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Dec 4, 2025 - World

Government once seen as progressive on migration says aid cuts to blame for excluding countries ‘not experiencing war’The Ugandan government has stopped granting asylum and refugee status to people from Eritrea, Somalia and Ethiopia, citing severe funding shortfalls for the significant policy shift.Hillary Onek, Uganda’s minister for refugees, announced that the government would no longer grant the status to new arrivals from countries “not experiencing war”. Continue reading...

Dec 4, 2025 - World

Deaths from last week’s catastrophic floods and landslides in parts of Asia have surged past 1,500

Dec 4, 2025 - World

London’s Christmas tree in Trafalgar Square is a famed British tradition with roots in the Norwegian forest

Dec 4, 2025 - World

Inaugural prize expected to be handed to Donald Trump but ‘process’ for choosing future winners to be proposed by controversial tycoon’s committeeIt was the timing that set off the first alarm bells. With Donald Trump brooding over missing out on the Nobel peace prize, and shortly before Gianni Infantino, the president of world football’s governing body, Fifa, was due to meet the US president in Miami, an announcement was made.In a press release and a post on his personal Instagram account last month, Infantino said Fifa would launch its very own peace prize, to be awarded each year to “individuals who help unite people in peace through unwavering commitment and special actions”. Continue reading...

Dec 4, 2025 - World

U.S. President Donald Trump will host Congolese and Rwandan presidents for a deal signing aimed at securing peace in eastern Congo