Thu 11 December 2025: US Ambassador to Turkiye and Special Envoy for Syria Tom Barrack says Ankara should be included in the international stabilisation force (ISF) for Gaza. According to comments he made at the Jerusalem Post’s Washington Conference, posted by Israeli journalist Amichai Stein on X, Barrack said Turkiye’s participation would strengthen the ISF, […]
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Thu 11 December 2025: Tourists from 42 countries may soon need to also disclose email accounts, extensive family history and biometrics to enter US. Visitors who are eligible to enter the United States without a visa may soon be required to provide the Department of Homeland Security with significantly more personal information, including details about […]
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Thu 11 December 2025: A military court sentenced the former head of Pakistan’s powerful Inter-Services Intelligence spy agency to 14 years in prison on charges including violation of state secrets and misuse of authority, the army said Thursday. Faiz Hameed, who served during the tenure of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan, was also convicted of “engaging in political […]
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Thu 11 December 2025: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today: ◼️ ANC charts escape from sharp end of US tariffs: The investment plan is central to the ANC’s move to insulate the country’s economy from the fallout of US-imposed tariffs, particularly on steel, vehicle components and other industrial goods. In August, Washington imposed a […]
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Thu 11 December 2025: Israel has seen a sharp rise in psychological disorders among soldiers since the Gaza genocide began two years ago. Israel’s Defence Ministry said around 62,000 troops were receiving treatment on the evening of October 7, 2023. That figure has since climbed to roughly 85,000. Tamar Shimoni, deputy head of the ministry’s […]
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Thu 11 December 2025: Budget cuts leave health and education workers struggling to make ends meet, ActionAid reports. Public spending cuts across six African countries have resulted in the incomes of health and education workers falling by up to 50 percent in five years, leaving them struggling to make ends meet, according to international NGO […]
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Wed 10 December 2025: María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition figurehead who clinched the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, has decided to skip the Oslo ceremony amid death threats from her nation’s repressive regime, according to the Nobel Institute’s Wednesday announcement. Machado is not currently in Norway and will not appear on stage during the ceremony […]
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Wed 10 December 2025: About 200,000 people have fled their homes in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in recent days, the United Nations says, as Rwanda-backed rebels swarm a strategic town just days after a United States-led peace effort, which now appears under severe threat. The M23 armed group pushed into the […]
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Wed 10 December 2025: US President Donald Trump again sharply criticized Europe on Monday, saying it was heading “in some bad directions” “Europe is going in some bad directions. It’s very bad, very bad for the people,” Trump said at an event with farmers at the White House. The United States did not want Europe […]
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Wed 10 December 2025: Khaled Meshaal tells Al Jazeera surrendering weapons will ‘remove the soul’ from the Palestinian group as ceasefire momentum slips. Hamas’s political leader outside Gaza, Khaled Meshaal, has offered assurances that the group would take measures to curb any future attacks on Israel from the besieged Palestinian enclave, but added that surrendering […]
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