Thu 20 November 2025: UN agency said an estimated 318 million people will face acute food insecurity in 2026. The World Food Programme (WFP) has said that funding cuts will worsen a deepening hunger crisis around the world, warning that more than 300 million people will face acute food insecurity next year. “Food insecurity is […]
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Wed 19 November 2025: Hundreds of career Israeli soldiers, including senior officers, have submitted requests for early retirement, deepening the military’s manpower crisis as the army struggles with shortages during its war on the Gaza Strip, local media said Wednesday, Anadolu reports. According to the daily Yedioth Ahronoth, representatives from the army’s Personnel Administration told the […]
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Wed 19 November 2025: A UNSC resolution passed backing the creation of an international stabilisation force in Gaza. So what does that mean? On Monday, the UN Security Council passed a US-sponsored resolution which backs US President Donald Trump’s 20-point plan for ending Israel’s war on Gaza. Among the clauses was one that supported the creation and […]
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Wed 19 November 2025: A Sri Lankan influencer who boasts a lavish lifestyle on his social media claims to have made his fortune through racist, Islamophobic and anti-migrant posts aimed at British audiences. Sri Lankan influencer Geeth Sooriyapura has made hundreds of thousands of pounds by flooding British audiences with Facebook ads that push far […]
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Wed 19 November 2025: Iran is facing its most severe water crisis in more than six decades. Major dams supplying drinking water to provinces with millions of residents are nearly empty, and groundwater reserves have been depleted. Many cities have endured an entire autumn without a single drop of rain. In the capital, Tehran, and in Mashhad, the country’s second-largest city, in […]
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Wed 19 November 2025: NGO says Swiss food giant is ‘putting the health of babies at risk for profit’ by adding sugar to babyfood. Swiss food giant Nestle has been adding sugar to babyfood to help it stoke sales in Africa, Asia and Latin America – after cutting it from products sold in European markets, […]
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Tue 18 November 2025: Reviving old myths to fuel new divides The Taj Mahal, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, continues to symbolize India’s cultural identity and artistic brilliance. Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore once called it “a teardrop on the cheek of time.” This masterpiece in white marble, a UNESCO World Heritage Site maintained by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), attracts […]
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Tue 18 November 2025: Gaza‘s historical and cultural heritage has not been spared Israeli bombardment during Tel Aviv‘s two-year war, with over 20,000 rare artifacts spanning from prehistoric eras to the Ottoman period missing and looted. “The Israeli army has systematically and extensively destroyed Gaza’s archaeological sites as part of a policy aimed at erasing Palestinian identity,” Ismail al-Thawabteh, head of […]
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Tue 18 November 2025: The Dutch Cabinet has postponed plans to ban law enforcement officers from wearing visible religious symbols following a warning from the Council of State, local media reported on Monday. The government put on hold the move to implement a ban on religious symbols including headscarves for special investigating officers, known as BOAs, as […]
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Mon 17 November 2025: For decades, we’ve been told that weight loss is a matter of willpower: eat less, move more. But modern science has proven this isn’t actually the case. More on that in a moment. But first, let’s go back a few hundred thousand years to examine our early human ancestors. Because we can blame […]
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