Latest news for 24 November 2025

UKRAINE

Peace plan concerns.

US and Ukrainian delegations huddled in Switzerland over the weekend to discuss the latest 28-point peace plan, whose precise origins are still murky. It’s likewise unclear if anyone’s proposing edits to the text, which in its original form would’ve been the perfect Christmas gift for President Putin. (BBC)

VIETNAM

Deadly floods.

Major floods have left at least 90 people dead after torrential rains swept through central Vietnam. (CNA)

NIGERIA

More school kidnappings.

More than 250 schoolchildren and 12 teachers are still missing after fifty kids managed to escape Friday’s mass armed kidnapping at a Catholic school in northern Nigeria. Nobody has yet claimed responsibility. (CNN)

INDIA

Export woes.

One of India’s home-made Tejas fighter jets has crashed during a demonstration at the Dubai Air Show, killing the pilot. The cause remains unclear. (Al Jazeera)

Comment: We explored the Dubai Air Show just last week, including the way capitals use it to boost their arms exports. Needless to say, crashing its wares on arguably the world’s biggest aviation stage won’t help India’s export ambitions.

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

Hand-picked.

Bosnian Serbs in the semi-autonomous Republika Srpska have elected another nationalist (Sinisa Karan) after a conviction ousted his predecessor for ignoring the international appointee tasked with overseeing Bosnia’s 1990s-era peace. (Euractiv)

Comment: Few are saying this bit out loud, but the last guy seemingly only stepped down after the US offered to lift sanctions on him. Sometimes sanctions work?

INDONESIA

Resign!

The head of the world's largest Islamic organization (Indonesia’s 100-million member Nahdlatul Ulama) is rejecting calls for his resignation after he inadvertently invited a pro-Israel Stanford scholar (and Trump’s former State director of policy planning) to an internal training session. (Jakarta Globe)

VENEZUELA

Stand still.

Multiple international airlines have cancelled flights to Venezuela after US aviation authorities cryptically warned of a "worsening security situation and heightened military activity". (AP)

Comment: Again, time will tell whether this is just the White House destabilising Maduro’s grip on power, or if something might actually happen.

LEBANON

City center.

The Israeli military says it killed Hezbollah’s top military official in Beirut's southern suburbs on Sunday, with local sources reporting the attack left five dead and wounded more than two dozen. (Al-Monitor)