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US senators say Rubio told them Trump's Ukraine peace plan is Russia's 'wish list'
- 4 min read Lawmakers critical of President Donald Trump's approach to ending the Russia-Ukraine war said Saturday they spoke with Secretary of State Marco Rubio who told them that the peace plan Trump is pushing Kyiv to accept is a "wish list" of the Russians and not the actual proposal offering Washington's positions. A State Department spokesperson denied their account, calling it "blatantly false." Rubio himself ...

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50 of 303 abducted Nigerian students escape captivity; remaining children and teachers still missing
- Fifty of the 303 schoolchildren abducted from a Catholic school in north-central Nigeria's Niger state have escaped captivity and are now with their families, the school authority said Sunday, bringing relief to some distraught families after one of the largest school abductions in Nigeria's history. The schoolchildren, aged between 10 and 18, escaped individually between Friday and Saturday, according to the Most ...

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Israel says it targeted Hezbollah militant in its first attack in Beirut in months
- An Israeli airstrike Sunday struck Beirut for the first time since June. Israel's military said that it targeted Hezbollah's chief of staff, without giving further details. Hezbollah has yet to comment. Smoke could be seen in the busy Haret Hreik neighborhood, with one video circulated on social media showing dozens of people crowded around the area of the strike, which appeared to be on an apartment building. ...

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Cyril Ramaphosa closes G20 summit after US boycott and handover row
- South African president bangs gavel after rejecting plan from US, which hosts next meeting, for him to hand over to junior official South Africa's president, Cyril Ramaphosa , closed the G20 summit in Johannesburg by banging a gavel, having rejected a US proposal for him to hand over to a relatively junior embassy official for the next summit in Florida in a year's time. South Africa presented the two-day event as ...

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Gaza hospitals running out of supplies as airstrikes continue, medics say
- 'Severe lack' in territory where Israeli strikes have killed more than 50 people and injured over 100 in recent days Hospitals in Gaza are running out of essential supplies, with new waves of Israeli airstrikes killing more than 50 people and injuring more than 100 in recent days, medical and aid workers in the devastated Palestinian territory have said. Medics told the Guardian on Sunday that stocks of gauze, ...

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Bolsonaro held on fears ex-president would flee Brazil seeking asylum
- Nov. 22 (UPI) -- Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was detained early Saturday in Brasilia because of a possible "attempted escape" to an embassy days before he was to begin his 27-year prison sentence for leading a coup attempt. Brazil's Supreme Court issued a preventive arrest warrant that had been sought by police for Bolonaro, 70, who had been under house arrest with an ankle monitor since early August. ...

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COP30 climate talks end in Brazil without roadmap to phase out fossil fuels
- BELEM, Brazil (AP) — United Nations climate talks in Brazil reached a subdued agreement Saturday to deliver more money to countries hit hardest by climate change to help them adapt to extreme weather's wrath. But the agreement doesn't include an explicit detailed map to phase out fossil fuels or strengthen inadequate emissions cutting plans. The Brazilian hosts of the conference said they'd eventually come up ...

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