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Trump’s US boycott of G20 summit is ‘their loss’, South Africa says  - St. Kitts Gazette – Daily News from
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Trump’s US boycott of G20 summit is ‘their loss’, South Africa says  - St. Kitts Gazette – Daily News from

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa says United States President Donald Trump’s decision to boycott the Group of 20 (G20) summit next weekend in Johannesburg is “their loss”. The US has ratcheted up tensions with South Africa over widely rejected claims of persecution of white minority Afrikaners, which it vehemently denies, and its push for Israeli accountability over the genocide in Gaza at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Speaking on Wednesday, Ramaphosa added: “The United States needs to think again whether boycott politics actually works because in my experience it doesn’t work.” Trump on Friday said no US officials will attend this year’s G20 summit on November 22-23 of leaders from 19 of the world’s richest and leading developing economies, the European Union and African Union. Trump cited South Africa’s treatment of white farmers, which he has falsely labelled a “genocide”, writing on his Truth Social platform that it was a “total disgrace that the G20 will be held in South Africa”. Since returning to the White House in January, Trump has repeatedly claimed that white South Africans are being violently persecuted and having their land taken from them because of their race in the Black-majority country, a claim rejected by South Africa’s government and top Afrikaner officials. Trump for months has targeted the nation’s Black-led government for criticism over that and a range of other issues, including its decision to accuse staunch US ally Israel of genocide against Palestinians in Gaza in an ongoing case at the ICJ in The Hague. Last month, Ramaphosa said the current Gaza ceasefire, which Israel is violating on a daily basis, will not affect his country’s genocide case against Israel, stressing that South Africa is determined to pursue its case, filed in 2023, despite the truce, which is part of a US-backed plan aimed at ending Israel’s war on the besieged and bombarded territory. South Africa submitted 500 pages of evidence to the ICJ in October 2024. Israel’s counterarguments are due by January 12. Oral hearings are anticipated in 2027 with a final judgement expected in late 2027 or early 2028. The ICJ has issued three provisional measures, ordering Israel to prevent genocidal acts and allow humanitarian aid into Gaza. Israel has largely failed to comply. “It is unfortunate that the United States decided not to attend the G20,” Ramaphosa told reporters outside the South African Parliament on Wednesday. “The United States by not being at the G20, one must never think that we are not going to go on with the G20. The G20 will go on. All other heads of state will be here. In the end, we will take fundamental decisions and their absence is their loss.” Ramaphosa added that the US is “giving up the very important role that they should be playing as the biggest economy in the world”. Trump previously confronted Ramaphosa with his baseless claims that the Afrikaner white minority in South Africa were being killed in widespread attacks when the leaders met at the White House in May. At that meeting, Ramaphosa lobbied for Trump to attend the G20 summit, the first to be held in Africa. The G20 was formed in 1999 to bring rich and developing countries together to address issues affecting the global economy and international development. The US, China, Russia, India, Japan, France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the European Union are all members. The US is due to take over the rotating presidency of the G20 from South Africa at the end of the year. Trump’s claims about anti-white violence and persecution in South Africa have reflected those made previously by conservative media commentators in the US as far back as 2018. Trump and others, including South African-born Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, have also accused South Africa’s government of being racist against whites because of its affirmative action laws that aim to advance opportunities for the Black majority, which was oppressed under the former apartheid system of racial segregation. Ramaphosa’s government has said the comments are the result of misinformation and a lack of understanding about South Africa. Relations between the US and its biggest trading partner in Africa are at their lowest since the end of apartheid in 1994. Washington expelled the South African ambassador to the US in March over comments he made regarding Trump.

