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A person walks by a Microsoft logo and sign outside the Microsoft Visitor Center at the company's headquarters. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

Microsoft outage: Full list of services, apps and websites affected globally

A global Microsoft outage has affected several of the technology giant’s services, leaving thousands of users unable to access their email accounts, workplace applications and cloud-based tools. A person walks by a Microsoft logo and sign outside the Microsoft Visitor Center at the company’s headquarters. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson) The disruption, which began on Thursday, November

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Attendees walk past the COP31 logo during the 31st United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP31) at the Antalya Expo Centre in Antalya. (AFP)

COP 31: UN launches $3 billion disaster financing platform, brings together its six agencies

The United Nations on Thursday launched a new disaster risk financing platform at COP31 in Turkey’s Antalya, aiming to secure access to more than $3 billion to protect 75 million people and their livelihoods from climate shocks by 2030. Attendees walk past the COP31 logo during the 31st United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP31) at

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Angela Rayner grants planning approval for asylum centre in Piddington despite local opposition | Immigration and asylum

Angela Rayner grants planning approval for asylum centre in Piddington despite local opposition | Immigration and asylum

The communities secretary, Angela Rayner, has approved full planning permission for an asylum centre at a Ministry of Defence site near the village of Piddington in Oxfordshire. The decision approves plans to go ahead with the refurbishment and redevelopment of the former barracks. The Home Office insists that final approval is still to be determined.

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Members of the Chief Medical Examiners Office wheel a gurney with the body of a man who fatally shot himself while holed up in his penthouse apartment, where he had been speaking by phone with police negotiators following reports of an active shooting, in Washington, on Thursday. (AP)

Suspect among 2 dead in Washington shooting

Washington: A shooter killed one person and injured several others before turning the gun on himself in America’s capital, a short distance from the White House. According to law enforcement, another shooting victim is in critical condition while three others have suffered non-life threatening injuries. Members of the Chief Medical Examiners Office wheel a gurney

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Local funds for some young people losing Pip under Milburn plans | Welfare

Local funds for some young people losing Pip under Milburn plans | Welfare

Some young people with disabilities will lose their personal independence payments but will be able to apply to a local fund for short-term expenses and equipment, Alan Milburn’s review will recommend. While those with the most severe needs’ entitlement will be protected, others will be asked to apply for money for specific purposes rather than

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Two Iranian men convicted of spying for Tehran in UK

Two Iranian men convicted of spying for Tehran in UK | World News

Mostafa Sepahvand and Farhad Manesh convicted for spying in London for Iran’s IRGC. Two Iranian men have been convicted of spying on journalists working for a Persian-language broadcaster in London after prosecutors established that they conducted surveillance on individuals critical of Tehran and gathered information that could assist Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).Mostafa Sepahvand,

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Military helicopter crashes in eastern Turkey. (Representational Image/REUTERS)

Four dead after military helicopter crashes in eastern Turkey, defence ministry says

Four people died after a Turkish military S-70 helicopter crashed in the eastern province of Malatya on Thursday, the Turkish defence ministry said. Military helicopter crashes in eastern Turkey. (Representational Image/REUTERS) The incident occured in the Samanköy area of ​​Yeşilyurt district in Malatya at approximately 18:45 (local time). The Ministry of National Defense (MSB) announced

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New York City police officers are on duty outside the Lotte Palace Hotel during a United Nations General Assembly leaders reception, late Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

World Leaders Set Out Clashing Priorities as COP31 Turns to Negotiations

By William James and Simon Jessop ANTALYA, Turkey, Nov 12 (Reuters) – World leaders have set out competing ⁠positions ⁠and made clashing demands in two days of ⁠intense speech-making at the COP31 climate change talks in Turkey, leaving negotiators with a tough task to draft a meaningful ​deal that all can agree. Small island states,

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Funds for DR Congo Ebola fight ‘not reaching front’

Funds for DR Congo Ebola fight ‘not reaching front’

GENEVA A healthcare worker walks inside an Ebola treatment center in Beni, North Kivu Province, Congo, Monday, Nov. 9, 2026. (AP Photo) Vast sums of international aid to fight the Democratic Republic of Congo’s deadly Ebola outbreak are failing to reach medics on the front line, charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) warned on Nov. 12.

