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UN agencies say a $428 million funding shortfall is forcing deeper cuts for Sudanese refugees in Chad, where many families already lack shelter and safe water.
China’s final ruling lowered tariffs on EU pork imports, easing pressure on Spanish exporters while keeping a broader EU-China trade dispute alive.
A U.S.-Iran ceasefire has not restored normal tanker traffic through Hormuz, leaving exporters, importers and freight markets to price risk rather than peace.
President Vladimir Putin declared a 32-hour Orthodox Easter ceasefire and Ukraine signaled it would respond in kind, though both sides have a record of accusing each other of breaking holiday truces.
Beijing cut its final anti-dumping tariffs on EU pork to 4.9%–19.8%, easing pressure on Spain and other exporters in a trade dispute that drew heavy non-English coverage and barely registered in English feeds.
Pakistan is hosting indirect U.S.-Iran talks in Islamabad after helping broker a two-week ceasefire, turning a regional power often treated as peripheral into the main channel for a fragile negotiation.
Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz remains far below normal despite the U.S.-Iran ceasefire, showing that a formal truce has not yet restored confidence in the world’s most important oil chokepoint.
UNHCR and the World Food Programme say more than a million Sudanese refugees in Chad face life-threatening cuts to food, water, shelter and health care unless a $428 million funding gap is filled.
A Pakistan-brokered ceasefire between the United States and Iran is holding on paper, but disputes over whether Lebanon is covered are straining talks before negotiators meet in Islamabad.
Israel said talks with Lebanon could begin next week in Washington even as strikes and shelling continued across the border.
Russia announced a 32-hour Orthodox Easter ceasefire in Ukraine, reviving a format that failed to hold in previous holiday pauses.
Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz stayed far below normal after the U.S.-Iran ceasefire, leaving energy and shipping markets in a partial reopening.
