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Mon, 17 Nov 2025 09:58:12 GMT
France: Ukrainian and French presidents to discuss air defence help
French and Ukrainian leaders will attend a forum at the Élysée Palace focused on joint drone production, as Ukraine aims to deploy over 4.5 million drones this year for both offensive and defensive operations. They will visit the Mont Valérien he...

Mon, 17 Nov 2025 09:55:50 GMT
Bangladesh's ousted leader Sheikh Hasina sentenced to death for crimes against humanity
A court in Bangladesh on Monday sentenced ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina to death for ordering a deadly crackdown on student-led protests last year. Hasina, who was sentenced in absentia after fleeing to India, was found guilty of crimes agains...

Mon, 17 Nov 2025 09:43:27 GMT
Zelensky seeks to reaffirm long-term support between France and Ukraine
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is in Paris for his ninth visit since Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022. He seeks to sign deals for new air-defence systems, warplanes and missiles, aiming to strengthen Kyiv’s long-term war effort. Fran...

Mon, 17 Nov 2025 09:41:39 GMT
Afrikaners push back against Trump’s false white genocide claims in South Africa
More than 40 prominent white South Africans, including analysts, economists, lawyers, journalists, religious leaders, and historians, have pushed back against Donald Trump’s repeated claims that they are being “slaughtered,” insisting in an op...

Mon, 17 Nov 2025 09:25:14 GMT
Swiss growth suffered from US tariffs in Q3: data
Swiss gross domestic product (GDP) dropped by 0.5 percent between July and September from the previous quarter according to preliminary data, a bigger fall than market analysts had anticipated. Key economic sectors chemicals and pharmaceuticals saw...

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Mon, 17 Nov 2025 09:16:12 GMT
Bangladesh ex-PM sentenced to death for crimes against humanity
Hasina, 78, defied court orders that she return from India to attend her trial about whether she ordered a deadly crackdown against a student-led uprising that ousted her. The highly anticipated ruling, which was broadcast live on national televisi...

Mon, 17 Nov 2025 09:14:14 GMT
Kurdish PKK militants say have left key area in north Iraq
The pull out comes six months after the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) formally renounced its armed struggle against Turkey, drawing a line under four decades of violence that had claimed some 50,000 lives. "As of the evening of November 16, our fo...

Mon, 17 Nov 2025 08:56:15 GMT
Fury in China over Japan PM's Taiwan comments
Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on November 7 that the use of force against self-ruled Taiwan, which Beijing claims, could warrant a military response from Tokyo. "What does our country's unification have to do with them?" said 36-year-o...

Mon, 17 Nov 2025 06:12:14 GMT
Carbon capture promoters turn up in numbers at COP30: NGO
The list, assembled by the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), names oil and gas giants such as ExxonMobil, Shell and BP, along with Brazil's state-owned Petrobras and China National Petroleum Corp. CIEL's inventory is broad, with th...

Mon, 17 Nov 2025 04:40:15 GMT
No Wemby, no Castle, no problem as NBA Spurs rip Kings
De'Aaron Fox delivered a season-high 28 points with 11 assists, Harrison Barnes added 20 points and Luke Kornet had 13 points, 11 rebounds and three blocked shots in the home triumph. "We did a great job being disciplined in our approach," Kornet s...

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