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Nov 22, 2025 - World

Chernihiv residents say they are without power for 14 hours a day as they gather in ‘invincibility points’ to charge up and warm upValentyna Ivanivna showed off her new head torch. It was a present from her grandson, she said. Most evenings she wears it while doing household chores: cooking dinner, washing up and stacking plates. “It’s impossible to plan anything without power. You can’t even invite people round for a cup of tea because the kettle won’t work. It’s stressful and exhausting for everyone,” she explained.Ivanivna lives in Chernihiv, an ancient Ukrainian city known for its early medieval cathedrals. The border with Belarus and Russia is a short drive away, across a landscape of pine forests, villages with geese and the occasional wandering moose. In 2022, Russian troops invaded and occupied most of the oblast. They bombed and laid siege to Chernihiv, pulling out after six weeks and rolling north. Continue reading...

Nov 22, 2025 - World

European leaders are meeting in South Africa to discuss alternatives to a U.S. plan to end Russia's war in Ukraine

Nov 22, 2025 - World

Yemen's Houthi rebels have arrested dozens of workers with United Nations agencies, aid groups and nongovernmental organizations

Nov 22, 2025 - World

Tom Player speaks out about incident in which Victoria Bond died along with two Mexicans and two GermansA survivor of the blizzard that killed a British woman and four others in Chilean Patagonia has said that tourists were concerned about adverse weather conditions ahead of the trek, but were told by staff it was “normal” and they could proceed.Tom Player, a London-based composer, told the Guardian that during the brutal blizzard about 30 volunteers worked together in an attempt to try to rescue hikers. Continue reading...

Nov 21, 2025 - World

Twelve teachers also kidnapped from Catholic school amid threats from Trump to intervene over ‘Christian genocide’Unknown gunmen have abducted 215 schoolchildren and 12 teachers from a Catholic school in central Nigeria, the second mass abduction in the country in a week.The latest kidnapping, in Papiri community in Niger state, came against the backdrop of Donald Trump’s threat to intervene militarily to end a “Christian genocide”, which the Nigerian government has denied is happening. Continue reading...