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Suspected tuberculosis outbreak at Ecuador prison kills 10 inmates

Ecuador’s prison authority said on Wednesday that 10 inmates at the Litoral prison in the capital Guayaquil were found dead between Monday and Tuesday, possibly from tuberculosis.

November 20, 2025 7:09 am
 

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Thousands of Tunisian doctors strike, say health system close to collapse

Thousands of young doctors went on strike across Tunisia to demand higher pay and warn of an impending collapse of the health system, part of a broader wave of social unrest convulsing the country.

November 20, 2025 6:46 am
 

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UK to build new munitions factories to boost warfighting readiness

Britain is to build a network of new munitions factories to boost its warfighting readiness, in a move aimed at restoring domestic production of military explosives for the first time in nearly two decades.

November 19, 2025 6:00 pm
 

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Ultra-processed foods are danger to global public health, experts warn

Ultra-processed foods are a major public health threat that must be urgently addressed, according to a new series of papers authored by 43 global experts in the Lancet medical journal.

November 19, 2025 5:15 pm
 

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US to send 250 border agents to Louisiana, Mississippi next month

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is planning to deploy about 250 federal border agents to Louisiana and Mississippi aiming to arrest around 5,000 people in the two states, the Associated Press reported, citing documents and three people familiar.

November 19, 2025 4:13 pm
 

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US approves potential sale of Patriot air defense system

The U.S. State Department has approved the potential sale of Patriot air defense system sustainment and related equipment to Ukraine for an estimated cost of $105 million, the Pentagon said.

November 19, 2025 3:30 pm
 

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Ukraine plans $44 billion claim against Russia for wartime emissions

Ukraine plans to seek nearly $44 billion from Russia for the damage linked to an increase in climate-warming emissions from the ongoing war, a government minister told Reuters.

November 19, 2025 2:27 pm
 

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Trump says visiting Saudi crown prince knew nothing about Khashoggi killing

U.S. President Donald Trump insisted that Mohammed bin Salman knew nothing about the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi agents, offering a fierce defense of the visiting Saudi crown prince that contradicted a U.S. intelligence assessment.

November 19, 2025 1:09 pm
 

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Jamaica seeks $9.5 billion in financial help to rebuild after Melissa

Jamaica spent years building a pot of money to handle climate-fuelled disasters.

November 19, 2025 12:30 pm
 

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Car ramming and stabbing attack in West Bank kills Israeli, 71

Palestinian attackers killed an Israeli man and wounded three other people in a car-ramming and stabbing in the Israeli-occupied West Bank before soldiers shot dead the assailants, Israeli leaders and the military said.

November 19, 2025 11:28 am
 

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Mali army killed 31 villagers in attacks on insurgent area, HRW says

Mali’s military and allied militias killed at least 31 people in attacks on two villages in the central Segou region where the main insurgent group linked to al Qaeda operates, Human Rights Watch said in a report.

November 19, 2025 10:22 am
 

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Poland annuls passport of ex-justice minister wanted by prosecutors

Poland has annulled the diplomatic passport of an ex-justice minister accused of abuse of power, the foreign minister said, as Warsaw tries to enforce a warrant for his arrest.

November 19, 2025 9:09 am

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