Update. Two National Guard soldiers have died in a shooting in Washington, West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey said . He noted that the soldiers were natives of this state. The shooting occurred in downtown Washington, one block from the White House on the afternoon of November 26, The Washington Post reports, citing sources. The circumstances of the shooting are not yet clear. Shots were fired at two members of the US National Guard, sources told The Associated Press.

The state prosecutor has dropped all charges brought against US President Donald Trump in the case of interference in the 2020 presidential election in Georgia, Reuters reported on November 26. Georgia State Attorney Peter Skandalakis said there was "no realistic prospect that a sitting president would be forced to appear in Georgia to participate in the trial," so pursuing the case would be "futile and counterproductive." “Given the complexity of the legal issues at hand...

Some residents were trapped in burning buildings. More than 70 people died, about 300 went missing Vernon Yuen / Nexpher Images / ZUMA Press Wire / Scanpix / LETA Update. According to recent reports , a fire in a residential complex in Hong Kong killed 75 people, including one firefighter. 76 people were injured, including 11 firefighters. Earlier it was reported that another 62 people remained trapped in seven buildings and about 280 people were missing. There are no updates on this data.

Chain of events (this is not even the last week, this is more than a month) Fabrice Coffrini / AFP / Scanpix / LETA Steve Witkoff, Marco Rubio and Dan Driscoll at negotiations with the Ukrainian delegation in Geneva. November 23, 2025 October 13 ↓ US President Donald Trump arrives in the Middle East. There, a US-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas terrorists recently came into effect, and Israeli hostages have just been released.

Who benefited from organizing the leak? And it turns out that the Kremlin has outplayed everyone again? Alexander Nemenov / TASS / Profimedia Yuri Ushakov and Kirill Dmitriev.

The Italian Parliament unanimously supported a law that would include a separate article on femicide - murder motivated by hatred against women - in the country's criminal code, BBC News reports. The vote took place on November 25, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. Now, committing a murder recognized as femicide in Italy will be punishable by life imprisonment. And every murder of a woman motivated by hatred of her gender will be registered as femicide.

This is Putin's decree on national policy Anton Vaganov / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA You can read this story in English here . Russian President Vladimir Putin approved the strategy of the state national policy until 2036. The corresponding decree was published on the official portal of legal acts. The current state of interethnic relations in the Russian Federation is characterized as “stable”.

The President of Guinea-Bissau, Oumarou Sisoku Embalo, told Jeune Afrique that he was detained by men in military uniform in his office in the presidential palace around noon on November 26 (15:00 Moscow time). According to the head of state, high-ranking military personnel were detained along with him, including the head of the General Staff with his deputy and the country's Minister of Internal Affairs. The president claims that the chief of staff of the ground forces organized the coup.

Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Rustem Umerov was questioned by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau as a witness in the case of corruption at Energoatom, the press service of the National Security and Defense Council reported to Ukrayinska Pravda. “Rustem Umerov was summoned to the NABU as a witness to testify in criminal proceedings opened on the fact of interference in the activities of a government official,” the National Security and Defense Council said.

Updated . The Domodedovo City Court sentenced actress Aglaya Tarasova to three years probation and a fine of 200 thousand rubles in a criminal case of drug smuggling, TASS reports. The prosecutor asked to sentence actress Aglaya Tarasova to three and a half years probation in the case of drug smuggling (Part 1 of Article 229.1 of the Criminal Code), RIA Novosti reports.

“Red flag”, “sigma” and “manifestation” became contenders for the word of 2025 according to the Gramota.ru portal, the project’s press service told RIA Novosti. A total of 12 words were included in the short list: the nouns “red-flag”, “sigma”, “manifestation”, “zoomer”, “limbo”, “imba”, “burnout”, “promt”, “brainrot”, “slop”, the verb “highlight” and the interjection “pupupu”. In total, linguists looked at more than 500 words.

Gavriil Grigorov / RIA Novosti / Sputnik / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA Vladimir Putin and Steve Witkoff during a meeting in Moscow on August 6, 2025. In the background is Russian Presidential Aide Yuri Ushakov On November 25, Bloomberg published a transcript of two telephone conversations between Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov - with Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff and Vladimir Putin’s special envoy Kirill Dmitriev.

The administration of US President Donald Trump is in talks with officials from Belarus about the possible release of more than 100 prisoners from Belarusian prisons, Reuters reports, citing sources. They say American officials want to secure the release of more than 100 Belarusian prisoners “soon” as part of one deal. It is not known who exactly may be released and when. It is also not specified what the United States is offering Belarus in exchange for the release of prisoners.

Update. 36 people were killed and 29 were hospitalized as a result of a fire in a residential complex in Hong Kong, the South China Morning Post reports , citing local authorities. Another 279 people are still missing. 13 people, including a firefighter, have died as a result of a massive fire that engulfed several high-rise buildings in a residential complex in Hong Kong, the South China Morning Post reports. At least 16 more people were injured.

The original 28-point American plan to end the war in Ukraine is largely a reworking of the Russian document that was drawn up by Russian Presidential Envoy Kirill Dmitriev shortly after Donald Trump returned to the White House in January 2025. This is reported by The Insider, which was shown Dmitriev’s document by a source close to the Russian government several months ago.