05/04/2026: Tehran rejects Trump’s ‘helpless, nervous’ ultimatum
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14/03/2026: US bombs Iran’s Kharg Island, warns oil facilities next

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04/03/2026: UK to end study visas for Myanmar, Afghanistan, Cameroon, Sudan students
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24/02/2026: ‘You either fight or die’: Kenyans tricked into joining Russia-Ukraine war

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20/02/2026: More than 1,000 citizens had been lured to fight for Russia in Ukraine.
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17/02/2026: Over 100 artists for Palestine back UN’s rapporteur Albanese after resignation calls
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02/02/26: Laura Fernandez declares victory in Costa Rica’s presidential election
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01/02/26: Fela Kuti becomes first African to get Grammys Lifetime Achievement Award
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31/01/26: More than 200 killed in mine collapse in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
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30/01/26: Iran prepares for war as US military ‘armada’ approaches
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29/01/26: Bisan Owda with 1.4m followers reports TikTok ban
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28/01/26: Gustavo Petro: Colombia’s former rebel fighter turned president
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27/01/26: Canadian PM Carney unveils multibillion-dollar push to lower food costs
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26/01/26: Hunger, death, devastation: No respite in Tigray a year after US aid cuts
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25/01/26: Federal agents shoot and kill another US citizen in Minneapolis
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12/01/26: UN top court set to open Myanmar Rohingya genocide case
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10/01/26: ‘We just sit and cry’: Gaza’s cancer patients die waiting for treatment
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09/01/26: Protests erupt as ICE agent kills woman during immigration raid
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08/01/26: Trump to withdraw US from dozens of UN, international organisations
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07/01/26: Thousands of refugees fleeing DR Congo arrive at Burundi camps
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06/01/26: Israel bombs Lebanon, saying it targeted Hezbollah and Hamas
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04/01/26: Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said the US operation in Venezuela undermined international law.
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03/01/26: Palestine advocates praise NYC’s Mamdani for revoking pro-Israel decrees

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02/01/26: Several killed as Iran protests over rising cost of living spread
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1/01/26: Zohran Mamdani has been sworn in as mayor of New York City, making history as the city’s first Muslim mayor

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30/12/25: Israel to block dozens of aid groups working in war-battered Gaza
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30/12/25: Kyiv rejects Russia’s claim of Ukrainian attack on Putin residence
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22/12/25: Swedish authorities board sanctioned Russian ship in national waters

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17/12/25: India’s new suicide crisis: Poll workers take lives amid voter recount rush

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15/12/2025: One million households without power in Ukraine after Russia attacks energy grid
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