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American families will have to cancel their Thanksgiving plans if the government shutdown continues, the US transportation secretary has warned.

Hundreds of people are feared dead after a migrant boat from Myanmar capsized near Malaysia.

Several people were injured on Sunday evening after two passenger trains collided on the main railway corridor between Pezinok and Bratislava, Slovak authorities said.

A Russian opposition activist arrested in Poland and due to go on trial next month has admitted he worked as an undercover agent for Russia’s FSB security service and informed on other opposition figures, court documents claim.

Hamas has handed over the body of a British-educated Israeli soldier who was captured and killed 11 years ago.

After being alerted to the matter by The Observer.

More than one million people have been evacuated and at least one person killed as floodwaters rose in the Philippines before typhoon Fung-wong’s expected landfall on the East Coast.

The longest federal government shutdown in US history persists into its 40th day as Democrat and Republican senators conflict over health care funding.

Power will be cut for between eight and 16 hours across most regions of Ukraine on Sunday, state transmission system operator Ukrenergo has said, after Russian attacks targeting energy infrastructure reduced the country’s generating capacity to “zero”.

The BBC will reportedly apologize after it "doctored" a speech Donald Trump made shortly before the Capitol riot on January 6, 2020.

The world’s largest sovereign wealth fund has rejected a $1tn (£765bn) pay deal for Elon Musk in a shareholder vote to decide his future at Tesla.

RadarOnline.com can report that a former Virginia teacher who was shot by a 6-year-old student has been awarded over $10 million after a jury found that a former assistant principal ignored warning signs that the boy had brought a gun to the school.

A man in his 50s has been hospitalized after a bear attack in Japan’s Fukushima prefecture, the latest in a growing string of encounters that have triggered panic in the country.

Ghislaine Maxwell said she was “much happier” after being moved to a minimum-security prison, emails show.

President Donald Trump’s press secretary has branded the BBC a “leftist propaganda machine” and “100 percent fake news” after the broadcaster was accused of bias in some of its reporting.

Tanzanian authorities have detained a senior official from the main opposition party, Chadema, amid a series of arrests connected to deadly protests during last week’s elections.

Bulgaria is urgently working to prevent the closure of its only oil refinery before U.S. sanctions on the Russian owner come into force later this month.

Authorities are contemplating whether to charge an Indiana homeowner who, they claim, shot and killed a woman working as a house cleaner after she accidentally went to the wrong address.

Israel is detaining dozens of Palestinians from Gaza in an underground prison where they never see daylight, are deprived of adequate food, and are prohibited from receiving news of their families or the outside world.

Russia launched a barrage of drones and missiles at Ukraine overnight, killing at least four people and damaging energy infrastructure in three separate regions, according to Ukrainian officials.

Peace negotiations between Pakistan and Afghanistan collapsed, just one day after both parties accused each other of initiating border clashes that threatened to violate a ceasefire facilitated by Qatar.

More than 5,000 fossil fuel lobbyists were granted access to the UN climate summits over the past four years, a period characterized by an increase in catastrophic extreme weather, insufficient climate action, and record oil and gas expansion, new research reveals.

Opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan fell 20% in 2025 compared to the previous year, according to a new report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), marking a continued decline since the Taliban’s 2022 nationwide ban on poppy farming.