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The agreement was reached with Rwandan President Paul Kagame and Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshiseked

A United Nations Security Council delegation has visited Syria for the first time since the council's founding in 1945

New files and human-rights filings show the Pentagon knew survivors remained after a September maritime strike, yet a follow-on attack was still authorised, prompting legal and congressional scrutiny of Operation Southern Spear.

Burkina Faso’s security minister headed to Tehran on Nov. 12, 2025, for high-level talks with Iranian officials. The visit was a fruitful one: The West African nation reopened its Iranian embassy, finalized new agreements on security cooperation and held discussions about strengthening relations in agriculture and industry.

More than a decade after Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 vanished with 239 people on board, Malaysia has approved a new deep-sea search led by Ocean Infinity, restarting on 30 December 2025. Here are the key facts on what is known, what has been found and why the mystery still is…

Norway has put its deep-sea mining ambitions on hold, after political pressure forced the government into a rare policy reversal. Under a budget deal struck with opposition parties, the governing Labour Party agreed that no deep-sea mining licenses will be issued in Norwegian waters until at least 2029.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz argues against granting asylum to Syrians after al-Assad's regime fell, but critics warn the country remains unsafe for minorities and women.

Government once seen as progressive on migration says aid cuts to blame for excluding countries ‘not experiencing war’

Meeting comes two days after Witkoff and Jared Kushner held five hours of talks with Vladimir Putin in Moscow

NASA's Psyche spacecraft refines the trajectory of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS while the UN utilises the safe object for a two-month global planetary defence simulation.

Sussan Ley says the communications minister should have been focusing on her day job rather than jetting to New York in the middle of the Optus outage crisis.