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Discriminatory measures

Kazakh parliament passes Russian-style anti-LGBTQ law

Residents in Pakistan's capital Islamabad faced tightening security after a suicide bombing that killed at least 12 people

Pakistan tightens Islamabad security after suicide blast

Lumbala (left) is accused of complicity in crimes against humanity

Happened two decades ago

DR Congo ex-rebel leader Lumbala's war crimes trial opens in France

Johannesburg has in recent years sunk into disrepair

Bulldozers rolled in

Johannesburg gets rushed makeover for G20 chiefs

Galushchenko served as energy minister before taking the justice minister portfolio

In energy sector

Ukraine justice minister suspended over corruption case: PM

President Samia Suluhu Hassan was officially elected with 98 percent of the vote

Hundreds massacred

Tanzania politicians in shock as cabal takes over after massacre

Morning Roundup

Protests at COP30, Turkish military plane crash kills all 20 onboard, and Katy Perry to perform in Luxembourg

US President Donald Trump salutes at the conclusion of a Veterans Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia on November 11, 2025.

Six-week standoff

House vote likely Wednesday on ending US government shutdown

Russia was granted a 99-year lease in 2008 after paying nearly three million Australian dollars for the site, which sat about 400 metres from the parliamentary precinct

Granted a lease in 2008

Russia loses legal bid to build embassy next to Australian parliament

Gabon's former first lady Sylvia Bongo Ondimba (with her husband Ali Bongo, L) was accused of manipulating her husband to embezzle taxpayers' money

Following two-day graft trial

Ousted Gabon leader's wife and son sentenced to 20 years for graft

The USS Gerald R. Ford, the world’s largest aircraft carrier arrived in Latin America as part of a stated anti-drug operation

Venezuela responds with own deployment

Arrival of US aircraft carrier fuels Venezuelan fears of attack

Nepal's authorities have long been criticised for failing to adequately probe abuses committed during the decade-long civil war

Nepal's war victims watch political changes with fragile hope

All public criticism of Moscow's military offensive on Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin or the army is outlawed

No-limits crackdown

Russia jails teen musician over anti-war street songs for third time

Iraq, which has long been a fertile land for proxy wars, has only recently regained a sense of stability, as it tries to move past decades of war

7,740 candidates for 329 seats

Iraqi voters turn out in numbers as region watches on

The war between Sudan's army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has killed tens of thousands and displaced nearly 12 million, creating one of the world's largest humanitarian crises

To ensure aid reaches all corners of the country

UN aid chief hails talks with Sudan army leader

French President Emmanuel Macron met Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas to dicuss the Gaza ceasefire deal

Would prove 'European reaction'

Macron warns any planned West Bank annexation a 'red line'

Donald Trump's lawyers have threatened to sue the BBC for $1 billion over the misleading edit

Friday deadline to 'appropriately compensate' the president

BBC must fight, says outgoing chief as Trump threatens to sue

Donald Trump received Ahmed al-Sharaa, a first for a Syrian head of state and a crowning achievement for the former jihadist

A first for a Syrian head of state since 1946

For many Syrians, Sharaa's US visit marks new beginning

Forensic experts investigate at the blast site following an explosion near the Red Fort in the old quarters of Delhi

At least eight killed

Indian PM calls deadly Delhi blast 'conspiracy'

Like all armed states, Russia regularly tests its delivery systems, but has rejected the accusation it has carried out unannounced weapons tests

Rejected accusation of unannounced weapons tests

Russia offers US nuclear talks in bid to ease tensions

Only two provisions annulled

EU court largely upholds Minimum Wage Directive

Before his arrest, Ekrem Imamoglu was considered the biggest rival to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in elections set for 2028

Possible penalty of hundreds of years in prison

Turkey seeks more than 2,000 years behind bars for Erdogan rival

From the ground

Luxembourg expat in Manila describes Typhoon's 'immense destruction'

At least 12 people were killed and 25 wounded in the suicide bombing

'Very strong and terrifying explosion'

Shock follows carnage after suicide bombing in Islamabad

(COMBO) This combination of file pictures created on November 03, 2025 shows Chile's presidential candidates (L to R): Johannes Kaiser of the Libertarian National party, Jeannette Jara of the Progressive Center-Left Coalition, Franco Parisi of People's Party, Evelyn Matthei of the Chile Vamos coalition and Jose Antonio Kast of the Republican Party

Calls for 'mano dura' as crime-rattled Chile votes for president

The first such attack to hit the city in years sent people fleeing in panic in an area which also houses several government offices

First such attack on the city in years

Pakistani Taliban claim deadly suicide attack in Islamabad

US President Donald Trump, shown here with France's Emmanuel Macron in Egypt in October 2025, voiced his suspicions of the French in a new Fox News interview

Putting bromance at stake

Trump says 'we've had a lot of problems' with France

Morning Roundup

Murder trial opens in Luxembourg, ECJ rules on minimum wage, and Grand Duke Guillaume turns 44

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