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UN Sounds Alarm Over Global “Apathy” as It Launches Sharply Scaled-Back 2026 Humanitarian Appeal

A staff member with the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) speaks with displaced women in the eastern province of Nangahar in Afghanistan. (Photo: UN)

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UN Urges Taliban to Lift Ban on Female Staff, Warns of Growing Risks to Aid Delivery

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov looks on as Russia's President Vladimir Putin meets with media representatives in Moscow, Dec. 2, 2025. (AFP)

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Russia Praises Trump’s New US Security Strategy as Aligning With Its Own Vision

Japanese Minister of Defense Shinjiro Koizumi, L, and Australian counterpart Richard Marles, review an honor guard ahead of a bilateral meeting at the defense ministry Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025, in Tokyo. (AP)

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Japan, Australia Urge Calm After Chinese Jet Locks Radar on Japanese Fighters Near Okinawa

A Russian Sukhoi Su-35 jet performs during MAKS-2009 in Zhukovsky, outside Moscow, Russia, on Aug. 21, 2009. (AP)

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Documents Show Russia Building 16 Su-35 Jets for Iran, Deliveries Expected by 2027

A cyclist rides past the building headquarters of OPEC in Vienna, Austria on May 28, 2025. (AFP)

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OPEC Output Slips as Technical Outages in Iraq and Nigeria Undercut Planned Production Hikes

A sea drone Magura V7 of Ukraine's Defense Intelligence equipped with surface-to-air missiles rides, Dec. 6, 2025. (AP)

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Ukraine, U.S. Enter Third Day of Intensive Peace Talks as Russia Launches Massive Overnight Assault

U.S. President Donald Trump. (AFP)

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Trump Administration Shifts Focus From “Forever Wars” to Economic Power in 2025 Strategy

Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong. (AP)

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Canberra Escalates Pressure on Kabul with Targeted Sanctions on Taliban Leadership

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Global Child Deaths Set to Rise for First Time in Decades, Gates Foundation Report Warns

U.S. President Trump (L) receives the FIFA Peace Prize from Gianni Infantino at the 2026 World Cup draw. (AFP)

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Trump Awarded FIFA’s New Peace Prize at 2026 World Cup Draw in Washington

Sarwagya Singh Kushwaha poses with a recently won trophy. (Photo: Instagram/Sarwagya Singh Kushwaha)

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Indian Toddler Becomes World’s Youngest Rated Chess Player

President Trump greets Russian President Vladimir Putin on the tarmac in Anchorage, Alaska, on Aug. 15, 2025. (AFP)

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Trump Says Putin Wants to End Ukraine War

Russia's President Vladimir Putin, (R3), meets with US special envoy Steve Witkoff, (L2) and US President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, (L3) at the Kremlin in Moscow on Dec. 2, 2025. (AFP)

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US–Russia Peace Push Falters as Kremlin Refuses Territorial Compromise in Ukraine Talks

A Russian warship is docked in the Port Sudan, in Port Sudan, Sudan, Sunday, Feb. 28, 2021. (AP)

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Sudan Offers Russia Strategic Foothold: Proposed Red Sea Naval Base Alarms Western Powers

Nigerien soldier inside a vehicle escorting press near Areva’s uranium mine in Arlit, 26 Sept 2010. (AFP)

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Junta Nationalizes Orano Assets as Niger Shifts Toward Russia and Iran