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UN's Internal Courts: the 17 November vote (LINK) 12 November 2025
Colombia president orders suspension of intelligence sharing with US until the Trump administration stops its strikes on suspected drug traffickers in the Caribbean (LINK) — ground.news: 105 media reports (LINK) 12 November 2025
— The Colombian president made the announcement on X after a CNN report which stated that the UK has also suspended some intelligence sharing with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean, due to concerns over US military attacks.
Myanmar military takes delivery of helicopters and aircraft from Russia and China (LINK) — ground.news: 13 media reports (LINK) 12 November 2025
— Myanmar is Russia's first known export customer of the Mi-38T, according to the defense-intelligence company Janes. The United States, the European Union and others have imposed sanctions on Myanmar that include the prohibition of arms sales.
Women in Darfur report rape "used intentionally and systematically" and lost children amid Sudan violence, UN Women says (LINK) — ground.news: 10 media reports (LINK) 11 November 2025
UN rights chief calls for a probe into killings in Tanzania and allegations of concealing evidence (LINK) — ground.news: 16 media reports (LINK) 11 November 2025
France to help Palestinians draft constitution for future state, Macron says (LINK) — ground.news: 44 media reports (LINK) 11 November 2025
— Ground News bias assessment: Left-Leaning outlets frame the initiative as "consolidation" or "advance" of Palestinian statehood, highlighting Macron's "red line" on annexation and a "devastating war. Conversely, right-leaning coverage emphasizes the need for "reform" within the Palestinian Authority, portraying Macron's call for elections as "encouragement" and underscoring Israel's "harsh verbal violence" reaction, citing the 67-8 Knesset vote against statehood. Center-Leaning reports neutrally describe a "future state" and the "joint committee," detailing conditions like auditing for "pay-to-slay.
France to help Palestinians draft constitution for future state, Macron says (LINK) — ground.news: 44 media reports (LINK) 11 November 2025
— Ground News bias assessment: Left-Leaning outlets frame the initiative as "consolidation" or "advance" of Palestinian statehood, highlighting Macron's "red line" on annexation and a "devastating war. Conversely, right-leaning coverage emphasizes the need for "reform" within the Palestinian Authority, portraying Macron's call for elections as "encouragement" and underscoring Israel's "harsh verbal violence" reaction, citing the 67-8 Knesset vote against statehood. Center-Leaning reports neutrally describe a "future state" and the "joint committee," detailing conditions like auditing for "pay-to-slay.
Masked Israeli settlers torch property, injure four Palestinians, army says (LINK) — ground.news: 45 media reports (LINK) 11 November 2025
Climate Change News: Not another COP-out: We must rewrite the rules of the UN climate talks (LINK) 11 November 2025
— "The world doesn't just need stronger climate targets. It needs a fairer, faster and more accountable multilateral system to deliver climate action."
UNEP: In the run-up to the first session of the Plenary of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Panel on Chemicals, Waste and Pollution (ISP-CWP P1), the ISP-CWP Secretariat, in collaboration with the Geneva Environment Network, is organizing a series of events to prepare governments, non-government stakeholders and other interested parties for the session, to be held from 2 February to 6 February 2026 at CICG (LINK) 11 November 2025
— Established on 20 June 2025 under the mandate of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) resolution 5/8, the Panel addresses one of the most critical but under-supported pillars of the global environmental agenda: pollution.
Trump asks Supreme Court to overturn verdict that he sexually abused and defamed E. Jean Carroll (LINK) 10 November 2025
Thousands of passengers grounded across US: more than 2000 cancellations and 7065 delays (LINK) 10 November 2025
Atlantic: The new brutality of OpenAI: The company is pursuing aggressive legal tactics against its opponents (LINK) 10 November 2025
Switzerland nears US trade deal after Trump receives engraved gold bar (LINK) 10 November 2025
— A group of Swiss business delegates last week presented Mr Trump with a Rolex watch for the presidential library and a customized gold bar.
Breaking news
EUR 1 million Dutch contribution strengthens IOM's Resilience Fund for migrants worldwide (LINK) 12 November 2025
— In addition, the Netherlands has provided EUR 3 million in flexible funding to IOM in 2025. The Netherlands also continues to support key IOM initiatives, including the COMPASS programme on protection and safe migration and the Afghanistan response, which provides life-saving assistance and reintegration support to vulnerable returnees. The Resilience Fund is a global campaign to mobilize USD 100 million in flexible funding.
European Union and Indian navies take over ship used by pirates off Somalia to seize tanker (LINK) — ground.news: 13 media reports (LINK) 12 November 2025
India probes link between Delhi car blast and earlier Kashmir arrests, sources say: 16 arrested near New Delhi, 5 in Kashmir (LINK) — ground.news: 16 media reports (LINK) 12 November 2025
US supreme court extends Trump pause on $4bn in food aid benefits: justices allow temporary block on full payments for SNAP, relied upon by 42 million Americans (LINK) 11 November 2025
Thailand to halt implementation of ceasefire deal with Cambodia heralded by Trump (LINK) — ground.news: 8 media reports (LINK) 11 November 2025
Suicide bombing at Islamabad court, killing 12 (LINK) — ground.news: 346 media reports (LINK) 11 November 2025
Dozens of indigenous protesters breach COP30 summit venue in Brazil: minor injuries reported (LINK) — ground.news: 165 media reports (LINK) 11 November 2025
Switzerland reported nearing deal to cut US tariffs to 15% after business push (LINK) 11 November 2025
— Matches the rate levied on the EU’s exports to the US. Exports account for more than 70 per cent of Switzerland's GDP. Switzerland itself has already abolished all industrial tariffs and the US is the country's top export market for goods including watches, chocolate and machinery.
