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Wed, 26 Nov 2025 16:52:13 GMT |
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Officers say they are closing borders and suspending poll as president and main rival both claim victory Soldiers in Guinea-Bissau have announced they are taking “total control” of the west African country, three days after elections that both the two main presidential contenders claim to have won. Military officers said they were suspending Guinea-Bissau’s electoral process and closing its borders, in a statement read out at the army’s headquarters in the capital Bissau and broadcast on state TV. They said they had formed “the high military command for the restoration of order”, which would rule the country until further notice. Continue reading...
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Tue, 25 Nov 2025 20:35:51 GMT |
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The president of Nigeria, Bola Tinubu, said all 24 of the girls kidnapped last week had been rescued All 24 schoolgirls held by assailants after a mass abduction last week from a school in north-western Nigeria have been rescued, the country’s president announced on Tuesday. A total of 25 girls were abducted on 17 November from the Government Girls Comprehensive secondary school in Kebbi state’s Maga town, but one of them was able to escape the same day, the school’s principal said. The remaining 24 were all saved, according to a statement from the Nigerian president, Bola Tinubu, though no details were released about the rescue. Continue reading...
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Tue, 25 Nov 2025 15:13:59 GMT |
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South African police investigate allegations made against Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla by another of ex-president’s daughters South African police are investigating allegations that a daughter of the former president Jacob Zuma tricked men into fighting for Russia in Ukraine by telling them they were travelling to Russia for a paramilitary training course. Another of Zuma’s daughters, Nkosazana Zuma-Mncube, filed a police report on Saturday alleging that her sister Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla and two others, Siphokazi Xuma and Blessing Khoza, had recruited 17 men who are now trapped on the frontlines of the war in Ukraine. Continue reading...
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Mon, 24 Nov 2025 15:46:29 GMT |
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Ike Ekweremadu serving prison sentence after being found guilty of conspiring to exploit a man for his kidney The UK government has rejected a request by Nigeria to deport a former senior Nigerian politician convicted of organ trafficking. Ike Ekweremadu, 63, a former deputy president of the Nigerian senate and ally of the former president Goodluck Jonathan, is serving a sentence of nine years and eight months after being found guilty in 2023 of conspiring to exploit a man for his kidney. Continue reading...
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Mon, 24 Nov 2025 13:05:28 GMT |
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Ash clouds from Hayli Gubbi volcano sent drifting across the Red Sea toward Yemen and Oman A volcano in Ethiopia’s north-eastern region has erupted for the first time in nearly 12,000 years, sending thick plumes of smoke up to 9 miles (14km) into the sky, and across the Red Sea toward Yemen and Oman. The Hayli Gubbi volcano, located in Ethiopia’s Afar region about 500 miles north-east of Addis Ababa near the Eritrean border, erupted on Sunday for several hours. Continue reading...
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Wed, 26 Nov 2025 19:21:20 GMT |
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Homeland security secretary Kristi Noem says allowing Haitians to remain is ‘contrary to US national interest’ The Trump administration has once again moved to halt humanitarian protections for Haitians living in the US, this time announcing that their temporary protected status (TPS) will expire on 3 February. According to a new Department of Homeland Security notice issued on Wednesday, TPS for approximately 340,000 Haitian migrants will be terminated next year. Continue reading...
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Wed, 26 Nov 2025 16:15:31 GMT |
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Justice department maintains that Trump administration didn’t violate judge’s order to return flights to US The Department of Justice said in a statement that Kristi Noem, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, was the one who made the decision to continue with the deportation flights of Venezuelan immigrants to El Salvador in March, despite a federal judge’s directive that the flights must be returned to the United States. In a court filing on Tuesday, the justice department said that “Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove provided DHS with legal advice regarding the court’s order as to flights that had left the United States before the order issued, through DHS Acting General Counsel Joseph Mazzara” and that “after receiving that legal advice, Secretary Noem directed that the AEA detainees who had been removed from the United States before the Court’s order could be transferred to the custody of El Salvador”. Continue reading...
