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Nov 18, 2025 - World

Nadra Mohamed Ahmed was seven months when she trekked for nearly 25 miles across unsafe roads

Nov 18, 2025 - World

President Trump welcomed Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in grand fashion on Tuesday ahead of talks on Middle East security and big investments between the countries.

Nov 18, 2025 - World

It is one of the world’s most vital carbon sinks, but this tropical rainforest is losing out when it comes to climate policy and fundingIn October 2023, leaders, scientists and policymakers from three of the world’s great rainforest regions – the Amazon, the Congo, and the Borneo-Mekong basins – assembled in Brazzaville, capital of the Republic of Congo. They were there to discuss one urgent question: how to save the planet’s last great tropical forests from accelerating destruction.For those present, the question was existential. But to their dismay, almost no one noticed. “There was very little acknowledgment that this was happening, outside of the Congo basin region,” says Prof Simon Lewis, a lecturer at the University of Leeds and University College London, and co-chair of the Congo Basin Science Initiative (CBSI). Continue reading...

Nov 18, 2025 - World

Croatia has marked the anniversary of the fall of the eastern town of Vukovar, which was demolished by the Serb-led Yugoslav army during the 1991-95 war and became a symbol of resistance and national unity during the conflict

Nov 18, 2025 - World

A massive fire has gutted a landmark skyscraper in downtown Zagreb, Croatia