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World Monthly Headline News March 2025 Page 2
Seher Asaf

At least 85 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air strikes in Gaza since midnight, the territory's Hamas-run health ministry has said.

Hours later, Israel's military said it had intercepted three rockets, which Hamas's armed wing said it fired at Tel Aviv in response.

It comes after Israel resumed its bombing campaign and ground operations in Gaza this week, with air strikes having already killed more than 500 people over the past two days, according to the health ministry.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on Thursday that it had started a ground operation in northern Gaza. There had been a reprieve from large-scale military action since January, when a ceasefire had begun.
By Reuters

EU leaders say that they deplore the breakdown of the ceasefire in Gaza and Hamas’ refusal to hand over remaining hostages.

“The European Council deplores the breakdown of the ceasefire in Gaza, which has caused a large number of civilian casualties in recent air strikes. It deplores the refusal of Hamas to hand over the remaining hostages,” it says in a statement.

Israel denies targeting civilians and says it has killed several top Hamas leaders.

Boycotts over President Trump’s trade war have caused drops in border traffic linked to tourism as Canadian travelers shift their vacation plans to Mexico and elsewhere amid the ongoing trade war with the U.S.
Story by Дем'ян Шевко

This is the first part of our in-depth conversation with Igor Lipsits. In the upcoming installments, we will explore the impact of Western sanctions, the consequences of Ukrainian drone strikes on Russia’s economy, and whether the Russian population is nearing its breaking point under mounting financial pressure. Stay tuned for more.

"I was a patriotic economist, but the system had no interest in helping people"

Demian Shevko: Igor, you are one of Russia’s leading economists, a professor, and an author. Yet today, you are living in exile, unable to return to Russia. How did this happen?

Igor Lipsits: Initially, I was a patriotic economist. I sincerely wanted to help develop my country’s economy. In the Soviet era, I worked in the government’s economic administration—first in the Council of Ministers' economic committee, then at the State Bank of the USSR. My focus was always on how to improve life for ordinary people.

But over time, I realized that no one in power cared about improving people's lives. The only thing that mattered was maintaining the privileges of the ruling elite. My proposals were ignored. Eventually, my statements became more critical.

By 2023, I was given an ultimatum: either change what I say and where I say it or leave my position. So, I resigned. And as soon as I stopped working at a state university, I knew what was coming—I was officially labeled a "foreign agent" in March 2024.
Story by Bloomberg News

China’s imports of US cotton, cars and some energy products all plunged in the first two months of the year after President Donald Trump started imposing tariffs and Beijing retaliated.

In a prelude to what could be widespread disruption to global trade, Chinese purchases of cotton fell almost 80% from a year earlier, according to Bloomberg analysis of data released Thursday. Imports of large-engined cars were down nearly 70%, while purchases of crude oil and liquefied natural gas dropped more than 40%.

All these goods were subject to Chinese retaliatory tariffs either in February or March.

The tit-for-tat trade war measures that the US and China have imposed on each other over the past six weeks — and the probability of more to come in the months ahead — are creating huge uncertainty and raising costs for businesses across the region.

Firms are already reacting, with Chinese companies cutting the export of small parcels in February. Meanwhile, Walmart Inc. and others in the US are asking for price cuts to compensate for the levies.
Story by Chris Chilton

Tesla was accused by the Canadian Automobile Dealers Association (CADA) of cheating legitimate car dealers and buyers in Canada out of iZEV subsidies earlier this month. Critics have now grown even more suspicious after footage emerged of hundreds of new Tesla EVs left in disused parking lots.

Canadian media discovered huge fleets of brand new Model 3s and Model Ys languishing in the lot of an old strip mall in Toronto, conveniently located across the street from a Tesla dealership. Hundreds of miles away in Laval, Quebec, reporters founds scores more Teslas jammed into parking bays in another lot.

A staggering 8,600 cars were registered in just three days at four Tesla retail outlets in Canada, which breaks down as one car every minute, 24 hours a day for three straight days, even when the stores were closed. That kind of activity is highly unusual, but what really raised eyebrows was the timing of the sales flurry.

The sales came during a period when demand for Teslas in Canada had tanked, in part due to CEO Elon Musk’s association with President Trump, who has threatened to impose significant import tariffs and repeatedly suggested that Canada could become the USA’s 51st state. But the sales also occurred right before the country paused its iZEV electric vehicle subsidy program, leading some to suggests Tesla had gamed the system.
Story by James Saunders

China has revealed a breakthrough deep-sea cable cutting device which could sever underwater communications lines across the world.

The tool is said to be able to operate as deep as four kilometres below the waves - twice as far down as the maximum depth at which telecoms cables can run.