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Wed, 26 Nov 2025 14:44:42 GMT |
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Venezuela president vows to defend ‘every inch’ of the country amid military buildup in Caribbean Donald Trump has warned Nicolás Maduro he can “do things the easy way … or the hard way” as Venezuela’s authoritarian leader responded to the growing US pressure campaign by urging followers to prepare to defend “every inch” of the South American country. Clad in woodland camouflage fatigues, Maduro told a rally in the capital, Caracas, it was their historic duty to fight foreign aggressors, just as the Venezuelan liberation hero Simón Bolívar did two centuries ago. Continue reading...
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Tue, 25 Nov 2025 23:45:33 GMT |
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Exclusive: Officials frame strikes as self-defense against violence, without naming aggressor, while Trump claims they are to stop US overdose deaths The Trump administration is framing its boat strikes against drug cartels in the Caribbean in part as a collective self-defense effort on behalf of US allies in the region, according to three people directly familiar with the administration’s internal legal argument. The legal analysis rests on a premise – for which there is no immediate public evidence – that the cartels are waging armed violence against the security forces of allies such as Mexico, and that the violence is financed by cocaine shipments. Continue reading...
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Tue, 25 Nov 2025 19:08:24 GMT |
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Ex-president to start serving term in 12 sq metre bedroom in police base in Brasília after time for appeals elapses Brazil’s former president, Jair Bolsonaro, has been ordered to start serving his 27-year sentence in a 12 sq metre bedroom in a police base in the capital, Brasília, after his conviction for plotting a coup. The far-right populist, 70, who governed Latin America’s largest democracy from 2019 until 2022, was handed the punishment in September after the supreme court found him guilty of leading a criminal conspiracy to stop his leftwing rival, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, taking power. Continue reading...
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Thu, 27 Nov 2025 02:28:08 GMT |
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Three men arrested as 26 rescue teams on site at Wang Fuk Court residential apartment complex in Tai Po district. Follow the latest updates live The death toll has risen again to 44, fire officials say. Officials said they are still having difficulties proceeding into the upper floors in some of the buildings in the residential complex as the fire continues. Continue reading...
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Wed, 26 Nov 2025 22:28:03 GMT |
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Three arrests made after huge blaze broke out at Wang Fuk Court residential complex in Tai Po district on Wednesday The death toll from a huge fire that engulfed several residential tower blocks in Hong Kong has risen to 44, with 45 in critical condition and hundreds reported missing. A taskforce has been set up to investigate the cause of the fire, which broke out on Wednesday afternoon at the Wang Fuk Court residential complex in Tai Po, in the northern New Territories. The complex is made up of eight 31-storey towers containing about 2,000 flats, which house about 4,800 people. Continue reading...
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Wed, 26 Nov 2025 19:12:03 GMT |
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Hong Kong is one of the last places in the world where bamboo is widely used by construction workers A deadly fire in an apartment complex in Hong Kong appears to have spread in part because the buildings were sheathed in bamboo scaffolding, a traditional building material that the authorities have been phasing out for safety reasons. Dozens of people died on Wednesday in Hong Kong’s deadliest fire in decades. The blaze tore through the Wang Fuk Court residential complex in Tai Po, in the northern New Territories. The complex is made up of eight 31-storey towers containing about 2,000 flats that house about 4,800 people. Continue reading...
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Wed, 26 Nov 2025 06:30:44 GMT |
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President Lai Ching-te declared there was ‘no room for compromise on national security’ in face of escalating harassment and espionage Beijing’s threats to Taiwan are “intensifying” and its preparations to invade are speeding up, Taiwan’s government has said while announcing a $40bn special defence budget and a swathe of measures to counter Chinese attacks. The Taiwan president, Lai Ching-te, said there was “no room for compromise on national security”, and he was committed to boosting Taiwan’s defences in conjunction with US support. Continue reading...
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Tue, 25 Nov 2025 23:30:11 GMT |
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Senator uses parliament to accuse Albanese government of knowing David Adeang was ‘seriously corrupt’ yet still signing $2.5bn deportation deal Nauru’s President David Adeang, a predecessor and other individuals have been accused in the Senate of corruptly siphoning off millions of dollars of Australian taxpayer money intended for the island’s arcane offshore processing regime. A previously unreleased report by Australia’s financial intelligence agency, Austrac, suspected Adeang of “corruption and money laundering” after detecting a “rapid movement of large volume and value of funds”, the Senate has been told. Continue reading...
