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Djibouti–Yemen Shipwreck Leaves at Least 139 Dead as Migration Route Faces New Scrutiny
At least 139 people, including 15 children, have died and 84 remain missing after an overcrowded boat sank off Djibouti on its way to Yemen, the UN migration agency says.
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Eritrea Takes Ethiopia Dispute to UN as Rival Claims Raise Fears of Wider War
Competing appeals to the Security Council have intensified the diplomatic confrontation, but assertions of self-defence and demands for deterrent measures do not establish an agreed account of events.
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Delhi Lockdown and Mass Detentions Raise the Stakes in India’s Voter-Roll Protest
Security forces detained protest leaders and demonstrators in New Delhi as a youth movement escalated its challenge to India’s election authorities over disputed voter-list revisions.
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Anne Carson Wins Literature Nobel for a Career That Refuses Genre Boundaries
The Swedish Academy’s 2026 award recognises a Canadian writer whose poetry, translations and experiments with the physical book continually bring classical literature into contact with contemporary experience.
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Oleshky Residents Risk a ‘Road of Death’ as Occupation Turns Food Access Into a Survival Journey
Residents of the Russian-occupied Ukrainian town say routine supplies have largely disappeared, forcing civilians to cross mined and drone-exposed roads for food and water as winter approaches.
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UN Report Finds Rising Share of Unaccompanied Children on Routes to Europe
Newly released evidence on 2025 arrivals shows why falling totals do not necessarily mean simpler protection needs, with reception, family links and safe pathways remaining central concerns.
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Nobel Medicine Prize Recognises the Light-Based Tools That Changed Brain Research
Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel share the 2026 award for discoveries behind optogenetics, a research technique whose clinical possibilities still require separate evidence.
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Pacific Pre-COP Talks Open With Climate Finance and Coastal Adaptation in Focus
Meetings in Fiji and Tuvalu bring island priorities into the preparations for COP31, while the distinction between diplomatic commitments and funded local projects remains central to the discussion.
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Nepal Moves From Disaster Response to Prevention With Plan to Drain Four Glacial Lakes
Kathmandu is preparing engineering works at four high-risk Himalayan lakes after catastrophic flooding, turning climate adaptation into a race against accelerating glacial retreat and downstream exposure.
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U.S. Suspends Consular Services in Brazil as Election Weekend Opens Under New Diplomatic Strain
Washington has halted routine consular services across Brazil on security grounds just before Sunday’s presidential vote, adding a fresh layer of uncertainty to an election already coloured by trade and foreign-interference concerns.
