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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...

Mon, 17 Nov 2025 09:15:18 GMT
Singapore jails 'attention seeking' Australian over Ariana Grande incident
Grande and other stars were attending the opening night of the film at Universal Studios in the city-state when the man, identified by court papers as 26-year-old Johnson Wen, jumped a barricade and put his arm around the actor. Video clips, which ...

Mon, 17 Nov 2025 09:15:17 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 09:15:16 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 09:07:17 GMT
Tom Cruise receives honorary Oscar for illustrious career
To the sound of the "Mission Impossible" theme tune, a hallmark of the 63-year-old actor's career, Cruise took to the stage at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles to applause from peers including Colin Farrell and Emilio Estevez, with whom he has share...

Mon, 17 Nov 2025 08:57:18 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 08:23:30 GMT
Ukraine's Zelensky seeks air defence help and warplanes on Paris visit
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is expected to sign deals in Paris on Monday for new air-defence systems, warplanes and missiles, aiming to strengthen Kyiv’s long-term war effort. He meets President Emmanuel Macron as Russian drone and miss...

Mon, 17 Nov 2025 07:39:57 GMT
Netanyahu insists there can be no Palestinian state ahead of UN vote
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday vowed to oppose any attempt to establish a Palestinian state, a day before the UN Security Council will vote on a US-drafted resolution on Gaza that leaves the door open to Palestinian independence...

Mon, 17 Nov 2025 06:18:41 GMT
2026 World Cup: France dominate Azerbaijan as they end qualifiers unbeaten
France defeated Azerbaijan (3-1). France had already qualified.

Mon, 17 Nov 2025 06:13:14 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 06:07:18 GMT
Zelensky in France to seal air defence and warplane deals
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky visits Paris on Monday in a new bid to secure weaponry to defend his country against increasingly lethal Russian missile and drone attacks.

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