UK TO INTRODUCE DIGITAL TRAVEL PERMIT REQUIREMENT FOR 85 NATIONALITIES IN 2026

Mon 24 November 2025: Visitors from 85 countries that currently enjoy visa-free entry to the UK-including the US, Canada and France-will be required to obtain an Electronic Travel Authorization (ETA) from Feb.25, 2026, the UK government announced on Monday. The move is described as a major step in the country’s plan to digitize its immigration system and introduce a contactless […]

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SUPER-EARTH FOUND IN HABITABLE ZONE ONLY 18 LIGHT-YEARS AWAY

Mon 24 November 2025: Astronomers have discovered a super-Earth located only 18 light-years away, orbiting in its star’s habitable zone where conditions may permit liquid water to exist, according to a study published on Sunday. The study, published in The Astronomical Journal, said the planet lies relatively close within the Milky Way and appears to […]

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NEARLY ONE-THIRD OF WOMEN WORLDWIDE FACED PARTNER OR SEXUAL VIOLENCE: WHO

Mon 24 November 2025: Despite stark findings, World Health Organization says violence against women and girls is ‘a deeply neglected crisis’. Nearly one in three women – totalling about 840 million around the world – have experienced intimate partner or sexual violence in their lifetimes, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a new report. […]

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UKRAINE’S LEADERSHIP SHOW ZERO GRATITUDE; EUROPE STILL BUYING RUSSIAN OIL, SAYS TRUMP

Mon 24 November 2025: US President Donald Trump accused Ukraine’s leadership on Sunday of showing “zero gratitude” for American efforts to end the war with Russia, while blaming his predecessor for the conflict. “Ukraine ‘leadership’ has expressed zero gratitude for our efforts, and Europe continues to buy oil from Russia,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social. […]

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TRUMP SAYS US WILL DESIGNATE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD ‘FOREIGN TERRORIST ORGANIZATION’: REPORT

Mon 24 November 2025: US President Donald Trump said he will designate the Muslim Brotherhood a foreign terrorist organization, US media reported Sunday, Anadolu reports. “It will be done in the strongest and most powerful terms,” Trump told Just the News, a right-wing website. “Final documents are being drawn.” The move follows Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s […]

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UK’S STARMER: ANDREW SHOULD GIVE ‘RELEVANT INFORMATION’ TO EPSTEIN PROBE

Sun 23 November 2025: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said “if you have relevant information you should be prepared to share it” after Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor ignored a request to testify in a US probe into Jeffrey Epstein. The premier declined to comment on the disgraced former royal specifically, but said as a “general principle” anyone with relevant […]

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COP30 REJECTS FOSSIL FUEL PHASE-OUT AMID OPEN PROTESTS FROM SOME COUNTRIES

Sun 23 November 2025: The UN climate change conference, COP30, concluded Saturday in Brazil without a clear commitment to phase out fossil fuels, igniting immediate open protests from dozens of countries that warned that the summit’s final draft undermines the global fight to limit warming to 1.5°C (2.7°F). The draft agreement, proposed by the Brazilian […]

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BBC BOARD MEMBER SHUMEET BANERJI RESIGNS OVER GOVERNANCE ISSUES

Sun 23 November 2025: Banerji said in his resignation letter that he was unhappy about governance issues at the organisation, BBC News reported. Shumeet Banerji has resigned from the BBC board and criticised governance issues at the organisation, the latest blow to the broadcaster weeks after its director general quit. The BBC confirmed Banerji’s departure […]

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AUSTRIA MOVES TOWARDS HEADSCARF BAN IN SCHOOLS FOR UNDER 14S

Sun 23 November 2025: Austria’s far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ), the largest faction in parliament, has called for a series of harsh anti-Islam measures, including a blanket ban on headscarves in schools, a new “law banning political Islam”, and an immediate halt to mass immigration. Responding to plans by the ruling coalition government to introduce a […]

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