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• Critically ill Bangladesh leader Khaleda Zia's foreign travel for treatment postponed indefinitely

  06-12-2025 17:27 via article.wn.com
  The medical board treating critically ill Bangladesh’s former prime minister Khaleda Zia on Saturday postponed her planned travel to London for an indefinite period, her personal physician said. File photo of Khaleda Zia The three-time premier Zia was scheduled to depart for London on Sunday after her plan to leave on Friday was postponed as an air ambulance offered by Qatar could not reach Dhaka due to technical issues. Media reports suggested Doha later rented an alternative aircraft fro
  
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• Hungary Rejects EU Migration Pact, Vows Not to Accept Migrants

  11-12-2025 07:07 via article.wn.com
  Hungary will not implement the European Union’s new migration pact and will refuse to accept any migrants under the scheme, senior government officials said Wednesday. Gergely Gulyas, head of the Prime Minister’s Office, told reporters that EU...
  
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• World Bank says Cambodia's growth slows down due to softening property sector, border dispute, U.S. tariff hike

  11-12-2025 07:06 via article.wn.com
  PHNOM PENH, Dec. 11 (Xinhua) -- The World Bank said on Thursday that Cambodia's economy is projected to grow by 4.8 percent in 2025, slowing from 6 percent in 2024 as domestic and external shocks weighed on activity. Softening property sector, border conflict with...
  
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• Vietnam to invest nearly 17 bln USD for national target program

  11-12-2025 07:06 via article.wn.com
  HANOI, Dec. 11 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam on Thursday approved an investment package worth 423 trillion Vietnamese dong (about 16.05 billion U.S....
  
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• Venezuelan opposition leader makes first public appearance after months in hiding

  11-12-2025 07:06 via article.wn.com
  OSLO — Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, who has been in hiding for months, has told the BBC that she knows "exactly the risks" she's taking by travelling to Norway to collect ......
  
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• US seizes oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, Trump says

  11-12-2025 07:06 via article.wn.com
  WASHINGTON — US forces have seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, President Donald Trump said, marking a sharp escalation in Washington's pressure campaign against Nicolás Maduro's ......
  
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• UN human rights office in 'survival mode' with €77m budget shortfall

  11-12-2025 07:06 via article.wn.com
  GENEVA — The UN human rights chief said on Wednesday that his office is facing a $90 million (€77 million) funding shortfall this year and staff cuts would amount to around 300 posts, or about 15%, ......
  
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• Ukraine presents response to US peace plan

  11-12-2025 07:06 via article.wn.com
  KYIV — Ukraine delivered its response to the latest US-drafted peace proposal aimed at ending the war with Russia to the Trump administration on Wednesday, US and Ukrainian officials told CNN, as the ......
  
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• Trump launches $1m 'gold card' immigration visas

  11-12-2025 07:06 via article.wn.com
  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has launched a scheme offering fast-tracked US visas to wealthy foreigners who can pay at least $1m (£750,000).The card will give buyers a "direct path to Citizenship ......
  
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• String of celebrity scandals renews debate on South Korea's 'cancel culture'

  11-12-2025 07:06 via article.wn.com
  SEOUL — In a matter of days, three big names in South Korea's entertainment industry have made headlines in separate scandals that could derail their careers.The allegations that have embroiled ......
  
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• Exiled Hong Kong activist target of harassment campaign

  11-12-2025 07:06 via article.wn.com
  LONDON — A high-profile Hong Kong pro-democracy activist living in the UK has been the target of a campaign of harassment involving letters containing fake, sexually explicit images of her sent from ......
  
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• Bulgarian court rejects extradition of Russian linked to Beirut port blast

  11-12-2025 07:06 via article.wn.com
  SOFIA — A Bulgarian court rejected Lebanon's request on Wednesday to extradite the owner of a ship linked to a cargo of ammonium nitrate at the centre of the massive 2020 port explosion in Beirut.Igor ......
  
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• Bolivia detains former president Arce amid probe into alleged embezzlement

  11-12-2025 07:06 via article.wn.com
  LA PAZ — Bolivia's former president Luis Arce has been detained by police, Reuters reported citing a former member of his cabinet.Arce, who left office last month, may have been called in to testify ......
  
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• 1st LD: 2 workers trapped in S. Korean construction site collapse

  11-12-2025 07:06 via article.wn.com
  SEOUL, Dec. 11 (Xinhua) -- Two workers were trapped after a steel...
  
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• US official’s surprise praise for India's ‘best ever’ market-access offer as high-stakes trade talks resume ...

  11-12-2025 07:03 via article.wn.com
  As US negotiators begin trade talks in New Delhi, a senior American official says India has presented its strongest market-access proposals yet—even as tariff tensions and disagreements over agriculture continue to stall a full trade deal. ......
  
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• Trump admin slams Minnesota doctor Congresswoman for junking POTUS' 'preventive MRI'; 'you sound like a ...

  11-12-2025 07:03 via article.wn.com
  The White House’s Rapid Response team is in a public clash with Minnesota Congresswoman and physician Rep. Kelly Morrison. This comes as she challenged the administration’s description of a “preventive MRI” performed during President Donald Trump’s October medical evaluation at Walter Reed. Trump has frequently questioned President Biden’s cognitive fitness, and he is now facing the same level of public examination.(Bloomberg) Morrison on Thursday, posted a vi
  
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• The Philippines tests ‘transition credits’ to cut coal use in novel experiment

  11-12-2025 07:03 via article.wn.com
  The Philippines is testing a new type of carbon credit aimed at encouraging companies to cut their...
  
