Wed 10 December 2025: Thousands of soldiers have fled the army despite the threat of jail or social isolation. Kyiv, Ukraine – Tymofey’s palms and fingers are still dotted with lilac, half-healed scars left by the razor-sharp barbed wire on the walls around the military training centre he busted out from six months ago. The lanky […]
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Illustration of Blue Origin’s Mark 1 lunar lander. Blue Origin Wed 10 December 2025: The United States and China are locked in a contest to be the first country to send humans to the lunar surface in half a century. But there’s a developing twist: an emerging competition between American companies to build the landing vehicle […]
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Wed 10 December 2025: A study by a UK-based think tank has discovered that global wars has inspired many recent conversions to Islam, strengthening claims of an epic increase in conversions following Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. Researchers belonging to the Institute for the Impact of Faith in Life (IIFL) said that this could support “widespread claims […]
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Wed 10 December 2025: Online violence against women in public life has intensified sharply, with seven in 10 women human rights defenders, activists and journalists reporting they have experienced digital abuse, according to a UN Women report released on Tuesday. The report, which was produced with the European Commission and research partners, found that 41% […]
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Wed 10 December 2025: María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition figurehead who clinched the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, has decided to skip the Oslo ceremony amid death threats from her nation’s repressive regime, according to the Nobel Institute’s Wednesday announcement. Machado is not currently in Norway and will not appear on stage during the ceremony […]
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Wed 10 December 2025: About 200,000 people have fled their homes in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in recent days, the United Nations says, as Rwanda-backed rebels swarm a strategic town just days after a United States-led peace effort, which now appears under severe threat. The M23 armed group pushed into the […]
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Wed 10 December 2025: US President Donald Trump again sharply criticized Europe on Monday, saying it was heading “in some bad directions” “Europe is going in some bad directions. It’s very bad, very bad for the people,” Trump said at an event with farmers at the White House. The United States did not want Europe […]
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Wed 10 December 2025: Khaled Meshaal tells Al Jazeera surrendering weapons will ‘remove the soul’ from the Palestinian group as ceasefire momentum slips. Hamas’s political leader outside Gaza, Khaled Meshaal, has offered assurances that the group would take measures to curb any future attacks on Israel from the besieged Palestinian enclave, but added that surrendering […]
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Wed 10 December 2025: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today: ◼️ Why SA is ending the 90-day visa exemption for Palestinians: “Investigations also indicated that the arrival of these charter flights were not intended to be once-off events, but that they may be part of a broader, ongoing effort to relocate Palestinians to other […]
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Wed 10 December 2025: CAIR says the Florida governor’s decree will not affect the group’s work but could fuel Islamophobia and bigotry across US. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) says it is in the process of filing a lawsuit against Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for designating the civil rights group as a “foreign terrorist” […]
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