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Nov 23, 2025 - World

Guinea-Bissau began voting on Sunday as President Umaro Sissoco Embalo seeks a second term in the nation that has endured multiple coups.

Nov 23, 2025 - World

Despite Australia signing the Belém declaration, Albanese rejected suggestion Labor shouldn’t develop new gas fieldsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Albanese government is being urged to explain how it will drive a fossil fuel phase-out, after it joined dozens of countries at a UN climate summit to back a declaration that the world should quickly wean off coal, gas and oil.Australia signed up to the declaration on a just transition away from fossil fuels at a side event at the Cop30 conference in the Brazilian city of Belém, which finished on Saturday night local time, more than 24 hours after the scheduled close. Continue reading...

Nov 23, 2025 - World

Voters in the Serb-run part of Bosnia cast ballots on Sunday to elect a new president after former pro-Russian leader Milorad Dodik was removed from office because of his separatist policies that were stoking instability in the ethnically tense Balkan ...

Nov 23, 2025 - World

Environment ministry says most of the deaths were in the mountainous central province of Dak LakThe death toll from major flooding in Vietnam has risen to 90, with 12 more people missing, the environment ministry said on Sunday after days of heavy rain and landslides.Relentless rain has lashed south-central Vietnam since late October and popular holiday destinations have been hit by several rounds of flooding. Continue reading...

Nov 23, 2025 - World

US president signals potential room for adjustments after Zelenskyy says proposals force Ukraine to choose between national dignity and losing the USDonald Trump said on Saturday that his “peace plan” was “not my final offer”, after a furious backlash from Ukrainians who described it as reminiscent of Neville Chamberlain’s 1938 Munich agreement with Adolf Hitler.The US president told reporters during brief remarks at the White House: “We’d like to get to peace. It should’ve happened a long time ago … we’re trying to get it ended, one way or the other we have to get it ended.” Continue reading...