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Nov 20, 2025

Trump's Ukraine envoy Keith Kellogg expected to leave his post as new peace plan emerges

President Donald Trump's special envoy to Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, has informed the White House he'll leave his post in January, according to two senior administration officials.

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Nov 20, 2025

Democrats allege spy agency work is being undermined and politicized under Trump

Top Democrats on the House and Senate intelligence committees blasted the Trump administration's handling of intelligence matters Thursday, alleging that America's spy agencies have been undermined and politicized under President Donald Trump.

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Nov 20, 2025

US in talks to attend G20 summit after initial boycott, South Africa says

Cyril Ramaphosa says US has had ‘change of mind’ but does not confirm Trump’s attendance in JohannesburgThe US has changed its mind about attending the G20 summit in Johannesburg, South Africa’s president has said, without confirming whether Donald Trump, who had said the US would boycott the event, now wanted to come.Trump has claimed that South Africa racially discriminates against the minority white Afrikaner community, which led the country during the apartheid regime that ended in 1994. Continue reading...

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Nov 20, 2025

Brazilian president appoints ally Jorge Messias to country's Supreme Court

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has appointed Jorge Messias to the Supreme Court

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Nov 20, 2025

U.S., UAE defense tech firms partner on uncrewed aircraft with new hybrid powertrain

Defense tech firm Anduril announced a new partnership with a United Arab Emirates-based company to build an autonomous air vehicle for both military and commercial use.

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Nov 20, 2025

Christians face escalating existential threats from extremist violence, Nigerian bishop warns

Nigeria remains the deadliest place on earth to be a practising Christian. More believers are killed there every year than in the rest of the world combined, a Catholic prelate from Nigeria told lawmakers in Congress on Thursday.

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Nov 20, 2025

Congress warned that China's crackdown on religious freedom is a national security threat to U.S.

China's crackdown on religious freedom -- including recent arrests of Christian church members -- represents a national security threat to the U.S. and must be met with a powerful response, a coalition of experts told lawmakers Thursday on Capitol Hill.

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Nov 20, 2025

Israeli airstrikes kill 33 people in Gaza in escalation of post-ceasefire attacks

Medical officials say 17 people killed in Khan Younis area and 16 in strikes on Gaza CityIsraeli attacks in Gaza have killed 33 people and injured many more, according to medical officials, in one of the most serious escalations of violence since the US-backed ceasefire came into effect last month.Officials at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis said they received the bodies of 17 people, including five women and five children, after four Israeli airstrikes targeted tents sheltering displaced people. In Gaza City, medical officials said two airstrikes killed 16 people, including seven children and three women. Continue reading...

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Nov 20, 2025

‘We can no longer predict the seasons’: why Indonesia’s coal mindset has to change

It’s a climate-vulnerable nation, while also being the world’s sixth-largest greenhouse-gas emitter. Global investment in climate action is vital Continue reading...

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Nov 20, 2025

Weakened Zelenskyy faces U.S. pressure to accept Moscow-friendly peace plan

The timing couldn't be worse for Volodymyr Zelenskyy: The Trump administration's new Ukraine peace proposal, negotiated with Russia, calls for long-opposed concessions, including the ceding of territory, at perhaps the lowest point of the Ukrainian president's political career.

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Nov 20, 2025

Florida retiree detained in Saudi Arabia returns home following Prince's visit to White House

A Florida retiree who had been imprisoned in Saudi Arabia over social media posts critical of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has arrived back in the United States two days after President Donald Trump welcomed the kingdom's de-facto leader to the White House in a climactic end to years of diplomatic isolation from Washington.

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Nov 20, 2025

White House official: U.S. to attend G20, but won't take part in talks

A representative from the U.S. Embassy in South Africa will attend the formal handover ceremony at the end of this weekend's Group of 20 summit in Johannesburg, but the United States would still not take part in any talks, A White House official said Thursday.