Amnesty International has released a report that details the impact gang violence has had on children across Haiti and called for immediate action
Author: The Associated Press, ABC News\ Published on: 12/02/2025 | 05:15:02
AI Summary:\ An estimated 30% to 50% of gang members are now children, according to UNICEF. Nearly two million people are on the verge of starvation in Haiti. More than one million children are estimated to be living in gang-controlled areas. Amnesty International says many of those interviewed “scoffed at the idea of reporting their attacks to authorities” a 16-year-old girl who was abducted and raped by several gang members said: “Are you kidding me? It’s not possible...There is no police...The only chief in town are the gang member.” The violence also led to injury and death. Amnesty International calls on the Haitian government to better support children, restore education, provide mental health services, and resume court proceedings against children suspected of ties to gangs. In 2023, 128 children were reported killed, according to the U.N.
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met his Indonesian counterpart Prabowo Subianto on Wednesday for talks aimed at strengthening economic and defense ties between the two Muslim-majority nations
Author: NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press, ANDI JATMIKO Associated Press, ABC News\ Published on: 12/02/2025 | 05:21:35
AI Summary:\ Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan meets his Indonesian counterpart Prabowo Subianto. The two countries are holding their first High-Level Strategic Cooperation Council summit. Erdogan’s state visit to Indonesia was his second stop in a four-day visit. Subianto pledged to "elevate defense cooperation and other strategic fields for mutual benefit" Turkey and Indonesia plan to sign agreements on trade, investment, education and technology during Erdogan’s visit.
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Jordan’s foreign minister told Al Jazeera his country rejects the US president’s plan to take over Gaza
Author: Unknown\ Published on: 12/02/2025 | 00:00:00
AI Summary:\ Jordan’s foreign minister told Al Jazeera his country rejects the US president’s plan to take over Gaza and move Palestinians to neighbouring countries like Jordan and Egypt. Donald Trump discussed the issue with the King of Jordan at the White House.
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The billionaire Trump ally pushes back at criticism over transparency, saying his department’s work is ‘common sense’.
Author: Al Jazeera\ Published on: 12/02/2025 | 00:00:00
AI Summary:\ Elon Musk made a rare public appearance at the White House on Tuesday. Trump signed an executive order expanding Musk’s powers to continue downsizing the federal workforce. Musk defended DOGE’s work as “common sense” and “not draconian or radical” Tesla CEO pushed back at criticism over transparency. Musk said he expected to be held fully accountable. "I fully expect to be scrutinised and get, you know, a daily proctology exam, basically"
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A study by the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) shows that Europeans no longer see the US as an 'ally', and revealed a broad variety of opinions on the future of the EU. #EuropeNews
Author: Peggy Corlin\ Published on: 12/02/2025 | 00:00:00
AI Summary:\ A majority of Europeans considers the US a “necessary partner” rather than “an ally”, according to a poll published on Wednesday by the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) The poll was conducted in 11 EU countries - including Germany, France, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Denmark, Estonia, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary – as well as Ukraine, Switzerland, and the UK. However, it also shows diverging opinion on Trump himself, with more apparent supporters in south-east Europe 22% of respondents were "euro-pessimists" believing the EU is not a power. The overall sample included 18,507 respondents.
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Ceasefire will end if Hamas doesn't return hostages by Saturday, Netanyahu says
A fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip took hold in January.
Author: Tamsin Paternoster\ Published on: 12/02/2025 | 00:00:00
AI Summary:\ Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warns Hamas that Israel will end the ceasefire in Gaza. HamaS says it will postpone the scheduled release of three Israeli hostages on Saturday. Israel has repeatedly denied claims that it was jeopardising the truce. ADVERTISEMENT The sides have carried out five such swaps since 19 January. The war could resume in early March if no agreement is reached on the more complex terms of the ceasefire's second phase. In meantime, Israel has allowed thousands of displaced Palestinians to return to Gaza. Trump said his administration was having “very serious” conversations with Russia about the war. There was no immediate comment from Moscow about Fogel’s release on Tuesday.
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Philippines agency recommends charging VP Sara Duterte over alleged plot
The National Bureau of Investigation calls for a probe into Sara Duterte’s comments about having the president killed.
Author: Al Jazeera\ Published on: 12/02/2025 | 00:00:00
AI Summary:\ Sara Duterte threatened to have President Ferdinand Marcos Jr assassinated. The Philippines’s National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) has recommended criminal charges be filed against the vice president. "We have finally recommended the filing of inciting to sedition and grave threats," NBI Director Jaime Santiago said. Duterte stepped down from her role as education secretary in June. As vice president, she remains Marcos’s constitutional successor. The case stems from comments she made in November suggesting she had ordered someone to kill Marcos. The date for that hearing is yet to be set, but it is expected to take place in June or July. Duterte said she is considering a run for the presidency during the general election in May.
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Iran’s envoy to UN Amir Saeid Iravani warns the US that ‘any act of aggression will have severe consequences’.
