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The weather service paused the translations this month because its contract with the provider had lapsed. Experts said the change could put non-English speakers at risk of missing potentially life-saving warnings about extreme weather.

The weather service said Thursday the contract has been reinstated, and the translations will resume by the end of the day Monday.

Lilt, an artificial intelligence company, began providing translations in late 2023. That replaced manual translations that the weather service had said were labor-intensive and not sustainable. It eventually provided them in Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, French and Samoan.

As President Donald J. Trump sought to make good on his campaign pledge of mass arrests and removals of migrants, Krome, the United States’ oldest immigration detention facility and one with a long history of abuse, saw its prisoner population recently swell to nearly three times its capacity of 600.

“There are 1700 people here at Krome!!!!,” one U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement employee texted a co-worker last month, adding that even though it felt unsafe to walk around the facility nobody was willing to speak out.

At Krome, reports have poured in about a lack of water and food, unsanitary confinement and medical neglect. With the surge of complaints, the Trump administration shut down three Department of Homeland Security oversight offices charged with investigating such claims.

He then called the DOGE work necessary but said that "working for the government to get the financial house in order is mostly done."

"I think starting probably next month in May, my time allocation to those will drop significantly," he said.

He added that he expected to keep working for the government one or two days a week for the remainder of President Donald Trump's presidency to "make sure that the waste and fraud that we stopped does not come roaring back." DOGE has not yet proved the fraud it alleges.

By JULIA FRANKEL, PHIL HOLM and JOSEF FEDERMAN
Published 1:02 AM EDT, April 25, 2025

"#Israel is staging a massive offensive across four major refugee camps in the north of the #WestBank. The raids, at their height, pushed 40,000 people from their homes. Many are now sheltering with relatives in neighboring villages, others racking up debt renting apartments while they wait to return.

#Israeli officials, meanwhile, have said those displaced will not be allowed to go back for at least a year."

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Hi Linux people, my gaming PC is on a full red config (R7 5700X + RX6600) and i'm planning to start to fully using linux on it soon. But i'm using amd tools like FSR (upscaling and frame generation) and freesync, and i'd like to know how they are supported now, and how to use them.

I did some researches but articles and posts i found were often outdated or not really clear so if you can enlighten me that would be really cool :)

Btw i'm planning to use Bazzite, idk if it has something to do but if you know other distros that support amd stuff better i'd be glad to know.

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Phoenix TV: We’ve been hearing the U.S. say that China and the U.S. are having talks and even about to reach a deal. Can you confirm whether the two sides are in talks?

Guo Jiakun: None of that is true. For all I know, China and the U.S. are not having any consultation or negotiation on tariffs, still less reaching a deal.

This tariff war is launched by the U.S. China’s position is consistent and clear: We will fight, if fight we must. Our doors are open, if the U.S. wants to talk. Dialogue and negotiation must be based on equality, respect and mutual benefit.

NHK: I also have a question about tariffs. The Wall Street Journal reported that the Trump administration may reduce tariffs on Chinese imports in some cases by more than half. Additionally, President Trump said it depends on China how soon the tariffs can come down. What is your reaction to this news and statement?

Guo Jiakun: I just made clear China’s position. Let me stress again that this tariff war is launched by the U.S., and China’s attitude is consistent and clear. If a negotiated solution is truly what the U.S. wants, it should stop exerting extreme pressure, stop threatening and blackmailing China, and seek dialogue based on equality, respect and mutual benefit.

AFP: U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Wednesday that Beijing’s export reliant economic model is unsustainable and harms both China and the rest of the world. What is the Foreign Ministry’s comment on this?

Guo Jiakun: The truth, which is clear to all, is that the U.S. tariffs are seriously undermining the WTO rules and harming the common interests of all countries.

In 25 years, investment in the fight against malaria has prevented two billion infections and 13 million deaths, most of them in Africa, which carries nearly all of the burden of the disease. But as cases rise for a fifth year in a row and US funding is cut, experts warn that progress is slowing. Reaching the UN goal of ending malaria by 2030 now looks increasingly uncertain.

Despite major gains, the World Health Organization (WHO) said efforts to stop malaria remain too slow. The disease killed 597,000 people in 2023.

A WHO report released in December showed 263 million cases in 2023, 11 million more than in 2022. It was the fifth year in a row that cases increased.

Africa is the worst-hit region, accounting for around 95 percent of malaria deaths each year.

In 2023, Africa’s malaria death rate was estimated at 52 per 100,000 people – more than twice the target set by the global strategy to end malaria by 2030.

World Malaria Day 2025 comes with the theme "Malaria ends with us: reinvest, reimagine, reignite".

The WHO is calling for "stepped up political and financial commitment to protect the hard-won gains against malaria".

Recent progress includes new tools, such as mosquito nets treated with two insecticides instead of one, a second malaria vaccine, and research into making human blood toxic to mosquitoes.

"Innovation is absolutely essential," Philippe Duneton, director of Unitaid, the organisation responsible for facilitating access to treatments for malaria told RFI.

He said one of the main challenges is "the problem of mosquito resistance to insecticides and parasite resistance to drugs".

More countries are making malaria control and elimination a national priority, as can be seen by the Yaoundé Declaration, signed in March 2024 by African Ministers of Health from 11 high burden countries.

In Cameroon, where malaria kills nearly 11,000 children in the country each year, the government received more than 950,000 doses of the vaccine in 2024.

According to the country's Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI), the administration of initial doses has been a success with 70 percent coverage.

RFI’s correspondent in Yaoundé said doubts about the vaccine have started to fade, but fewer than 50 percent have had the third dose.

Despite this, the vaccination rate for subsequent doses is less convincing, with less than 50 percent for the third dose.

According to Shalom Ndoula Tchokfe, secretary of the EPI, the implementation of a new vaccination schedule could explain this.

"These are unusual appointments for mothers. Because the child has to be brought in at six months, seven months, and nine months," he told RFI.

Data from Cameroon’s Health Ministry shows a sharp drop in child deaths from malaria in the 42 health districts where the vaccine has been used.

But Ndoula Tchokfe said it is too soon to credit the vaccine alone.

"We cannot say that it is attributable to vaccination only because there have also been several malaria control efforts that have been strengthened, including season chemical prevention and other strategies put in place by the authorities," he says.

Cameroon will receive new doses of vaccine next September.

On Friday, Mali will join 19 other African countries in introducing vaccines through the GAVI vaccine alliance.

Malaria vaccines have been rolled out on the African continent since April 2019 – first in Malawi, with Kenya and Ghana following suit.

However, humanitarian groups are worried about the impact of US President Donald Trump's move to freeze America's foreign aid budget, while other donors, notably in Europe, have also made cuts to their financing.

Although Washington announced some exemptions for the fight against malaria, it doesn't reassure those on the ground.

According to the Malaria Atlas Project consortium of researchers, a year of a complete freeze in US funding would result in 15 million more malaria cases and 107,000 more deaths.

On the African continent, malaria kills approximately 500,000 people each year.

Many of the countries most affected by the disease are about to enter the rainy season.

Duneton says funding cuts have already caused some "delays and shortages in the delivieries of mosquito nets in Sahel countries".

"Some want to regulate every form of energy besides the so-called renewables, completely out of existence... We oppose these harmful and dangerous policies. This is not energy security,” Tommy Joyce, US Acting Assistant Secretary of Energy for International Affairs, told the conference.

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