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang gestures on the day of the Invest in Germany Summit in Berlin, Germany, October 19, 2026. (REUTERS)

China says US using spy claims to justify technology ‘blockade’

Beijing accused the United States on Thursday of using spurious spying claims as a pretext to impose a technological “blockade” on China, following claims that Nvidia boss Jensen Huang was the victim of a Chinese espionage plot. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang gestures on the day of the Invest in Germany Summit in Berlin, Germany, October

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UN secretary general Antonio Guterres was addressing the COP31 Leaders’ Summit as part of the high-level segment in Antalya. (Bloomberg photo)

1.5°C breach inevitable, world must cut emissions 6% annually: UN chief at COP31

A breach of the 1.5°C global warming threshold is now inevitable, but the world still has the power to determine how high temperatures rise and how long they remain above that limit, United Nations secretary general Antonio Guterres said on Wednesday, calling for global emissions to fall around 6% every year and a much faster

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Israeli settler representative turned back after arriving in France

Israeli settler representative turned back after arriving in France

The head of a body representing Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, which are considered illegal under international law, was turned back after arriving in France, with Israel denouncing the move on Wednesday as “unacceptable”. Israeli settler representative turned back after arriving in France Yossi Dagan, head of the Samaria Regional Council, was forced

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New York City police officers are on duty outside the Lotte Palace Hotel during a United Nations General Assembly leaders reception, late Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

5 Years of Fighting Climate Change Haven’t Done Much and Stronger Targets Are Needed, Report Says

ANTALYA, Turkey (AP) — The world has failed to slow or stop global warming trends in the past five years because plans weren’t realized and efforts that would have helped were canceled out, a report said Thursday. The grim assessment came during a U.N. climate meeting in Antalya, Turkey, where more government leaders were due

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Howard Lutnick, US commerce secretary, during a news conference during the G20 Innovation Ministerial in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, on Sept. 2, 2026

Lutnick stalled Trump’s crackdown on diversion of Nvidia chips to China | World News

Howard Lutnick, US commerce secretary | Image Credit: Bloomberg 1 min read Last Updated : Nov 12 2026 | 7:52 AM IST US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick stalled President Donald Trump’s crackdown on companies suspected of diverting Nvidia’s ‌chips to China, ​Axios reported on ​Wednesday, citing high-level sources.   Trump on Thursday ​authorized a crackdown

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Is the US blue wave a turning point for Europe, too? | World news

Is the US blue wave a turning point for Europe, too? | World news

“Is Maga dead?” asked Margaret, a Guardian reader in Switzerland, in a live Q&A with our correspondents after the seismic US midterm elections. If Margaret’s query expressed a hope that the Democrats’ blue wave could transform Europe’s fortunes after two years of Maga-induced trauma, she was probably not alone. The resounding defeat for Donald Trump’s

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Iran says it will keep the Strait of Hormuz closed and reject US talks until Washington meets its seven conditions. (Photo by Atta KENARE / AFP) (AFP)

Iran sets 7 conditions for reopening Strait of Hormuz, resuming talks with US

Iran has said it will not reopen the Strait of Hormuz or resume negotiations with the United States until Washington meets seven conditions set by Tehran. Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said the responsibility for the next move now rests with the US, as Iran waits for an official response to its demands. Iran says

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Trump Official Lutnick Stalled Crackdown On Nvidia Chip Diversions To China: Report

Trump Official Lutnick Stalled Crackdown On Nvidia Chip Diversions To China: Report

Axios reported that Howard Lutnick stalled Trump’s crackdown on diversion of Nvidia chips to China. US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick stalled President Donald Trump’s crackdown on companies suspected of diverting Nvidia’s chips to China, Axios reported on Wednesday, citing high-level sources. Trump on Thursday authorized a crackdown on companies suspected of diverting the chips for

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Facebook groups trusted over mainstream media in asylum hotel protest towns, report shows

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