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Nigeria grants asylum to Guinea-Bissau presidential candidate after coup

Nigeria has granted asylum to Guinea-Bissau presidential candidate Fernando Dias da Costa just days after a coup prevented the results of the recent election being announced.

December 3, 2025 10:33 am
 

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Cyclone Ditwah kills 410, leaves hundreds missing in Sri Lanka

Nawaz Nashra recalls grabbing her three-year-old daughter, wrapping her in a bedsheet and running out of their home in central Sri Lanka as a landslide struck, triggered by a deadly cyclone that killed 410 people in the worst floods in a decade.

December 3, 2025 9:20 am
 

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Venezuela approves migrant repatriation flight from U.S.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has approved a migrant repatriation flight from the United States, Venezuelan authorities said on Tuesday, days after Caracas said comments by U.S. President Donald Trump had effectively halted the program.

December 3, 2025 8:34 am
 

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Trump raises doubts about Honduras presidential vote count

U.S. President Donald Trump said that it appeared that Honduras is “trying to change the results of their Presidential Election,” alleging that the country’s election commission prematurely stopped counting votes.

December 2, 2025 6:00 pm
 

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Illegal migrants to face clothing and mouth searches for phones at UK ports

Police in Britain will be able to require illegal migrants to remove their coats and allow mouth searches at British ports so officers can look for mobile phones or SIM cards and gather intelligence on their journey, the government said.

December 2, 2025 5:36 pm
 

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Trump met with advisers on Venezuela as US ramps up pressure

U.S. President Donald Trumpheld talks with top advisers to discuss the pressure campaign on Venezuela, among other topics, a senior U.S. official said.

December 2, 2025 4:19 pm
 

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Southeast Asia storm deaths near 800 as scale of disaster revealed

The death toll from cyclone-induced floods and landslides in Indonesia passed 600 as rescuers battled to clear roads and improved weather conditions revealed the scale of a disaster that has killed nearly 800 people in Southeast Asia.

December 2, 2025 3:00 pm
 

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Australian teen challenging social media ban says internet will be less safe

A teenager suing the Australian government to overturn a ban on social media for under-16s says the measure would make the internet more dangerous for young people and be widely circumvented.

December 2, 2025 2:07 pm
 

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Hong Kong arrests more suspects in fire probe as death toll hits 151

Hong Kong authorities said they had arrested 13 people for suspected manslaughter in a probe into the city’s deadliest fire in decades, pointing to substandard renovation materials for fuelling a blaze that has claimed at least 151 lives.

December 2, 2025 1:47 pm
 

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Canada agrees to join EU initiative to surge defense spending

Canada has reached an agreement to join the European Union’s Security Action for Europe (SAFE) initiative, which will give Canadian defense companies expanded access to the European market, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s office said on Monday.

December 2, 2025 12:00 pm
 

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Son of 'El Chapo' set to change plea in US drug prosecution

A son of imprisoned Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was set on Monday to change his not guilty plea in a U.S. drug trafficking case, months after his brother pleaded guilty to similar charges.

December 2, 2025 11:00 am
 

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Honduras election on a knife edge as Trump-backed man slightly ahead

Early results from the general election in Honduras show the leader of the right-wing National Party, Nasry Asfura, has a razor-thin lead.

December 2, 2025 10:00 am

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