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Thu, 27 Nov 2025 02:48:58 GMT |
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Follow today’s news live ‘We are very close’ on environment bill, Hanson-Young says Hanson-Young says she’s feeling more positive about a deal on the environment bill than she was at the start of the week. I don’t expect that we will get everything we want. We’re just trying one last time [on the basis] that I wanted more protections for our forests, and protections for climate, of course. If we can get movement on those issues, I’ve always said that I’m up for helping the government improve these laws. We’re not there yet. But I’m feeling more positive than I was at the beginning of the week. There’s no requirements on them to create a space that doesn’t have harmful content … That doesn’t target them with advertising. For those kids who just decide – oh, well we might not be on Instagram or Snapchat, but go over to somewhere else that hasn’t been designated – it’s those darker corners of the internet that I’m worried about. Continue reading...
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Thu, 27 Nov 2025 02:12:30 GMT |
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Queensland supreme court orders Pennings, a campaigner against the Carmichael coalmine, not to seek to acquire Adani’s confidential information Indian mining company Adani has agreed to end its marathon legal pursuit of environmental activist Ben Pennings. Pennings declared victory on Thursday, after the Queensland supreme court signed off on orders on Wednesday, ending the five-and-a-half-year court battle. The order requires Pennings not to seek to acquire Adani’s confidential information or to ask others to do so, but the company has dropped a demand for payment of damages which at one stage stood at $600 million. Continue reading...
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Thu, 27 Nov 2025 02:10:46 GMT |
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A Dracula-inspired bathroom in Sydney and an outside-inside home in Melbourne claim interior design and architecture prizes Point Piper in Sydney’s eastern suburbs is home to one of the best bathrooms in the world, according to the annual Dezeen awards, a global design accolade. Its dark, moody and luxurious interiors were partly inspired by Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Continue reading...
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Thu, 27 Nov 2025 02:06:26 GMT |
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Former leader Michael McCormack says he spent an hour with Joyce on Wednesday and gave him his pitch to remain in the fold Barnaby Joyce should “reflect on what the National party gave him”, colleague Michael McCormack says, as speculation increases that the maverick New England MP will quit the party on Thursday afternoon to switch to One Nation. Sources in the Nationals and One Nation expect an announcement from Joyce, the former deputy prime minister, after weeks of speculation he was planning to make the move. It has been speculated Joyce could make his announcement before question time in parliament, during a section for short constituency statements. Continue reading...
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Thu, 27 Nov 2025 01:46:42 GMT |
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Regulator announces 20% cap on share of new lending banks can do on mortgages worth more than six times borrower’s income A crackdown on risky lending will limit banks’ capacity to extend large mortgages, as the financial regulator launches a pre-emptive strike against the growing excesses of an overheated property market. The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority announced a 20% cap on the share of new lending that banks can do at a debt-to-income ratio above six – a mortgage worth more than six times the borrower’s income. While Jim Chalmers said the move would “help with financial resilience and housing affordability”, the Greens immediately criticised it as insufficient. Continue reading...
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Wed, 26 Nov 2025 16:56:05 GMT |
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EU’s foreign policy chief says ‘there’s one aggressor and one victim’ in conflict amid US push to end the war In case you missed it, US president Donald Trump defended his peace envoy Steve Witkoff overnight after Bloomberg reported that he allegedly advised Putin’s aide Ushakov on how to speak with Trump and conduct the talks. Trump did not appear too bothered by it, though. Continue reading...
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Wed, 26 Nov 2025 16:34:19 GMT |
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Commission president says undermining of sovereign European nation would ‘open the doors for more wars’ The European Commission president has warned against “the unilateral carving up of a sovereign European nation” as Europe scrambles to assert influence over the US’s attempt to end the war in Ukraine. Speaking to European lawmakers in Strasbourg on Wednesday, Ursula von der Leyen said Russia showed “no signs of true willingness to end the conflict” and continued to operate in a mindset unchanged since the days of Yalta – the much-criticised and misunderstood 1945 summit to settle the postwar order. Continue reading...
