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The strike hit a residential building in the Haret Hreik neighbourhood of Beirut's southern suburbs

Red line crossed

Israel says killed Hezbollah chief of staff in Beirut strike

The United States is designating

New forms of international pressure

What does US 'terrorist' designation for Venezuela mean?

Leaders discussed how to keep the G20 relevant going forward, in a fragmenting world order

'End of a cycle'

G20 grapples with splintering world order

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva says the US build-up in the Caribbean, near Venezuela, 'worries me'

Brazil 'very concerned' about US naval build-up near Venezuela

This aerial photo taken on September 17, 2025 from Mae Sot in Thailand shows the KK Park complex in Myanmar's eastern Myawaddy township which the Myanmar military said was a notorious internet scam compound

Highly publicised crackdown

Myanmar junta says nearly 1,600 foreigners arrested in scam hub raids

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio denies telling several senators that the plan to end the war in Ukraine is just a Russian 'wish list'

Official policy

US denies pushing Russian 'wish list' as Ukraine plan

Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro attempted to break his ankle monitor, the Supreme Court said

Former president

Brazil's Bolsonaro detained for trying to break ankle bracelet and flee

French anti-drug activist Amine Kessaci (C) and his mother Ouassila Benhamdi Kessaci were at the heart of a crowd of people who gathered to pay tribute to 20-year-old Mehdi Kessaci, who died last week in a murder linked to his brother's activism

Marseille plagued by drug crime

Thousands rally in France after murder linked to anti-drug activism

The number of boys and girls kidnapped from St Mary's is almost half of the school's student population of 629

Spiralling security issues

Gunmen seize 315 in latest Nigerian mass school kidnapping

Protesters gathered in cities across France, including in Bordeaux in the south to demonstrate against violence against women

50,000 take to the streets

Thousands march in France to demand action on violence against women

Ukraine, Europe scramble to respond to US plan to end war

After almost four years of war

Ukraine, Europe scramble to respond to US plan to end war

Rescuers raced to find more than a dozen people still missing after a week of heavy flooding in Vietnam

13 still missing

Vietnam flooding death toll rises to 55

US Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, once a firmly bankable far-right ally to President Donald Trump, has announced her resignation from Congress after a flood of criticism from the Republican president

Major MAGA figure Greene resigns from US Congress

US President Donald Trump (R) shakes hands with New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani as they meet in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on November 21, 2025

At the White House

Leftist NY mayor-elect and Trump make nice in White House love-in

Guinea-Bissau elects its next president this weekend

Elections this weekend

Guinea-Bissau youth hope presidential vote brings better life

Brazil's former president Jair Bolsonaro was convicted for leading a botched coup bid in which he attempted to prevent President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from taking office after his 2022 election loss

'Too sick' for prison

Brazil's Bolsonaro seeks to serve 27-year jail term under house arrest

Police near rubble that fell from a damaged building following an earthquake, in Dhaka

Bangladesh quake kills nine, injures hundreds

Morning Roundup

Christmas markets open, Zelensky to negotiate US peace plan with Trump, and viral tree planting trends in Luxembourg

People take part in a gathering to celebrate Transgender Day of Remembrance in Nice, France, on November 19, 2025

In U-turn, US rights report to track gender changes, DEI

The Syrian embassy is seen behind locked gates in Washington, DC on November 14, 2025.

Unkept buildings

Washington's abandoned embassies have stories to tell

Taiwan is handing out paper copies of a crisis manual to help resident prepare for natural disasters -- or invasion

Taiwan issues 'crisis' guide on preparing for disasters, Chinese attack

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's office says he expects to discuss the proposals with US President Donald Trump (L) in the coming days

Still a 'working document'

Ukraine would give Russia chunk of territory under 28-point US plan

Colombian president Gustavo Petro (L) met with Portuguese counterpart Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa (R) during his May 2023 visit to Lisbon, seen here at the Belem Palace -- and spent some down time at a strip club per newly revealed financial records

Also accused of drug trafficking

Colombia's Petro in hot water as records reveal Lisbon strip club visit

South Africa will host the G20 summit at the weekend

Reversing initial snub

US denies ending South Africa G20 boycott

Qatar said Israel's strikes on the Gaza Strip were a 'dangerous escalation'

Four people killed

Israel launches fresh strikes on Gaza as Qatar fears for truce

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt defended the 'good' Ukraine war plan

Rejecting pro-Moscow concerns

US peace plan 'good' for Russia, Ukraine: White House

The San Jose was owned by the Spanish crown when it was sunk, laden with treasure, off Colombia's coast in June 1708

Brought to surface

Colombia shows first treasures recovered from 300-year-old shipwreck

Dick Cheney, pictured delivering a lecture to the Federalist Society in 2006, loomed over US politics for half a century

US honors conservative titan Cheney, with Trump off guest list

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