Tue 02 December 2025: According to a Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) report released on Monday, international arms trade hit a record high in 2024, driven by governments’ rush to update military capabilities and ramp up weapons purchases in the face of persistent wars and escalating global rivalries. Revenues generated by the world’s 100 […]
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Sat 29 November 2025: Russia’s state communications watchdog said it is tightening restrictions on WhatsApp, claiming the US-owned platform violates Russian law and is being used to facilitate criminal activity, according to comments carried by the Tass news agency. Roskomnadzor said the messenger app “continues to violate” Russian legal requirements and alleged it is used […]
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Fri 28 November 2025: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday said that he is initiating a full overhaul of the Office of the President, confirming that his chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, has submitted his resignation as Kyiv prepares for a new phase of negotiations with the US. In his evening address, Zelenskyy said he […]
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Fri 28 November 2025: US president says second National Guard member is ‘fighting for his life’ after the attack a day earlier in Washington, DC. United States President Donald Trump has said one of two National Guard troops shot a day earlier near the White House has died, while the other soldier is “fighting for his life”. […]
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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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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: 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: Two US National Guard members were shot one block from the White House in Washington, DC. West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey says he’s received “conflicting” reports about the guardsmen’s health, after earlier posting on X that both had died of their wounds. Local police say a suspect is in custody, while […]
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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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