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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has held talks with the US President at the White House. Talking to media after the meeting, Donald Trump said his administration will be meeting directly with Iran on Saturday. He said the talks will be “at almost the highest level”.

South Korea has the lowest birth rate in the world. While factors like the economy, government policies, and culture play a role, these challenges exist globally. So what makes South Korea so unique? Now You Know talks to Anna Kook, an AJ+ reporter who covers South Korean society and news. She explains why people in South Korea are not having enough babies.

Turmoil in markets and the financial world as shockwaves from US president Donald Trump's tariffs continue. But despite the widespread alarm, Trump is sticking to his plans. So what's happening - and what does it mean for people worldwide?

United States President Donald Trump has initiated sweeping tariffs against even some of his country’s closest allies. It has caused alarm from analysts, consumers and trading partners. But who will be the biggest loser of Trump’s trade war?

Asian markets crashed amid escalating US-China trade tensions, with Japan’s Nikkei down 7%, South Korea’s KOSPI losing 6%, and Taiwan’s index plunging 10% %—a record fall. China retaliated with 34% tariffs on US goods and rare earth export curbs, triggering a 12% drop in Hong Kong’s Hang Seng. Analysts warn that the sell-off reflects fears of a full-blown trade war, compounding regional economic uncertainty. Beijing is attempting to calm markets by pledging domestic stimulus measures to offset declining US trade. The turmoil underscores the deepening rift between the world’s two largest economies, with global growth concerns intensifying.

An Israeli air strike has hit a tent housing journalists near the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza. Two Palestinians were killed, one was a journalist who was burned alive in front of a group of helpless witnesses - the fire too fierce to approach. Antony Loewenstein is an independent journalist and author of The Palestine Laboratory - a book on Israel’s arms and surveillance industry. He says the latest Israeli strike on Khan Younis shows a blatant disregard for the lives of Palestinian journalists.

Video from a dead victim's phone shows how Israeli forces attacked an ambulance convoy in Gaza last month - killing 15 Palestinian emergency workers. It also shows that Israeli statements after the attack were false. Will anyone face justice for this latest war crime?

Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Washington is revoking all visas held by South Sudanese passport holders, accusing the African nation’s government of not accepting the repatriation of its nationals and “taking advantage of the United States”. “Every country must accept the return of its citizens in a timely manner when another country, including the United States, seeks to remove them,” Rubio said in a statement on Saturday. “South Sudan’s transitional government has failed to fully respect this principle.” Rubio added the US would also “prevent further issuance to prevent entry into the United States by South Sudanese passport holders”. Leon Fresco is an immigration lawyer and partner with the Holland and Knight law firm. He is also a former deputy assistant attorney general in charge of immigration at the United States Department of Justice. He joins us from Washington, DC, to discuss the latest updates.

Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has made history as Namibia’s first female president. But after decades as a senior figure in SWAPO, the ruling party since independence, questions remain over whether her leadership signals genuine reform or a last-ditch attempt to revive a party widely seen as in decline. In this Talk to Al Jazeera interview, she speaks about inequality, land ownership, youth unemployment, and gender representation, as well as her role in a movement that fought white minority rule, and now faces mounting public mistrust.

While Israel says the creation of the Morag Corridor, which cuts off the southern city of Rafah from the rest of Gaza, is purely operational and meant to constrain Hamas, it’s actually part of a longer-term Israeli strategy to control Gaza from afar, says Robert Geist Pinfold, a lecturer in international security at King’s College London. “On the one hand, it’s classic medieval siege warfare in 2025. On the other hand, I think there’s a more worrying long-term strategic logic to this. Israel has always sought to control the Gaza Strip, particularly to oversee what comes in and what comes out and ‘security’ over the territories, as Israel would call it,” he told Al Jazeera. “But they also don’t want to rule over Palestinians or be in the heart of those urban Palestinian areas – not out of the goodness of their hearts but because they see this would be a political and security headache,” he added. “These [Morag, Netzarim and Philadelphi] corridors are named after settlements, and the settlements did not appear there randomly. They were put there for this specific purpose: to cut off Gaza’s urban areas and give Israel the ability to squeeze the territory when and if it desires.”