MONDAY, 17 NOVEMBER 2025, 18:15
Prominent Afrikaners are pushing back after President Trump announced no U.S. officials will attend the G20 in Johannesburg, rejecting his claims of “white persecution” in South Africa as false and politically driven.
The country hasn’t been able to curb an outbreak of more than 5,000 cases over the last year, while US cases are at a 33-year high.
Released Israeli hostage Bar Kupershtein says he managed to survive two years in a cramped Hamas tunnel in Gaza with no sunlight, little food and regular beatings, by clinging to his belief that he was in God’s hands the entire time.
Nineteen more were injured in the blast, the cause of which is still unknown, authorities say.
Police say eight people have been killed after a car explodes near Delhi’s Red Fort landmark in India.
A car exploded near the 17th century Red Fort in New Delhi on Monday, killing at least eight people, injuring others and triggering a fire that damaged vehicles parked nearby, New Delhi police said.
Formerly aligned with al-Qaida with a U.S. bounty on his head, Ahmed al-Sharaa became Syria’s president after leading the rebels who toppled the country’s authoritarian Assad regime.
Prison guards found 27 bodies hours after another four inmates were killed in clashes between rival gangs.
Several Senate Democrats break ranks to join Republicans in a deal to reopen the government. And, world leaders gather in Brazil for a major climate conference, but the U.S. is not expected to attend.
Syria’s President Ahmed al-Sharaa is to meet US President Donald Trump at the White House for unprecedented talks just days after Washington removed him from a terrorism blacklist.
Under President Trump, the U.S. has taken steps to roll back climate policies. Here are six significant changes.
This time last year, Ahmed al-Sharaa [[ahk-mahd al-SHAH-raa]] had a $10 million U.S. bounty on his head. He is now Syria’s president and will meet with President Trump at the White House Monday.
Typhoon Fung-wong slammed the Philippines Monday, killing two and displacing over 1 million people. NPR’s Leila Fadel speaks to the World Food Programme’s Regis Chapman about the aid being provided.
In Jamaica, survivors of Hurricane Melissa describe losing everything as the storm’s fury lays bare the island’s new climate reality.
World leaders will meet this week for the U.N. climate conference, known as COP30. The White House isn’t sending anyone, leaving many wondering what role other countries will play in the summit.
Typhoon Fung-wong blew out of the Philippines after setting off floods and landslides, knocking out power to entire provinces, killing at least four people and displacing more than 1.4 million.
A weakened Typhoon Fung-wong is now passing over the South China Sea, after leaving two people dead in the Philippines.
South Korean prosecutors indicted former president Yoon Suk Yeol on new charges of aiding the enemy, alleging that he ordered drone flights over North Korea to strengthen his effort to declare martial law.
Police have charged Harshita Brella’s husband with murder – but, despite sightings, he remains on the run.
As Brazil prepares to host COP30, residents of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas are mobilizing to make sure the voices of the world’s informal settlements aren’t left out of global climate talks.
The BBC said that director-general Tim Davie and head of news Deborah Turness have resigned after criticism of the broadcaster’s editing of a speech by U.S. President Donald Trump.