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Bihar election: Can Modi buck Gen Z rage in India’s youngest state?  - St. Kitts Gazette – Daily News from
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Bihar election: Can Modi buck Gen Z rage in India’s youngest state?  - St. Kitts Gazette – Daily News from

Patna, India – As 20-year-old Ajay Kumar scrolled through social media on his mobile phone in Muzaffarpur district in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, he came across rumours that a crucial examination for a government job he had appeared for had been compromised. Ajay is a Dalit, a community that falls at the bottom of India’s caste hierarchy and has suffered centuries of marginalisation. He had pinned his hopes for the future on a job reserved for his community under the government’s affirmative action programme. But the leaking of the examination paper in December last year dashed those hopes. That’s when he came across a video of students as old as him – and just as angry – protesting the paper leak in state capital Patna, some 75km (46 miles) away. He immediately hopped on an overnight bus and found himself among thousands of protesters the next morning. Ajay spent the next 100 days in biting cold, demonstrating and often sleeping in the open, huddled with hundreds of other students. Their demand was simple: A re-examination. But in April this year, India’s Supreme Court dismissed the students’ petitions to conduct the re-examination. A furious Ajay contained his anger for months. On November 6, as he voted in the first phase of a two-part election to choose Bihar’s state legislature, Ajay pressed a button on the electronic voting machine hard, hoping his choice would avenge the struggle of students like him. Whither Bihar’s Gen Z? As Gen Z protests topple governments across South Asia, regional giant India – the largest and most populous of all – has been an exception. A Hindu majoritarian government, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has been in power since 2014. In Bihar, a coalition of BJP and its partners has been governing for most of the past two decades, under the leadership of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. Yet, Gen Z anger is palpable in Bihar, which neighbours Nepal, where young protesters toppled the government in September, demanding an end to corruption and elite privileges. Bihar has the youngest population among Indian states. Government data show 40 percent of the state’s 128 million population is under 18, while about 23 percent is between 18-29 years of age. At the same time, one in three Bihari families live in extreme poverty, according to the World Bank, also making it India’s poorest state. The anger of its youth has meant that Bihar witnessed 400 student protests between 2018 and 2022, the highest in the country, according to national government data. And many like Ajay are seeking to channel that anger into electoral changes. The two-phase election in Bihar, held on November 6 and November 11, saw more than 74 million eligible voters elect their representatives for the 243-member regional assembly. The results will be declared on November 14. As more and more youngsters express discontent with their ruling elite across South Asia, political observers believe the Bihar election will indicate whether Modi – who campaigned extensively in the state – is still able to retain his hold on the crucial demographic in India, home to the world’s largest youth population. Of India’s 1.45 billion people, 65 percent are less than 35 years of age. Or will Modi’s principal opponents – led by a much younger Tejashwi Yadav of the Bihar-based Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) party and Rahul Gandhi of the main opposition Congress party – be able to tap into the frustrations of Bihar’s youth? Anger and despair over jobs, education Bihar languishes at the bottom of most of India’s multidimensional human development indices, which take into account factors such as nutrition, child mortality, years of schooling and maternal health, among others. Pratham Kumar, 20, is from Jehanabad district in southern Bihar. He had to move to state capital Patna because colleges in his hometown offered “no teaching, only degrees”. But studying is a struggle even in Patna, he says. The university hostel does not have clean drinking water, the wi-fi router has been non-functional for months, and students like him often end up mowing the lawns of their cramped hostels since hostel authorities don’t have adequate housekeeping staff to do so. “Across Bihar, the state of education is so poor that you just enrol yourself in a college for a degree on paper, but if you actually want to learn, you need to enrol in private coaching classes at an extra cost,” he fumes. Pratham is now looking to move out of the state – the only alternative for millions of students and unemployed Biharis. A 2020 study by the Mumbai-based International Institute of Population Sciences (IIPS) found that more than