break his campaign pledge for ‘no more wars’? And if he does, could this be the moment he loses some of his most loyal Maga supporters?
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President denies report in Wall Street Journal and says newspaper has ‘no idea’ of his plans for Israel and Iran
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Donald Trump has denied a report in the Wall Street Journal that he has approved US plans to attack Iran, saying that the news outlet has “no idea” what his thinking is concerning the Israel-Iran conflict.
He also confirmed, later on Thursday, via his press secretary, that he’d be making a decision within the “next two weeks”.
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The leader of Israel’s Magen David Adom rescue service has said that a directive had been issued to reduce the number of people on the floor that was hit at Soroko hospital in Beersheba, according to the Haaretz newspaper.
He added that there had been no hazardous materials incident at the hospital and that for now Magen David Adom was transferring patients to other hospitals in southern Israel instead of Soroka.
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Tehran has warned Washington that its participation would likely lead to all-out war.
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June 15, 20258:52 AM ET
One of Khartoums oldest and most loved hotels has survived coups, wars, and even a bomb attack, but it couldn’t weather Sudan’s civil war.
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There has been no immediate comment by the Israeli military or the GHF on Saturday’s Palestinian deaths.
South Africa end their wait for one of the major ICC titles by beating Australia by five wickets in the WTC final.
G7 will also be a platform for Canadian PM Carney to showcase his leadership at a time of economic, geopolitical shifts.
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The United Nations Security Council convened an emergency meeting on Friday after Israeli attacks on Iran.
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“Iran is not getting much weaponry from any of these countries.”
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Iran and Israel exchange missiles and air strikes, a day after Israel launched a sweeping air offensive.
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There has been no immediate comment by the Israeli military or the GHF on Saturday’s Palestinian deaths.
South Africa end their wait for one of the major ICC titles by beating Australia by five wickets in the WTC final.
G7 will also be a platform for Canadian PM Carney to showcase his leadership at a time of economic, geopolitical shifts.
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The United Nations Security Council convened an emergency meeting on Friday after Israeli attacks on Iran.
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Videos show destruction in the aftermath of Iranian missile strikes that hit sites across Israel.
“Iran is not getting much weaponry from any of these countries.”
June 13, 20255:22 PM ET
The Basketball Africa League crowns a new champion this weekend, marking the venture’s fifth anniversary. But can the NBA-backed league turn courtside glam and pan-African buzz into lasting success?
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June 13, 20255:00 AM ET
Pastor Billiance Chondwe has known 9-year-old Diana Lungu since she was born. He helped her mother through a rough pregnancy and during Diana’s early years. Diana’s mother died of AIDS when Diana was nearing her third birthday.
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Night had fallen hours ago, but Billiance Chondwe was not slowing down.
On Feb. 20, he frantically tapped out texts on WhatsApp, dialed distant acquaintances and left voice messages from his home in Zambia. He’d pause only to close his eyes and think of whom else he could reach out to for help.
He urgently needed to find medication for Diana Lungu. She’s an orphan, she’s 9 — and she’s HIV-positive. She’d run out of the daily pills she takes to suppress the virus. Without the pills, the virus would surge back.
“I called the whole night … calling everyone,” remembers Chondwe, 53, a reverend known in his community simply as Pastor Billy. “I slept around..
June 12, 20255:08 PM ET
A protester holds a banner and shouts at a Kenyan police officer during a demonstration over the death of Kenyan blogger Albert Ojwang, who died in police custody. June 12 2025
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NAIROBI, Kenya —Protests erupted across Kenya Thursday over the death of 31-year-old blogger Albert Ojwang, who died in police custody under suspicious circumstances.
Ojwang was arrested last week in Homa Bay, in western Kenya, after criticizing Kenya’s Deputy Inspector General of Police, Eliud Lagat, on social media. Ojwang was transported over 200 milesto Nairobi, the capital, on Friday, where he died hours later.
A former teacher, turned blogger, Ojwang had been writing about Lagat’s alleged involvement in a bribery scandal which had previously been reported by the press.
Police initially claimed Ojwang”hit his head on a cell wall,” but an autopsy revealed he was tortured to death. Dr. Bernard Midia, one of five..
June 7, 20257:00 AM ET
Kenyan journalist and human rights activist Boniface Mwangi (R) and Ugandan activist Agather Atuhaire (L) during a joint press conference in Nairobi on June 2, 2025 following their three-day detention and alleged torture by Tanzanian authorities.
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JOHANNESBURG —At a packed press conference this week two East African activists wiped away tears as they detailed their alleged sexual assault and torture while in detention in Tanzania.
