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Nov 28, 2025 - World

"I have known Imran Khan in three distinct phases of his life. Our first meeting was in New York, during my UN years. His sister, a UN colleague, hosted a gathering, and Imran, then a cricket celebrity, was present. I was struck by his warmth."

Nov 28, 2025 - World

Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla quits as MP after being accused of recruiting 17 men who are trapped in war-torn UkraineA daughter of the former South African president Jacob Zuma has resigned as an MP, after being accused of tricking 17 South African men into fighting for Russia in Ukraine by telling them they were travelling to Russia to train as bodyguards for the Zumas’ uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party.Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla, 43, the most visible and active in politics of her siblings, volunteered to resign and step back from public roles while cooperating with a police investigation and working to bring the men home, the MK chair, Nkosinathi Nhleko, said at a press conference in Durban. Continue reading...

Nov 28, 2025 - World

Frank-Walter Steinmeier travels to Basque town for remembrance ceremony marking ‘terrible crimes’ of 1937Eighty-eight years after Luftwaffe pilots took part in the most infamous atrocity of the Spanish civil war, Germany’s president has visited the Basque town of Guernica to honour the victims of the Nazi bombing and to urge that the “terrible crimes” committed there are never forgotten.Hundreds of civilians were killed and hundreds more injured on 26 April 1937 when planes from the German Condor Legion, operating alongside aircraft from fascist Italy, spent hours bombing Guernica on market day. Adolf Hitler had loaned the Luftwaffe unit to Gen Francisco Franco’s nationalist forces to help them in their coup against the republican government, and to allow Nazi Germany’s pilots to practise the blitzkrieg tactics they would later use in the second world war. Continue reading...

Nov 28, 2025 - World

One of the exciting discoveries is tryptophan, an amino acid never before seen in meteorites.

Nov 28, 2025 - World

Kasim Khan, the younger son of Pakistan's former Prime Minister and legendary cricketer Imran Khan, has made headlines after he accused the Pakistani government authorities of denying him and his family access to Khan for over a month