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Could soaring global debt trigger the next financial crisis?
The IMF says global public debt could exceed 100% of GDP by the end of the decade.
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Video: Hunting Brazil’s illegal goldminers, deep in Amazon rainforest
Deep into the Amazon rainforest environmental agents are on the hunt for illegal goldminers.
Published On 4 Nov 2025
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The Take: What was behind Brazil’s deadliest police raid?
As Brazil deals with the deadliest police raid in its history, is the war on drugs fuelling more violence than security?
![Suspected drug dealers sit on the ground after they were detained by members of the military police special unit, during a police operation against drug trafficking at a favela in the Penha slum complex, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 28, 2025 [Aline Massuca/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/2025-10-31T190044Z_1963674594_RC23LHAT9V2J_RTRMADP_3_BRAZIL-VIOLENCE-PICTURE-1762213448.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
Peru cuts ties with Mexico over asylum for ex-prime minister
Move comes after Betssy Chavez, who is on trial on coup charges, fled to the Mexican Embassy in Peru.
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Protests in Mexico after mayor who declared war on cartels is killed
Mexicans stormed a local government building to call for justice over the murder of a mayor who’d declared war on drug c
Published On 3 Nov 2025
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The mothers searching for their missing children in Mexico
When their children disappeared, authorities failed to act, so grieving families were forced to search instead.
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Cuba: Health Under Sanction
Free, universal, but failing – Cuba’s once world-class healthcare system is being strangled by US sanctions.
Published On 3 Nov 2025
Trump says ‘days numbered’ for Venezuela’s Maduro
The US president sent mixed signals over his plans for Venezuela as his military build-up in the Caribbean continues.
Calls for justice after Mexico mayor killed during Day of the Dead festival
Carlos Manzo, an outspoken critic of organised crime, was shot dead during a public festival in the city of Uruapan.
Colombia’s ELN rebels face US drug threats amid push for peace talks
The US focus on drugs and nearby Venezuela brings an international dimension to what was an internal Colombian conflict.
Palestinians retrieve a body from the debris of a residence demolished during an Israeli air strike on Gaza City. According to Gaza's Civil Defence, nighttime air raids killed at least 50 people across the Palestinian territory on October 29, 2025. [Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP]
Drivers try to find the least submerged areas to park their cars on a road from Holland Bamboo to Middle Quarters in St Elizabeth Parish, Jamaica, in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa. [Ricardo Makyn/AFP]
Shan ethnic artists perform a traditional dance on the opening day of the weeklong Tazaungdaing Lighting Festival in Taunggyi in northeastern Myanmar's Shan State. [Sai Aung Main/AFP]
People look at the bodies of those killed during a police raid targeting the Comando Vermelho gang in the Penha Complex favela of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. At least 132 people were killed. [Silvia Izquierdo/AP Photo]
People fill the streets of Novi Sad, Serbia, before observing 16 minutes of silence for the victims of a train station roof collapse on the first anniversary of the disaster, which killed 16 people. [Armin Durgut/AP Photo]
A woman rows a boat on a flooded street after heavy rains in Hoi An, Vietnam. Coastal provinces have been lashed by heavy rains since October 26, 20025, with a record of up to 1.7 metres (67 inches) falling over 24 hours. [Nhac Nguyen/AFP]
Residents hold rubber bullets and used tear gas canisters following a protest a day after Tanzania's presidential election. Demonstrations were held against the exclusion of two leading opposition candidates, which led to President Samia Suluhu Hassan being declared the winner with 98 percent of the votes. [Thomas Mukoya/Reuters]
An Iraqi firefighter works at the Zubair oilfield in southern Iraq. One person was killed and at least nine were injured on October 26, 2025, in a fire caused by a gas leak. [Hussein Faleh/AFP]
A member of the Taliban security forces stands guard as deported Afghan refugees from Pakistan arrive at a border crossing to return to Afghanistan. [Sanaullah Seiam/AFP]
Presidential guards walk on the ancient Acropolis after the lowering of the Greek flag as the city of Athens spreads out below. [Petros Giannakouris/AP Photo]
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