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Top News Stories for Monday, November 24th 2025
Ukraine and Western allies meet to discuss a US peace plan that has sparked alarm in Kyiv and Europe
Sunday, Nov 23rd, 2025 -
GENEVA (AP) — Top European and Ukrainian envoys conferred in Geneva on Sunday ahead of talks with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio over President Donald Trump's proposal to end Russia's war on Ukraine. The head of the Ukrainian delegation, presidential chief of staff Andrii Yermak, wrote on social media said that they held their first meeting with the national security advisers from the U.K., France and ...
Source: apnews.com
Sunday, Nov 23rd, 2025 -
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has landed in Switzerland for meetings with Ukrainian and European officials on Sunday as U.S. efforts to coordinate a Ukraine peace push were clouded by concerns over the origins of the proposal. The 28-point plan suggests that Russia could be granted more territory than it holds, stipulates limits on Ukraine's army, and prevents Kyiv from ever joining NATO — concessions that ...
Source: aol.com
Saturday, Nov 22nd, 2025 -
United States President Donald Trump lavishly praised New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani after surprisingly cordial talks in the White House on Friday, defying expectations of a potentially tense meeting between the Republican billionaire and the self-proclaimed Democratic socialist. The warmth displayed came in stark contrast to the barbs the pair have exchanged in recent months. Trump has caricatured ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Saturday, Nov 22nd, 2025 -
on Friday evening she will be resigning from office effective 5 January 2026, in the wake of souring relations with President Donald Trump, mostly recently over a vote to force the release of files related to the late Jeffrey Epstein. In a four-page statement, the Georgia congresswoman said the legislative branch had been "sidelined" and accused Republican leaders of refusing to advance conservative priorities such ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Saturday, Nov 22nd, 2025 -
Move comes after fears the far-right former president was about to seek refuge at a foreign embassy to avoid prison Brazil's former far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro , has been arrested at his villa in the capital, Brasília, amid suspicions he was poised to abscond to a foreign embassy to avoid going to prison for masterminding a military coup. In a brief statement, federal police confirmed officers ...
Source: theguardian.com
Saturday, Nov 22nd, 2025 -
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Friday night that he's "immediately" terminating temporary legal protections for Somali migrants living in Minnesota, further targeting a program seeking to limit deportations that his administration has already repeatedly sought to weaken. Minnesota has the nation's largest Somali community. Many fled the long civil war in their east African country and were drawn to ...
Source: npr.org
Saturday, Nov 22nd, 2025 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two senators who lead a bipartisan antisemitism task force said Friday they want more information from the U.S. Coast Guard about how it will investigate incidents of swastikas, nooses or other hate symbols being displayed in its ranks. The Coast Guard late Thursday released a new, firmer policy addressing the display of such hate symbols, just hours after it was publicly revealed that an ...
Source: military.com
Saturday, Nov 22nd, 2025 -
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Friday temporarily restored a controversial Trump-backed Texas redistricting plan that could grant Republicans an extra five seats in the House of Representatives. Alito's order came in response to a ruling from a federal court in Texas on Tuesday, which blocked the redrawn congressional maps on the basis that they were "racially gerrymandered." "It is ordered that the November ...
Source: commondreams.org