- Greece closes more schools as island populations decline sharply
- EU Offers Single-Market Access to Candidate Countries Amid Expansion Efforts
- US announces $200 billion investment from South Korea in energy sector
- India faces Pakistan in Asian Games hockey semifinal live updates
- Fort Edmonton Park commemorates National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
- U.S. forces withdraw from Iraq after two decades as power vacuum looms
- Tehran denies involvement in petrol discovery at US airbase incident
- Hegseth confirms plan to cut 20% of US military brass positions
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The Greek island of Thymaina faces an acute demographic crisis, with only two primary school children remaining and significant school closures nationwide due to declining birth rates. The education ministry reported it is shuttering 32 primary schools this year, exacerbating challenges for remote communities reliant on dwindling populations.
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The Right Livelihood Award has honoured this year four women and women-led organisations for confronting authoritarianism, patriarchal violence, and unregulated AI development. Among them are Jalila Haider from Pakistan and Timnit Gebru, an Ethiopian-born computer scientist, with the awards ceremony scheduled for 1 December in Stockholm.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday that his country offers its “full and unconditional support” for Russia’s “sacred fight” to defend its security interests, in an apparent reference to the war in Ukraine, and said Pyongyang will always stand with Moscow on the “anti-imperialist” front.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen delivers the annual State of the Union speech, as her administration looks back on four years in office ahead of the European elections next year.
Nearly 1,000 Cypriots are still missing after disappearing during the conflict of the 1960s and 1974. With witnesses dying, time is running out to find them.
A court in Portugal on Monday convicted the hacker Rui Pinto over his “Football Leaks” revelations that exposed dodgy dealings in international football, sentencing him to a suspended four-year prison term.
Spanish football federation chief Luis Rubiales quit his post on Sunday after three weeks of scandal over allegations he gave an unsolicited kiss to a player on the women’s national team as they celebrated their World Cup victory last month.
Morocco has been mourning victims of its strongest earthquake in more than a century and trying to rescue more survivors from the rubble.
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