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🦛 🦛Herds of endangered hippos are stuck in drying ponds in Botswana's northwest as the El Nino-induced drought takes its toll on wildlife.

In Botswana, home to one of the world’s largest hippopotamus populations, around 500 hippos are stranded as blistering heat dries up water sources, Moemedi Batshabang, director of the Department of Wildlife and National Parks, told VOA.

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The Pentagon says a floating pier that will be used for bringing more aid into Gaza will cost about $320 million.

Pentagon deputy press secretary Sabrina Singh told reporters Monday the cost includes the transportation and construction of the equipment and pier sections from the United States to the coast of Gaza. It also includes the cost of aid delivery operations.

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The White House said Monday U.S. President Joe Biden pledged to work with Egypt and Qatar to ensure the implementation of a proposed cease-fire between Israel and Hamas.

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Columbia University on Monday began suspending pro-Palestinian activists who refused to dismantle a tent encampment on its New York City campus after the Ivy League school declared a stalemate in talks seeking to end the polarizing protest.

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A banker who played a role in the $130,000 hush money payment to a porn star who claimed to have had a one-night tryst with Donald Trump returns to the witness stand when the former president’s New York criminal trial resumes Tuesday.

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Russian drones early Sunday struck the Black Sea city of Mykolaiv, setting a hotel ablaze and damaging energy infrastructure, the local Ukrainian governor reported, while ammunition shortages continued to hobble Kyiv's troops in the more than 2-year-old war.

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📷: From left: Saturday Night Live cast member and host Colin Jost, President Joe Biden, and White House Correspondents’ Association vice president and NBC reporter Kelly O'Donnell stand during the playing of the national anthem at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner at the Washington Hilton, April 27, 2024.

📷: AP

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Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in Tel Aviv Saturday, protesting the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

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▶️ U.S. President Joe Biden tweeted Saturday that he "won't rest" until hostages held by Hamas are returned to their families.

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As student protests against Israel's war on Hamas in Gaza continue at more than three dozen American universities, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the demonstrations were "a hallmark" of American democracy. At the same time, he criticized the students for their “silence" on Hamas.

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The Asian Development Bank holds its annual meeting in Tbilisi, Georgia, next week, with discussions on climate change and the world’s aging population high on the agenda.

The four-day summit, starting Thursday, marks the first time that the ADB’s 68 members have gathered for a meeting in Georgia, which joined the multilateral development bank in 2007.

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Pakistan extends registered Afghan refugees' stay

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U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Friday will announce a massive military aid package for Ukraine valued up to $6 billion, a U.S. official tells VOA.

The aid is being given as a Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, or USAI, package that will focus on future military needs, the official noted.

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What began last week at Columbia University, where students refused to end their protests against Israel’s war in Gaza despite pushback from the New York school and arrests by police, has spread across the country. Students at various college campuses are staging similar demonstrations that are also being met with police response.

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Former tabloid publisher David Pecker is back on the witness stand Thursday at Donald Trump's New York criminal trial. He is to answer more questions about how he bought the story of a Playboy model who claimed to have had a monthslong relationship with the future president and then killed it to protect Trump politically.

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Eyewitness footage from Austin on Wednesday showed troopers in riot gear entering the campus of the University of Texas and dispersing pro-Palestine protesters and other rival demonstrators, according to media reports.

Columbia University in New York held virtual classes Monday on the sixth continuous day of student protests over the Israel-Hamas conflict.

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President Joe Biden signed into law the $95 billion war aid measure that includes assistance for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. VOA’s Misha Komadovsky has more.

He said the new assistance, aimed at helping Ukraine fight Russia’s two-year invasion and Israel to fight Hamas militants and fend off airstrikes from Iran, is “going to make America safer. It's going to make the world safer. And it continues America's leadership in the world.”

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The United States is planning to send a military aid package valued at up to $1 billion immediately after a supplemental funding bill under discussion in the Senate is passed and signed into law, two defense officials tell VOA.

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Former tabloid publisher David Pecker told a jury at Donald Trump’s criminal trial in New York on Tuesday that the future U.S. president summoned him to an August 2015 meeting to see how Pecker could “help the campaign.” That consequential discussion, Pecker said, led him to kill sex-related stories that would have hurt Trump’s 2016 run for the White House.

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The U.S. Senate voted Tuesday to advance a bill providing $95 billion in aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. The test vote comes after the U.S. House of Representatives passed the legislation over the weekend after months of delays as lawmakers disagreed over U.S. involvement abroad.

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Germany is the top-rated country for global leadership, according to a new Gallup poll released today based on surveys in 133 countries.

Germany's approval rating stood at 46% in 2023, while the U.S. followed closely behind with 41%.

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Five migrants, including a child, have died while attempting to cross the English Channel from France to the United Kingdom, according to French authorities on Tuesday.

The deaths occurred hours after the British parliament approved a migrant bill that calls for deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda as a way to discourage them from making such journeys across the Channel.

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Ukraine’s military reported Tuesday destroying 15 of 16 Russian drones from the latest wave of aerial attacks, hours ahead of a U.S. Senate vote on a security package that includes $61 billion in new aid for Ukraine.

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Footage taken last week shows a car getting swept away by rushing floodwaters in China's Guangdong province as authorities carried out rescue operations in the flood-hit province Monday.

State media in China say heavy rainfall in the southern part of the country has forced tens of thousands of people to evacuate, destroying homes and causing multiple fatalities.

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The White House promises swift delivery of the approved $61 billion in aid to Ukraine as Russia’s recent gains on the battlefield threaten Ukraine’s defenses.

President Joe Biden spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy Monday, underscoring the United States’ “lasting commitment to supporting Ukraine as it defends its freedom against Russian aggression,” the White House said.

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