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Islam Abu Taeima, a 40-year-old mother of five, says hunger has left her no choice but to scour trash piles in Gaza City. “We’re dying of hunger,” she said. Her family is one of more than two million Palestinians at risk of famine after 19 months of war and nearly three months of Israel’s blockade.Despite recent aid allowed in, most of it has failed to reach the people. Once a UN worker, Islam now boils stale bread and leftovers to feed her children. “Starvation is the biggest disease,” she says.

Yet he cautioned that the findings also reveal “the weakness of our carbon sink as a consequence of the deteriorating state of our forest,” which “is worrying and needs to be addressed.” On its renewable power goals — which require installing energy sources like wind and solar — the EU is on pace to generate 41 percent of its energy from renewable sources by 2030, just shy of the 42.5 percent goal.  The assessment also calls on countries to better prepare and adapt society for climate change’s inevitable ramifications. Only a handful of countries are addressing increasing water scarcity, for…

Published on 28/05/2025 – 9:47 GMT+2The challenges reflect broader ones faced by a Chinese economy hobbled by a prolonged real estate crisis that has hurt consumer spending. Beijing also faces growing pushback from Europe and the United States over surging exports.“The picture has deteriorated across many key metrics,” the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China said in the introduction to its Business Confidence Survey 2025.The same forces that are driving up Chinese exports are depressing the business outlook in the Chinese market. Chinese companies, often enticed by government subsidies, have invested so much in targeted industries such as electric…

“I may say unpleasant things, but I tell the truth […] And he may sometimes say very nice things, but those things are lies,” says Ukrainian leader. Listen AI generated Text-to-speech Share

A bill rapidly making its way through the United States Senate and gathering impressive bipartisan support threatens to wreak untold havoc on Russia’s economy in a bid to force Vladimir Putin into “good faith negotiations for a lasting peace in Ukraine”.But the concerted push, jointly promoted by Lindsey Graham, a Republican from South Carolina, and Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat from Connecticut, also risks devastation for roughly half the European Union.”Our legislation will isolate Russia – putting it on a trade island by imposing stiff tariffs on other countries that support these atrocities,” Graham and Blumenthal said last week as they announced the…

By Tina Teng Published on 28/05/2025 – 7:29 GMT+2European stock markets extended their rally for a second consecutive trading day on Tuesday as concerns over escalating US-EU trade tensions eased. Germany’s DAX rose 0.82% to 24,226.49, marking a fresh record high, while the Euro Stoxx 600 climbed 0.33% to 552.33, edging within 0.2% of its March peak.US President Donald Trump expressed optimism toward the trade negotiations. “I have just been informed that the EU has called to quickly establish meeting dates,” he wrote in the Truth Social, “This is a positive event, and I hope that they will, FINALLY, like my…

“If someone is standing again for election, but they are also proactively looking at job opportunities in the eventuality that they might lose, there’s always the risk … that that information gets out and is politically damaging,” said former Liberal Democrat MP Tom Brake, who lost his seat in 2019 and now runs the Unlock Democracy pressure group. Atherton said if MPs maintained a second profession, it could make losing easier. “If you’ve managed to hold on to your second job, whether you’re a doctor, whether you’re a teacher, whether you’re a nurse, that is worth its weight in gold,”…

Published on 28/05/2025 – 6:37 GMT+2Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said Tuesday his country is ready to host a future round of talks between Ukraine and Russia, expressing hope that negotiations will “swiftly lead to a ceasefire, followed by lasting peace.””We emphasized that we are always ready to host negotiations. We see this as a duty, not just for our region, but for global peace,” Fidan told reporters at a joint news conference with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov.”We have conveyed our request for the upcoming negotiations to take place in Turkey and assured them that we are ready to…

Erstmals tagt heute der Koalitionsausschuss. Union und SPD wollen zeigen: hier wird nicht gestritten, hier wird entschieden und vorangetrieben. Die Themen allerdings sind heikel: von Außenpolitik über Investitionen bis AfD-Verbotsverfahren. Gordon Repinski bespricht mit Rasmus Buchsteiner, was genau debattiert wird und wo es Streitpunkte geben könnte.  Im 200-Sekunden-Interview: Manuela Schwesig, SPD-Ministerpräsidentin in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern zur Frage, ob ein Verbotsverfahren gegen die Alternative für Deutschland nutzt oder schadet und zu ihren Erwartungen an den Koalitionsausschuss aus Ländersicht. Informationen zur POWER LIST — Germany‘s Top 50 gibt es hier. Dazu hat Hans von der Burchard exklusive Informationen vor dem heutigen Besuch des ukrainischen…

“There is no sign of Germany finally delivering Taurus cruise missiles, because I still see no unity in the coalition and no political will to respond appropriately and with strength and consistency to Russia’s massive escalation,” Kiesewetter wrote in a post on X. “Such statements are therefore not helpful overall because they highlight Europe’s weakness to Russia.” The confusion around whether Germany is prepared to provide Taurus missiles to Ukraine threatens to overshadow Zelenskyy’s visit to Berlin on Wednesday. As Russia continues to hammer Ukraine with killer drone and missile attacks, European leaders are under pressure to formulate a tough…