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Nov 26, 2025 - World

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he is barring South Africa from participating in the Group of 20 summit next year at his Miami-area club and will stop all payments and subsidies to the country over its treatment of a U.S. government representative at this year's global meeting.

Nov 26, 2025 - World

Seizing Moscow’s money to bail out Kyiv may be all that stands between a fair outcome and a ‘deal’ that brings war in the rest of Europe a step closerDon’t get This Is Europe delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereWith Ukraine’s future back on the geopolitical carving block, Europe is facing its own moment of truth. Is it ready to defend Kyiv against the imposition of a lopsided “peace” that rewards Vladimir Putin and undermines the entire continent’s security?Not for the first time, European governments were left in the dark about secret US-backed proposals to end Russia’s war. Leaked to the media last week, the latest incendiary 28-point plan was so slanted in Russia’s favour that there are suspicions it was partly drafted in the Kremlin (complete with clunkily translated Russian syntax). Continue reading...

Nov 26, 2025 - World

Venezuela president vows to defend ‘every inch’ of the country amid military buildup in CaribbeanA visual guide to the US military presence in the CaribbeanDonald Trump has warned Nicolás Maduro he can “do things the easy way … or the hard way” as Venezuela’s authoritarian leader responded to the growing US pressure campaign by urging followers to prepare to defend “every inch” of the South American country.Clad in woodland camouflage fatigues, Maduro told a rally in the capital, Caracas, it was their historic duty to fight foreign aggressors, just as the Venezuelan liberation hero Simón Bolívar did two centuries ago. Continue reading...

Nov 26, 2025 - World

Hong Kong's deadliest fire in years blazed through high-rise apartment buildings into the night Wednesday as the city's leader confirmed at least 36 people, including a firefighter, had died and another 279 people were reported missing.

Nov 26, 2025 - World

A telescope in Chile has captured a stunning new picture of a grand and graceful cosmic butterfly.