Deadly car explosion strikes near New Delhi's Red Fort: blast killed at least eight people and injured more than 20 (LINK) — ground.news: 516 reports (LINK) 10 November 2025
Major news
UN's Internal Courts: the 17 November vote (LINK) 12 November 2025
Colombia president orders suspension of intelligence sharing with US until the Trump administration stops its strikes on suspected drug traffickers in the Caribbean (LINK) — ground.news: 105 media reports (LINK) 12 November 2025
— The Colombian president made the announcement on X after a CNN report which stated that the UK has also suspended some intelligence sharing with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean, due to concerns over US military attacks.
Myanmar military takes delivery of helicopters and aircraft from Russia and China (LINK) — ground.news: 13 media reports (LINK) 12 November 2025
— Myanmar is Russia's first known export customer of the Mi-38T, according to the defense-intelligence company Janes. The United States, the European Union and others have imposed sanctions on Myanmar that include the prohibition of arms sales.
Women in Darfur report rape "used intentionally and systematically" and lost children amid Sudan violence, UN Women says (LINK) — ground.news: 10 media reports (LINK) 11 November 2025
UN rights chief calls for a probe into killings in Tanzania and allegations of concealing evidence (LINK) — ground.news: 16 media reports (LINK) 11 November 2025
France to help Palestinians draft constitution for future state, Macron says (LINK) — ground.news: 44 media reports (LINK) 11 November 2025
— Ground News bias assessment: Left-Leaning outlets frame the initiative as "consolidation" or "advance" of Palestinian statehood, highlighting Macron's "red line" on annexation and a "devastating war. Conversely, right-leaning coverage emphasizes the need for "reform" within the Palestinian Authority, portraying Macron's call for elections as "encouragement" and underscoring Israel's "harsh verbal violence" reaction, citing the 67-8 Knesset vote against statehood. Center-Leaning reports neutrally describe a "future state" and the "joint committee," detailing conditions like auditing for "pay-to-slay.
France to help Palestinians draft constitution for future state, Macron says (LINK) — ground.news: 44 media reports (LINK) 11 November 2025
— Ground News bias assessment: Left-Leaning outlets frame the initiative as "consolidation" or "advance" of Palestinian statehood, highlighting Macron's "red line" on annexation and a "devastating war. Conversely, right-leaning coverage emphasizes the need for "reform" within the Palestinian Authority, portraying Macron's call for elections as "encouragement" and underscoring Israel's "harsh verbal violence" reaction, citing the 67-8 Knesset vote against statehood. Center-Leaning reports neutrally describe a "future state" and the "joint committee," detailing conditions like auditing for "pay-to-slay.
Masked Israeli settlers torch property, injure four Palestinians, army says (LINK) — ground.news: 45 media reports (LINK) 11 November 2025
Climate Change News: Not another COP-out: We must rewrite the rules of the UN climate talks (LINK) 11 November 2025
— "The world doesn't just need stronger climate targets. It needs a fairer, faster and more accountable multilateral system to deliver climate action."
UNEP: In the run-up to the first session of the Plenary of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Panel on Chemicals, Waste and Pollution (ISP-CWP P1), the ISP-CWP Secretariat, in collaboration with the Geneva Environment Network, is organizing a series of events to prepare governments, non-government stakeholders and other interested parties for the session, to be held from 2 February to 6 February 2026 at CICG (LINK) 11 November 2025
— Established on 20 June 2025 under the mandate of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) resolution 5/8, the Panel addresses one of the most critical but under-supported pillars of the global environmental agenda: pollution.
Trump asks Supreme Court to overturn verdict that he sexually abused and defamed E. Jean Carroll (LINK) 10 November 2025
Thousands of passengers grounded across US: more than 2000 cancellations and 7065 delays (LINK) 10 November 2025
Atlantic: The new brutality of OpenAI: The company is pursuing aggressive legal tactics against its opponents (LINK) 10 November 2025
Switzerland nears US trade deal after Trump receives engraved gold bar (LINK) 10 November 2025
— A group of Swiss business delegates last week presented Mr Trump with a Rolex watch for the presidential library and a customized gold bar.
Miscellaneous
US sanctions on Russian oil giants — analysis of impact on India (LINK) 13 November 2025
— On October 22, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump imposed sanctions on Russia’s two oil giants: Rosneft and Lukoil, and their subsidiaries. The current round of sanctions is more severe than previous measures. This is evident in the immediate five to six percent spike in global oil prices within days of their announcement. In India, the threat of secondary sanctions is likely to worry large oil corporations, leading to a reduction in Russian oil purchases. The effectiveness of the U.S. sanctions also lies in their control over global payment systems and financial infrastructure. To mitigate this vulnerability, India must develop alternatives across sectors—particularly in technology and logistics.
