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Pastor Ezra Jin leads a category on the fundamentals of Christian beliefs on the Zion Church in Beijing, China, in August 2018. Ng Han Guan/AP conceal caption toggle caption Ng Han Guan/AP A Christian pastor and father of U.S. residents together with dozens of church employees and members have been arrested in China amid a crackdown, his daughter and the church say. Ezra Jin, founder and pastor of Zion Church, a big “underground home church” with congregations throughout China, was arrested Friday whereas at his residence Beihai within the nation’s Guangxi area, his daughter Grace Jin Drexel informed NPR. “It…
All residing Israeli hostages are anticipated to be launched Monday beneath the ceasefire brokered by President Trump. Palestinian households in Gaza return house to sift via what’s left.
NPR’s Andrew Limbong talks to Moshe Lavi, brother-in-law of Omri Miran, who’s an Israeli hostage held in Gaza. Miran is one among twenty residing hostages anticipated to return to Israel.
Afghan refugees sit subsequent to their belongings loaded onto automobiles as they watch for opening of the border crossing level, which closed following Afghan and Pakistani safety forces exchanged cross border firing, at a camp in Chaman, Pakistan, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025. AP/AP conceal caption toggle caption AP/AP KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan stated Sunday it killed 58 Pakistani troopers in in a single day border operations, in response to what it known as repeated violations of its territory and airspace. Earlier within the week, Afghan authorities accused Pakistan of bombing the capital, Kabul, and a market within the nation’s east.…
An aerial view of a container port is seen in Qingdao in east China’s Shandong province, on June 6, 2024. AP/CHINATOPIX conceal caption toggle caption AP/CHINATOPIX BEIJING — China signaled Sunday that it will not again down within the face of a 100% tariff risk from President Donald Trump, urging the U.S. to resolve variations via negotiations as a substitute of threats. “China’s stance is constant,” the Commerce Ministry stated in a press release posted on-line. “We don’t need a tariff struggle however we’re not afraid of 1.” It was China’s first official touch upon Trump’s risk to jack up…
Egyptian Pink Crecent members monitor vehicles carrying humanitarian support as they enter the Rafah crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, following an settlement between Israel and Hamas on a ceasefire, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025. Mohammed Arafat/AP conceal caption toggle caption Mohammed Arafat/AP CAIRO — Preparations had been underway Sunday for a ramp-up of support coming into the war-battered Gaza Strip underneath a brand new ceasefire deal that many are hoping will sign an finish to the devastating 2-year-long warfare. The Israeli protection physique in command of humanitarian support in Gaza, COGAT, stated that the quantity of support coming into…
After surviving a harmful sea crossing, many migrants who attain Spain’s Canary Islands discover themselves stranded for months, unable to work and clinging to the hope that life will probably be higher as soon as they attain mainland Spain.
Opposition chief Maria Corina Machado provides a speech throughout an Anti-government protest on Jan. 9, 2025 in Caracas, Venezuela. Alfredo Lasry R/Getty Photographs disguise caption toggle caption Alfredo Lasry R/Getty Photographs Venezuela opposition chief and Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado stated in an interview with NPR’s Weekend Version Sunday that her nation is in chaos and referred to as for the removing of Venezuela’s authoritarian President Nicolás Maduro. Talking whereas nonetheless in hiding inside Venezuela’s borders, the far-right chief decried Maduro as an illegitimate strongman who had elbowed his method into a third term regardless of constant proof…
President Trump is predicted to reach in Israel on Sunday evening as each side put together for the discharge of Israeli hostages and almost 2,000 Palestinian detainees and prisoners.
Supporters of the Cameroon Folks’s Democratic Motion (CPDM) maintain the brand new marketing campaign cloth bearing the picture of Cameroon’s President and presidential candidate Paul Biya. AFP by way of Getty Pictures/AFP conceal caption toggle caption AFP by way of Getty Pictures/AFP JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — After a newspaper reported in 1897 that the nice American author Mark Twain had died, a bemused — however very a lot alive — Twain famously quipped: “the report of my demise was an exaggeration.” This century, a number of growing older African leaders have additionally needed to reject untimely experiences of their deaths,…