Author: Al Jazeera\ Published on: 12/02/2025 | 00:00:00
AI Summary:\ Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations condemns the "reckless and inflammatory statements" Trump suggested stopping Iran from developing nuclear weapons could be achieved either “with bombs or with a written piece of paper” Trump’s latest threats came amid renewed tensions after he reinstated his “maximum pressure” policy against Iran over concerns the country was seeking to develop nuclear weapons.
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Why are gold prices soaring amid US President Trump’s tariffs?
Fears of trade wars and geopolitical uncertainty appear to have boosted gold prices.
Author: Al Jazeera Staff\ Published on: 12/02/2025 | 00:00:00
AI Summary:\ Trump’s tariffs on steel and aluminium imports kick in this week. We look at why the price of the yellow metal has soared in recent days. Gold exports pointing to a desire for a safe asset. Spot gold rose by 0.3 percent to $2,916.37 per ounce as of 07:01 GMT. By March of that year, gold prices spiked to $2,070 per ounce, from $1,910 the month before. Trump signed proclamations late on Monday, reinstating a 25 percent tariff rate on steel from all countries. He also eliminated tariff exclusions on products that use both metals. Canada is also the largest exporter of aluminium. The US imports roughly a quarter of the steel it uses. Countries and experts have pointed to the economic volatility caused by Trump’s actions and words. China had hit back at Trump’s previous tariffs by adding their own on a range of US imports, including coal and crude oil. Al Jazeera’s Katrina Yu, reporting from Beijing, says these latest tariffs likely won’t start a trade war, but they are a step in that direction.
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North Korea condemns Trump’s Gaza takeover plan as ‘slaughter, robbery’
North Korea has called for the US to stop ‘encroaching upon the dignity and sovereignty’ of the Palestinian people.
Author: Al Jazeera\ Published on: 12/02/2025 | 00:00:00
AI Summary:\ North Korean state media accuses the US of “slaughter and robbery” over Trump’s proposed plan to occupy the Gaza Strip and expel its population of more than two million Palestinians. The White House’s Gaza proposal was evidence of the US’s “hegemonic, invasive” ambition for world dominance, it said. North Korea has been an outspoken critic of the situation in Gaza. A US Navy fast-attack nuclear submarine docked in a port in Busan, South Korea. North Korea’s Ministry of Defence described the presence of the US nuclear submarine on the Korean Peninsula as a “clear expression of the us invariable hysteria for confrontation”
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Russia has released an American teacher imprisoned over what his family said was prescribed medical marijuana, but several other Americans are still detained
Author: The Associated Press, ABC News\ Published on: 11/02/2025 | 21:06:37
AI Summary:\ Marc Fogel was arrested in August 2021 and is serving a 14-year prison sentence on drug charges. He was designated by President Joe Biden’s administration as wrongfully detained in December. His release follows a massive prisoner swap last August that resulted in the release of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and corporate security executive Paul Whelan. Russian media reported that his name matches a U.S. Citizen interviewed in 2020 who said he was born in the Perm region in 1991 and adopted by an American couple at age 2. An engineer from Texas, Barnes was arrested in 2022 while visiting his sons in Russia, where their mother had taken them. He was convicted in June 2024 in Vladivostok of stealing and making threats against his girlfriend. Tater has been in custody awaiting trial on assaulting a law officer. At a September court hearing, he claimed he came to Russia to seek political asylum.
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Here are the key developments on the 1,084th day of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Author: Al Jazeera\ Published on: 12/02/2025 | 00:00:00
AI Summary:\ Ukrainian Security and Defence Council official said attack targeted oil refinery. No casualties were reported. Russian military said its forces have taken control of Yesenove settlement in eastern Ukraine. Russian bomb disposal experts defused a French-made SCALP cruise missile in the Kursk region. Politics & Diplomacy US President Donald Trump said in an interview with Fox News that he wants the “hundreds of billions of dollars” spent by the United States on Ukraine to be secured regardless of whether Ukraine may or may not lose its sovereignty to Russia. Trump also claimed that Kyiv had “essentially agreed” to provide $500bn worth of rare earth minerals to the US in exchange for Washington’ Washington said this was a sign that things were moving in the right direction to end the war in Ukraine. Kremlin Spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters that a significant population in Ukraine “wants to be Russia” just hours after Trump suggested Ukraine may or may not become part of Russia. The European Court of Human Rights ruled that Russia has imposed “systematic and widespread” restrictions on reporting and called out Moscow for its coordinated efforts to suppress dissent.
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White House says US President Trump and special envoy Witkoff had ‘negotiated an exchange’.
Author: Al Jazeera\ Published on: 12/02/2025 | 00:00:00
AI Summary:\ Fogel, 63, had been detained in Russia since August 2021. He was handed a 14-year prison sentence for possession of about 17 grams of marijuana. Fogel's release was secured after United States President Donald Trump and special envoy Steve Witkoff "negotiated an exchange"
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Russia releases imprisoned American in what US calls a step toward end of Ukraine war
Steve Witkoff, a special envoy for President Donald Trump, left Russian airspace with Fogel, a history teacher from Pennsylvania, and he's expected to have been reunited with his family by the end of the day.
