Sun 23 November 2025: Bangladesh has once again asked India to hand over former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who was sentenced to death in absentia on Nov. 17 for ordering a crackdown on a student-led uprising last year, an adviser said on Sunday. Bangladesh sent an official letter to India on Friday, seeking the return […]
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Sun 23 November 2025: The Israeli military has launched an attack on the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital Beirut, killing at least one person and wounding 21 others, officials said. Sunday’s strike on an apartment block in the Hezbollah stronghold of Dahiyeh took place despite a ceasefire that came into effect a year ago to […]
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Sun 23 November 2025: World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stated that tobacco causes the death of 7 million people every year. Ghebreyesus shared a post on the subject on the social media platform X, based in the United States. Noting that tobacco kills 7 million people annually, Ghebreyesus said, “It’s time to quit smoking and […]
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Sun 23 November 2025: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said “if you have relevant information you should be prepared to share it” after Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor ignored a request to testify in a US probe into Jeffrey Epstein. The premier declined to comment on the disgraced former royal specifically, but said as a “general principle” anyone with relevant […]
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Sun 23 November 2025: Pope Leo XIV called Sunday for the release of over 300 hostages taken from a Catholic school in one of the largest mass kidnappings in Nigeria. “I learned with immense sadness the news of the kidnappings of priests, faithful, and students,” he said, making “a heartfelt appeal for the immediate release of the hostages”. […]
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Sun 23 November 2025: The Israeli army is trying to impose a new reality on the ground in the Gaza Strip before the deployment of an international stabilization force, as it may no longer be able to carry out daily strikes in the enclave as it does in Lebanon, an Israeli daily said Sunday. “Israel […]
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Sun 23 November 2025: The UN climate change conference, COP30, concluded Saturday in Brazil without a clear commitment to phase out fossil fuels, igniting immediate open protests from dozens of countries that warned that the summit’s final draft undermines the global fight to limit warming to 1.5°C (2.7°F). The draft agreement, proposed by the Brazilian […]
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Sun 23 November 2025: A new national poll from the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights showed Americans are deeply anxious about democracy, rising extremism and worsening race relations — offering one of the starkest portraits yet of a country on edge. The poll, conducted in early November, comes as civil-rights groups warn that […]
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Sun 23 November 2025: Deaths and injuries are at their highest levels since records began in 2006, and up by 42 percent on the 2020 total, the UK charity says. Nearly 12,000 children were killed or injured in conflicts worldwide last year, of which 70 percent were a result of explosives, the United Kingdom-based charity […]
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Sun 23 November 2025: Banerji said in his resignation letter that he was unhappy about governance issues at the organisation, BBC News reported. Shumeet Banerji has resigned from the BBC board and criticised governance issues at the organisation, the latest blow to the broadcaster weeks after its director general quit. The BBC confirmed Banerji’s departure […]
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