School owners, teachers and parents in Nigeria have voiced alarm over the surge in student abductions across educational institutions, particularly in the country’s northern region
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Bandits abduct 215 students, 12 teachers in raid on Catholic School in Nigeria
Armed bandits attacked a private Catholic school in Nigeria’s north-central Niger State on Friday, abducting 215 students and 12 teachers
G20 kicks off with focus on climate, debt and inequality in South Africa
Leaders and top government officials from the richest and leading emerging economies will come together at an exhibition centre near the famous Soweto township in South Africa — once home to Nelson Mandela — to try and find some consensus on the priorities set out by the host country.
Three dead after magnitude 5.7 earthquake hits Bangladesh, strong tremors felt in Kolkata
At least three people died after an earthquake caused a railing to collapse from a five-storey building in Bangladesh capital Dhaka
Fire at COP30 in Brazil forces evacuation; 13 treated for smoke inhalation
At least 13 people were treated for smoke inhalation after a massive fire broke out at the COP30 UN climate talks in Belém,
Trump repeats story of stopping India-Pakistan conflict; claims “got a call from Prime Minister Modi”
US President Donald Trump, while speaking at the US-Saudi Investment Forum on November 19, repeated his story of ending the India-Pakistan conflict in May 2025, a story that India has firmly rejected but Pakistan has endorsed.
India, Brazil hold key talks on fossil fuel roadmap at COP30 summit
According to sources privy to the discussion, the two sides mainly discussed on Wednesday a possible roadmap on fossil fuel — a topic that the President is pushing hard during the ongoing COP30.
Secret lender: How China put USD 200 billion into high-tech American businesses over 24 years
China’s state lenders have funnelled USD 200 billion into US businesses for a quarter of a century, but many of the loans have been kept secret because the money was first routed through shell companies in the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Delaware and elsewhere that helped obscure their origins, according to AidData, a research lab at the College of William & Mary in Virginia.
US Senate bill proposes 500 per cent tariff for buying Russian-origin oil; Trump threatens severe sanctions
Senator Lindsey Graham and Senator Richard Blumenthal have jointly introduced the Sanctioning Russia Act of 2025, which seeks to impose secondary tariffs and sanctions on “countries that continue to fund Putin’s barbaric war in Ukraine”. The proposed legislation has 85 co-sponsors in the US Senate.
Israel-Palestine conflict: UN Security Council adopts resolution endorsing Gaza peace plan
The UN Security Council adopted a resolution on Monday that endorses a peace plan for Gaza
