Ricardo Santiago, who heads MSF’s operations in southern Mexico, anticipates more migrants and asylum seekers like Ramirez will race to reach the border over the next month, before Trump takes office. That would mean a reversal of current trends. September saw a four-year low in apprehensions at the US border, according to government figures. Still, […]
Authorities say Antonio Guiteras power plant shut down overnight, prompting collapse of national power grid. Cuba’s national power grid has collapsed again, leaving millions of people across the Caribbean island without electricity in the latest such failure in recent months. Authorities said the Antonio Guiteras power plant in Matanzas, the country’s top electricity producer, shut
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South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol faces demands to resign following a bungled imposition of martial law. Yoon’s order on Tuesday to impose martial law on South Korea plunged the country into deep turmoil and caught allies around the world off guard. It brought thousands of protesters to the streets before lawmakers voted it down. The
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NATO’s new top diplomat suggested on Tuesday that Ukraine should put off any peace talks with Russia until Western allies can send enough military aid to help Kyiv push ahead on the battlefield and garner a stronger negotiating position. Mark Rutte, the NATO secretary general, said it was up to Ukraine to decide when it
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After being named prime minister in early September, Barnier said his priority was to bring down France’s budget deficit and get the country’s finances in order. To do so, he proposed a budget with €60 billion in combined tax hikes and spending cuts. Barnier attempted to pass part of the French budget using a constitutional
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Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, 72, won with 57 percent of the vote, flouting predictions that she might be forced into a run-off. Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has been elected Namibia’s president and will be the country’s first female leader, results released by the country’s electoral commission show. The 72-year-old won with 57 percent of the vote, according to official
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Pakistan wins by 10 wickets to take a 2-0 lead with one match to play in the three-game series. Pakistan wrist spinner Sufiyan Muqeem has starred in a series-clinching, 10-wicket Twenty20 international rout of Zimbabwe in Bulawayo. The 25-year-old took five consecutive wickets for the loss of only three runs as Zimbabwe crumbled to 57
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Three mountaineers from the United States and Canada were reported missing on Monday after they did not return from an attempt to summit Mount Cook, New Zealand’s highest mountain, the local police said. Severe weather conditions were obstructing the search. The two Americans, Kurt Blair, 56, and Carlos Romero, 50, and a Canadian whom officials
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Truong My Lan’s life could still be spared if she pays back three-quarters of the assets she embezzled. A Vietnamese court has rejected a real estate tycoon’s appeal, upholding the death sentence handed down for the embezzlement of $12bn. The court in Ho Chi Minh City ruled against Truong My Lan’s appeal in the case,
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Advances by opposition fighters raise questions over how Russia, Iran, Turkiye, Arab states and the US will respond. In Syria’s war, Russia, Iran, Turkiye, the United States and Arab states are all backing different factions. After a years-long deadlock, a swift opposition offensive has ushered in a new phase in the conflict. So how will
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