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Iran Warns of Attempts to Target Supreme Leader Khamenei
Iran Warns of Attempts to Target Supreme Leader Khamenei

Iran's intelligence ministry has warned of attempts by foreign adversaries, including the United States and Israel, to target Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and destabilize the Islamic republic. The country's ISNA news agency reported on Saturday that Intelligence Minister Esmail Khatib cautioned, "The enemy seeks to target the supreme ...

Gunmen Seize 315 in Latest Nigerian Mass School Kidnapping
Gunmen Seize 315 in Latest Nigerian Mass School Kidnapping

Gunmen have kidnapped more than 300 students and teachers in one of the largest mass kidnappings in Nigeria, a Christian group said Saturday, as security fears mounted in Africa's most populous nation. The early Friday raid on St. Mary's co-education school in Niger State in western Nigeria came after gunmen on Monday stormed a secondary ...

Zeitz MOCAA: Africa Tells Its Story in a Silo Cathedral
SpotlightZeitz MOCAA: Africa Tells Its Story in a Silo Cathedral

The offshore winds of Cape Town still carry the memory of the port, the muted echoes of colonial trade, and the vertical dream of a continent gazing toward the horizon. At the far end of the Waterfront in the Silo District, a silent concrete giant, abandoned for decades, has come to life as the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa. Entering ...

Israeli PM's Office Says 5 'Senior Hamas Terrorists' Killed in Gaza
Israeli PM's Office Says 5 'Senior Hamas Terrorists' Killed in Gaza

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office accused Hamas of violating the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip on Saturday and said that in response, Israeli forces had killed five "senior Hamas terrorists." "Today, Hamas violated the ceasefire again, sending a terrorist into Israeli-held territory to attack Israeli soldiers. In ...

Iran Says New Framework Needed to Access Bombed Nuclear Sites
Iran Says New Framework Needed to Access Bombed Nuclear Sites

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said a new approach should be taken for the monitoring of the country's nuclear sites attacked in a recent war with Israel. Tehran is under pressure from Western powers to allow inspectors from the UN's nuclear watchdog into the facilities. "We need a method or a framework for how to inspect ...

Red Cross Says to cut 2026 Budget by 17%, Shed 2,900 Jobs
Red Cross Says to cut 2026 Budget by 17%, Shed 2,900 Jobs

The International Committee of the Red Cross said Friday it was cutting its 2026 budget by 17 percent amid declining donor contributions and would slash the equivalent of 2,900 full-time positions. "The ICRC remains committed to working on the front lines of conflict, where few others can operate," the organization's president Mirjana Spoljaric ...

No Fossil Fuels Plan in Latest Draft Deal from COP30 Presidency
No Fossil Fuels Plan in Latest Draft Deal from COP30 Presidency

COP30 host Brazil unveiled a draft agreement on Friday that does not include a roadmap for phasing out fossil fuels, a key demand by many countries at the climate summit. There is no mention of "fossil fuels" in the latest slimmed-down text proposal, released on the final day of the major UN climate conference in the rainforest city of ...

Tech Firms Lead Stock Rout as AI Bubble Fears Linger
Tech Firms Lead Stock Rout as AI Bubble Fears Linger

Tech firms led stock losses on Friday as investors struggled to shake off fears about an AI bubble, and after a sell-off on Wall Street sparked by job data dealt a further blow to hopes for a US interest rate cut. A blockbuster earnings report from chip bellwether Nvidia on Wednesday seemed to settle nerves that vast investments in the artificial ...

Pupils Kidnapped from Catholic School in Central Nigeria
Pupils Kidnapped from Catholic School in Central Nigeria

An unknown number of pupils have been abducted from a Catholic school in central Nigeria by armed gangs, police and a government official said Friday, in the second such incident in less than a week. The school kidnappings and an attack on a church earlier this week come weeks after US President Donald Trump threatened military action over what ...

US–Russia 28-Point Plan for Ukraine
US–Russia 28-Point Plan for Ukraine

A draft 28-point plan backed by US President Donald Trump would require Ukraine to offer territorial and security concessions to Moscow, while Russia would be readmitted to the G8 group and receive sanctions relief. Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff and Secretary of State Marco Rubio had been "quietly" working on the plan for around a month, ...

Japan Local Authorities Approve Restart of World's Biggest Nuclear Plant
Japan Local Authorities Approve Restart of World's Biggest Nuclear Plant

Japanese local authorities approved Friday the restart of the world's biggest nuclear plant, a key step in the process to get it back online after the 2011 Fukushima disaster. Hideyo Hanazumi, governor of Niigata province, where the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant is located, told a news conference he "would approve" the resumption, which will need ...