Category: World News

China vowed on Friday to fight the U.S. “at any cost” after President Trump proposed slapping an additional $100 billion in tariffs on Chinese goods in an escalating trade dispute between the world’s two largest economies. Mr. Trump’s surprise move Thursday to instruct the U.S. trade representative to consider the additional tariffs came a day after Beijing announced plans to tax $50 billion in American products, including soybeans and small aircraft, in response to a U.S. move this week to slap tariffs on $50 billion in Chinese imports. In Beijing,…

Eight people died in three Indian states on Monday as tens of thousands of lower-caste Indians demonstrated violently against a recent Supreme Court ruling that they say dilutes protections for the Dalit community. Protesters halted railway traffic, forced shops to close and made their presence felt in at least 10 states. As the day began, protests were peaceful, but they quickly turned violent, with local media reporting clashes between police and protesters in Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and elsewhere. Violent protests were reported in at least seven states. According to…

Winnie Mandela, the former wife of South African anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela, died on Monday aged 81, triggering an outpouring of tributes to one of the country’s defining and most divisive figures. She died in a Johannesburg hospital after a long illness, family spokesman Victor Dlamini said in a statement. Winnie Mandela, who was married to Nelson Mandela for 38 years, played a high-profile role in the struggle to end white-minority rule but her place in history was stained by controversy and accusations of violence. “It is with profound sadness…

The Qatar Red Crescent announced on Sunday that it is funding a full healthcare programme worth $1m in the Gaza Strip, Felesteen.ps has reported. “The programme is going to be carried out over two years and is aimed at improving the quality of healthcare services,” the organisation explained. The core of the aid programme is based on promoting the abilities of Palestinian physicians and contracting with highly qualified foreign doctors with specialisms not found in Gaza’s hospitals. It also includes sending Palestinian doctors from Gaza specialising in urinary tract disorders…

Egypt’s National Election Authority (NEA) is scheduled to announce next Monday the results of the presidential elections pitting President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi and Mousa Mostafa Mousa. On Friday evening, the deadline for contesting the results of the elections ended in the absence of any petition. Mahmoud Helmy el-Sherif, deputy chairman of the National Election Authority and its spokesman, said that the committee did not receive any petition to contest the results of the pollds, adding that the final result will be announced on April 2. According to preliminary counts, Sisi has…

Massive fire at Venezuelan police detention center kills at least 68 At least 68 people have died after a massive fire engulfed the overcrowded holding cells inside a police station in northern Venezuela on Wednesday, officials said. The country’s chief prosecutor, attorney general Tarek William Saab, said on his official Twitter account that almost all the victims were male detainees. Two women who were visiting overnight were also killed, he said. Four prosecutors have been designated to investigate the inferno at the Carabobo state police headquarters in Valencia, according to…