Venezuelan opposition leader wins Nobel Peace Prize

Jessica Rawnsley and Vanessa Buschschluter Getty Images Venezuela’s opposition leader María Corina Machado has been awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize. Machado, 58, was hailed by the Nobel Committee as “one of the most extraordinary examples of civilian courage in Latin America in recent times”. She has campaigned against Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro Moros, whose […]

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Afghanistan accuses Pakistan of ‘violating Kabul’s sovereign territory’

Afghanistan’s Taliban government has accused Pakistan of violating Kabul’s “sovereign territory”, describing it as an “unprecedented, violent, and provocative act”. The allegation comes after two loud blasts were heard in the city late on Thursday. Pakistan had also bombed a civilian market in the border province of Patika, in Afghanistan’s south-east, the Taliban Defence Ministry […]

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Zimbabwe lawmaker dies after his car hits an elephant

Zimbabwean opposition lawmaker Desire Moyo has died after the vehicle he was travelling in hit an elephant, local media report. The accident happened in the early hours of Friday morning while Mr Moyo and four other MPs were travelling along the Bulawayo-Gweru highway, according to state-owned broadcaster ZBC. He died instantly while his fellow lawmakers […]

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