Tue 11 November 2025: UN chief Antonio Guterres says the inability to limit the rise in global temperatures is a ‘moral failure’. This year is set to be among the hottest on record, sinking the world even deeper into the climate crisis and threatening “irreversible damage,” the United Nations says in a new report. Years […]
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Tue 11 November 2025: The resignations of BBC Director General Tim Davie and Director of News Deborah Turness dominated the front pages of British newspapers Monday, with commentary describing the broadcaster’s turmoil as its “biggest crisis in a decade.” The announcements that two of the BBC’s top executives will step down came amid controversy over […]
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Mon 10 November 2025: Indonesia is considering curbs on violent video games such as PUBG in the wake of last week’s explosion at a Jakarta school mosque, which injured nearly 100 people. President Prabowo Subianto “is considering restricting online games after a student was linked to a school explosion that injured 96 people,” a senior Indonesian official […]
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Mon 10 November 2025: A groundbreaking new study suggests that the universe’s expansion might already be decelerating, challenging a core pillar of modern cosmology that has long assumed an ever-accelerating cosmic growth. Published on Thursday in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. “Our study shows that the universe has already entered a phase […]
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Sun 09 November 2025: Have you ever used a public charging station to charge your mobile phone when it runs out of battery? If so, watch out for “juice jacking”. Cybercriminals are on the prowl to infect your mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers and access your personal data, or install malware while […]
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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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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: 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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Sat 08 November 2025: Following the groping of Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, which was caught on camera, her government unveiled a plan on Friday to combat sexual harassment by classifying it as a serious offence in all states. Victims are to be encouraged through a campaign to report cases and access to justice is to be […]
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