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Published on: October 17, 2025 | Source:The UN says peace without justice is not sustainable.
Published on: October 17, 2025 | Source:President says Venezuela’s leader ‘offered everything’ to prevent American military pressure
Published on: October 17, 2025 | Source:Three train operators defeat legal claim that they charged passengers twice for part of their journeys
Published on: October 17, 2025 | Source:We look at 16-year-olds who are set to be given the right to vote in the UK.
Published on: October 17, 2025 | Source:Authorities in Georgia have been clamping down on figures accused of trying to overthrow the government.
Published on: October 17, 2025 | Source:The son of imprisoned Palestinian political leader Marwan Barghouti says his family fears for their father’s life.
Published on: October 17, 2025 | Source:Former National Security Advisor John Boltonturned himself in to federal authorities Friday morning in Maryland and pleaded not guiltyafter being indicted on charges of keeping top secret documents at his home and sharing classified information with family members.
Published on: October 17, 2025 | Source:Pictures of Earth from outer space often show the planet as a gaudy quilt. Shimmering aquamarine water covers more than 70 percent of its surface and those hues often seem to signify life against the vast darkness of the universe. But new research analyzing satellite images of the planet over a span of more than […]
Published on: October 17, 2025 | Source:Donald Trump has confirmed CIA operatives are active in Venezuela. It's not the first time that the US has interfered in Latin American politics — but is this a sign of more US meddling to come?
Published on: October 17, 2025 | Source:As calls for border crossings to reopen grow, Israeli attacks on Palestinians kill and wound several despite truce.
Published on: October 17, 2025 | Source:More than 1,000 Palestininians killed in West Bank over last two years by Israel and settlers, UN says The United Nations human rights office said on a post on X on Friday that more than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed - predominantly by the Israeli military as well as settlers in the West Bank - over the past two years. Their investigation found almost one-fifth of the 1,0001 Palestinians killed have been male...
Published on: October 17, 2025 | Source:The UN says it will need time to scale up food deliveries in Gaza as it called for more access to the enclave. Meanwhile, German FM Wadephul has met with his Turkish counterpart for talks on Gaza. DW has more.
Published on: October 17, 2025 | Source:President Lula da SIlva stated that no foreign president has the right to meddle in deciding what Venezuela should be. On Thursday, Brazilian President Lula da Silva defended the sovereignty of Venezuela and Cuba amid growing U.S. military pressure in the Caribbean. RELATED: Cubans Express Solidarity With Venezuela Amid U.S. Aggressions “Everyone says we’re going […]
Published on: October 17, 2025 | Source:Madagascar coup leader Colonel Michael Randrianirina promised that the country is heading towards a transformation.
Published on: October 17, 2025 | Source:With the Nov. 11 deadline to finish the Colorado River negotiations fast approaching, Wyomingites got their first look at a draft of the state’s Green River pilot water conservation program during a meeting held Wednesday. Brandon Gebhart, the state engineer responsible for managing and regulating the water within Wyoming, and the state’s representative in the […]
Published on: October 17, 2025 | Source:Two people are killed as crowds surge forward to see the coffin of the former prime minister.
Published on: October 17, 2025 | Source:The collapse of an insurer and turmoil at banks have more in common than would initially seem obvious
Published on: October 17, 2025 | Source:By offering a formal apology for the wartime abuses of Imperial Japan, the late former PM catalyzed a significant shift in Tokyo's engagement with its Asian neighbors.
Published on: October 17, 2025 | Source:Thousands of mourners attend the state funeral of former Prime Minister Raila Odinga in Nairobi.
Published on: October 17, 2025 | Source:[UN News] The United Nations faces a "race to bankruptcy" unless Member States pay their dues in full and on time, Secretary-General António Guterres warned on Friday, presenting a sharply reduced $3.238 billion regular budget for 2026.
Published on: October 17, 2025 | Source:[Africa CDC] Dakar, Senegal -- The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), in collaboration with the Government of Senegal and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, has today opened the High-Level Regional Forum on Immunisation in West Africa, taking place in Dakar from 17-19 October 2025.
Published on: October 17, 2025 | Source:The AI boom is helping to sustain growth but demand is coming from the richest consumers who own stocks while poorer Americans are being squeezed
Published on: October 17, 2025 | Source:Evolution of abandoned Conservative ‘Brit Isa’ plan also includes stamp duty tax break
Published on: October 17, 2025 | Source:Delay and darkness suggest the UK government is scared of making decisions
Published on: October 17, 2025 | Source:U.K. Chancellor Rachel Reeves cited the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the tensions in the Middle East, and the impact of global trade barriers as key challenges.
Published on: October 17, 2025 | Source:Egypt and Qatar remain central to shaping Gaza's post-war future. Saudi Arabia and the UAE have been outspoken in calling for the disarmament of Hamas as a prerequisite for their support.
Published on: October 17, 2025 | Source:Two months after Education Secretary Linda McMahon was confirmed, she and a small team from the department met with leadership from the National Center for Learning Disabilities, an advocacy group that works on behalf of millions of students with dyslexia and other disorders. Jacqueline Rodriguez, NCLD’s chief executive officer, recalled pressing McMahon on a question […] The post Parents, advocates alarmed as Trump...
Published on: October 17, 2025 | Source:President Donald Trump signaled to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday that he's leaning against selling long-range Tomahawk missiles to Kyiv, while offering optimism that the war is moving toward an end that would mitigate a need for the powerful weapon.
Published on: October 17, 2025 | Source:Madagascar’s Gen Z declared victory after the president fled, but will they have a say in the country’s future?
Published on: October 17, 2025 | Source:Latin American history is written by the popular struggles for sovereignty and independence, and also by the constant meddling of the United States. Since the mid-twentieth century, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) established itself as the operational arm of American imperialism, aimed at dismantling governments that did not serve its strategic and economic interests. What […]
Published on: October 17, 2025 | Source:Zelenskyy arrived with top aides to discuss the latest developments with Trump over lunch, a day after the U.S. president and Russian President Vladimir Putin held a lengthy phone call to discuss the conflict.
Published on: October 17, 2025 | Source:The world's largest maritime nations had been discussing ways to move the shipping industry away from fossil fuels.
Published on: October 17, 2025 | Source:The head of Liberia's drug agency says all students should be tested as a way to combat drug abuse.
Published on: October 17, 2025 | Source:If bill is signed into law, Portugal would join several European countries which already have full or partial bans.
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