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Canada’s domestic spy agency says Russia and China have a “significant intelligence interest” in Canada’s Arctic, and are targeting both the country’s government and its private sector.

Three songs generated by artificial intelligence topped music charts this week, reaching the highest spots on Spotify and Billboard charts.

Foster’s beer drinkers in the UK will soon find their lager’s alcohol strength cut to 3.4%.

On both Left and Right, many like to take the Whitlam dismissal— as it became known — as a constitutional struggle between an old British-oriented establishment and a new, progressive Australia. But in retrospect, it’s hard to doubt that the 1975 dismissal was in fact a soft coup d’état, heavily influenced by US power and influence.

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — When Merat Behnam first gathered enough courage to ride her yellow scooter through the gridlocked streets of Iran ‘s capital to the coffee shop she runs, traffic wasn’t her main worry.

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The domain looked rather suspicious, and I’m not entirely certain this wasn’t “written with the help of AI,” but they actually list citations. The sheer scale of this across multiple sectors should put any fears that we’re not in a recession to rest.

Move escalates legal battle over a redistricting effort designed to help Democrats flip House seats in 2026

According to internal Israeli records, the military filed just three criminal indictments for all Gaza-related offenses, part of a justice system designed to act as a smokescreen and provide impunity.

Biden administration officials raised “concerns” that amounted to nothing over Israel’s actions in its final weeks.

Beijing’s proposed regulation aims to tame rapid launches by forcing cars to boot up in a restricted performance mode after every ignition

Greens Senator David Shoebridge became the first Australian parliamentarian to visit the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria/Rojava (DAANES) on September 19–25. He was accompanied by Dr Elise Boyle, who has researched Rojava’s education system, and Greens Inner West City Councillor Ismet Tashtan and Baran Sogut, both Kurdish community activists in Sydney. ‎ The delegation went to see what the Kurdish-led Rojava revolution has achieved. Among many achievements, since 2012, it has liberated a third of Syria from the former Bashar al-Assad dictatorship and driven out Islamic State/Daesh (ISIS) from its territory.

China has implemented new license requirements for exports of 13 “drug-making” chemicals going to Mexico, the United States and Canada.

Pacific nations reinvented pageants as places to celebrate their culture and so they remained hugely popular despite losing cultural influence overseas.

The Serbian government has established a joint venture with a property development company owned by Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, to develop a hotel complex in Belgrade, giving Serbia until next May to demolish the existing buildings, according to leaked documents.

Palestinians from Gaza, recently released from Israeli detention, have given harrowing descriptions of sexual torture by their Israeli captors.

German authorities on Thursday identified the northern city of Hamburg as the location where a sewage sample containing the wild form of the polio virus had been found.

On October 28, Rio de Janeiro’s police besieged the Penha favela for 15 hours, killing at least 121 people in the city’s worst massacre. Brazil’s right is hailing it as an anti-crime victory while overlooking their own links to violent gangs.

Dayr Istiyā (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) – The Israeli military said its troops killed two suspected militants in a town in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, while Palestinian officials accused Israeli settlers of setting fire to a mosque in the territory.

Belém (Brazil) (AFP) – Twenty-five countries shipped oil to Israel during its two-year offensive in Gaza, according to a report published Thursday by the nonprofit Oil Change International, which argued the same fossil-fuel system driving the climate crisis is also enabling “genocide.”

These various factors — ranging from economic interests to political maneuvering — help explain the strange paradox of countries scrambling to whitewash al-Sharaa and curry favor with a regime that was considered a terrorist entity just months ago. It is a fitting spectacle for the state of global politics in this Trumpian era.

Little-known to most outside of Philippines, Enrile is a shrewd politician snake who helped usher in an authoritarian regime in the Philippines, and as his political life became endangered, sparked a revolution that overthrew the Marcos regime.

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Andrej Babiš, the self-proclaimed “Trumpist” billionaire who won last month’s Czech election, has refused to sell his huge business empire, but insisted he will resolve a conflict of interest that threatens to bar him from becoming prime minister.

Berlin (AFP) – Germany’s coalition government has agreed a new voluntary military service model, politicians said Thursday, after weeks of wrangling over whether there should be a compulsory element.

Islamabad (Pakistan) (AFP) – Pakistan’s parliament approved a sweeping constitutional amendment on Thursday granting lifetime immunity to the president as well as the current army chief, a move critics warned would erode democratic checks and judicial independence.

“France’s BBC reported that Taiwan donated eight billion euros (US$9.2 billion) so the vice president can go up and spout nonsense for 20 minutes,” reads a Threads post written in traditional Chinese and shared November 9, 2025.

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*As Keir Starmer announces SMRs to be built in Wales, US ambassador says Britain should choose ‘a different path’*

-Ethiopia wins backing of African nations, seeing off Nigeria

Following months of debate, the coalition government has agreed on a new mechanism to boost soldier numbers. It includes the option for partial compulsory enlistment.

Sydney (AFP) – Australia’s conservative opposition said on Thursday it will drop its commitment to achieving net zero emissions by 2050 if it wins power and leads a country dependent on fossil fuels but highly vulnerable to climate change.

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Number of Canadians visiting the U.S. has been in steep decline since Trump took office

G7 foreign ministers questioned Marco Rubio about the attacks on what the Trump administration claims are drug smugglers

According to the agency, the suspected organizer of the operation was a resident of Crimea who began working for Russian special services after Russia seized the peninsula in 2014.

Paris is marking the 10th anniversary of terrorist attacks that killed 132 people and injured hundreds.

The former prince’s reaction when he heard about a newspaper inquiry was among more than 20,000 pages of documents from Epstein’s estate, including some mentioning Trump.

Folks, it’s happening!

*The truce broke down this week after a Thai soldier lost a leg to a landmine blast, prompting Thailand’s PM to say the peace deal was ‘now over’*

*The verdict awarded to the family of Shikha Garg is the first in the dozens of lawsuits filed after two plane crashes in Ethiopia and Indonesia that killed a combined 346 people.*

In the wake of a measles outbreak in Canada that has infected thousands of people over the past year, an international health agency revoked the country’s measles-free status on Nov. 10, 2025.

Lisbon (AFP) – With NASA’s International Space Station set to come out of service in 2030, American aerospace firm Vast has stepped into a frenzied race for the world’s first commercial space station.

Explosions were reported in the Russian city of Oryol overnight as authorities simultaneously declared missile and drone threats in the region, according to local residents and Russian media.

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The study is planned to run for four months but may be extended if necessary to ensure it is comprehensive.

BEIJING/TAIPEI - Chinese police on Thursday issued a wanted notice and offered a $35,000 reward for two Taiwanese social media influencers they accused of “separatism”, what Taipei says is an effort by China to bring fear to Taiwanese.

NEW DELHI - India’s air force chief made the inaugural landing of a military transport aircraft at a new airbase capable of fighter jet operations close to the disputed Himalayan border with China, a defence official said on Thursday.

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Paris (AFP) – Global fossil fuel emissions are set to hit a new high in 2025, according to research published Thursday that also warns curbing warming under 1.5C would now be essentially “impossible”.

Part of a recently-opened bridge collapsed in China’s southwestern province of Sichuan along a national highway linking the country’s heartland with Tibet on Tuesday (Nov 11), local authorities said, but there were no reports of casualties.