Author: Euronews\ Published on: 12/02/2025 | 00:00:00
AI Summary:\ Marc Fogel was arrested in August 2021 and serving a 14-year prison sentence. His family and supporters said he had been traveling with medically prescribed marijuana. He was designated by former US President Joe Biden’s administration as wrongfully detained in December. Estonia switched off from the Russian grid and hooked up to the European system. Since then, the price of electricity in Estonia has started to climb. The price of gas has reached a record high of the last couple of years on the Dutch TTF.
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China says US naval patrol of Taiwan Strait poses security risk
The US Navy described its patrol as a ‘routine’ exercise through the international waterway.
Author: Al Jazeera\ Published on: 12/02/2025 | 00:00:00
AI Summary:\ China’s military has accused the United States of engaging in risky behaviour in the Taiwan Strait. The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) said it had monitored the movements of the USS Ralph Johnson, a naval destroyer, and the USNS Bowditch as they moved through the waterway between Monday and Wednesday.
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American-Lebanese Hadi Matar, 23, is accused of attempting to kill The Satanic Verses author in frenzied 2022 attack.
Author: Al Jazeera\ Published on: 12/02/2025 | 00:00:00
AI Summary:\ Salman Rushdie told jurors at the trial of his alleged attacker, Hadi Matar. Matar is accused of stabbing Rushdie about 10 times with a 6-inch (15cm) blade. As he did on the trial’s opening day, Matar said, “Palestine will be free” as he was led into court. New York-based British-American Rushdie, now 77, was rescued by bystanders. Venue employee Jordan Steves told the court how he launched himself with his shoulder. Prosecutors will seek to present the case as “open and shut”. One of Matar’s lawyers said police had made assumptions about Matar. Iran denied any link to the attacker and said only that Rushdie was to blame for the incident.
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The right-wing incumbent is set to face his left-leaning rival, Luisa Gonzalez, in a second round of voting in April.
Author: Al Jazeera Staff\ Published on: 12/02/2025 | 00:00:00
AI Summary:\ Noboa gave an interview to Ecuador’s Radio Centro in which he expressed scepticism about the results, though he failed to offer proof of any malfeasance. Independent election observers quickly fired back that there appeared to be no discrepancies with the voting tally. The OAS sent a mission to observe Sunday’s election. Noboa entered the crowded race to replace Lasso as a dark horse. The frontrunner at the time was Gonzalez, the protege of former President Rafael Correa. Gonzalez received 52 percent of the vote to Gonzalez’s 48. Gonzalez blasted Noboa's implication that her votes were won through criminality. She highlighted the fact that noboo had failed to tamp down on Ecuador’s rising crime rates.
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Law enforcement agency says about 2,400 newly discovered records are being transferred to archives for declassification.
Author: Al Jazeera\ Published on: 12/02/2025 | 00:00:00
AI Summary:\ The FBI has announced the discovery of thousands of records related to the assassination of John F Kennedy. The FBI said on Tuesday that searches had turned up about 2,400 "newly inventoried and digitized records that were previously unrecognized" the announcement comes after Trump last month ordered the declassification and release of all remaining files related to JFK’s assassainment. In a 2023 Gallup poll, 65 percent of Americans said they did not believe the Warren Commission’s conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in killing the president. In his first administration, Trump promised to release all remaining records on the assassination but ultimately only sanctioned the release of about 2,800 documents after bowing to pressure from the CIA and FBI to withhold thousands of files.
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Hours before dawn, Julio Arrivillaga and Catalina Pérez Molina boarded a bus with other residents in the center of the humble village of Santo Domingo Los Ocotes in Guatemala for what should have been an hour-long ride to Guatemala’s capital
Author: SONIA PÉREZ D. Associated Press, ABC News\ Published on: 11/02/2025 | 23:36:04
AI Summary:\ Julio Arrivillaga and Catalina Pérez Molina boarded a bus with other residents in Santo Domingo Los Ocotes. On Tuesday, families began saying goodbye to their loved ones amid a three-day period of national mourning. A day earlier, the Public Ministry said 53 people had died at the site of the crash and two more at a hospital.
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Electricity prices rise in Estonia after cut from Russian power grid
Author: Euronews\ Published on: 12/02/2025 | 00:00:00
AI Summary:\ Europe will channel €200 billion into AI investments in a bid to catch up with the thriving tech ecosystems in the US and China. The price of gas has reached a record high of the last couple of years on the Dutch TTF but is expected to fall. From €126 per MWh last week, the new average electricity price will be €191. The EU was one of the first powers to enshrine comprehensive regulations around AI. But this strict regulatory environment will simply slow down any form of cooperation with the EU. The US and the UK have notably refused to sign the summit’s declaration.
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