Kenyan activist Boniface Mwangi and Ugandan activist Agather Atuhaire – who was given an “International Woman of Courage” award by the US State Department last year – said they had traveled to neighboring Tanzania in mid-May to monitor the “sham” court case of an opposition leader there.
They allege they were both subsequently detained by a state security official and men in plain clothes. Mwangi described in graphic detail ho..
June 5, 20256:01 PM ET
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President Donald Trump has issued a new travel ban, barring travelers from 12 countries and partially restricting travelers from seven others from coming to the U.S. We hear from reporters in Asia, Latin America and Africa to hear how targeted countries might be affected.
June 4, 20254:29 PM ET
People who fled violence in Darfur walk through a makeshift encampment in the western Darfur region on April 13, 2025.
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JOHANNESBURG — The food that a United Nations convoy was taking to the besieged Sudanese city of El Fasher would have been the first humanitarian aid desperate families there had received in over a year.
But they never got it.
The 15-truck convoy was on its way to the city in the Darfur region on Monday when it came under attack. Five UN staff were killed, several others injured, and the supplies damaged.
The UN condemned “in the strongest possible terms this horrendous act of violence against humanitarian personnel who literally put their lives at risk in an attempt to reach vulnerable children and families in the famine-impacted areas of Sudan.”
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“It is devastating that the supplies have not reached the civilians in need,” it said in a statement.
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June 4, 20253:00 AM ET
Enlarge this imageSouth African President Ramaphosa meets President Trump amid tensions over Washington’s resettlement of white Afrikaners that the U.S. president claims are the victims of “genocide.”
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South African President Ramaphosa meets President Trump amid tensions over Washington’s resettlement of white Afrikaners that the U.S. president claims are the victims of “genocide.”
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How the false notion of “white genocide” traveled from the political fringes to the Oval Office. The week on Code Switch, we’re talking to a reporter who was in the room during a meeting when President Trump pushed this conspiracy theory on the president of South Africa. And we’re digging into what Trump’s fixation on white South Africans tell us about anxieties over white replacement here in the U.S.
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June 4, 20253:00 AM ET
Enlarge this imageWhy is the Trump administration offering refugee status to white Afrikaners?
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You may have heard that the U.S. gained 59 new residents last month from South Africa – and that more came this past weekend. They’re all white Afrikaners: a white minority group descended from European colonists. Trump has given some of these white Afrikaners refugee status because he claims a “white genocide” is happening against them in South Africa. This claim is untrue. So where is it coming from?
And why might this claim be politically expedient for the Trump administration? And what parallels can we see between some of the white Afrikaners and the American right? Brittany sits down with South African journalist Kate Bartlett and Sean Jacobs,..
A master of the kora who worked with Herbie Hancock and Philip Glass, his career was powered as much by experimentation as by reverence for tradition.
West African nations are struggling to track and treat infections, and experts warn the outbreak is rapidly spreading, while the United States is cutting global vaccination efforts.
Policymakers in many countries assume that birthrates have fallen because people want fewer children, but a global study says financial insecurity is driving those decisions.
The authorities were still searching for four children. Inclement weather has left thousands displaced.
Experts who study protest movements say the scenes unfolding in California broadly follow a script that has played out many times in other countries — sometimes with deadly consequences.
African students have traded academic institutions in the West for Chinese alternatives. The Trump administration’s clampdown on international students and visas could accelerate the shift.
Seven of the 12 countries on President Trump’s new list are on the continent, where some said the policy was discriminatory and would unfairly affect their future.
On May 20th, a flight with eight deportees left Texas headed to South Sudan, a country on the brink of civil war. But mid-flight, a judicial battle began to unfold that forced the flight to land in Djibouti. Katrin Bennhold, speaks with Hamed Aleaziz, New York Times reporter covering Homeland Security and Immigration, to understand what’s going on and how it fits into President Trump’s larger immigration plan.
Mr. Lungu, who was recently barred by a court ruling from running for president again, left a checkered legacy, with allegations that he eroded freedoms while in office.
Scenarios include an Iranian defeat, an Israeli retreat—or an expanded regional conflict.
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The spending proposal terminates support of health programs that, according to the proposal, “do not make Americans safer.”
The delivery was supposed to be the first to arrive in the embattled city of El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur State, in more than a year.
After slashing foreign assistance and introducing steep tariffs, the Trump administration is proposing a new tax on remittances. African nations would be among the hardest hit.
The State Department’s announcement comes months after U.S. officials found evidence that Sudan’s military had used chemical weapons against its paramilitary rival.
The jokes mask a deep-seated anger over the legacy of apartheid and the inequality that many Black people say continues to define life in their country.
President Trump surprised a South African delegation with a video montage of apartheid-era chants from Mr. Malema.
