Mon 29 December 2025: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday said that he has asked US President Donald Trump to consider providing Kyiv with security guarantees for a period of 30 to 50 years. Trump, according to Zelenskyy, said he would “think about” the proposal. The Ukrainian president, however, said that under the current agreements, […]
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Mon 29 December 2025: At least 235,000 people have been affected by a “man-made” crisis in Gaza after low-pressure weather systems hit the war-ravaged enclave, the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said Monday. “Months of war and displacement forced people in Gaza to live amid collapsing ruins in makeshift shelters or in flimsy tents,” UNRWA […]
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Mon 29 December 2025: The $2bn pool will target specific countries or crises, down from US contributions of up to $17bn in recent years. The United States has said it will contribute only $2bn in United Nations humanitarian assistance – a small fraction of its traditional funding scope – as President Donald Trump’s administration continues […]
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Mon 29 December 2025: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today: ◼️ DA leadership tensions spill into Public Protector complaint: The Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, Willie Aucamp, has submitted a formal complaint to the Public Protector, requesting an investigation into possible abuse of state resources by former Minister Dion George and his […]
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Sun 28 December 2025: Voting in the first phase of general elections in Myanmar, the first since a military coup in 2021, began early Sunday, according to media reports. As many as 102 townships are voting in the polls’ first phase. The second and third phases will be held on Jan. 11 and Jan. 25, respectively, Chinese […]
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Sun 28 December 2025: Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said that over 100,000 children and 37,000 pregnant and breastfeeding women in the Gaza Strip are still projected to suffer acute malnutrition through April next year. This followed the release by UN agencies of the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report, […]
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Sun 28 December 2025: If 2025 revealed anything uncomfortable about India’s trajectory, it was not the arrival of something new, but the normalisation of what should never have become acceptable: Islamophobia, hate speech, violent collective punishment and institutional discrimination, says our correspondent in India. For many Indian Muslims, the year did not feel like a sudden […]
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Sun 28 December 2025: Saudi defence minister urges Yemen’s STC to withdraw “peacefully” from seized provinces, Hadramout and al-Mahra. The Saudi-led coalition in Yemen says it will respond to any separatist military movements that undermine de-escalation efforts in the southern region, as Riyadh doubles down on calls for the group to “peacefully” withdraw from recently […]
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Sat 27 December 2025: Residents of a village in northwestern Nigeria hit by debris from a recent US airstrike have say the ISIS (Daesh) terror group was not present in the area, according to CNN. Villagers in Jabo, a farming community in the northwestern state of Sokoto’s Tambuwal district, told the broadcaster they were startled […]
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Sat 27 December 2025: US President Donald Trump on Friday urged for the Department of Justice to reveal the identities of “all” Democrats who have had relations with late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. “The Dems are the ones who worked with Epstein, not the Republicans. Release all of their names, embarrass them, and get […]
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