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​By Martin Foskett | Newswire | Knelstrom Media

​UKRAINE, Kyiv -- The search of Andriy Yermak's home and offices by Ukraine's anti-corruption investigators has unsettled the political order built around President Volodymyr Zelensky, touching the presidency at its most fortified point and prompting measured unease across government corridors already stretched by war.

GUINEA-BISSAU, Bissau -- The soldiers entered the capital as if stepping into a script already underway. On 26 November, with the electoral commission hours from announcing a presidential result that appeared poised to unseat the incumbent, the military intervened with the calm decisiveness of a caretaker changing locks on a property in dispute. ​

​By Martin Foskett | Newswire | Knelstrom Media

​PARIS, FRANCE -- France has resumed shipments of reprocessed uranium to Russia for the first time in more than three years, a move that has drawn environmental scrutiny and geopolitical eyebrows.

According to Greenpeace France, at least 10 marked containers of reprocessed uranium were observed being loaded at the port of Dunkirk and bound for the Russian port of Ust-Luga aboard the cargo vessel Mikhail Dudin. ​

LONDON, UK. A claim that Britain has quietly suspended intelligence sharing with the United States over alleged unlawful Caribbean boat strikes has reverberated across international newsrooms — though no one, it seems, is willing to say so on the record.

​By Martin Foskett | Newswire | Knelstrom Media

​BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA. Argentina is preparing to restore its dormant submarine capability under a new defence agreement with France, signalling an unexpected return to the deep for a navy that has spent nearly a decade on the surface.

​By Martin Foskett | Newswire | Knelstrom Media

KINSHASA, DRC. As world leaders swapped suits for linen and climate targets in Brazil, President Félix Tshisekedi stood beside a ficus plant and accused unnamed foreign interests of fuelling a war that has displaced millions in his country’s east. “We are not naïve,” he said. “This war was created because of our wealth.”

​DAR ES SALAAM, TANZANIA. The results are officially in. After several days of tense anticipation, Tanzania's National Electoral Commission has declared President Samia Suluhu Hassan the winner of this week's presidential election. This vote has left the country both subdued and shaken.