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Nov 11, 2026 - World

US envoys to visit Moscow and Dublin on Thursday for talks with Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskyy respectivelyRussia and Ukraine have agreed to the “largest prisoner exchange” of the war at their first US-brokered talks since February but made little progress towards a broader peace agreement.Both sides sent senior delegations to the two-day talks, led by Donald Trump’s envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, in an effort to find a solution to end the nearly-five-year war. Continue reading...

Nov 11, 2026 - World

Amnesty International says U.N. peacekeepers had weeks of warning before an attack killed more than 200 people in South Sudan but failed to do enough to protect civilians

Nov 11, 2026 - World

Iranian boxer Mohammad Javad Vafaei Sani won't be in London on Thursday to accept his Outstanding Human Rights Activist award from the Global Magnitsky Justice Campaign. He remains on death row in his home country for protesting against the government.

Nov 11, 2026 - World

This blog is now closedSeparately, I am also keeping an eye on Italy, with reports that several schools are being evacuated after receiving bomb threats by emails.According to Rai and Sky TG24, the email was signed by “Mikhail Andropov” – the same name used in several hoax bomb alarms against European flights last week. Continue reading...

Nov 11, 2026 - World

Lawyer says Britain wrong to believe in historic doctrine that crown has sovereignty over parts of oceansBritain should not be permitted to act as a 17th-century colonial power treating the waters around the Falkland Islands as a Dominium maris Britannici, Argentina has told an international tribunal.Marcelo Kohen, representing Argentina at a hearing in Hamburg, mocked Britain for apparently believing in the historic doctrine that the British crown has sovereignty over expansive parts of the oceans. Continue reading...