Huge potential for Swiss 3D landslide simulation model: predicted Blatten but researchers couldn't believe it (LINK) 12 November 2025
Helen Cox Richardson: Trump, Epstein, girls (LINK) 12 November 2025
White House responds to Epstein emails invoking Trump: "fake narrative to smear President Trump" (LINK) 12 November 2025
Nieman Lab news roundup: Fox, Bari Weiss, local newsrooms (LINK) 12 November 2025
Report on Geneva watches fall auctions 2025: the small pool of bidders seemed to have one thing in common: they were all focused on a "trophy" watch. (LINK) 12 November 2025
— The peaks ranged from multiple F.P. Journe watches to a diamond-set Patek Philippe ref. 3424/1 "Gilbert Albert" to the Breguet four-minute tourbillon pocket watch from 1809 to the Instagram-ready Patek Philippe ref. 3970 in "salmon" with Breguet numerals. The headline result was for a vintage watch: the Patek Philippe ref. 1518 in steel that sold for CHF14.2 million, or about US$17.6 million. The number was just shy of the reputed price that the other ref. 1518 in steel sold for a few days before at Monaco Legend.
Existential Politics: Why Global Climate Institutions Are Failing and How to Fix Them by Jessica F. Green: A new way to tackle the real politics of climate change through asset revaluation (LINK) 12 November 2025
— "Governments have misdiagnosed the political problem of climate change, focusing relentlessly on measuring, reporting, and trading emissions. Green proposes using international tax, finance, and trade institutions to create new green asset owners and constrain fossil asset owners, reducing their clout."
Coal generation has plummeted by more than 55% across Europe in just 10 years, and wind and solar now produce 2x as much electricity as the dirty fuel. Since 2022 clean energy has grown from 4 to 19% in Slovenia, from 6 to 29% in Bulgaria, from 3 to 16 % in Romania, and from 1.1% to 19% in Croatia (LINK) 12 November 2025
India asks UN wildlife body [CITES] not to curb its animal imports amid Ambani zoo furore at Vantara, large private zoo run by Asia's richest family: accused by non-profits of irregular imports, Indian investigators have cleared Vantara of any wrongdoing (LINK) 12 November 2025
These 8 all-inclusive resorts in The Bahamas have everything you want in a beach vacation (LINK) 12 November 2025
Full blackout hits the Dominican Republic as crews scramble to restore power (LINK) — ground.news: 36 media reports (LINK) 11 November 2025
2022 fire at Glacier 3000: restaurant owner acquitted (LINK) 11 November 2025
— The prosecution argued that the accused had not properly trained her staff to handle the new stoves and that, as a result, one employee had stacked a stove with a plastic tank on top of another stove that had not been turned off, causing the fire. It requested a 30-day suspended fine of CHF50 ($63). The fire destroyed the self-service restaurant on the third floor, the restaurant on the fourth floor and the lift machinery.
Japan's SoftBank sells its entire stake in Nvidia for $5.83 billion to fund CEO Masayoshi Son's AI initiatives (LINK) — ground.news: 105 media reports (LINK) 11 November 2025
Chinese 'cryptoqueen' gets 11 years in U.K. for $6.6b fraud (LINK) — ground.news: 202 media reports (LINK) 11 November 2025
— The Metropolitan Police seized more than 61,000 Bitcoins, valued over $6 billion, and found laptops containing $27.3million of Bitcoin wallets. Prosecutors have set up a compensation scheme as thousands of Chinese victims press to recover investments that reflect Bitcoin's rise. Three others were jailed last year for 6 years 8 months and 4 years 11 months respectively.
67 places solo female travellers do not recommend: 1. India, 2. India, 3. Johannesburg (LINK) 11 November 2025
2025 Booker Prize awarded to British-Hungarian novelist David Szalay for 'Flesh' (LINK) 10 November 2025. Guardian review — (LINK)
— A sister award, the International Booker Prize for a translation into English, was won in 2025 by Indian author Banu Mushtaq for "Heart Lamp."
Tesla loses major executives, including Cybertruck chief (LINK) 10 November 2025
Putin, 73, spotted 'in pain' with sickly shriveled hand (LINK) 10 November 2025
DW: Videos of crying Ukrainian soldiers are fake (LINK) 10 November 2025
A revolutionary new cancer therapy only needs light to kill bad cells: near-infrared photothermal therapy (LINK) 10 November 2025
The cruelest Alzheimer's symptom — loss of social recognition — may finally have an explanation (and potential treatment) (LINK) 10 November 2025
Scientists have almost cracked the secret language of animals (LINK) 10 November 2025
Catching a cold after a flight is common, but it does't have to be (LINK) 10 November 2025
12 famous quotes that are misattributed (LINK) 10 November 2025
20 funny signs (LINK) 10 November 2025
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