Crisis

Trump is acting like an authoritarian; California’s crisis now rests on what he does next

CNN — Donald Trump is talking and acting like an authoritarian as he escalates a constitutional clash with California over his migration crackdown. Much now depends on whether he’s simply talking tough or if he’s ready to take an already-tense nation across a fateful line in his zeal for strongman rule. In a mind-boggling moment, …

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Egypt Independent June 10, 2025

Exclusive interview with AUC professor Bahgat Korany discusses Middle East crisis, ‘futility’ of peace talks with Israel

As the world undergoes rapid political and economic transformations with escalating conflicts shaking the Middle East, the region has witnessed over a full year of genocide in Gaza – and no clear prospect for an end. The conflict has expanded to southern Lebanon, reverberated in Yemen and Iraq, and reached Iran. The Future of the …

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Egypt Independent June 2, 2025

Why Trump isn’t leading an emergency effort to ease the India-Pakistan crisis

CNN — The violent crisis between India and Pakistan is exactly the kind of international emergency that would once have prompted a full-on US diplomatic drive to cool tempers and head off a wider war. But this latest fighting over and beyond Kashmir, the disputed Muslim-majority region, may become a test of the Trump administration’s …

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Egypt Independent May 8, 2025

Egyptian Actor Soliman Eid dies after sudden health crisis

Abdelrahman Soliman, son of the artist Soliman Eid, has announced his father’s passing following a sudden health crisis. The deceased Soliman Eid’s son added: “The funeral prayer will be held after Friday prayers at the Grand Mosque in the Islamic Complex in Sheikh Zayed, and the burial will follow immediately after the prayer.” Abdelrahman did …

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Egypt Independent April 18, 2025

UN humanitarian agency will lay off hundreds of staff due to funding crisis

CNN — The United Nations’ emergency and disaster response agency will reduce its global workforce by 20% and scale back operations in nine countries, as it confronts a severe funding crisis and escalating global needs, it announced on Friday. In a letter to staff shared on the agency’s website, the Office for the Coordination of …

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Egypt Independent April 12, 2025

China plans to turn Trump tariff ‘crisis into opportunity’

Hong Kong CNN — As countries around the world scramble to negotiate concessions from US President Donald Trump’s escalation last week of a global trade war, China has taken a different tack. Within 48 hours of Trump’s market-hammering tariffs announcement, the world’s second-largest economy swiftly retaliated with its own punitive measures on US goods and …

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Egypt Independent April 7, 2025

Pope Francis is in stable condition but ‘risk of crisis’ remains, Vatican sources say

Rome CNN — Pope Francis is in stable condition and does not have a fever, the Vatican said on Sunday, days after he suffered from a sudden respiratory episode in hospital where he has been battling double pneumonia. While there are currently no direct impacts to Pope Francis’ health from the respiratory episode on Friday, …

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Egypt Independent March 5, 2025

Analysis: As Trump team overhauls government, a constitutional crisis looms

CNN — Vice President JD Vance, Elon Musk and others in the Trump administration are openly challenging the centuries-old power of the nation’s judiciary, foreshadowing a possible constitutional breakdown of American government. It’s not simply that the new administration has flouted a raft of federal statutes and prompted a flood of legal challenges. It’s that …

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Egypt Independent February 12, 2025

How the US foreign aid freeze is intensifying humanitarian crises across the globe

CNN — Food distribution is being stopped. Health services are being shut down. Lifesaving aid is being tied up, with no way to disburse it. These aren’t warnings of what’s to come, but examples of what aid workers say is the fallout of the Trump administration’s freeze on foreign aid and the gutting of the …

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Egypt Independent February 6, 2025

RFK Jr. says he’ll fix the overdose crisis. Critics say his plan is risky

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says faith-based, 12-step and farm- or camp-centered programs should be a major part of the U.S.

NPR NEWS January 30, 2025

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