half the households in the state depended on remittances from their loved ones who had migrated to other states or abroad. Pratham’s friend, Ishant Kumar, is from Darbhanga, another district in Bihar. He is angry at the young forced to migrate in search of a better life, and points to instances of anti-migrant violence in parts of India, often targeting Biharis. “The poverty here pushes young Biharis out, and then, they are insulted, assaulted and have no dignity,” he tells Al Jazeera. “From Kolkata to Maharashtra, only Biharis get attacked and mocked at.” Ishant is angry that successive state governments have not done enough to stem migration. “The cream of Bihar migrates and contributes to the development of other regions in the country. Instead, why can’t we create opportunities here for them to grow?” he asks. In Vaishali district, 23-year-old Komal Kumari believes she has already wasted two years of her life due to government inefficiency. Komal, like Ajay, is a Dalit. Her family survives on a 9,000-rupee (about $100) monthly stipend that her mother earns as an “anganwadi” (childcare) worker employed by the government. Komal, like millions of girls across Bihar, was promised a 50,000 rupee ($565) cash transfer in 2021 by the Bihar government that the BJP is part of, if she earned a graduate degree. Komal, who completed her Bachelor of Arts with political science honours in 2023, has been waiting for that money for two years now. She’s hoping to qualify for teaching jobs, but for that, she needs a two-year degree, a Bachelor of Education (B.Ed), which would cost her approximately 75,000 ($846). But she has no savings – she has already spent nearly 100,000 rupees ($1,128) on her first college degree and at coaching centres she went to, to improve her chances at examinations for several government jobs. Now, she can’t pursue either the B.Ed. or the coaching for government job examinations. And she is angry. “I spent so much money only because the government had promised a cash transfer. If they had been prompt, I would have not wasted two years, waiting around.” ‘Students constantly angry here’ Ramanshu Mishra owns Ramanshu GS classes, a popular coaching centre in Patna for young Biharis eager to apply for government jobs. He says Ishant and Komal are speaking for most students in the state. “Students are constantly angry here. When they are studying, they are angry at poor educational facilities. When they finish studying, they are angry at the lack of employment opportunities,” Mishra tells Al Jazeera. Government data show the joblessness rate in urban Bihar between 15-29 years of age is at 22 percent, much higher than the national average of 14.7 percent. This is why Bihar becomes a testing ground for both Modi’s BJP, which is a leading partner in the incumbent National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government in Bihar, and its challenger, the opposition INDIA alliance, led by the RJD and the Congress. The INDIA alliance has announced 36-year-old RJD chief Yadav as its chief ministerial face, while the NDA is banking on 75-year-old Modi and the incumbent chief minister, Nitish Kumar, who is 74. “The verdict will show whether the youngest state of India chooses a young leadership [opposition alliance] or whether it chooses to be with the old [NDA],” Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay, a journalist and author of Modi’s biography, among other books, told Al Jazeera. Both sides have been trying hard to woo the young. In an election speech last month, Modi said his government’s policies enabled Biharis to make money through social media ‘reels’. “I have ensured that 1GB data costs no more than a cup of tea,” he said. The Modi-led NDA committed in their election manifesto to creating 10 million jobs in Bihar, if voted back to power, while the opposition INDIA bloc’s central poll plank in the election is their promise to ensure one government job per family in Bihar within 20 days of coming to power. The Congress party’s Gandhi, 55, has also repeatedly urged Gen Z voters to “stay vigilant” and stop electoral malpractices he has alleged have been occurring in several Indian elections in the past few years. Gandhi has alleged that the ruling BJP has been committing voter fraud by adding ineligible and fake voters to the country’s electoral rolls. The opposition has also criticised the country’s Election Commission for being complicit in it. The Election Commission had faced criticism for a controversial revision of Bihar’s electoral rolls on the eve of the elections, which resulted in 3.04 million voters being deleted disproportionately from districts with high numbers of Muslim voters – who typically vote against the BJP. “If the opposition’s young leadership loses, it will put Modi in a very advantageous situation,” Mukhopadhyay said. “Because it means that even though he is 75, the youth continue to plug for him.” (Ajay Kumar’s name has been changed since he fears his participation in the protest could dent his career prospects.)