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Wed, 26 Nov 2025 16:28:31 GMT |
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MEPs pass resolution to help parents tackle growing dangers of addictive internet platforms Children under 16 should be banned from using social media unless their parents decide otherwise, the European parliament says. MEPs passed a resolution on age restrictions on Wednesday by a large majority. Although not legally binding, it raises pressure for European legislation amid growing alarm about the mental health risks to children of unfettered internet access. Continue reading...
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Wed, 26 Nov 2025 15:55:56 GMT |
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European nations are rushing to bolster their defences amid Russia threat and uncertainty of US support France will this week become the latest EU country to set out plans to expand its army, with Emmanuel Macron expected to announce on Thursday that military service will be restored – albeit on a voluntary basis – nearly 30 years after the end of conscription. In the face of Russia’s military threat and uncertainty over the US’s commitment to defending its transatlantic allies, Europe is rushing to bolster its defence industry and its deployment capability after radically cutting them back since the cold war. Continue reading...
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Wed, 26 Nov 2025 15:22:06 GMT |
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Seizing Moscow’s money to bail out Kyiv may be all that stands between a fair outcome and a ‘deal’ that brings war in the rest of Europe a step closer With Ukraine’s future back on the geopolitical carving block, Europe is facing its own moment of truth. Is it ready to defend Kyiv against the imposition of a lopsided “peace” that rewards Vladimir Putin and undermines the entire continent’s security? Not for the first time, European governments were left in the dark about secret US-backed proposals to end Russia’s war. Leaked to the media last week, the latest incendiary 28-point plan was so slanted in Russia’s favour that there are suspicions it was partly drafted in the Kremlin (complete with clunkily translated Russian syntax). Continue reading...
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Wed, 26 Nov 2025 11:45:47 GMT |
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Israeli military and security service say ‘broad counter-terrorism operation’ in Tubas to continue for several days Hundreds of Israeli soldiers supported by armoured vehicles have conducted raids in the Palestinian town of Tubas near Nablus in the biggest such military deployment by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank since the ceasefire came into effect in Gaza last month. Palestinian media reported that a curfew was imposed on Tuesday night on Tubas and some neighbouring communities, roads were closed by earthen barriers and families forced from their homes to allow Israeli forces to use the buildings. Continue reading...
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Wed, 26 Nov 2025 10:43:31 GMT |
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Gulf nation is accused of placing monitoring software on computers of two dissidents living in London Bahrain is to tell the UK’s supreme court that it enjoys sovereign immunity from claims it placed surveillance software on the computers of two dissidents when they were living in London. The Gulf country has lost the sovereign immunity claim both in the high court and court of appeal, and a decision to take the case further to the supreme court shows how important it is to the country’s reputation. Continue reading...
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Tue, 25 Nov 2025 15:04:04 GMT |
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Report says Israel’s operations ‘significantly undermined every pillar of survival’ and reduced the economy by 87% Israel’s war in Gaza has created a “human-made abyss”, and reconstruction is likely to cost more than $70bn (£53bn) over several decades, the United Nations has said. The UN’s trade and development agency (Unctad) said in a report that Israel’s military operations had “significantly undermined every pillar of survival” and that the entire population of 2.3 million people faced “extreme, multidimensional impoverishment”. Continue reading...
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Mon, 24 Nov 2025 18:10:52 GMT |
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Four main food distribution sites operated by the opaque company had been flashpoints of deadly violence A controversial and secretive private company backed by the US and Israel that distributed food in Gaza has announced the end of its operations in the devastated territory. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which had four food distribution sites that became flashpoints of chaos and deadly violence between May and October, said in a statement that it would shut down permanently, having “successfully completed its emergency mission”. Continue reading...
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Mon, 24 Nov 2025 10:08:04 GMT |
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Embassy’s employment of Gila Ben-Yakov Phillips is potentially violation of UK sanctions law, say experts The British embassy in Tel Aviv may have broken both UK sanctions law and UK government security policies by employing an Israeli citizen who owns a home in an illegal settlement in occupied Palestine, legal experts have said. The embassy’s deputy head of corporate services and HR, Gila Ben-Yakov Phillips, moved to Kerem Reim in 2022. She listed a house she bought there as her home address on financial documents at the time. Continue reading...
