Nations and environmental groups slam proposals at UN climate talks, calling them too weakSeveral nations and environmental groups on Friday slammed proposals in the final stages of this year’s U.N. climate talks for failing to explicitly mention the cause of global warming — the burning of fuels such as oil, gas and coal — with one negotiator warning the talks are on “the verge of collapse.” Juan Carlos Monterrey Gomez, a top negotiator for Panama, said the decades-long United Nations process risks “becoming a clown show” for the omission.
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-cop30-c2c66ea017db8984102702320142ce76Nationwide strikes called in Italy, Belgium and Portugal as social anger erupts across EuropeIn Belgium, a nationwide rail and mass transit strike is called for November 24, a nationwide strike of the public sector the day after, and finally a general strike on the 26th. They are called against moves by the right-wing government led by Bart De Wever’s New Flemish Alliance (NVA) to slash pensions, end indexing of wages on inflation and slash benefits including unemployment insurance.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/11/21/zxyq-n21.htmlThe Co-Founder of Palestine Action Is Taking the Government to CourtIf Ammori wins, the high court will rule that then-home secretary Yvette Cooper’s decision to proscribe Palestine Action was unlawful, effectively lifting the ban. This means that thousands of arrests and hundreds of charges made under the Terrorism Act since the ban came into force will be quashed.
https://novaramedia.com/2025/11/20/the-co-founder-of-palestine-action-is-taking-the-government-to-court/Iqbal Mohamed becomes second MP to leave Your PartyThe move from Mr Mohamed comes just over a week before the new party’s founding conference in Liverpool is due to take place. He signalled that his decision was over “allegations and smears” made against him, but did not go into detail. “The many false allegations and smears against me and others, and reported as fact without evidence, have been surprising and disappointing.
https://www.irishnews.com/news/uk/second-mp-pulls-out-of-corbyn-backed-your-party-7BPMFNHPHNIITIOXHQ6ESUOLIQ/https://archive.ph/HoNwITNT that Europe needs to defend itself is being used on Gaza, Polish MP claimsMaciej Konieczny, a member of the leftwing Razem party, said the Polish company Nitro-Chem, owned by the Polish Armaments Group, could not keep up with demand partly because it had signed successive contracts to supply TNT to the US, where it is used in bombs supplied to Israel.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/21/europe-tnt-supply-us-export-israel-gaza-polish-mp-claimsIran's president says capital must move from Tehran over ecological concernsHis government has proposed the underdeveloped Makran region in southeastern Iran as a possible new location. "When we proposed relocating the capital, we lacked the budget - otherwise it might have happened," Pezeshkian told officials. "People said it was impossible, but now it’s no longer optional."
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/iran-president-says-capital-must-move-tehran-over-ecological-concernsGaza death toll surpasses 69,000 as thousands await medical evacuationAccording to The New Arab’s sister site Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, Israeli forces opened fire on areas near the al-Bureij camp, while helicopters circled above Khan Younis on Tuesday. Since the ceasefire came into effect, at least 242 Palestinians have been killed and 622 others wounded in Israeli attacks, the ministry of health added.
https://www.newarab.com/news/gaza-death-toll-surpasses-69000-thousands-await-evacuationThailand Denies Claim Its Soldiers Gang-Raped Cambodian Woman The alleged incident occurred on November 15 as the migrant workers were attempting to return home, authorities in Phnom Penh said, sparking allegations of gross human rights violations by Thai soldiers amid the two nations’ seemingly intractable border conflict.
https://thediplomat.com/2025/11/thailand-denies-claim-its-soldiers-gang-raped-cambodian-woman/https://archive.ph/30xquIndia and Afghanistan to launch air cargo services to boost tradeKabul's air freight corridors with Delhi and the northern Indian city of Amritsar have been "activated", and cargo flights will operate on the sectors "very soon", said Anand Prakash, a joint secretary in the Indian foreign ministry. "All formalities from our side are over. We are waiting for all the papers from their (Afghan) side … Once they complete them, the cargo flights will start," Prakash told Reuters on the sidelines of an India-Afghanistan business conference.
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/air-cargo-services-between-india-afghanistan-be-launched-soon-2025-11-21/Labor to rule out controversial ‘national interest’ exemption for coal and gas if Greens back nature lawsLabor would prevent a contentious “national interest” exemption being used to approve coal and gas projects if the Greens agreed to support its nature laws, Guardian Australia can reveal. The offer follows a groundswell of criticism about the discretionary power, including from the author of the review that inspired the new laws, Graeme Samuel, and the former treasury secretary Ken Henry.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/22/labor-to-rule-out-national-interest-exemption-for-coal-gas-if-greens-back-nature-lawsOne in nine Argentines have no access to gas, drinking water or sewers More than five million people in Argentina live in precarious conditions across 6,467 low-income neighbourhoods. Report by Fundar y Techo NGOs find that socio-urban integration policies have been defunded since 2024, with those living in impoverished areas falling behind.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/one-out-of-every-nine-argentines-have-no-gas-water-or-sewers.phtmlVictims and prosecutor request more time to appeal Uribe’s acquittalPresidential candidate Ivan Cepeda, former justice minister Eduardo Montealegre, and delegate prosecutor before the Supreme Court of Justice Marlene Orjuela formally requested the 30-day extension to file an appeal before the Supreme Court. The prosecution argued that the decisions of the first and second instances and the dissenting vote are more than two thousand pages in total, and need to be “studied and analyzed with the utmost care to satisfy the argumentative burden required by the extraordinary appeal.”
https://colombiareports.com/victims-and-prosecutor-request-more-time-to-appeal-uribes-acquittal/