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'Follow the evidence': Doctors and road safety experts call for 30km per hour speed limits
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'Follow the evidence': Doctors and road safety experts call for 30km per hour speed limits

Doctors and road safety experts have called for the NSW government to "follow the evidence" and reduce default speed limits in residential areas. A bill is currently before parliament that would reduce the limit in residential streets from 50km/h to 30. "We know that there are many other jurisdictions across the world that have introduced safer speeds to their local neighbourhood streets, and they have seen a significant reduction in road deaths and serious injuries," Greens MP Kobi Shetty said.  READ MORE: Missed out on seeing the aurora australis? You get one last chance tonight Doctors are on board with the proposed laws. "If you get hit by a car at 30 kilometres per hour, (there's a) nine in 10 chance of survival," Dr John Crozier from the Royal Australian College of Surgeons said. "If hit at 50 kilometres, (it's a) one in 10 chance of survival." "It's really critical that we follow the evidence," Shetty said. "Journey times are very minimally impacted when we reduce the speed limit from 50 to 30. "Last year in New South Wales, in 2024, we had 51 pedestrians and cyclists killed on our roads. READ MORE: What emails show about Trump-Epstein link "New South Wales has a target towards zero road deaths, and it's time that they start taking that seriously." There are currently only two 30 zones in Sydney, one around the Domain in the CBD and another in Manly. There was a 30 zone temporarily in Liverpool, however, it was removed after the local community opposed it. Bicycle NSW is also in favour of the bill to lower the speed limit. "We have some trials of lower speed limits in Western Australia," chief executive Paul McLean said. "There is a groundswell of community support with these kinds of initiatives." The bill is set to be voted on in parliament early next year.  DOWNLOAD THE 9NEWS APP: Stay across all the latest in breaking news, sport, politics and the weather via our news app and get notifications sent straight to your smartphone. Available on the Apple App Store and Google Play.

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Sinister plot straight from Mohanlal movie? Terror module planned serial bomb blasts using 32 cars, says report
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Sinister plot straight from Mohanlal movie? Terror module planned serial bomb blasts using 32 cars, says report

The perpetrators of the Delhi Red Fort car blast had a more sinister plan in mind as they wanted to execute serial bomb blasts using as many as 32 vehicles, a report claimed. Quoting intelligence sources, an Amar Ujala report said that the Hyundai i20 that caused the blast near Red Fort Metro Station and another Ford EcoSport that was later found, were part of the arsenal that was being built for the serial blasts. Both the vehicles were modified for the explosives to be fitted in. ALSO READ | Delhi Red Fort blast suspects had a second car: A red Ford EcoSport They wanted to target multiple locations and were in the process of acquiring more vehicles for the blasts, Amar Ujala quoted a source as saying. As many as eight terrorists were entrusted with finding and equipping the vehicles so that a coordinated attack could take place across cities in the country, the report added. Improvised explosive devices (IEDs) were to be used for these simultaneous attacks. Interestingly, the shocking plot has an eerie similarity to the 2006 Malayalam action drama 'Baba Kalyani' in which the protagonist, portrayed by Mohanlal, foils a terrorist plot to target the temple town of Pazhani. They plan to bring in multiple IED-laden old cars to the vicinity of the temple in large container trucks to execute serial blasts. Fertilisers bought to make explosives The probe team had learnt that the suspects had bought 20 quintals of NPK fertilisers worth Rs 3 lakh from Gurugram and Nuh, the Amar Ujala report said. NPK fertilisers are three-component fertilisers with nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium content, which can reportedly be used to extract explosive materials. According to investigating agencies, Dr Muzammil Shakeel became inclined towards Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind, an offshoot of ISIS, after maintaining contact with associates of slain terrorists between 2021 and 2022. ALSO READ | Delhi Red Fort Metro blast: Police track down Ford EcoSport of suspect Dr Umar Un Nabi in Faridabad Authorities believe that these chemicals may have been transported to Dr Muzammil's rented rooms in Dhauj and Fatehpur Taga, from where around 3,000 kg of explosives were recovered. Some weapons and explosives were also recovered from Dr Shaheen's Swift Dzire, which was in the possession of Dr Muzammil. Investigators believe that the car explosion in Delhi was triggered in panic and desperation as police continued raids and nabbed suspects who were part of the module. ALSO READ | Faridabad terror module was in touch with Jaish, blast suspect Dr Umar un Nabi, imam met handlers in Turkey A DNA test has confirmed that the man behind the wheel was Dr Umar un Nabi, a senior doctor at Al Falah University and a suspect in the Faridabad terror module, who managed to evade arrest during the police raids.

