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: 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 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: Israeli Defence Minister Yisrael Katz has warned that military action against Lebanon will be “inevitable” if Hezbollah does not agree to disarm, in the clearest indication yet that Israel is preparing for the possibility of a new cross-border war. Speaking to Israeli media on Tuesday, Katz said that Israel “will not […]
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Thu 27 November 2025: More than 2,400 children under the care of social services in the UK went missing last year, according to reports. Child rights organizations said the published report highlights serious security gaps in the system, leaving vulnerable children at risk of crime and abuse. Data released on Tuesday showed that children who were victims of human trafficking […]
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Wed 26 November 2025: A new study from one of Europe’s leading demographic research centres, estimates that at least 100,000 Palestinians have likely been killed by Israel genocide in Gaza. The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in Germany places the death toll significantly higher than the nearly 70,000 deaths reported by the Palestinian […]
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Wed 26 November 2025: That trust in media is declining throughout the world is almost an unquestioned truth today. But researchers have found it hard to clearly demonstrate how we went from an era of high trust in 20th-century media to one of low trust in the digital age. The ways people engage with media and where they go […]
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Wed 26 November 2025: The selection process for the next UN secretary-general formally began Tuesday as the presidents of the Security Council and the General Assembly issued a joint letter inviting member states to nominate candidates and outlining procedures for the months ahead. “Noting with regret that no woman has ever held the position of […]
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Wed 26 November 2025: Mental health issues are a growing crisis among Europe’s children and teenagers, according to a new report. One in seven Europeans under the age of 20 have a mental health condition, an increase of one-third over the past 15 years, according to the analysis from the World Health Organization (WHO), Euronews […]
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