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World · Guardian World

Exiled opposition leader María Corina Machado returns to rapturous reception in Venezuela

26 Oct 16:27

Nobel peace prize winner’s return after almost a year in exile is unlikely to please interim president Delcy Rodríguez The Venezuelan opposition leader, María Corina Machado, has announced she has returned to Venezuela almost a year after she left the country to receive the Nobel peace prize. “I’m here. With you,” she wrote on X on Sunday lunchtime. Continue reading...

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World · BBC

Israel's election result is messy - here's why

Despite having the highest voter turnout in nearly three decades, Israel's elections have had no clear winner. What does this mean for the country, asks the BBC's Yolande Knell.

29 Oct 01:26

World · Guardian World

Egypt fines prominent editor Lina Attalah and shuts independent news outlet Mada Masr

Warnings of escalating clampdown on press freedom come after Cairo court convicts Attalah of managing an unlicensed website Lina Attalah, a prominent Egyptian journalist and the editor-in-chief of the news outlet Mada Masr, has been released from detention by Egypt’s authorities and had her website ordered to be shut down by a court amid an intensifying crackdown on independent media in the country. Attalah was taken

29 Oct 01:16

World · Guardian World

Flávio Bolsonaro lands in Miami after Brazil election loss

Far-right senator and family land in US after crossing from Brazil into Argentina and then flying via Ecuador A jet carrying the Brazilian far-right senator Flávio Bolsonaro has landed in Miami, Florida, where the losing candidate in Sunday’s presidential election runoff left the airport under police escort without speaking to the press. The Gulfstream IV, registered as LV-JQW, left Guayaquil in Ecuador earlier in th

29 Oct 00:39

World · BBC

Luxury cruise passengers stranded in Cambodia due to soaring fuel costs

The Villa Vie Odyssey suspended its voyage and is working with passengers on "temporary living arrangements".

28 Oct 21:31

World · BBC

Tanzania celebrates first natural gas discovery in more than 10 years

The energy minister described it as a "major milestone" for the East African nation.

28 Oct 21:18

World · BBC

Serbian shot dead after attacking officer outside Israeli embassy, minister says

Authorities say the attacker in Belgrade was an underage male who was being monitored by security services.

28 Oct 21:17

World · Guardian World

A US woman feared dead was reported alive in Mexico. But cops now say that isn’t true

Mexican police had said they found Shayna Feinman in Tijuana, raising the hopes of missing Arizonan’s family Arizona authorities say their Mexican counterparts were resoundingly mistaken when they publicly claimed recently that they found alive a woman who was feared slain after disappearing in 2024 – a turn of events that her sister has called “turmoil” and “heartbreaking”. The case in question centers on Shayna Fei

28 Oct 21:00

World · Guardian World

Africa’s ‘unprecedented’ Ebola outbreak could reach UK, says top health official

Jean Kaseya, of the Africa CDC, warns of the illness spreading like Covid unless more funding is secured to increase preparedness and possible treatment The “unprecedented” spread of the Ebola outbreak means it could reach the UK and other countries, according to one of Africa’s top health officials. As the current outbreak reached 10,000 cases, with almost 5,000 deaths , Dr Jean Kaseya, director general of the Afric

28 Oct 20:37