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Meet the US’s drug running friends: A history of narcotics involvement 

04 December 2025

As the United States ramps up strikes on Venezuelan boats and threatens a land invasion to fight alleged drug traffickin...

Rubio says Trump to get involved in Sudan peace efforts as civil war rages 

04 December 2025

United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said that President Donald Trump has been personally overseeing efforts...

Eurovision organisers debate whether Israel should be barred from contest 

04 December 2025

News|Entertainment Public broadcasters are meeting to discuss whether Israel should be excluded from the Eurovision Song...

Gaza militia leader accused of collaborating with Israel killed: Reports 

04 December 2025

Yasser Abu Shabab, the leader of a gang in the Gaza Strip that was accused of working with Israel to counter Hamas and o...

Tunisia arrests top opposition leader Nejib Chebbi in widening crackdown 

04 December 2025

Tunisian police have arrested top opposition figure Ahmed Nejib Chebbi, his family says, as a crackdown on critics of Pr...

‘Putin perfectly understands that Ukraine is running out of time’ 

04 December 2025

From Russia’s perspective, Ukraine’s refusal to accept its terms to end the war is the main obstacle to peace. Accor...

Putin says Russia ready to take Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region ‘by force’ 

04 December 2025

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said recent talks with United States negotiators over ending the war with Ukraine w...

Root’s first century in Australia gives England edge as Starc topples Akram 

04 December 2025

England’s Joe Root conquered his final frontier with a first Ashes century in Australia as the tourists pushed past 30...

Global campaign launched to free jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti 

04 December 2025

An international campaign to free popular Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti, who has been jailed in Israel since 2002,...

Amid Trump threats, what has the US’s ‘war on drugs’ achieved in 50 years? 

04 December 2025

More than 50 years ago, in the summer of 1971, US President Richard Nixon declared drug abuse “public enemy number one...