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In a bruising Oval Office meeting, the visitors’ plan to keep President Trump from focusing on false accusations of white genocide backfired spectacularly.
President Trump publicly dressed down the president of South Africa based on a fringe conspiracy theory, providing a vivid distillation of his views on race.
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Trump’s “Americas First” foreign policy has intensified geopolitical competition in the region.
Scaling digital dollars would hand more power to Big Tech and potentially undermine U.S. security.
Economists warn that such duties will hike consumer prices and lower U.S. economic output.
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The countries are waging a narrative battle on the global stage in the wake of their latest military conflict.
Great power competition is taking new forms under the sea.
Stalwart allies are distancing themselves, including Germany and the United Kingdom.
Operation Spiderweb will enter military history as one of the more daring raids.
US president previously said it was ‘hard to make a deal’ with the Chinese leader as talks continue over trade.
Nationals from 12 countries have been banned from entering the US in Trump’s latest immigration crackdown.
James Elder, UNICEF spokesperson, warns of deadly risks Palestinians face seeking aid in Gaza and calls for urgent safe
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Maersk ships between the US and Israel carrying F-35 components are routed through Rotterdam, a grassroots group claims.
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US President Donald Trump has signed a travel ban blocking entry to the US for nationals of 12 countries.
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Shamsa Sharawe made her name campaigning against female genital cutting. Then she heard about surgery to rebuild what had been taken from her.
Nigerian authorities said they had expected flooding as part of the rainy season but were surprised by the extent of the damage.
Thousands of white South Africans are jockeying to get on the next flight to the United States as refugees. They say the backlash against their community is unfair.
The girl, Joshlin Smith, is still missing, and the case has haunted South Africa. Prosecutors said that the mother was addicted to drugs and had sold the girl for about $1,100.
Mr. Ngugi composed the first modern novel in the Gikuyu language on prison toilet paper while being held by Kenyan authorities. He spent many prolific years in exile.
Government lawyers said a federal judge in Boston had overstepped his authority by requiring hearings before deportations to countries other than the migrants’ own.
Joseph Kabila was accused of supporting the Rwanda-backed militia M23. Days later he arrived in Goma, a city held by the militia, so he remains out of prosecutors’ reach.
The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to approve speedy deportations. Experts say the policy may be trying to shape the behavior of immigrants through fear.
A proposed regulatory change would allow Elon Musk’s satellite company and others like it to get a license without having to sell shares to Black South Africans.
The deportees are stuck in Djibouti amid a legal fight over their expulsions. A lawyer for some of the men said she was concerned for their health and welfare.
May 28, 20253:56 PM ET
Enlarge this imageDr .Sara Abdurahaman at Al-Buluk Pediatric Hospital treats an 8-month old baby in the critical care unit of a malnutrition ward.
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Dr .Sara Abdurahaman at Al-Buluk Pediatric Hospital treats an 8-month old baby in the critical care unit of a malnutrition ward.
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The civil war in Sudan has been ongoing for more than two years causing some fifteen million people to be displaced and the collapse of the country’s healthcare system in many places. In the capital Khartoum, there were once nearly 100 public and private medical facilities, now none are operational. We go to Khartoum to see how residents are coping with the lack of medical care.
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May 27, 20254:21 PM ET
NPR’s Ari Shapiro talks with Cindy McCain, executive director of the World Food Program, about the crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo and cuts to WFP funding.
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May 25, 20259:41 AM ET
NPR’s Ayesha Rascoe talks with Nigerian space scientist Temidayo Oniosun about how the new African Space Agency could help make the continent more resilient to climate change and extreme weather.
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May 24, 20258:00 AM ET
US President Donald Trump, right, and Cyril Ramaphosa, South Africa’s president, second right, as a video plays during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, May 21, 2025.
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JOHANNESBURG — President Trump claims a “genocide” of white people, particularly Afrikaner farmers, is taking place in South Africa.
When he met the country’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, in the Oval Office on Wednesday, Trump played him a video — previously shared at least twice on social media byhis advisor Elon Musk — that he said was evidence of this.
“Now this is very bad, those are burial sites right there. Burial sites. Over a thousand. Of white farmers,” Trump said, “I’ve never seen anything like it.”
The video showed a road lined on either side with scores of white crosses and a procession of cars carrying mourners paying their respects.
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May 22, 20258:54 AM ET
President Trump meets South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday.
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JOHANNESBURG — “All in all it was awful but it could have been worse,” was how one South African newspaper summed up President Cyril Ramaphosa’s extraordinary Oval Office meeting with President Trump on Wednesday.