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Wed, 26 Nov 2025 12:11:22 GMT |
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Human rights monitors say it is not safe to return, citing reports of ‘serious crimes in the run-up to elections’ Myanmar’s junta applauded the Trump administration on Wednesday for halting a scheme that protected its citizens from deportation from the US back to their war-racked homeland. About 4,000 Myanmar citizens are living in the US with temporary protected status (TPS), which shields foreign nationals from deportation to disaster zones and allows them the right to work. Continue reading...
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Tue, 25 Nov 2025 05:19:21 GMT |
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The strikes come a day after a suicide attack on a security compound in Pakistan’s Peshawar city Pakistan strikes on neighbouring Afghanistan have killed 10 people – among them nine children – a Taliban government spokesperson has said, a day after a suicide attack on a security compound in Pakistan’s Peshawar city. “The Pakistani invading forces bombed the house of a local civilian resident ... As a result, nine children (five boys and four girls) and one woman were martyred” in Khost province, Zabihullah Mujahid said on X. Continue reading...
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Mon, 24 Nov 2025 12:51:45 GMT |
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India’s prime minister among those paying tribute to celebrated actor whose career spanned six decades Dharmendra, one of the most enduring stars of India’s Bollywood cinema, has died at the age of 89. Born Dharam Singh Deol, but later known as Dharmendra, he rose to fame in the 1960s and became one of the most celebrated and popular stars of Indian cinema in a career that spanned six decades. Continue reading...
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Tue, 18 Nov 2025 15:00:51 GMT |
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Exclusive: Tshering Tobgay says his country is doing ‘a lot more than our fair share’ on climate and west must cut emissions ‘for the happiness of your people’ The wealthy western countries most responsible for the climate crisis would improve the health and happiness of their citizens by prioritising environmental conservation and sustainable economic growth, according to the prime minister of Bhutan, the world’s first carbon-negative nation. Bhutan, a Buddhist democratic monarchy and biodiversity hotspot situated high in the eastern Himalayas, is among the world’s most ambitious climate leaders thanks to its people’s connection with nature and a strong political focus on improving gross national happiness rather than just GDP, Tshering Tobgay told the Guardian. Continue reading...
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Mon, 17 Nov 2025 15:42:25 GMT |
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Hasina sentenced in absentia by court in Dhaka over deadly crackdown on student-led uprising last year Bangladesh’s deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina has been sentenced to death in absentia by a court in Dhaka for crimes against humanity over a deadly crackdown on a student-led uprising last year. A three-judge bench of the country’s international crimes tribunal convicted Hasina of crimes including incitement, orders to kill and inaction to prevent atrocities as she oversaw a crackdown on anti-government protesters last year. Continue reading...
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Thu, 27 Nov 2025 00:01:12 GMT |
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The Footnote x Counterpoints prize is intended to uncover new literary voices whose work reflects the experiences of migration Footnote Press and Counterpoints Arts have announced a new fiction award celebrating writers from refugee and migrant backgrounds, offering a £15,000 prize and a publishing deal for the winner. The Footnote x Counterpoints prize for fiction, launching on Thursday, marks the second time the two organisations have collaborated on a prize. In 2023, writers were invited to submit narrative nonfiction, but now the prize will focus on fiction for the first time. Continue reading...
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Thu, 27 Nov 2025 00:01:11 GMT |
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The British Future thinktank’s data predicts net migration to the UK will fall to about 300,000, less than a third of 2023’s figures Net migration figures due on Thursday are predicted to drop to pre-Brexit levels of about 300,000, according to a thinktank. British Future, which calculated the drop in overall migration, also found that most Britons remain unaware of the falling numbers, and expect the figures to rise or stay the same. Continue reading...
