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Turkiye arrests 125 ISIL suspects in new raids that mark widening crackdown 

31 December 2025

News|ISIL/ISIS Turkiye’s government says it has detained more than 100 ISIL (ISIS) suspects in nationwide raids, as th...

Trump administration freezes Minnesota childcare funds over fraud claims 

31 December 2025

United States President Donald Trump’s government has frozen childcare payments to the state of Minnesota and launched...

Mali, Burkina Faso ban US citizens in response to Trump travel bans 

31 December 2025

Mali and Burkina Faso have announced their plan to apply reciprocal visa bans to citizens of the United States, weeks af...

War in Sudan: Humanitarian collapse, fighting, deadlock, December 2025 

31 December 2025

News|Sudan war The brutal war in Sudan, now deep into its third year, has shifted its centre of gravity to the strategic...

Huge crowds for Khaleda funeral as Bangladesh bids farewell to ex-leader 

31 December 2025

Vast crowds have gathered in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka for the state funeral of former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, w...

How Pakistan’s Asim Munir became Trump’s ‘favourite field marshal’ 

31 December 2025

Islamabad, Pakistan – The setting was Mar-a-Lago, the personal residence of United States President Donald Trump, and ...

Russia deploys hypersonic Oreshnik missiles in Belarus amid Europe tensions 

31 December 2025

Russia has released footage showing the deployment of its Oreshnik hypersonic missile system in Belarus, a move that cou...

After the floods of 2025, can we keep 2026 above water? 

31 December 2025

Devastating floods ravaged multiple regions of the world in 2025, from Southeast Asia to North America and the Middle Ea...

‘Ruthless’: Israeli ban on aid groups to have ‘horrific’ outcomes in Gaza 

31 December 2025

Skip linksSkip to Content Palestinians, including children, who are struggling to access food gather to receive hot meal...

An A-Z list of 2025’s biggest stories 

31 December 2025

Scroll back through the last year, and the same words come up again and again. The top-trending terms of 2025, from arti...