Africa Trump ambushes South Africa’s president with false claims of ‘white genocide’Many South Africans — including members of the government delegation visiting Washington — had feared a repeat of February’s heated exchange between Trump and and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
But despite what another newspaper called “serious provocation” by Trump — which included the dramatic moment he asked to dim the lights and played a lengthy video montage purporting to prove what Trump falsely claimed was a “genocide” against South African white farmers..
May 21, 20255:53 PM ET
President Trump meets in the Oval Office with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa. Bilateral relations are at their lowest since the end of apartheid.
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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and President Donald Trump in the Oval Office.
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JOHANNESBURG — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa walked into an ambush when he met President Trump in the Oval Office on Wednesday.
Africa Trump to meet South African president amid deteriorating relationsAfter a cordial beginning, where Ramaphosa was at pains to stress his desire to improve relations with the United States, things turned hostile. Trump repeated false claims of a “white genocide” in South Africa and then ordered the lights dimmed to play videos he said supported his allegation.
Ramaphosa attempted to correct the U.S. leader, but mostly got talked over. He explained the videos of opposition politician Julius Malema singing an apartheid-era struggle song called “Kill the Boer” — which means farmer or Afrikaner — did not represent government policy.
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Former U.N. humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths on the need to talk to all sides, no matter how repugnant.
Even if the great powers could carve up an interconnected world, Washington may not get the result it wants.
A Lebanese local official says an Israeli drone targeted employee working at water well in violation of ceasefire deal.
The American flag was raised at the US ambassador’s residence in Damascus for the first time since 2012.
There is no confusion, no complexity. Just children incinerated in their sleep while the world watches and does nothing.
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A US federal court has blocked some of Donald Trump’s tariffs after lawsuit argued president exceeded his authority.
One in four foreign students in the US is from China. They add billions of dollars to the US economy.
Cholera outbreak is centred around the capital city, Khartoum, which has been devastated by more than two years of war.
Ukrainian official urges Moscow to share its plan before any talks, as Turkiye’s Erdogan calls for dialogue.
Inter Milan and Paris Saint-Germain clash for the first time in Europe’s premier club competition.
The ruling party’s pro-EU candidate and a right-wing nationalist are set for a decisive second-round showdown on June 1.
Doctors discovered the cancer in Joe Biden last week after urinary symptoms and detection of a prostate nodule.
Nearly 300 million people faced acute hunger in 2024.
Explosion reported in Al-Mayadeen, in the Deir az Zor countryside, also wounds several people.
George Simion rejects the exit poll soon after it is released, says he is ahead in the presidential vote.
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Indonesian Hospital in Gaza’s north ‘forced out of service’ amid intensifying Israeli strikes on healthcare system.
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Germany’s Merz says many European leaders plan to call Trump, as Ukraine laments ‘record’ drone barrage.
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Hundreds of Rwandan refugees who were living in eastern Congo since the 1994 Rwanda genocide are repatriated by bus from Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, on Saturday, May 17, 2025.
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GOMA, Congo — Hundreds of Rwandan refugees who were living in eastern Congo since the 1994 genocide in Rwanda were repatriated on Saturday, the U.N. refugee agency said, after Rwandan-backed rebels seized key parts of the region.
Most of the refugees were women and children, and 360 of them crossed the border in buses provided by Rwandan authorities and were escorted by the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, and aid group Save the Children, local authorities said. The goal is to repatriate 2,000 people, UNHCR said.
“We are happy to welcome our compatriots. They are a valuable workforce for the country’s development,” said Prosper Mulindwa, the Rwandan mayor of Rubavu, during a brief ceremony at t..
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Israel and Hamas confirm indirect talks being held in Qatar as Israel expands ground offensive, killing dozens.
The storms are part of a severe weather system sweeping across the Midwest, leaving thousands without power.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promises more strikes if the group continues to launch attacks on Israel.
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May 16, 20259:24 AM ET
Children selling a drink made from hibiscus flowers in Jebel Aulia, a neighborhood on the outskirts of Khartoum where the last battles over control of the capital city took place. The Sudanese government took the city back from rebel forces in March.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan — Children are playing again on the streets of Khartoum.
They ride bikes through eerie streets, with the freedom of deserted roads and highways.
In the backdrop, people sweep shattered glass from battered storefronts, or clear rubble from their homes.
A handful of stands serve tea and coffee on the roadside and the owner of a popular bakery has returned after two years and is selling bread again.
These are some of the early signs of revival emerging across Khartoum, as it slowly comes back to life.
Kids show off their bike prowess on a deserted street in Khartoum, recaptured by the Sudanese army in March.
Faiz Abu..
A former prime minister and presidential candidate, Succès Masra, was detained by a government that has used the security forces and judiciary to quash opposition.