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Bosnian Serbs elect dismissed firebrand's ally to replace him: partial results
Bosnian Serb voters on Sunday elected an ally of their dismissed leader Milorad Dodik to replace him, preliminary results indicated, in a snap vote intended to settle months of political turbulence. Dodik was ejected from office in August following his conviction for ignoring rulings by Christian Schmidt, the international appointee who oversees a peace deal which has held Bosnia together since the end of its 1990s inter-ethnic war. The conflict left the country split into two semi-autonomous ha
Nov. 24, 2025 -
50 kidnapped Catholic school students in Nigeria escape
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) -- Fifty of the more than 300 students kidnapped from a Nigerian Catholic school last week have escaped and have been reunited with their parents, the Catholic Church and Christian Association of Nigeria said on Sunday. But around 253 of the kidnapped children, along with 12 staff members and teachers, are still with the kidnappers, said CAN Chairman Bulus Yohanna, a Catholic Bishop who is also the proprietor of the school. In a statement, Yohanna said the pupils esc
Nov. 24, 2025 -
Sudan army chief slams Quad truce proposal as 'worst yet'
PORT SUDAN, Sudan (AFP) — Sudan's army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan said Sunday the latest truce proposal sent by US envoy Massad Boulos on behalf of a group of mediators was the "worst yet" and unacceptable to his government. In a video address released by his office, he said the Quad, which in addition to the US includes Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates, was "biased" as long as Abu Dhabi was a member. He accused Boulos of parroting talking points from Abu Dhabi, which has been
Nov. 24, 2025 -
Israel says it killed senior Hezbollah official in first strike on Beirut in months
Israel on Sunday struck Lebanon’s capital for the first time since June, saying it killed Hezbollah’s chief of staff Haytham Tabtabai and warning the Iran-backed militant group not to rearm and rebuild a year after their latest war. The strike in Beirut’s southern suburbs killed five people and wounded 25 others, Lebanon’s Health Ministry said. Hezbollah confirmed Tabtabai's death. Earlier it said the strike, launched almost exactly a year after a ceasefire in the Israel-Hezbollah war, threatene
Nov. 24, 2025 -
Mamdani stands by Trump criticism despite friendly White House meeting
WASHINGTON (AP) — New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani didn't back down in an interview that aired Sunday from past criticism that US President Donald Trump acted like a despot and a fascist after a surprisingly friendly White House meeting between the two men. The newly elected democratic socialist and the Republican president have fiercely criticized each other in the past. Trump called Mamdani a “100 percent Communist Lunatic” in a social media post following the incoming mayor's election vict
Nov. 24, 2025 -
US to launch new phase of Venezuela operations, sources say
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- The US is poised to launch a new phase of Venezuela-related operations in the coming days, four US officials told Reuters, as the Trump administration escalates pressure on President Nicolas Maduro's government. Reuters was not able to establish the exact timing or scope of the new operations, nor whether US President Donald Trump had made a final decision to act. Reports of looming action have proliferated in recent weeks as the US military has deployed forces to the Car
Nov. 23, 2025 -
Brazil's Bolsonaro detained over flight risk, damaged ankle monitor
BRASILIA, Brazil (Reuters) -- Brazil's federal police on Saturday took former President Jair Bolsonaro into custody due to flight risk after he took a soldering iron to his ankle monitor, ending months of house arrest as he appeals his conviction for plotting a coup. The detention in a 12-square-meter room in federal police headquarters in Brasilia marks the latest setback for Bolsonaro after US President Donald Trump, his ideological ally, rolled back tariffs meant to derail his prosecution. Su
Nov. 23, 2025 -
US denies pushing Russian 'wish list'
WASHINGTON (AFP) -- Washington insisted Saturday that its Ukraine proposal is indeed official US policy, denying claims by a group of senators that Secretary of State Marco Rubio told them the document under discussion is just a Russian "wish list." The dispute over the 28-point plan -- which cedes Ukrainian territory long sought by Moscow -- threw an extraordinary element of confusion into efforts to negotiate an end to the war. US President Donald Trump has pushed the plan, pressuring the Ukra
Nov. 23, 2025 -
Trump and Mamdani go from adversaries to allies after White House meeting
WASHINGTON (AP) — US President Donald Trump on Friday met the man who had proudly proclaimed himself “Donald Trump's worst nightmare,” but he seemed to find the opposite. The Republican president and New York City’s Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani were warm and friendly, speaking repeatedly of their shared goals to help Trump's hometown rather than their combustible differences. Trump, who had in the past called Mamdani a "100 percent Communist Lunatic" and a “total nut job," spoke openly of how impr
Nov. 23, 2025 -
Trump taps Jack Nicklaus to fix courses at Joint Base Andrews
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says he’s enlisting the help of legendary golfer Jack Nicklaus to spruce up the courses at Joint Base Andrews — adding a site long known as the “president’s golf course” to his long list of construction projects. The president took an aerial tour of the Courses at Andrews aboard Marine One on Saturday, and promised, “We’re going to do some work” there, as well as to other parts of the base. “We’re doing some fix-up of the base, which it needs. We’re gonna
Nov. 23, 2025 -
Red Cross slashes 2026 budget, to shed 2,900 jobs
GENEVA -- The International Committee of the Red Cross said Friday it was cutting its 2026 budget by 17 percent amid declining donor contributions, and would slash thousands of jobs. The ICRC said "a challenging financial environment in the humanitarian sector" had led its assembly to approve a 2026 budget of 1.8 billion Swiss francs ($2.2 billion) -- down 17 percent compared to this year. The organisation warned the cuts were coming at a time when the numbers of conflicts worldwide and the need
Nov. 21, 2025 -
Top Ukraine security official denies accepting terms of Trump's peace plan
KYIV/WASHINGTON -- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's top security official denied on Friday he had agreed to a Trump administration peace plan, and European leaders hastily sought a response to a draft that endorses most of Russia's key wartime demands. Washington has presented Kyiv with a 28-point plan that would require Kyiv to give up additional territory, scale back the size of its military and forever abandon hope of joining the NATO western military alliance. Ukraine's European all
Nov. 21, 2025 -
Ukraine expected to give up land, some arms under US peace plan, sources say
The US has signaled to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that Ukraine must accept a US-drafted framework to end the war with Russia that proposes Kyiv giving up territory and some weapons, two people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. The sources, who asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the matter, said the proposals included cutting the size of Ukraine's armed forces, among other things. Washington wants Kyiv to accept the main points, they said. Such a plan would repr
Nov. 20, 2025 -
Nvidia earnings clear lofty hurdle set by analysts amid fears about an AI bubble
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Nvidia’s sales of the computing chips powering the artificial intelligence craze surged beyond the lofty bar set by stock market analysts in a performance that may ease recent jitters about a Big Tech boom turning into a bust that topples the world’s most valuable company. The results announced late Wednesday provided a pulse check on the frenzied spending on AI technology that has been fueling both the stock market and much of the overall economy since OpenAI released its C
Nov. 20, 2025 -
Trump: Allowing skilled immigrants is MAGA
WASHINGTON (AP) — US President Donald Trump has made hard-line immigration policies a signature issue, but acknowledged on Wednesday that he's been criticized for recently saying some skilled immigrants should be allowed into the country from his “Make America Great Again” supporters. Trump told an audience of business executives that the US needs immigrants who can train domestic workers in high-tech factories — and insisted that doing so is not inconsistent with his core political beliefs. “I
Nov. 20, 2025