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  • U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media on board Air Force One on October 31, 2025 at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland.
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    Trump lays bare his contempt for Europe in blistering new national security plan
  • Congo fighting flares within hours of Trump’s peace deal ceremony
  • This European country wants to strip citizenship from organized crime leaders
  • German lawmakers approve plan to attract more military recruits as Europe seeks to counter Russia
  • Honduras presidential candidate Nasralla says Trump’s interference damaged his election chances
  • Spain, Ireland, Slovenia and Netherlands boycott Eurovision over Israel’s participation
  • A portrait of Tanzania incumbent President Samia Suluhu Hassan is seen on stage as supporters of Zanzibar incumbent President Hussein Ali Mwinyi of the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (Revolutionary Party) gather during the campaign closing rally in Stone Town, on October 26, 2025.
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  • Racism allegations could derail right-wing populist Nigel Farage’s bid to become Britain’s next PM
  • Child deaths projected to rise for first time this century, as aid cuts reverse decades of progress
  • China’s censorship and surveillance were already intense. AI is turbocharging those systems
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  • Russia's President Vladimir Putin is welcomed by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi upon arrival at Palam Air Force Base in New Delhi, India, on Thursday, December 4.
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    Putin vows Russia will seize Donbas region by any means, as Ukrainians prepare for more peace talks with US
  • Putin sends Trump’s messengers packing, with eyes on a geopolitical win
  • British nursery worker admits sexually assaulting children and filming abuse
  • Former EU foreign policy chief Mogherini accused of fraud and corruption
  • Russia-US talks on Ukraine peace deal end without breakthrough, Putin aide says
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  • Yasser Abu Shabab, pictured in an image posted on the Popular Forces’ Facebook page.
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  • Bulldozed corpses and unmarked graves, CNN investigates the fate of Gaza’s missing aid seekers
  • Two children were gathering firewood for their father. They were killed by an Israeli drone
  • Entering election year, Netanyahu’s government targets Israel’s free press
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  • The daughter of former President Jacob Zuma, Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla attends the uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) press conference at the party's headquarters in Durban on 28 November 2025. A daughter of South Africa's ex-president Jacob Zuma has resigned from parliament after claims she was involved in recruiting men to join Russian mercenaries in the Ukraine war, her party said Friday. 
Police last week said they were investigating allegations that Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla, an MP in her father's Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) party, had lured 17 South African men to Russia "to fight in the Ukrainian war without their knowledge or consent". (Photo by RAJESH JANTILAL / AFP via Getty Images)
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  • General sworn in as transitional leader of Guinea-Bissau as ousted president arrives in Senegal

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  • Honduras' President Juan Orlando Hernandez presents his national statement as a part of the World Leaders' Summit at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, on November 1, 2021.
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    Ex-Honduran leader thanks Trump for pardon on US drug trafficking charges
  • Centrist Nasralla takes slim lead in Honduran presidential election plagued by delays as Trump alleges fraud
  • Colombian family files first known formal complaint over deadly US strike in Caribbean
  • Pope Leo urges against US incursion of Venezuela as he warns Western countries to be ‘less fearful’ of immigrants

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  • In this photo provided by the New Zealand Police a Fabergé pendant is held after it was recovered, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025, from a man accused of stealing and swallowing the pendant. (New Zealand Police via AP)
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  • Myanmar makes more meth than anywhere else. Opium production there also just hit a decade high, report says
  • Marine robotics firm will resume deep-sea search for MH370 plane that vanished a decade ago
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