Fri 28 November 2025: Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said Tel Aviv is not on a path toward peace with Damascus, claiming that the Yemeni Houthi group is active in Syria. “Israel is not moving toward peace with Syria because there are forces within its borders thinking about invading Golan towns,” Katz claimed during a […]
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Fri 28 November 2025: German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Thursday that all G20 members, including South Africa, should be invited to the next year’s summit in Florida. Speaking at a press conference in Berlin, Merz criticized the US administration’s absence from last weekend’s G20 summit in Johannesburg and Trump’s announcement that South Africa would not be invited to the […]
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Fri 28 November 2025: According to new data published by UNICEF on Tuesday, more than one in four children globally, around 610 million, live with mothers who have experienced physical, emotional or sexual abuse by an intimate partner in the past year, making violence a part of their everyday lives. The data brief is released […]
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Fri 28 November 2025: Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa on Thursday rejected calls for separation or federalism in Syria, saying the coastal region remains a “priority” for his administration. “We are focused on protecting the country from internal and external risks and on economic development,” Sharaa told a meeting in Latakia via video conference. Protests erupted in several cities […]
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Thu 27 November 2025: France‘s national health safety agency ANSES said Wednesday that current scientific evidence does not establish a causal link between mobile phone use and cancer, while calling for continued caution, particularly for children, as exposure patterns rapidly evolve. In a new opinion updating previous assessments from 2013 and 2016, the French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational […]
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Thu 27 November 2025: A law firm representing alleged victims of the late Jeffrey Epstein, a disgraced sex offender, has asked a federal judge to intervene after dozens of unredacted victim names appeared in documents released by the US House Oversight Committee earlier this month, media reports said on Wednesday. Attorneys Bradley Edwards and Brittany Henderson […]
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Thu 27 November 2025: Pope Leo XIV embarks on his first foreign trip on Thursday, roughly six months after his election as head of the Catholic Church. The six-day journey begins in Türkiye and continues to Lebanon on Sunday, passing through two predominantly Muslim countries that host Christian minorities. Vatican State President Pope Leo XIV, at the […]
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Thu 27 November 2025: A special judge court in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka on Thursday sentenced exiled former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to 21 years in prison in absentia in three corruption cases tied to alleged irregularities in allocating plots in the Purbachal New Town project. This marks the first corruption verdict against Hasina since she […]
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Thu 27 November 2025: At least 33,000 Palestinian women and girls have been killed in Israeli assaults in two years, the Palestinian Foreign Ministry said Tuesday. This came in a statement issued by the ministry to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. The ministry said more than 12,500 women and […]
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Thu 27 November 2025: Hong Kong on Thursday said that it has contained its deadliest fire in decades – a blaze that tore through a residential complex in Tai Po, killing 55 people and leaving 279 others unaccounted for. Hong Kong’s Chief Executive John Lee said that the fires in the seven buildings have been […]
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