Month: December 2025

Prime minister to give speech after report that some ministers are unhappy over handling of the budgetA court in Bangladesh has sentenced the British MP Tulip Siddiq to two years in jail after a judge ruled she was complicit in corrupt land deals with her aunt, the country’s deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina. Hannah Ellis-Peterson has the story.Good morning. At Westminster there used to be a theory about budgets that, […]

Millions of people affected by torrential rainfall in Sri Lanka and large parts of Indonesia’s Sumatra, southern Thailand and northern MalaysiaDevastating floods hit Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Thailand – latest updatesSri Lanka and Indonesia have deployed military personnel as they race to help victims of devastating flooding that has killed more 1,000 people across four countries in Asia.Millions of people have been affected by a combination of tropical cyclones […]

Reports highlight devastating impact of slashed funding, especially in parts of Africa, that could lead to 3.3m new HIV infections by 2030In Mozambique, a teenage rape victim sought care at a health clinic only to find it closed. In Zimbabwe, Aids-related deaths have risen for the first time in five years. In Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), patients with suspected HIV went undiagnosed due to test-kit […]

A disaffected Portuguese NGO worker dallies with a drag queen as he wrestles with white man’s privilege in Pedro Pinho’s intelligent drama‘What disgusts me the most are good men,” says a Bissau-Guinean sex worker to Sérgio (Sérgio Coragem), a Portuguese environmental engineer working for an NGO on a road construction project in the country. He’s struggling to perform, as if his private life is letting slip some fundamental doubt about […]

Former US immigration judge among dozens firedSource: www.aljazeera.comRead full article

Nasry Asfura holds a narrow lead over his rival Salvador Nasralla, with about 40 percent of the votes counted.Source: www.aljazeera.comRead full article