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Trump Signs Bill To End Record-Breaking US Shutdown
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Trump Signs Bill To End Record-Breaking US Shutdown

President Donald Trump signed a bill Wednesday to end the longest government shutdown in US history — 43 days that paralyzed Washington and left hundreds of thousands of workers unpaid while Republicans and Democrats played a high-stakes blame game. The Republican-led House of Representatives voted largely along party lines to approve a Senate-passed package that will reopen federal departments and agencies, as many Democrats fume over what they see as a capitulation by party leaders. Trump lashed out at Democrats as he put his signature to the bill later in the Oval Office, urging Americans to remember the chaos when voting in hotly contested US midterm elections in a year’s time. “Today we are sending a clear message that we will never give in to extortion,” said Trump, surrounded by gleeful Republican lawmakers, including House Speaker Mike Johnson. Johnson had earlier pointed the finger at the minority party in a withering floor speech before the vote. “They knew that it would cause pain, and they did it anyway,” he said. “The whole exercise was pointless. It was wrong and it was cruel.” The package funds military construction, veterans’ affairs, the Department of Agriculture, and Congress itself through next fall, and the rest of the government through the end of January. Around 670,000 furloughed civil servants will report back to work, and a similar number who were kept at their posts with no compensation — including more than 60,000 air traffic controllers and airport security staff — will get back pay. The deal also restores federal workers fired by Trump during the shutdown, while air travel that has been disrupted across the country will gradually return to normal. Trump falsely accused Democrats of costing the country $1.5 trillion. While the full financial toll of the shutdown has yet to be determined, the Congressional Budget Office estimates that it has caused $14 billion in lost growth. READ ALSO: Trump Claims ‘Obligation’ To Sue BBC Over Speech Edit ‘Not backing away’ Johnson and his Republicans had almost no room for error as their majority is down to two votes. Democratic leadership — furious over what they see as their Senate colleagues folding — had urged members to vote no, and all but a handful held the line. Although polling showed the public mostly on the Democrats’ side throughout the standoff, Republicans are widely seen as having done better since its conclusion. For more than five weeks, Democrats held firm on refusing to reopen the government unless Trump agreed to extend pandemic-era tax credits that made health insurance affordable for millions of Americans. Election victories in multiple states last week gave Democrats further encouragement and a renewed sense of purpose. But a group of eight Senate moderates broke ranks to cut a deal with Republicans that offers a vote in the upper chamber on health care subsidies — but no floor time in the House and no guarantee of action. Democrats are now deep in a painful reckoning over how their tough stance crumbled without any notable wins. Democratic leadership is arguing that — while their health care demands went largely unheard — they were able to shine the spotlight on an issue they hope will power them to victory in the 2026 midterm elections. “Over the last several weeks, we have elevated successfully the issue of the Republican health care crisis, and we’re not backing away from it,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries told MSNBC. But his Senate counterpart, Chuck Schumer, is facing a backlash from the fractious progressive base for failing to keep his members unified, with a handful of House Democrats calling for his head. Outside Washington, some of the party’s hottest prospects for the 2028 presidential nomination added their own voices to the chorus of opprobrium. California Governor Gavin Newsom called the agreement “pathetic,” while his Illinois counterpart JB Pritzker said it amounted to an “empty promise.” Former transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg called it a “bad deal.”

