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Trump says Tennessee next to redistrict after US Voting Rights Act ruling 

30 April 2026

United States President Donald Trump has said Tennessee will redraw its electoral map following a US Supreme Court rulin...

Israel rights group petitions top court to order release of 14 Gaza doctors 

30 April 2026

News|Gaza An Israeli human rights organisation has petitioned the Supreme Court to demand the immediate release of 14 do...

Myanmar’s former leader Aung San Suu Kyi moved to house arrest 

30 April 2026

Myanmar’s ⁠former leader Aung San ⁠Suu Kyi ⁠has been moved to house ‌arrest, state media report, more than fiv...

Trump slams Germany’s Merz again as rift over Iran war widens 

30 April 2026

President Donald Trump has renewed his attacks on German Chancellor Friedrich Merz as the rift between the United States...

US falls to ‘historic low’ in press freedom tracker: RSF 

30 April 2026

The United States has fallen to a “historic low” in the Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF), or Reporters Without Border...

‘Act of piracy’: World reacts to Israeli interception of Gaza aid flotilla 

30 April 2026

Israel has intercepted 22 out of the 58 aid ships travelling through international waters and bound for the besieged Gaz...

US military equipment worth billions of dollars destroyed in Iran war 

30 April 2026

Speaking at a televised Cabinet meeting on March 26, the US secretary of defense boasted of US military successes agains...

Israel kills nine people in southern Lebanon despite ‘ceasefire’ 

30 April 2026

Israel’s attacks on southern Lebanon have killed at least nine people, according to the country’s National News Agen...

Tunisia’s jailed opposition leader Ghannouchi rushed to hospital 

30 April 2026

Jailed Tunisian opposition leader Rached Ghannouchi has been urgently transferred to a hospital after a sharp deteriorat...

World’s top media outlets urge Israel to allow independent access to Gaza 

30 April 2026

A joint letter by the executives of the world’s top media organisations has called on Israel to allow foreign journali...