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Nobel Institute calls off Machado press conference ahead of award ceremony 

09 December 2025

A planned news conference by Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado has been can...

US top court weighs rollback of limits on party campaign spending 

09 December 2025

News|Courts The conservative-majority United States Supreme Court is considering arguments in a case that could roll bac...

UK’s MI5 protected IRA agent who committed murders, police report finds 

09 December 2025

News|Conflict The United Kingdom’s domestic intelligence agency MI5 protected an IRA double agent who committed murder...

Tony Blair ruled out of Trump’s proposed Gaza ‘peace board’: Report 

09 December 2025

Tony Blair has been dropped from consideration for a role on a proposed US-led “board of peace” for Gaza after objec...

Who are the groups controlling Yemen? 

09 December 2025

Yemen’s main southern separatist group, the Southern Transitional Council (STC), claims it has consolidated control ac...

Tanzania tightens security, outlaws protests over disputed election 

09 December 2025

News|Protests Tensions are high in Tanzania after the government outlawed planned protests over its disputed victory in ...

France’s prime minister faces crunch vote in parliament 

09 December 2025

France’s National Assembly is set to vote on a major social security budget bill, in a critical test for the embattled...

New Cambodia-Thailand clash: What’s up with the other wars Trump ‘ended’? 

09 December 2025

Deadly fighting has erupted between Thailand and Cambodia, weeks after the two sides signed a ceasefire deal in Malaysia...

What’s changed in Sudan after the Rapid Support Forces’ control of Heglig? 

09 December 2025

The Rapid Support Forces’ control of the Heglig oilfield means that the most important functioning oil facility in Sud...

Lithuania declares state of emergency over smuggler balloons from Belarus 

09 December 2025

News|Russia-Ukraine war Lithuania has declared an “emergency situation” over an influx of meteorological balloons la...