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General Horta Inta-A appoints new prime minister amid growing condemnation of military coup in West African nation.Guinea-Bissau’s new military ruler has moved to consolidate power days after a coup deposed President Umaro Sissoco Embalo.In a decree on Friday, General Horta Inta-A announced the appointment of Finance Minister Ilidio Vieira Te as the West African country’s new prime minister.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listThe people of Guinea-Bissau “expect a lot” of their new leaders, Inta-A told Te…

Advocates say the 16-year-old’s health had been in decline since his arrest in February for allegedly throwing rocks.Published On 27 Nov 202527 Nov 2025Click here to share on social mediashare2ShareIsraeli authorities have freed Palestinian American teenager Mohammed Ibrahim after more than nine months of detention, in a case that advocates say embodies Israeli abuses against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.Mohammed’s release on Thursday came after a months-long pressure campaign from United States lawmakers and civil rights groups.Recommended…

UNAIDS says millions across the world lost access to treatment and preventive care due to financial shortfalls.The United Nations agency for combating AIDS has announced that global funding disruptions for treatment and prevention programmes are leaving millions of people without access to care.In a report released on Tuesday, UNAIDS said the global response to the disease “immediately entered crisis mode” after the United States halted funding when President Donald Trump took office in January.Recommended Stories list of 3…

Leaders welcome deal reached at UN climate summit as step forward but say ‘more ambition’ needed to tackle the crisis.World leaders have put forward a draft text at the United Nations climate conference in Brazil that seeks to address the crisis, but the agreement does not include any mention of phasing out the fossil fuels driving climate change.The text was published on Saturday after negotiations stretched through the night, well beyond the expected close of the two-week COP30…

Brazil’s new draft proposal does not contain a roadmap for a transition, nor mention ‘fossil fuels’ at all.Countries remain bitterly divided over the future of fossil fuels as the 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference, known as COP30, is slated to end in Brazil’s northern city of Belem, potentially in a haze of recriminations.Delegates at the two-week conference have failed to reach a deal as Brazil circulated a new draft proposal on Thursday that did not include a…

Israel has kept troops in a UN-patrolled buffer zone in the Golan Heights since December’s ouster of Bashar al-Assad.Syria has denounced a trip by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other senior officials to the country’s south, where they visited troops deployed to Syrian territory they’ve occupied for months.Israel expanded its occupation of southern Syrian territory as the regime of former President Bashar al-Assad was overrun by rebel forces in December.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list“My…

The vote represents a major step in the years-long effort to make government documents on the late sex offender public.The United States Congress has approved a bill to release government documents related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, clearing the way for making the files public.The House of Representatives adopted the measure in a 427-1 vote on Tuesday, sending it to the Senate, which swiftly agreed to pass it by unanimous consent even before it was formally transmitted to…