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• Shame Indian students have to leave: Trump on need for new immigration rules

  11-12-2025 07:03 via article.wn.com
  Donald Trump said that it is a shame that thousands of foreign students, including those from India and China, have to leave the country after graduating from top American universities. He made the remarks while launching the 'Trump Gold Card' which the US President claims will enable companies to hire and retain such talent in the country. US President Donald Trump arrives to deliver remarks on the economy at Mount Airy Casino Resort in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania.(AFP) Trump used a White House
  
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• Russia's defense ministry says downed 287 Ukrainian drones

  11-12-2025 07:03 via article.wn.com
  Russia's defense ministry said on Thursday that it shot...
  
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• Russia is not as resilient as it wants you to think

  11-12-2025 07:03 via article.wn.com
  Listen to Vladimir Putin, and one would think Russia is marching to victory in Ukraine and overcoming whatever minor economic challenges it faces, thanks to the support of its patriotic people. On November 30th state television showed Mr Putin visiting a command post wearing military fatigues, receiving reports on the latest offensive. “The Russian troops are advancing virtually everywhere,” Mr Putin told his generals. Two days later he told an investment conference that “our c
  
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• Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Machado joins list of no-shows at award ceremony | List

  11-12-2025 07:03 via article.wn.com
  After 11 months of hiding and missing her Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado appeared in public on Thursday morning. She waved to her supporters outside her hotel balcony in Norway's Oslo. Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Corina Machado waves from a balcony of Grand Hotel, after her daughter Ana Corina Sosa Machado, accepted the award on her behalf, in Oslo, Norway December 11, 2025. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger(REUTERS) Machado appeared just hours after her
  
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• Marco Rubio orders diplomats to use Times New Roman, internet reacts: ‘Always working on top priorities’

  11-12-2025 07:03 via article.wn.com
  US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has directed the State Department to reinstate the use of Times New Roman typeface for official purposes, halting the use of Calibri, thereby reversing a change made under the Biden administration. The Internet reacted to the news with hilarity and satire, with most joking that it was indeed the “pressing national issue” that needed to be resolved. Marco Rubio’s announcement has sparked chatter...
  
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• Humans were lighting fires from scratch a lot earlier than previously thought

  11-12-2025 07:03 via article.wn.com
  The invention of the wheel aside, the lighting of the first fire is probably the best-known cartoonists’ trope about early humans. With good reason. Controlling fire is one of humanity’s most important technologies. Some, indeed, think that it was fire—or, rather, the subsidiary —which permitted the evolution of big-brained hominids. The extra nutrients thus liberated, along with the smaller gut required to digest cooked food would, the argument goes, have allowed more re
  
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• For Trump, the Warner Megadeal Talks Are All About CNN

  11-12-2025 07:03 via article.wn.com
  The fate of Warner Bros. Discovery could hinge on a frequent subject of President Trump’s ire: CNN. PREMIUM President Trump spoke about the deal during a press conference with technology executives at the White House Wednesday. President Trump told reporters at the White House on Wednesday that the regardless of which company buys Warner and that it is “imperative that CNN be sold.” Behind the scenes in recent days, Trump has repeatedly told allies that CNN should either be sol
  
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• 2028 Is MAGA’s Expiration Date

  11-12-2025 07:03 via article.wn.com
  Is there another Republican who can keep the Trump coalition together in 2028? Asked that question this week, the president He allowed that “we have a great cabinet,” suggesting that he prefers to see a member of his administration succeed him. “But you never know,” he concluded. “You never really know until they get tested.” PREMIUM Donald Trump speaks during a roundtable in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Wednesday, Dec. 10.(AP) That’s true, and
  
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• Trump launches gold card programme for expedited visas with R16.9m price tag

  11-12-2025 07:01 via article.wn.com
  President Donald Trump’s administration officially launched his “Trump Gold Card” visa programme on Wednesday to provide a pathway, with a steep price, for non-US citizens to get expedited permission to live in the US. The website Trumpcard.gov, with an “apply now” button, allows interested applicants to pay a $15,000 (R254,563) fee to the...
  
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• U.S. to require social media history for visa-waiver travelers

  11-12-2025 06:58 via article.wn.com
  WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. government will soon require travelers from Visa Waiver Program countries to submit up to five years of their social media history, according to a proposal by U.S. Customs and Border...
  
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• Ukraine to give revised peace plans to United States

  11-12-2025 06:58 via article.wn.com
  U.S. President Donald Trump says he...
  
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• Indiana redistricting is up for a final, deciding vote in the state Senate

  11-12-2025 06:58 via article.wn.com
  Indiana state Senators are expected to take a final and deciding vote on redistricting Thursday, and the outcome is still uncertain. Even in the face of pressure from the White House and about a dozen threats made against Indiana lawmakers, ......
  
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• Former Michigan football coach Sherrone Moore arrested hours after his firing

  11-12-2025 06:58 via article.wn.com
  The alleged assault took...
  
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