24-11-2025 LONDON: Shumeet Banerji has resigned from the BBC board and criticized governance issues at the organisation, the latest blow to the broadcaster weeks after its director general quit. The BBC confirmed Banerji’s departure on Friday, saying he stepped down only weeks before the end of his four-year term. According …
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24-11-2025 ABUJA: More than 200 children have been abducted after gunmen stormed a Catholic school in western Nigeria, in one of the country’s largest mass kidnappings in recent years. The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) said attackers struck St Mary’s School in the Papiri community of Niger State’s Agwara district …
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24-11-2025 TUNIS: Night had just about fallen in Halq al-Wadi, also known as La Goulette, a balmy coastal suburb of Tunis, when the Virgin Mary emerged from the local church, Saint-Augustin and Saint Fidele, into a packed square. Carried on the shoulders of a dozen churchgoers, the statue of the …
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23-11-2025 JOHANNESBURG: G20 envoys have agreed on a draft leaders’ declaration ahead of this weekend’s summit in Johannesburg without US input, four sources familiar with the matter said on Friday. The administration of US President Donald Trump has indicated that it will boycott the summit over disagreements with the host …
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23-11-2025 KINSHASA: Islamic State-linked rebels have killed 89 civilians in multiple attacks in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s Lubero territory, the UN peacekeeping mission in the Central African country, known as MONUSCO, said on Friday. The attacks were carried out by fighters from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) in several …
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23-11-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India on Friday implemented four new labour codes, pushing ahead with the biggest overhaul of workers’ laws in decades as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government says it seeks to simplify the rules, improve worker protection and liberalize conditions for investment. The labour rules, some dating …
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23-11-2025 KINSHASA: Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani has visited the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), days after the government and the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group signed a framework agreement for a peace deal aimed at ending fighting in the country’s east. On his first trip to the …
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23-11-2025 ATHENS: The “swarm” of tens of thousands of earthquakes near the Greek island of Santorini earlier this year was triggered by molten rock pumping through an underground channel over three months, scientists have discovered. They used physics and artificial intelligence to work out exactly what caused the more than …
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23-11-2025 GAZA STRIP: Urgent questions are being raised over a patchwork of armed groups that have emerged to fight Hamas in Gaza over recent months. They include groups based around family clans, criminal gangs and new militia, some of which are backed by Israel, as its prime minister recently admitted. …
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23-11-2025 BRASILIA: All mention of fossil fuels, by far the largest contributor to climate change, has been dropped from the draft deal under negotiation as the COP30 UN climate talks in Belem, Brazil enter their final stretch. Draft agreements at the meeting of nearly 200 countries usually go through multiple …
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