Sun 09 November 2025: The government of Assam, led by Hindu nationalist Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, has announced plans to introduce a new law to prevent Hindus converting to Islam through marriage. The proposed legislation, described by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government as an “anti-Love Jihad” measure, would impose life imprisonment on men […]
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Sun 09 November 2025: Google will enforce a new Android developer verification policy next year to tighten app publishing rules on its Play Store, following findings that apps installed from outside the official store contained 50 times more malware, according to an August report. The company said in August that it would transition to the new policy to […]
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Sun 09 November 2025: One in five children globally lived in active conflict zones last year, according to Save the Children. In a report released on Tuesday, the charity said 520 million children in 2024 were exposed to war, marking a record high for the third consecutive year, Al-Jazeera reported. Save the Children verified 41,763 […]
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Sun 09 November 2025: A British Palestinian surgeon has told Al Jazeera that photographs he received of Palestinians’ bodies handed over by the Israeli army are “highly indicative of organ harvesting”. Dr Ghassan Abu Sittah said he was “sent photographs of the bodies that were received by the Ministry of Health from the Israeli army”. […]
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Sat 08 November 2025: The creation of an International Stabilisation Force (ISF) for the war-battered Palestinian territory was outlined in the US-brokered ceasefire. While several countries have shown interest in contributing to the ISF, there are still key details to be ironed out, including whether the force will operate under a UN mandate, what its […]
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Sat 08 November 2025: UN says the area devoted to opium poppies has dropped to a fraction of that cultivated before the Taliban’s narcotics ban in 2022. Afghanistan’s once-booming opium industry has shrunk dramatically with cultivation falling by 20 percent in 2025, according to a United Nations report warning of a sharp rise in synthetic […]
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Sat 08 November 2025: WFP says a ‘deepening hunger crisis’ is unfolding and that it may have to pause food aid due to record low funding. The number of people facing emergency levels of hunger in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has nearly doubled since last year, the United Nations has warned. The UN’s […]
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Sat 08 November 2025: An Israeli court in Tel Aviv on Friday released outgoing Military Advocate General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi and ordered her placed under house arrest for 10 days, Israeli public broadcaster KAN reported. Tomer-Yerushalmi was arrested on Monday over her role in leaking a video showing Israeli soldiers torturing a Palestinian detainee, and her […]
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Sat 08 November 2025: More than 1,400 citizens from three dozen African countries are fighting alongside Russian forces in Ukraine, Kyiv’s foreign minister said on Friday. Ukrainian officials say Russia has tried to bolster the force attacking its smaller neighbour by recruiting fighters from a variety of countries, sometimes through subterfuge. Andriy Sybiha said Russia […]
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Sat 08 November 2025: The hope of the world wide web, according to its creator Tim Berners-Lee, was that it would make communication easier, bring knowledge to all, and strengthen democracy and connection. Instead, it seems to be driving us apart into increasingly small and angry splinter groups. Why? We have commonly blamed online echo chambers, digital […]
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