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Oct 24, 2025 - World

Wave of unrest as polling suggests victory in presidential race for 92-year-old incumbent Paul BiyaAt least two people have been killed and dozens of protesters arrested in Cameroon as the government cracks down on dissent before the announcement of final results in this month’s presidential elections.Local media reports, citing preliminary data from the electoral commission (Elecam), suggest that victory for the 92-year-old incumbent, Paul Biya, is all but certain. That prospect has provoked anger and disbelief among his opponents, leading to unrest across several regions. Continue reading...

Oct 24, 2025 - World

Bharatiya Janata party launches first test flight as brown haze blankets city after Diwali – but experts decry ‘gimmick’The Delhi regional government is trialling a cloud-seeding experiment to induce artificial rain, in an effort to clean the air in the world’s most polluted city.The Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) has been proposing the use of cloud seeding as a way to bring Delhi’s air pollution under control since it was elected to lead the regional government this year. Continue reading...

Oct 23, 2025 - World

National Cattlemen's Beef Association has issued a blistering response to President Donald Trump's comments about American cattle ranchers.Trump on Wednesday said, "The Cattle Ranchers, who I love, don’t understand that the only reason they are doing so well, for the first time in decades, is because I put Tariffs on cattle coming into the United States, including a 50% Tariff on Brazil.""If it weren’t for me, they would be doing just as they’ve done for the past 20 years — Terrible!" he claimed. "It would be nice if they would understand that, but they also have to get their prices down, because the consumer is a very big factor in my thinking, also!"The association reposted Trump's comments on Facebook, along with a reply."The reality is that ranchers’ success is driven by their own hard work," it stated. "America’s cattlemen and women operate in one of the most competitive marketplaces in the world. U.S. cattle producers are proud to provide the safest, highest-quality beef on earth. We simply ask that the government not undercut them by importing more Argentinian beef in order to manipulate prices."The group continued, adding, "Cattlemen and women cannot stand behind President Trump while he undercuts the future of family farmers and ranchers by importing Argentinian beef.""It is imperative that President Trump and Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins let cattle markets work without interference," the organization then concluded. "If the administration is truly an ally of America’s cattle producers, we call on him to abandon this effort to manipulate markets and focus instead on completing the promised New World Screwworm facility in Texas; make additional investments that protect the domestic cattle herd from foreign animal diseases such as FMD; and address regulatory burdens, such as delisting of the gray wolf and addressing the scourge of black vultures."

Oct 22, 2025 - World

First lady Melania Trump has pledged to get Ukrainian children returned from Russian captivity, but her mission is fraught with high-stakes risks.President Donald Trump's wife last week hailed the return of eight Ukrainian children to their families, and while advocates celebrated the reunions, they also raised concerns about the first lady's passive-voice characterization of how they ended up in Russia, reported CNN.“Everyone is moving very carefully, but everyone is clear on the point that the first lady’s office needs to hear: Thank you — but it is 35,000 kids, not seven or eight,” said Nathaniel Raymond, executive director of the Yale Humanitarian Research Lab.The research lab operates the Ukraine Conflict Observatory through private donations after the Trump administration cut its funding, and Raymond worried that Melania Trump was understating the gravity of the situation.“It is kids who were taken as a war crime and kids who are being militarized and were abducted by a state — not lost in the war," Raymond said. "Language matters."The Yale lab reported last month that children had been taken to at least 210 locations to be re-educated in alignment with Russian values and narratives, and in some cases trained for combat against Ukraine, and some advocates expressed concern that Putin might try to manipulate the first lady through her direct involvement.“Every returned child is wonderful for that family and that child, so that is good," said Bill Taylor, a former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine. "But there are more than 19,000 of these, and I do think that Putin is cynically using this in an attempt to make the Trumps more sympathetic to him.""I think the first lady is genuinely interested in getting the Ukrainian children home," Taylor added. "But the fact is that Putin is not. He could return all of these kids and end the war tomorrow if he wanted."The president himself blurred the numbers after a two-hour phone call with Putin, saying the number of children could be anywhere between 20,000 and 300, and a Republican congressional aide revealed some skepticism around Melania Trump’s direct line with Putin, but so far no one on Capitol Hill wants to challenge the White House on the issue.“If there needs to be conversations with the White House on this, there will be, but I have no indication that Melania believes what Putin says,” the aide said.

Oct 22, 2025 - World

The move, welcomed by UN, will allow thousands of people living in camps to support themselves and their familiesThailand is setting a regional precedent this month by giving refugees permission to work in the country in an effort to tackle aid cuts and its own labour shortages.More than 87,000 refugees living in nine refugee camps along Thailand’s border with Myanmar have been totally reliant on handouts of food and foreign aid. Continue reading...