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Nov 20, 2025 - World

Foreign ministers express misgivings about draft US-Russian peace plan favourable to PutinEuropeans must be involved in any attempt to broker peace between Ukraine and Russia, the continent’s top diplomats said after reports of a US-Russia plan favourable to Kremlin interests emerged.The EU’s foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, welcomed any “meaningful efforts” to end the war, but said Ukrainian and European input was needed for any plan to work. Continue reading...

Nov 20, 2025 - World

Pedro Sánchez says his country must defend the democratic freedom ‘wrenched from us for so many years’Spain has marked the 50th anniversary of Francisco Franco’s death with an absence of official events but a call from the prime minister to heed the lessons of the dictatorship and defend the democratic freedom “wrenched from us for so many years”.Franco, whose military coup against the elected republican government in 1936 triggered a civil war and brought about four decades of dictatorship, died in Madrid on 20 November 1975. Continue reading...

Nov 20, 2025 - World

Medical officials say 17 people killed in Khan Younis area and 16 in strikes on Gaza CityIsraeli attacks in Gaza have killed 33 people and injured many more, according to medical officials, in one of the most serious escalations of violence since the US-backed ceasefire came into effect last month.Officials at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis said they received the bodies of 17 people, including five women and five children, after four Israeli airstrikes targeted tents sheltering displaced people. In Gaza City, medical officials said two airstrikes killed 16 people, including seven children and three women. Continue reading...

Nov 20, 2025 - World

It’s a climate-vulnerable nation, while also being the world’s sixth-largest greenhouse-gas emitter. Global investment in climate action is vital Continue reading...

Nov 20, 2025 - World

The timing couldn't be worse for Volodymyr Zelenskyy: The Trump administration's new Ukraine peace proposal, negotiated with Russia, calls for long-opposed concessions on the part of Kyiv -- including the ceding of territory -- at perhaps the lowest point of the Ukrainian president's political career.