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: Nearly 9,300 children under 5 in Gaza were diagnosed with severe acute malnutrition in October, UNICEF warned on Saturday, Anadolu reports. “High levels of malnutrition continue to endanger the lives and wellbeing of children in the Gaza Strip, compounded by the onset of winter weather accelerating the spread of disease and increasing the […]
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Sat 29 November 2025: UNAIDS says millions across the world lost access to treatment and preventive care due to financial shortfalls. The United Nations agency for combating AIDS has announced that global funding disruptions for treatment and prevention programmes are leaving millions of people without access to care. In a report released on Tuesday, UNAIDS […]
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Sat 29 November 2025: Aman says it will take ‘all available measures’ to stop Russian authorities from recruiting its citizens to fight in war. Jordan has demanded that Russian authorities stop illegally recruiting its citizens after two Jordanians were killed fighting in the Russian military. Jordan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued the warning on Thursday […]
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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: Local sources tell Al Jazeera that three people were killed and others wounded in Israeli artillery and missile strikes targeting the town of Beit Jinn; Israeli soldiers were also wounded. Another Israeli incursion into Syrian territory in the Damascus countryside at dawn has reportedly caused casualties on both sides. Local sources […]
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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: Humanitarian group says at least 400 children reached Tawila without their parents after Rapid Support Forces’ advance. Hundreds of Sudanese children have arrived in the town of Tawila in Sudan’s western Darfur region without their parents since the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) seized control of the city of el-Fasher last month, a […]
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Fri 28 November 2025: Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed on Thursday that a meeting between Russian and Ukrainian officials took place last week in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), at the initiative of Kyiv. Speaking at a news conference in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan’s capital, Putin said the meeting was attended by “a US administration representative” and that the event […]
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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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