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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Shanghai on Wednesday to tackle an array of unresolved issues that threaten the stability of US-China relations. Blinken will meet with business leaders before traveling to Beijing on Friday for talks with Foreign Minister Wang Yi and a possible meeting with President Xi Jinping. Tensions between the world’s two largest economies have eased noticeably since his last visit in June. At the time, Blinken was the highest-ranking US official to visit China in five years. The trip was followed by a meeting between the two countries’ presidents in November.US’s Blinken arrives in China for…

North Macedonia will enter into a presidential runoff, after no candidate secured enough votes to win outright in Wednesday’s first round of balloting. Right-wing candidate Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova, claimed a comprehensive victory in the first round, securing almost 40% of the votes according to the state electoral commission. Siljanovska-Davkova is backed by the main opposition center-right party VMRO-DPMNE. Current President Stevo Pendarovski of the ruling center-left Social Democrats (SDSM), only managed to claim close to 20 percent of the votes The second round is scheduled for May 8.  Approach to joining European Union at heart of election The election is being fought as…

More than half of the world’s population could be at risk of catching diseases transmitted by mosquitoes such as malaria and dengue by the end of the century, scientists have warned.Mosquito-borne outbreaks, driven by global warming, will spread to parts of northern Europe and other regions of the world over the next few decades, the experts said. In the UK, figures released by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) show imported malaria cases last year topped 2,000 for the first time in over 20 years.It said there were 2,004 cases of malaria confirmed in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland in…

A place of understanding – in Berlin’s Prenzlauer Berg district, the Kanaan restaurant is run by an Israeli and a Palestinian. The restaurant represents more than a shared culinary passion. Source link

With just three months to go until the start of the World Cup, women’s football has been rocked by a new wave of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries to star players Last Friday, it was confirmed that England captain Leah Williamson will miss the tournament in Australia and New Zealand after rupturing her ACL during her club side Arsenal’s 1-0 defeat to Manchester United in the Women’s Super League (WSL). The 26-year-old defender is the latest unfortunate addition to a growing list of top names who have suffered similar injuries recently, including her Arsenal teammates Beth Mead – voted player…

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier called for a revival of German-Turkish relations, as he met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara on Wednesday. “These are serious times. And that is precisely why we need each other,” he said at a joint press conference with Erdogan. “That is why we should give new importance to German-Turkish relations.” “We need each other,” Steinmeier said, and referred to cooperation within NATO and the G20.  Disagreements over Gaza war Steinmeier made it clear that he and Erdogan had spoken openly about the differences in their assessment of conflict in the Middle East since the Hamas-led…

One of the last works by the art nouveau painter Gustav Klimt was sold at an auction in the Austrian capital of Vienna on Wednesday for €30 million ($32.1 million). The “Portrait of Miss Lieser” is a painting of a young woman that was left unfinished when the Austrian artist died. Long-lost painting The work was long thought to have been lost. But it had been hanging in a private villa near Vienna for decades, according to the auction house Im Kinsky, which put it up for sale. The auction house called it a “magnificent rediscovery.” The work had been privately owned…

The parents of an Israeli hostage have told him “we love you, stay strong, survive” after he appeared with part of his arm missing in a video released by Hamas.Hersh Goldberg-Polin was kidnapped at the Nova musical festival when Hamas attacked Israel on 7 October.The video shows him with his lower left arm missing; witnesses said it was blown off when he helped throw grenades out of a shelter where people were hiding.Middle East latest: Hezbollah dismisses ‘worthless’ Israeli claims on commanders killedHe reportedly used his shirt as a tourniquet to stem the bleeding, but was captured. Image: Hersh Goldberg-Polin…

In the 1990s, charities, governments and individual philanthropists invested billions of dollars into one goal: malaria control. They wanted to halve the global number of malaria deaths by 2010. At the time, malaria represented one of the biggest health threats in the world. At least one million people were dying of the disease each year, the vast majority of them young children. The “Roll Back Malaria” campaign officially launched in 1998. With billions of dollars in funding from global organizations like the World Health Organization and World Bank, partners started dispersing mosquito bed nets and indoor insecticide sprays in affected regions. They also…

“Speaking about Palestine in Germany should not be an act of courage,” organizers of the ALFILM – Arab Film Festival Berlin stated at the event’s opening ceremony in 2023. A year later, amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, organizing a film festival spotlighting Palestinian voices is an even greater challenge: “It feels like an impossible task right now. It doesn’t even feel like an act of courage. It feels like a suicide somehow, honestly,” says festival director Pascale Fakhry. The team is nevertheless taking this risk. The ALFILM festival, which has established itself, according to Fakhry, as the “biggest cinema platform representing…