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Wed, 26 Nov 2025 23:00:10 GMT |
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Tezepelumab treatment may mean asthmatics for whom inhalers are ineffective can reduce or stop taking steroids A monthly injection could allow people with severe asthma to stop taking daily steroid tablets, a clinical trial has found. More than 260 million people are thought to have asthma worldwide. While most can control their asthma with inhalers to treat immediate symptoms and preventive ones to reduce inflammation, those with the most severe asthma often take daily doses of oral corticosteroids as well. Continue reading...
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Wed, 26 Nov 2025 20:37:08 GMT |
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Chancellor axes two-child benefit cap and cuts energy bills paid for by mansion tax and freezing tax thresholds Rachel Reeves targeted Britain’s wealthiest households with a £26bn tax-raising budget to fund scrapping the two-child benefit policy and cutting energy bills. On a chaotic day that involved key details of her budget accidentally being released early by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), the chancellor defended the measures, saying she was “asking everyone to make a contribution to repair the public finances”, but that she wanted the wealthiest to pay the most. Continue reading...
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Wed, 26 Nov 2025 20:11:25 GMT |
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Reform UK leader has again denied allegations about his behaviour as a schoolboy but what are the facts? Nigel Farage has again denied allegations of racism as a schoolboy and repeated his claim that some had been concocted because people disliked his politics. During a press conference, he snapped at one reporter who asked about the issue, saying: “I think we’ve gone quite a long way towards answering all this, don’t you?” Continue reading...
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Thu, 27 Nov 2025 02:49:35 GMT |
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President pledged crackdown on Afghan immigrants following reports that suspect entered US from Afghanistan in 2021 Bloomberg’s scoop showing how Trump aide Steve Witkoff coached the Kremlin on the best way to get into Trump’s good graces is extraordinary for what it tells us about Witkoff’s dubious loyalties, and the Kremlin’s potential influence over US negotiation efforts. But equally interesting is the leaked material itself and where it may have come from. The story covers two intercepted phone calls: one between Witkoff and top Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov, and another between Ushakov and Kirill Dmitriev, who has been deeply involved in negotiations with the Trump White House. Continue reading...
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Thu, 27 Nov 2025 01:17:20 GMT |
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Person suspected of shooting two national guard troops near White House identified as Rahmanullah Lakanwal The suspected gunman in the shooting of two national guard members on Wednesday near the White House has been identified as Rahmanullah Lakanwal, an Afghan man, according to law enforcement officials. Lakanwal is said to have entered the United States in September 2021, and been living in Washington state, law enforcement officials told the Associated Press and other outlets. Continue reading...
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Thu, 27 Nov 2025 01:05:13 GMT |
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Suspect in custody after two West Virginia guard members shot in ‘targeted’ incident, Washington mayor says Two West Virginia national guard members shot near the White House are in critical condition. The incident happened near the Farragut West metro station and comes amid a controversial deployment of troops to the capital ordered by the Trump administration. FBI director Kash Patel, Washington mayor Muriel Bowser and other officials confirmed in a press conference that both the guardsmen were in hospital in critical condition. Continue reading...
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Thu, 27 Nov 2025 00:21:59 GMT |
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Amid a frenetic scene, some residents said Trump’s militarization of the capital had much to answer for The scene around Washington’s Farragut Square on Wednesday afternoon seem to fit Donald Trump’s most lurid stereotypes of a crime-ridden capital in need of federal troops to bring a firm smack of law and order. An area normally the preserve of professional office workers, coffee shops and lunch venues instead bore the hallmarks of a major crime scene as news spread that two national guard troops had been shot. Authorities later said the shooting suspect had been identified as an Afghan man. Continue reading...
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Wed, 26 Nov 2025 23:27:01 GMT |
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New map takes aim at state’s only swing sweat and gives Republicans chance to flip seat as part of Trump campaign A federal three-judge panel on Wednesday allowed North Carolina to use a redrawn congressional map aimed at flipping a seat to Republicans as part of Donald Trump’s multi-state redistricting campaign ahead of the 2026 elections. The new map takes aim at North Carolina’s only swing seat, currently held by Democrat Don Davis, an African American who represents more than 20 counties in the state’s north-east. The first district has been represented by Black members of Congress continuously for more than 30 years. Continue reading...
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