Fri 31 October 2025: A US federal agent secretly attempted to recruit Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s personal pilot as part of a plot to capture the leader and deliver him into American custody on drug trafficking charges, The Associated Press reported. Citing three current and former US officials, as well as one of Maduro’s opponents, […]
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Thu 30 October 2025: The Netherlands faces one of the tightest election outcomes in its history, with Geert Wilders’ far-right Party for Freedom (PVV) and the centrist Democrats 66 (D66) virtually tied after Wednesday’s parliamentary elections. According to the latest forecast by Dutch news agency ANP, both PVV and D66 are projected to win 26 […]
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Thu 30 October 2025: When Google and Amazon negotiated a massive $1.2bn cloud computing deal in 2021 with the Israeli government, a secret arrangement known as the “winking mechanism” was included, according to a new joint investigation by The Guardian and the Israeli publications +972 Magazine and Local Call. The secret warning system obligates the companies to […]
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Thu 30 October 2025: President Donald Trump declared on Thursday that he has directed the Defense Department to start nuclear weapons testing without delay. “Because of other countries testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis. That process will begin immediately,” Trump wrote on […]
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Thu 30 October 2025: US President Donald Trump said Thursday that his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping agreed during their highly-anticipated bilateral meeting not to impose rare earth export controls that rattled global markets and prompted threats of retaliation from the US leader. Trump said he and the Chinese president agreed on an “outstanding group of […]
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Thu 30 October 2025: Regional countries express alarm as more evidence emerges of mass killings by paramilitary forces in el-Fasher. Scores of people have been killed in attacks by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) during their recent capture of the city of el-Fasher in Sudan’s western Darfur region, according to a medical group and researchers. The RSF, […]
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Thu 30 October 2025: The European Union and several European countries urged de-escalation in Sudan on Wednesday following the Rapid Support Forces’ (RSF) seizure of El-Fasher, the capital of the Darfur region, Anadolu reports. EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas and Commissioner Hadja Lahbib said in a joint statement that the targeting of civilians based on […]
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Thu 30 October 2025: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today: ◼️ Public Works unveils plan to fix ‘half-built schools, ghost hospitals’ and blacklist failing contractors: Between 2016 and 2020, the Auditor-General found that the number of projects that missed deadlines grew sixfold, from 10% to 60%. Behind these figures lies a pattern of poor […]
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Thu 30 October 2025: Syria officially recognized Kosovo as an independent and sovereign state on Wednesday following a trilateral meeting in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, Anadolu reports. A Foreign Ministry statement said the meeting between Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and Kosovan President Vjosa Osmani focused on enhancing bilateral relations and […]
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Wed 29 October 2025: Yale’s Humanitarian Research Lab says satellite images appear to show mass killings in Sudan’s western city of el-Fasher. The fall of the Sudanese city of el-Fasher to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has resulted in mass killings by the group, according to an analysis of satellite imagery viewed by Yale’s Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL). […]
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