The device has been designed specifically to integrate with China's high-tech crewed and uncrewed submersible vehicles, according to the South China Morning post - but its unveiling marks an uneasy breakthrough in the eyes of the West.

The news marks the first time that any country has officially confirmed its ability to snip underwater cables - 870,000 miles of which exist around the world - and follows a series of China-linked sabotages in European waters.
Hugo Bachega BBC Middle East correspondent Reporting from Beirut
Jaroslav Lukiv BBC News

Israel has carried out multiple air strikes on Lebanon after several rockets were fired from Lebanon into Israel, in the worst violence since a ceasefire came into effect in November.

The Israeli military said it had hit dozens of rocket launchers and a command centre belonging to Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed militia and political group, in southern Lebanon.

Lebanon's health ministry said seven people, including a child, were killed and 40 injured in the air strikes.

Several armed groups operate in Lebanon, including Hezbollah and Palestinian factions, and no-one has claimed responsibility for the attack.
Story by Nidal al-Mughrabi

CAIRO, March 23 (Reuters) - An Israeli airstrike in southern Gaza killed a Hamas political leader, Salah al-Bardaweel, on Sunday, the militant group said, as Palestinian officials put the death toll from nearly 18 months of conflict at over 50,000.

After two months of relative calm in the war, Gazans have again been fleeing for their lives after Israel effectively abandoned a ceasefire, launching a new all-out air and ground campaign on Tuesday against Hamas.

Explosions echoed throughout the north, central and southern Gaza Strip early on Sunday, as Israeli planes hit several targets in those areas in what witnesses said was an escalation of the attacks that began earlier in the week.
Story by Matthew Atungwu

Hundreds of Canadian workers, many in the steel and aluminum sectors, have been laid off as a result of US President Donald Trump’s tariffs.

Economists warned this was only the beginning as the impact of tariffs is expected to broaden the longer they are in place.

Uncertainty surrounding Trump’s policies is said to have cast a chill over Canada’s economy and labour market.

Recall that Trump imposed tariffs on steel and aluminum on March 12; more tariffs could be coming on April 2.
Aid agencies warn of ‘extremely difficult’ response amid Myanmar’s continuing civil war with true scale of disaster yet to emerge
Rebecca Ratcliffe in Bangkok, Esther J and agencies

The death toll from a huge earthquake that hit Myanmar has passed 1,600, as rescuers continue a desperate search for survivors and aid agencies warn of an “extremely difficult” response amid the country’s continuing conflict.

The shallow 7.7-magnitude quake struck central Myanmar on Friday afternoon, and was followed minutes later by a 6.7-magnitude aftershock. Witness reports and social media footage suggest extensive damage in Mandalay, Myanmar’s second biggest city, where buildings, religious sites and main roads were either destroyed or damaged.

Myanmar’s military junta said 1,644 people had been killed and 3,408 injured, while a further 139 others were missing. Six deaths have also been confirmed in Bangkok, the Thai capital, where a high-rise building under construction collapsed, trapping dozens of workers. A further 26 are injured and 47 still missing.

The update came after rescuers pulled a woman alive from the wreckage of a collapsed apartment building in Mandalay, 30 hours after a devastating quake hit Myanmar.
Story by Gerald Imray

A decades-old anti-apartheid anthem, recently denounced by Elon Musk for allegedly inciting violence against white South Africans, returned to the spotlight Thursday following a ruling by the country's highest court.

The controversial song, featuring the lyrics "kill the Boer" and "shoot the Boer"—Boer being a term for a white farmer—has long been a source of contention in South Africa. Its use has primarily been confined to political rallies of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), a small, far-left opposition party.

The song’s resurgence in the headlines follows a rally last Friday where EFF leaders sang the anthem, prompting Musk, who previously said free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, to take to X (formerly Twitter). He accused the EFF of "actively promoting white genocide," echoing previous criticisms of the song.

The EFF maintains that the song is a tribute to the struggle against apartheid and should not be interpreted literally.

There have been several court cases over whether the song constitutes hate speech and is an incitement to violence against whites in post-apartheid South Africa. It was declared hate speech by a court more than a decade ago, but that ruling was overturned in 2022, when a judge said there was no proof it incited violence.
Story by Rossana Pineyro

For the first time in more than 80 years, the U.S. has denied Mexico's request for water from the Colorado River, escalating tensions over a water-sharing agreement between the two nations.

The State Department says it denied the request because Mexico hasn't complied with the 1944 treaty that established the water-sharing system. That agreement requires Mexico to send 1.75 million acre-feet of water from the Rio Grande to the U.S. every five years. In turn, the U.S. must send 1.5 million acre-feet of water to Mexico from the Colorado River each year.
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