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Abbotsford Canucks snap 11-game losing streak with shootout win
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Abbotsford Canucks snap 11-game losing streak with shootout win

The 1999-00 Syracuse Crunch can rest easy after Wednesday’s (Nov. 12) result. That team, which was coached by Stan Smyl and featured future Vancouver stalwarts like Jarkko Ruutu, Matt Cooke and Artem Chubarov, went a Vancouver affiliate record 12 games without a win from Feb. 25, 2000 to March 19, 2000. The Abbotsford Canucks entered Wednesday on the verge of tying that 25-year mark after 11 games without a win, but a late power play goal by Joseph LaBate combined with timely saves from rookie Aku Koskenvuo helped turn the tide. The 11-game streak is over, Canucks win 4-3 pic.twitter.com/Fk769ErqMc — Ben Lypka (@BenLypka) November 13, 2025 Some nifty shootout goals by Vilmer Alriksson and Ben Berard sealed the deal in the shootout and the Abbotsford Canucks long winless drought finally came to an end with a 4-3 shootout win over the San Jose Barracuda. But it wasn’t easy or pretty early on, as the Canucks fell behind 2-0 after goals from Lucas Carlsson at 7:31 of the first period and Quentin Musty at 1:09 of the second. Abbotsford was also badly out shot in the first period and managed just four shots compared to 13 for San Jose. Koskenvuo feeling it while the Canucks are shorthanded pic.twitter.com/r7R4TFExlF — Ben Lypka (@BenLypka) November 13, 2025 One of the reasons why the game didn’t get out of hand early was the aforementioned Koskenvuo, who arrived from Kalamazoo earlier this week after all the goalie injury issues swirling around both Vancouver and Abbotsford. The 2021 fifth round draft pick made some massive saves, especially during a power play flurry by the Barracuda in the first. Abbotsford’s Joe Artnsen got the Canucks on the board at 4:12 and Ty Mueller tied the game up with a power play marker at 9:26. The positivity was short-lived, as Colin White pounced on a Canucks turnover at 14:56 of the second and the Barracuda had a 3-2 lead after two. Abbotsford has scored a goal 🤯 pic.twitter.com/1Q9lof9Dg0 — Ben Lypka (@BenLypka) November 13, 2025 That goal held up until Abbotsford got a late power play and turned it into a 6-on-4 advantage. That eventually led to a LaBate deflection of a Sawyer Mynio shot and the game was sent to overtime. Nothing was settled in the five-minute three-on-three session and the shootout allowed another Abbotsford rookie to shine. Alriksson deked San Jose goalie Gabriel Carriere out of his jockstrap to score Abbotsford’s first goal, Berard made it 2-1 and Koskenvuo made another big save to earn the win. BEAT THE BARRACUDA‼️ pic.twitter.com/h2Y4XcI1NK — Abbotsford Canucks (@abbycanucks) November 13, 2025 It marks the first home win for Abbotsford this season and just the team’s third win overall. The rare victory was in front of a reported crowd of 2,753. Mueller and Nils Aman had two point nights for Abbotsford and Koskenvuo made 33 saves for his first career AHL win. The win comes off a 7-0 beatdown that the Barracuda handed the Canucks inside the Abbotsford Centre on Tuesday (Nov. 11). San Jose scored two in the first, three in the second and two more in the third to cruise to the win. Tuesday marked the third time this season Abbotsford has been shut out, which is significant because the team was only blanked once last season. Regroup for tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/ch8h75jtnX — Abbotsford Canucks (@abbycanucks) November 12, 2025 Canucks starting goalie Ty Young was yanked after two periods and allowed five goals on 21 shots. Jonathan Lemieux came on in relief and made 13 saves on 15 shots. LaBate, Josh Bloom, Anri Ravinskis and Nikolai Knyzhov all finished at -4. Abbotsford’s record moves to 3-9-0-2 on the season and they remain in 10th place in the Pacific Division. The Canucks now hit the road for games against the San Diego Gulls on Saturday (Nov. 15) and the Coachella Valley Firebirds on Sunday (Nov. 16). The club’s next home game is set for Dec. 2 when the Calgary Wranglers come to town.

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