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Nov 27, 2025 - World

Bangladesh’s ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been sentenced to 21 years in prison in three corruption cases related to allocations of land in a government project

Nov 27, 2025 - World

The rankings were changed after the UN used new criteria to give a more accurate picture of the rapid urbanisation driving the growth of megacitiesJakarta has overtaken Tokyo as the world’s most populous city, according to a UN study that uses new criteria to give a more accurate picture of the rapid urbanisation driving the growth of megacities.The Indonesian capital is home to 42 million people, according to an estimate by the population division of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs in its World Urbanisation Prospects 2025 report published this month. Continue reading...

Nov 27, 2025 - World

France is set to introduce voluntary military service to strengthen its armed forces against the background of growing concerns about Russia's threat to Europe

Nov 27, 2025 - World

Suspect in custody after two West Virginia guard members shot in ‘targeted’ incident, Washington mayor saysUS politics live – latest updatesTwo West Virginia national guardsmen shot near the White House remained in critical condition on Wednesday in an attack that rattled the country’s capital.The incident comes amid a controversial deployment of troops to Washington DC ordered by the Trump administration. FBI director Kash Patel, Washington mayor Muriel Bowser and other officials confirmed in a press conference that both the guardsmen were in the hospital and described the shooting as “targeted”. Continue reading...

Nov 27, 2025 - World

Amid a frenetic scene, some residents said Trump’s militarization of the capital had much to answer forThe scene around Washington’s Farragut Square on Wednesday afternoon seem to fit Donald Trump’s most lurid stereotypes of a crime-ridden capital in need of federal troops to bring a firm smack of law and order.An area normally the preserve of professional office workers, coffee shops and lunch venues instead bore the hallmarks of a major crime scene as news spread that two national guard troops had been shot. Authorities later said the shooting suspect had been identified as an Afghan man. Continue reading...