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No aid will enter Gaza

JERUSALEM, Apr 16 (AFP/AP): Israel's Defence Minister Israel Katz said the country would continue to block humanitarian aid from entering the war-battered Gaza Strip, where intense aerial and ground assaults have resumed."Israel's policy is clear: no humanitarian aid will enter Gaza, and blocking this aid is one of the main...

Xi meets Malaysian leaders

KUALA LUMPUR, Apr 16 (AFP): Chinese President Xi Jinping met Malaysia's king on Wednesday in a state visit analysts said was aimed at burnishing Beijing's credentials as a reliable partner and "not a hegemon".Xi embarked this week on a Southeast Asia tour that has already taken him to Vietnam and...

US proposes scrapping UN peacekeeping funding

NEW YORK, Apr 16 (Reuters/AFP): The White House budget office has proposed eliminating funding for United Nations peacekeeping missions, citing failures by operations in Mali, Lebanon and Democratic Republic of Congo, according to internal planning documents seen by Reuters.Washington is the UN's largest contributor - with China second - accounting...

Trump speaks to sultan of Oman about Iran talks

NEW YORK, Apr 16 (Reuters): President Donald Trump spoke on Tuesday with the sultan of Oman about the next round of Iran talks scheduled for Saturday in Oman, the White House said.White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters Trump's bottom line in the talks, which included an initial session...

Paramilitaries declare rival govt in Sudan

KHARTOUM, Apr 16 (BBC): Sudan's paramilitaries have declared the formation of a rival government to the country's armed forces, two years into a war that has become the world's largest humanitarian crisis.The leader of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Mohamed Hamdan "Hemedti" Dagalo, said the group was "building the only...

EU tightens asylum rules

BRUSSELS, Apr 16 (AFP): The European Union on Wednesday published a list of seven countries it considers "safe", in a bid to speed up migrant returns by making it harder for citizens of those nations to claim asylum in the bloc.The European Commission said it was proposing to designate Kosovo,...